The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-07-22

dams and women came out TO greet us as
We came down. Co.. .--.,t
Ceorpe Cormack made the hrst great
s,rit,o an Ronanza Creek August l-lh'
and ON August 18th seven claims W
flnd I'm that region. Word got 10 i oi's
MIL and circle city. but the news was
looked on as a grub-stake rumor.
December 18th. however, autheh.lC w Nv,
was carried to Circle City by d. NJ "n-
son. OF the Alaska Commercl"l C9i"
panv. and Thomas o Bren' u ~ ~
They carried not only news D"' -
nocts and the greatest stampede ever
board ~ commenced. Those who made
Tho emo miles tourney the quickest struck
A. ,l,o richest OF all the 200 claims satked
a,,t -, mo Ronanza and Eldorado non one
bas nroved a blank. As / came out
"a s,,tbertic information 10 the e1ecl
-. o,,,ait,, rich finds had been mace
-, - e,b IA 10 In on Dominion creek
Tbis last creek heads al iiuhh''
and runs into Indian creek an"
run into the Klondike. Ihree "ul,.'' ~
claims have already been sl"hC"
mis- Indian creek and the sur l,oo ''',.'
cations snow that they are as I''' 40 aug
OF the others s...., ,,.ss nick
80, o,t b,- Rurt Hudson on Claim SIX "i
tto ponanza. and is worth a niue over
s5-o The next largest was iouhd 10y d.
Cfor,erts and was worth SZ3l. i ne a.
- nans clements took out ran >-""
o- a., average Of $500 each. ana one OF
.torn went $50. Bigger pockets nav
~ struck I'm the CaribOo region ana j"
california. but nowhere on edI'h ~
mon picked No so much gold IN so S"'l
a time. 4 young man named her'n,i,
on YOUR list. came down aloo' an" ~
dog sledge. starting out carry hl VI az
~ brouoht $4,000 10 $4,000 with MIN.
~, ~ -. ,,,,resr on the Weare last sum-
- o,d vent I'm after the close OF navi-
e,tion in October or September ABOUT
T.oo,,,her 15th he got a chance 10 WORK
Nc, on shares. and i'm sixty days made
~ take which is about $4,000. lie mas
purchased a claim or two. YOU VIII n'u
- cold in circulation i'm Dawson than
~, o,,or saw I'm all your life. saloons
take in 5000 to $1,000 each per nisnr
Men who have been in all parts oil 'no
world where gold Is mined say they never
cav such quantities taken IN so SNORT
time. $1,000, 49,
".you may safely say that S2''p'"o mas
heen taken from the ground on the bIll-
ish side within the past year ana uDcu'
81 100000 from the AineIIv"n ar' ~
dis,iros around Circle city and IN the
.ider nlaces are rich enough TO satisfy
any ordinary demand. but they have an
ar nearly all. been temporarily LEFT Tor
the new fields. There are probably go
men working in the mines outside - Ci t,',
CIV but there would have been lyo had
nor tho new strike been made. Should
the new field play out, which is thing
impossible. the older diggings would be
returned to and with profit. However
the new fields are not going TO play out
There is enough in sight 10 conhrm the
belief that these new diggings cannot
be exhausted in ten years. or course
comparatively little gold is being taken
out now. for the streams are too hlsh,
but there Is much that was drifted ana
piled up last winter that Is not yet
washed.
DO I know Professor r. c. Lippy who
was formerly secretary OF the Young
Mems Christian Association at Seattle?
Yes. he came I'm last fall with hardly
grub stake. lie has a claim out of which
he has taken $4,000. with $4,000 more in