The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-02

Cook inlet viii not gain much In reputa.
sIon a. q rich mineral country By the ar.
rival on the Sound Of the schooner Nor
! man sunde, with fifteen rn<n fresh from
the nines- The snnde, operated By tbs
Copper River Trading and Transportation
| Company. left Cook inlet October 70.
month later than the party which arrived
on the steamship City Of Topeka several
week ago A majority of the sunde's pas
/ eerEers came TO this city Last evening OF
the steamer Rainier. The story told b.
such OF these passengers as were talked
with hardly agrees with that given out b.
some member Of the party in Port Towns
s:'d. From that place came the report
saat The schooner brought $500. The es-
tlr1ase given here IL $1,000
Jas Norman sunde reached Port Towns
end yesterday morning at I O'Clock. TWEEN
ty-one dsys from Cook inlet. with sixteen
passengers. She left this port September
2, Under charter 10 Wheeler q Co. Of Sc
nfsie. arrived AT Sunrise October s. and
left on the return voyage four days later.
The schooner made the ran 20 within sight
or Cape Flatsery In fourteen days and vas
then 5rcasn7ed for Eve dayx on Dixon's
entrance storm Of great violence was
encountered, and for several hours the
eehocner iabored heavily bsit the voyage
was for the most part exceptionally pleas
ant;
Il seems particularly dlfficalf TO arrive At
trde understanding Of conditions IN Cook
inlet. since the interest Of speculation
SEEMS 10 iinse the statements Of many who
q 4 ~ bar hog
One Of those who came 20 this city on the
steamer Ranier was seen last night At
the fremont hotel. where he Il staying IN
company with John Wood az uncle Of ex-
Mayor W y. Wood. and Robert Duncan.
OF this city. Clay was shown kilograms
last nighf from Fort Townsend, reporting
estimator OF the individual sums brought
out by the passengers OF the sunds as
given To the press IN Port Townsend.
some of the boys seem anxious TO APP
J pear as having more than they really
own he said. with a laugh. II know they
gave my name as having $500. when in
fact | left Cook Inlet Just SIS to the good.
There * but little more truth in the rest
OF it,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rivers OF Mantans.
quoted In the dispatches as having sl0 90a
Clay says. have but 81 80. John Woods. Of
Grays harbor left the inlet. Clay SAYS
with about sfsa. while Il was given out
that he had cleaned up 5000. Robert Dun
can, credited with stple had. according tn
his companion. hut stzs James Greenieaf.
packer. said 10 have s5sa. Is lei down
BY Clay with x2.0oA and so with the rest
OF the passengers.
THE total amount In the hands OF the
Surae's passengers would not exceed 80
n00.' said Clay lat night. and he made the
Statement positively. He laughed AT the
statfment heretofore made that 81 900 90
would represent the years output for the
district declaring that oae-quarter OF that
figure would be nearer the fact
.'Thr country T. rot developed YETI he
said and while there Is no big bonanza
on Cook Inlet. there are plenty 81 paving
claims. Mills creek q the best OF all
Seven claims on that creek are paying well
Tho Polly aining Company. located there
averaged during the season. with twenty
men working. $1,000 a day. or $50 To the
man. The working season lasts but three
or four months II runs from June 10
September usually. This year the season
closed September 81 ard evervthlne, ~
now shut down. How many viii winter
IN the country About forty IN sunrise
and twenty-five OF thirty IN Cook cry
They viii hsve plenty Of gruh. as there
are three years provisions now on tho
inlet
Claims run all the way from q ee,,-
&c 80 q day. Duncan made ro,a lts
eovefy shortly before Ne left an tg.1
creek. across the inlet from Sunrise pir4
creek ls t@enty miles lonr and trcntx ,r
thirty feet Wide anal g fed av severtl
small tributaries. IN the rt.sh twc vs3rs
nro the entire creek wac staked n.t ,,st
was afterwards naandoacd Duncan ta4
been working en- the hars watch rte, tho
creek and VIXEN he cult was taking ot.f 3,
end sisn Ia thu pan Next wear ne est
IN. IN wing dams and work the he'd ~
.he creek II f. generally conceded that
ac hes goal thsng Wood Is n Mariner
r. Tuneana. and ! also VIII have = claim
on Glrd creek next year. Yo0 see. tts
claims that have been located and ah4n-
doned cannot be relocated until ianusr,
.s9S I have a friend who viii ale fo- .nc
before spring
James Grant of Tort Angeles has h,an
In Cook inlet only a few months and has
b<en working for wages an Canyon creek
<o~ the Neneth party Of Port Townsend
Grant and Ned Croxier had about 81 900 be
TWEEN them.
q creeaon. az San Francisco. has hsen
there two years. working his own claim
On Rirch creek and averaging during the
working season 81 pan,
NJ r Kent. OF Phoenix. has beer on
Abe inlet two years. ard has several
claims an Link and Guleh creeks lie hss
had from fcur ~ six men working tor hirr
ell summer.
other passengers than those mentioned