The San Francisco call., 1897-07-20

gravel that will average to cents 10 the
pan that nobody will locate.
Lumber is worth $3.50 per thousand. All
has to be whipsawed. IL is no unusual thing
for claim to pay $50 day TO the man and
shovel the dirt eight feet high. Some pay $50
to SlOO. So much for the claiYes IN TINS dis
trict. but they are not considefed to be very
good
They have Just found new dtggings about
$50 miles further up the river on the British
side. about fly miles from Forty-mile and
Fort Cudahy, that will astonish the world.
The place is called Klondyke district, and the
town to be built there VIII be called Dawson.
Now, 1 dislike to tell you the reports from
there, as YOU will think am crazy, but I will
write YOU some of the "milder' ones. l have
never been there, but l am going in about two
weeks About month ago l. bought a claim
up there 900 feeD on Ell Dorado Greek
without seeing IL for $1250-claim
IL. Yesterday a miner came down
from there and he tells me they are working
claims Nos. ii, 16, 8 and (mine is in the
middle), and he says they seem to be all about
the same thing. On No. 8 they had sunk four
shafts to bedrock, which is about % feet deep.
The shafts are across the gulch and 70 feet
apart, showing the pay streak TO be over 80
feet wide 1t is frozen to the bedrock and
keeps frozen all the year round, so it viii
have to be drifted He went down in all the
shafts. The top Is feet will run from soc to
So to the pan-this they don't work They are
drifting out the bottom feet; 4 feet of this
will go from 81 to So TO the pan. Then comes
IL feet that only goes from so cents to So.
Tnen there is streak of what looks like ulack
sand, and he says it is l15 feet thick and so
feet wide and will average $50 to the pan.
He took one painful OF the bedrock and
panned lit out aud got $122. 1t is no
unusual thing to get $3.50 10 the pan. Now,
who can estimate the value OF claim like
that? The creek is about five miles long and
empties into Bonanza, which is twenty miles
long This creek is not so rich, but he heard
a man who had shaft to bedrock offer to bet
anybody $4,000 he could take 200 pans out OF
his shalt from top 10 bottom, no two pans out
OF the same place, and get $4,000 ont OF the
200 pans.
Everybody is leaving this camp and going
up there. All the claims on these two creeks
are located, but there are many more creeks
in the vicinity unprospected. man will
sink a shaft and ii he only gets an average of
% or 80 cents to the pan he wont locate IL, as
one man can only locate one claim in one dis
trict. He wants better claim. The gold can
be seen all through the gravel from the size
of a grain of wheat down. They don't
use quicksilver here. They have about
eight slulce boxes on a nine-inch
grade with pole rifles, then everything goes
into the dump. There are many green
horns" here who don't know the value of a
claim that could be bought out cheap. That
is the way got mine. A man who never saw
mine happened along there when other
men were driving stakes so he drove some
ana came Oh here aud lett it (after having 1t
reeorded). In British territory a man has 10
work three months in year. but any man of
hot inn it-a q plaiu m
There is no grub up there, and -four is worth
$120 barrel; but when the river opens in
June we have 5000 sacks in our warehouse
and 400 tons of grub to take up, and it is goin G
to be the town of this section. The mines are |
fifteen miles from the river. q
Don't advise any man 10 land here broke, as
everything is high. 1t is SO degrees below |
zero here TO-DAY, but you would not think it. |
There is no wind and no dampness in the |
atmosphere, and so below is not as disagree |
able as zero anywhere have ever been. We |
have eighteen inches OF sn ow on the ground. |
The climate is not near as disagreeable as l |
it was. The mosquitoes in summer
are the worst part OF it. Yours truly, -.
P. S.-Since I wrote the last sentence an |
idea has struck me- know place this side
Of The line where man shoveled into sluices
up six or seven feet and did not get to bed.
rock and he says he made ST. lay. The
place is now abandoned and l think l could
take up a 20-acre tract and get some friend to
take up twenty more according TO the govern
ment law and deed it TO us, thus getting forty
acres at cost OF perhaps $40, and it would
hold for a year. I am going to try ana come
home next septembet ana II you. wish to ind
a good man to comeip here and work it will
locate it and see you when l come down. All |
it would cost to open it would be a fume be-
gan far enough down TO strike bedrock at the
foot of the forty acres and the cut un til it be-
gan TO pay. There is lots of water, but not
much grade. II you want to tackle it and
it I will locate the ground. Or 1 may
see something better.