The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-27

WHAT The SURVEYOR OF CAN
ADA HAS TO SAY ON THE
FIELDS.
San Francisco, Cal, July 26.-For
nearly quarter of century this CITY
has seen no such mining excitement as
that over the Klondike discoveries in
Alaska. Last week the craze had only
fairly begun. This week the arrival of
the miners from the north, by way of
Seattle, added fuel to the flames and the
exhibition in a public window OLA collec.
tion of nuggets worth $50, 900, the richest
find of the whole season, has made the
gold fever rage MS it has ragged for ten
days at Seattle. The same pol CIV of pub
lie exhibition Of gold dust and nuggets
was pursued in Seattle, with the result
that men are resigning good places and
leaving their families with scanty means
in order to try their luck in this golden
gamble under the Arctic circle. All
regular and legitimate returns look small
to the man who has been rending of n for
tune taken out of the frozen earth of
Alaska in four me nths.
Every nail from Alaska brings m ORE
news of the almost fabulous richness of
the new Klondike gold field. The Alaska
Mining Record of July ia paper publish
ed In juneau, contains great deal of in
teresting information. In excerpts from
the Official report of Dominion SURVEYOR
William Ogilvie, he says:
''The extent of tho gold bearing sec
tion here is such as to warrant the asser.
ton that we have here district which
will give 900 claims of 500 feet in length
each. Now 1000 such claims will require
at least 5000 men to work them properly,
and, as wages for working in the mines
are from SO to SO day, without board.
we have every reason to assume TINT this
part Of Our territory will within a wear
or two contain 10000 souls Mt least, for
the news has gone ont to the coast and
ar unprecedented influx is expected next
spring.
"Since my last the prospects ION
Bonanza creek and tributaries are in
creasing in richness and extent. until now
1t is certain millions will .be taken out of
the district In the next few years On
some OF the claims prospected the nav
dirt Is of great extent and very rich. One
man told me yesterday that he washed
out n single pan of dirt on one of the
claims on Bonanza creek and found
Sl4.25 in 1t. OF course that may be an ex-
ceptional'y rich pan, but..$5 to 81 per Pan
Is the average on that claim, 1t is re
ported, with five feet pay dirt and the
width yet undetermined, but known to be
thirty feet; even at that figure the result
mt nine to ten pans.to the cuhic,foo and
5OO feet long, is "a, 100000 at So per pan.
One fourth of this would be enormous
Enough prospecting has been done to
snow that there are at least fifteen miles
ot.this extraordinary richness, andthe in
dtcations are that we will have three or
four times that extent, If not all equal to
the above, mt least very rich.'
MIR. Ogilvie announces the location of
quartz lode showing free gold in paying
quantities alone one OF the creeks. The
quartz has tested over 81 ton. The lode
appears TO run from three to eight feet
ID Shlck and Is about nineteen miles
from the Yakon river. Good quartz has
been found also at the head of branch
OF the Alaska river, near the head of the
Chilkot inlet, inside the summit of the
coast range, in Canadian territory. The
hills around Bonanza creek also contain
paying quartz. Copper in abundance Is
fount on the southerly branch of the
White river, and silver ore has been
picked up on a creek flowing into Ben
nett Lake Mr.. Oglvie says that the
placer prospects continue to be more and
more encouraging and extraordinary
+" 1t is beyond doubt" he says, "that
$3.50 PnhS VI uluereQb claims on I'll
Dorado turned out 1904, S21s and 1916,
put it must be borne I'm mind that there
were only three such pans, though there
are many running from $40 to $50"
The Mining Record has this news:
1T is stated on good authority that
one claim yielded 100000 in 45 feet up
aud down the stream. Clarence Berry
nn o out is'two partners paying one
POD, UOO andthe otherS60, 900, and has taken
up $40. 600 from the winter dump alone.
Peter Wiborg has purchased more ground.
purchased his partners interest in
claim, paying $42. 900. A man by the
name of Wall has all.he thinks he::wants,
ana Is comm" out. He sold his interests
for 500, 600: Nearly all the gold is found
In the creek bed on the bed rock, but
there are few goou bench diegings.
cord wood is worth sos a cord.
Lumber is $3.50 per thousand FEET; slabs
on cents each; sawdust, 10 cents per
pay