The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-10-12

Y; Bog Nicholson of Hamburg, Ger
many, who is now en- route to visit his
parents and family at Alcesta, S. d.:
George Brown of Amador County, CAL,
| and J. c. Price of Bangor, Me. They re-
turn with $1C0. 900 as the seasons clean
! Up.
Four California men are the next most
successful. They have organized into the
Fresno Mining Company. all having come
from Fresno or that vicinity. They are +:
Frank Toner, Richard Lane, Bob Elliott
and Tom Williams. They are returning
10 Fresno with between $50. 900 and $60, 00O
worth OF the prettiest gold that has been
washed out of the Cooks Inlet countr y
Their claims are on Canyon Greek.
Richard Kane of Snohomish, Wash, is
bringing out about 5000 in dust from
Bear Greek.
Fred Smith from Montana bas $40, 900
OF Link Greek nuggets in his buckskin
sacks.
A man named Fish of Los Angeles is
! carrying back about $6J0 in dust to the
| Angel City.
John Riley and son of Seattle are going
back with about SIS, 600 in Bear Greek
| gold. Neither father nor son will tell how
much GOLD they have. Nobody aboard
the ship could get a word out of them on
the subject This estimate is made from
the casual observation of other miners.
They may have $l5, 900 or $50 600.
Herman A. Schmesar OF San Francisco
Is going back alter three years with three
bullying sacks which contain $4,000 each.
de was teaInster in San Francisco.
Mark Tatom, a rough-looking but a verv
sensible fellow, has $1,000 in his possession.
he Is from Oregon. lie is credited by the
other miners with having one of the very
richest claims in the Cooks Inlet re gion.
He told me that he thought $4,000 was
enough to insure him a comfortable time
for the winter in Portland and San Fran
cisco, and there was plenty of gold where
the $500 came from.
These cean-ups represent the work of
only one season on the claims. The men
who brought out the M ost are those who
had been in there long enough to get
their claims into working shape. 1t was
not possible under the circum stances to
get the names of even all who had made
handsome clean-ups, but the amount is
no. less than the estimate given, and may
be a great deal more.
Among the party was George T. Hall,
representative of the Alaska and KIon-
dixie Company. Mr.. Hall is mining en-
gineer and the eompany's expert. He
purchased In The Cook Inlet 1000 acres Of
| placer ground. He says the gravel will
average 81 80 per yard, and that there is
enough of 1t to work for fifteen wears. He
| said the company would clean up $1,000
per day when they got the giant and en-
| tire hydraulic plant already provided for
In operation next season. He said the
company would send 800 men to Cooks
Inlet next spring. About half of the
Cooks Inlet party will return on the
steam ship City of Topeka, and the Others
will wait for the next steamship taking
the outside passage.
J. A. Brecker of this place, said TO be
the custodian OF the secret OF a new Kion-
dixie in the Lake TeslIn region, as related
In these dispatches few weeks ago, and
Miss Florence Amelia Sessions, who has
wide circle of friends in Chicago, were re-
Gently married here, and will make Siika
their home. Hal HOFFMAN