The morning news., 1897-07-18
AsKA, OUR LAND OF GOLD.
v,xv WHO DECLARE IT'S MINES
THE RICHEST EVER KNOWN.

.ate THAT in Alaska Is the Mother
II, oe the Cola of North America
From the New York Sun.
Those familiar with the history of gold
mining declare that the gold fields of
Alaska are among the highest both In
sra =. extent that have ever been
.,ovrn The stories that the Spanish e;K-
..orars heard about Eldorado were no
more wonderful than those which are now
coming down from Alaska with every
steamer. except that the Spaniards hea rd
of cold already mined and refined, where
as the Alaska gold is not yet dug. The
spaniards never got their gold; the Alas
tans are getting it by the ton. Here for
instance, is a quotation from the issue of
.Iune 30 of the Alaska Mining Record of
Juneau. 1t relates to the arrival of one
lack Hayes, the mail carrier for The Yu-
ton district Hayes left Juneau on Jan.
"A and completed his tour of duty on June
o. After an interview with him about
his experiences, the Record says:
Much excitement prevails all through
the Yukon district over the Klondike dis
coveres. and all kinds of stores of the
riches there are told. many of which Mr..
Haves says are true. 1t is true that two
aenderfeet, railroad men from Los Ange-
les. CaL-Frank Summers and Charles
Clemens-have struck it rich. They went
in year ago and located on the Klondike
last fall Clemens sold his interest for
$500 cash, and his partner, Summers,
held on two weeks later and got $4,000.
The money 10 pay the men was taken out
of the dump which had been Lifted from
the shaft on the claim during the winter,
These two men had each panned out 81 500
on their claim while prospecting It, The
man that bought Clemens interest bound
the bargain with $232 nugget which had
been aiken from the Klondike. Summers
is a single man. Clemens has a wife and
two children in Los Angeles. 1t is said
that both will come out on the next boat
via St. Michael, bringing with them their
little fortunes. Neither man had ever had
any experience in mining.
ALEC Mcdonald took one pan from his
claim which tipped the scales to the tune
OF $500, and offered a wager of $1,000 that
he could pick his dirt and in twenty min
utes get a pan that would go over 100
ounc ces 81, 600. No one cared to cover the
wager.
''Oick Lowe is panning for living, and
IS taking out the modest sum of 800 day.
In a personal letter dated at Circle City,
NJ arch "A, Oscar Ashby says in part:
our town is very quiet at present. ev-
'ery one having gone to the big excitement
at Klondike. Every body has gone crazy
over Il. This country has an unparalleled
future There are thousands of acres that
men will not, in fact, cannot, look at until
provisions are cheaper. l understand that
wages here will be $12 day. There is
not enough help to supply the demand on
the creeks. Dogs are worth all kinds of
money, from SIS to $3.50 each.'"
There are one two men NaU Work
VINO know Alaska mining and Alaska
mines Well. A Sun reporter asked one of
them sterday to talk about the gold dig
iglngs Of Alaska. He did So after stipu-
Eating that his name should not be print
ed. He opened a drawer of his desk and
out Of a number of specimens of ore Sc
lected chunk as big as a mans thumb
1t was as heavy as a bullet.
This he says. as he laid II away in
the drawer again, was picked up on the
surface soil six years ago. Another piece
as big as my fist that was picked up at
1Ae same place we have been offered $3.50
lot. Now when there is gold like that
Ehg about open to the air, there is just
one inference TO be drawn. 1t comes from
some place The man who finds the place
Is rlcn. The man who tells the world in
general what he IS looking for and why
unGer such circumstances is a fool BY
lhe same token he usually dies poor and
complains of hard times sighs for the
return OF the good old days of 40 Why
man 4s was nothing to thisl Johannes
puIs Is no such center of gold fields as
Is Juneau
But there is this difference between
Nahiornia in 40 and Alaska in 81 Alaska
j. an staked out. The news has not gone
abroad until the people near at hand, the
peopie who have spent money time, and
tneF very lives in developing the country,
v.- me people IN short, who deserved the re-
GDdIu, had seized on everything in sight
IoWn along the coast In the quartz Iodes
tne stamp mills have been established one
.r ~ one twenty stamps here. forty there
10y nave not any of them begun to be
"o'Aed as hard as the available area of
~ WIN permit. With mills running al
.7e'Uer 74s stamps, more than half the
camps working only half a year the pro-
S1ei que Of the quartz mines of Alaska in
- yIeIded $2,S55o00. ] say TO you earnest
"a Iiouesily' that is only a pin scratch
9.N III Alaska cannot be said to have
.t7.' mere was never anywhere any
15 IKE H. To-day l received this de-
-Pa'ch from man who Is going over a
4 l.,..'.on OF twenty or more mines all be-
t,.ts- % the company in which / am
lea- Changing the names of the
.t,, lhe despatch reads thus:
D., 1--WE Just examined Pup and Kitten.
,.-,,s 'as @ 'en-foot vein and Kitten thirty;
o. /
t-al..les and queer DEVELOPMENTS in
fa trsfa veins. Still there have been tbir
Io2t veins before. and there NAV be
49,, ",'ie OF them. The beauty Of II an Is
d-,.r ."'se Veins grow richer as YOU work
,- On them. To sum the whole thing
f', .-AeVe that right In the Alaska gold
"a-,A America. s''u u
IT,, piacer deposits IN the Yukon coun-
,..- ne washings from those same rich
can r ltars ago, In 1888, as nearly as
v,rtt'.- '.-..'einher, the placer miners began
YIko. over Chelkat Pass ana into the
vls.or .Tlct Poorly clad, badly pro-
Som ~ ,ney went out year after wear
f.a51 %. ,.ll them went half crazy. But tbey
their go, Thcy came back ana brouobt
very .l' IN with them next time. The
ed (, ',,.Lnaasity Of what they found work'
ths ey--. favor. They told tho trutb
f.l 49, ruth. II sounded IKE The boss,,
c11c.,I .9Hs OF men who were irvine 70
tta ,,i ..'lr disappointment. Now wben
OFT nj lost Itself is beginning 10 come
t0n r mountains people believe
with n.. y, " 8 too late now to 20 mn, tbore
nrs. 5lea Of making money ont ~ ~
ca ftIyth.ng "a pobbied 80, 20 '''