The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-29

Dawson last summer were al loaded with
whisky. Capt. harrington said:
THAT charge does the company an In
justice. / was there when the Bella was
unIcadsd and she did rot have a drop OF
whisky on hoard. There was nothing
but provisions. Besides. the companies
were not 10 blame for the failure OF the
boats 20 get up TO Dawson. IL was the
low wafer"
MaiIory's Lucky Thirteen.
T. H. Mallory Is d patriarchial old
miner who has been bufeted about by
tickle fortune for so long tina. he hardly
realizes the fact that he IS rich now and
has mines worth many hundreds OF thou
sands II not millions. He has mined all
over the West for the past thirty-six
years and has made several stakes, but
never one like that he has now. The sack
he brought out with him would nearly
balance a sack OF -four. The fatal num-
Der IL has proved 10 be Maliory's mas
cot. Nearly everything he has done since
ne went TO the Yukon has been done on
the 18th OF month. and his biggest and
richest claim Is No. Is.
Mallory left Spokane two and one-half
years ago and started for Alaska. He
went over the Dyea pass in company with
10 Healy Mrs. j. j. Healy and her maid.
Miss Conroy, and Thomas Finnegan.
1--WE built scow by whipsawing lum-
Der, ana left the lakes ..diy %, 1885, ar
irving at Cudahy August %, going down
by easy stages, hunting. fishing and ex-
aiming the country as We went. Al
Forty-Aile we parted company. Mrs.
Healy met her husband and went down
on the steamer Weare to Circle City. I
went down two weeks later on the Alice,
built a cabin. and put in supply Of grub
/
to be attacked by the scurvy that year.
but in the spring went out on Miller
creek In the Birch creek mining district.
! went into partnership with Riggs and
Lamm to work some claims. After open
ing UP the ground and getting to work
We made an average of SIS a day. includ-
ing all dead work and sluices, from July
! 10 September ].
I'VE returned to Circle City, paid our
debts and bought another years sup
ply OF grub. We got the Klon-
dixie fever and / joined In the
stampede on January l3 and started
with d hand-sled with seventy-tive pounds
Of grub and blanket. Half way up I
was joined by Dick Low and ]. A. Chute,
with whom / travelled after that. I paid
out my last dollar for supplies at Forty
Mile and arrived at Eidorado on Febru-
airy IL and purchased a half interest In
a t~o-StdT tease Oh tie upper HnQ Oh ~
10. Eidorado. Chute and myself bought
this from saltwater Bill We pitched
our tent and after hiring two men COM
menced TO sink holes.
I'VE sunk four holes without finding
anything. Almost discouraged, We sank
q fifth hole to bedrock. Chute had be-
come disheartened over the prospect and
had taken one OF our men and gone away
prospecting. Continuing the work IN the
fifth hole with my one man. / struck pay
dirt at depth of twenty-five feet and
bedrock at twenty seven feet. After pan
ming out $500 | concluded II was time to
stop work and enter into some arrange
ment 10 buy the ground or make more
money out OF the ground than by the
working lease. On April Is I got up a
pool with other men by which we paid
$3.50 as an option for three days 10 pur-
chase the claim at Si50o 5000 on ac-
ceptance. coo In fifteen days. and $50. coo
10 be paid July /. We paid the $4,000 be-
fore II was due and the final payment on
June 10, three weeks before ii was due
ITO show you how the mine paid. after
We concluded TO take the mine, | made
rocker. carrying snow and melting it
10 get water. One man was hoisting and
one man was IN the shaft. | did the
rocking. In April the product amounted
10 slo.62i and In May to s3l. as0-the last
six days was sluiclng. the biggest days
work being 4S3 ounces. or 1881. Up TO
the time came away our mine had yield
cd sl51 90. There are twenty-five men
working on leases OF 100 feet above
and 100 feet below. Work will he contin-
ued all winter. So far as We can average
the pay streak is seventy-five feet wide
and pays 2.eo0 10 the linear foot. That