The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-30

of no mean order and was Tor shoI'
time boxing partner of Jack dempsey Be
He came into this country IN 1888 WIN
the Turner and McGrath surveying party
to establish the point OF intersection OF
the l41st parallel with the internatlonal
boundary line. After doing so the party
went direct north to the Arctic ocean,
making Typographical map OF the
country.
Turner named the Davidson Hills after
Professor Davidson OF the Geodeuc our
vey. They came down 10 the mouth or
the Yukon in q boat and missed the
steamer by five days, being compelled 10
remain at st. Michea1 another year.
When Turner and the others came south
Engelstad renamed behind, having taken
fancy to the big, cold wilderness. Since
then he has been up and down the big
river and explored many of its Fri butaries,
and he says, like Ogilvie, that gold IS 10 be
found in nearly all OF them, but that te-
cause OF their inaccessibility and the diff
Guilty OF securing provisions only the rich
est claims pay for the working. He says
there are very few, if any, tributarles OF
the Yukon that have been proSpected
properly and that the impetus that has
been given to mining by the recent dis
coveries will no doubt bring TO the open
any quantity of gold diggings, because tho
miner will follow his prospects more
closely. They will remem Der that the
Klondike has been known to miners for
many years and was thought to have been
tried out long ago. He says that many of
the little marks on the map that would
indicate creeks few miles long really
represent big rivers hundreds OF miles in
length, as the surveyors in most cases
only located the mouths Of streams. TEe
whole country has yet to be prospected.
II would predict, said Engelstad, that
the next big excitement Will be the
Stewart. Miners are going in there; it is
known the prospects are good. What is
needed Tor the thorough prospecting of
that country is the reindeer TO make
possible winter travel. Maunook Creek
is another good prospect. Thirty white
men went in there and took OUT lO3
ounces in three or tour weeks work The
Tanana is another property but thirty
miles from Dawson. Indian Creek is still
another. It has been the dream OF miners
for years. because of the tales told of its
richness and yet it is not on the map at
all. Because of the stones along the shore
about its mouth it is very difficult to find
or to make any ones way into. 1t is The
first stream above Klondike. Then there
is Innoko River. Five hundred miles up
that RIVER party OF miners took out
$1,000 from one little bar in few days.
There are good quartz groupings on
the western coast from the Klondike to
Norton Bay and also on the Tozikaket
River. On Tramway bar way up the
Kouketa River on the sixty-eIghth par
ore has been found. know of two friends
who took trip straight north from Fort
Yukon to the Gents de Large mountains
last winter, prospecting all along the way
and found at every point from one to two
cents pan. There is no place that gold
is not found. When transportation facili-
ties and prov .sions are laid up in the
country we will see big sums taken out.
Ii l was going into the country 10 remain
the first thing | would do would be to
build cabin at the head of the stream l
intended to prospect and there would
lay up a large stock OF the sal mon that
run UP to the headwaters in the fall in
countless numbers. If a man is a hunter
and rustler there is no need of starving.
In the district between Rampant House
on the Porcupine at the boundary line,
south 10 Forty Mile on the Yukon, there
are great numbers of deer"
s. w WALL