The San Francisco call., 1897-07-20

gravel that will average to 8 cents to 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 daysto the man and
shovel the dirt eight feet high. Some pay $50
to $10O. So much for the claiy.s in this dis
trict, but they are not considered to be very
good.
They have Just found new diggings 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 Will be called Dawson.
Now. dislike to tell you the reports from
there as you will think am crazy, but 1 will
write YOU some of the "milder'' ones l have
never been there but am going in about two
weeks. About month ago bought a claim
up there 900 feeO on Ell Dorado Greek
without seeing ii for $1250-claim
IL. Yesterday a miner came down
from there and he tells me they are working
claims Nos. IA, 16. 8 and (niine is in the
middle), and he says they seem 10 be all about
the same thing. On No. 9 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 ard
keeps frozen all the year round, SO it viii
shafts The top IS feet viii run from soc to
50 to the pan-this they don't work. They are
drifting out the bottom z feet; feet OF this
will go from So to So 10 the pan. Then comes
~ feet that only goes from so cents to So.
Tnen there is a streak OF what looks like Glack
sand, and he says 1t is IL feet thick and so
feet wide and will average $50 to the pan.
He took one painful of the bedrock and
panned it out aud got 1922. 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 bout 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
any body $4,000 he could take 200 pans out OF
his shaft from top 10 bottom, no two pans out
of the same place, and get $4,000 out OF the
200 pans.
Everybody is leaving this camp and going
up there All the claims on these two creeks
are loca ted, but there are many more creeks
in the vicinity unprospected. man Will
sink shaft and ii he only gets an average of
% or so cents to the pan he won't locate IL, as
one man can only locate one claim in one dis
trict. He wants better claim. The gold can
be seen ali 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 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
a mine happened along there when other
men were driving stakes; so he drove some
ana came Oh here aud lett it (after having ii
recordedl. In British territory man has to
work three months in year, but any man of
whatever nationality can locate claim.
There is no grub u there, and -four is worth
Sl20 a 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 going
to be the town OF this section. The mines are
fifteen miles from the river
Don't advise any man 10 land here broke, as
everyth is high. 1t is SO degrees below
zero here TO-DAY, but you would not think it.
There is no wind aud no dampness in the
atmosphere, and so below is not as disagree
able as zero anywhere have ever been. We
have eighteen inches OF sno on the ground |
The climate is not near as disagreeable as |
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 a 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 $17 day. The |
place is now abandoned and l think l could |
take up 20-acre tract and get some friend to |
take up twenty more according 10 the govern |
ment law and deed it to US thus getting forty |
acres at cost of perhaps $40, and it would |
hold for year. l am going to try ana come |
home next Septembet ana ii you wish to find !
8 good man to come mp 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. unit. it be-
gan 10 pay. There is lots of water but not |
much grade. II you want to tackle it and |
it l will locate the ground. Or may |
see something better.