Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-20

is no dntibt but that there win be
100000. l have just heard that some
thing like l6,QOD miners WIN go lIuIu
Colorado alone. All Of the western
states will furnish large nl'! H.u,, |
There viii be thousands from NeW /
York Pennsylvania and ONO, ana
companies are being organized IN ~,
parts OF the United states. some WIN /
40 10y sea around the Horn, nut the /
most will 80 across the trunk lines OF |
railroads to Puget Sound. we expect |
TO hn fe a large number drop en- anu |
settle in Washington. and of the gold /
miners who return we hope to get Il /
good share. In addition to ;his we !
are going TO supply the must or llc
food for the Quitting parties, 50 you
can see that the Alaskan gold DIS
coverics are a good thing for us.
THE GOLD MINES OF WASHING |
TON.
"IIow about the gold mines Of your
own state, senator? Have any devei-
opments been ma Re lately
New discoveries are being made
right along all over the West. The
various mining districts are being
worked over and re-prOspected.
visited the old mining camp OF FLOR
encc, Idaho, last yenr This Is not iar
from the boundary OF Washington. The
gold there was found in a basin sur
rounded by mountains. The basin was
lust about as big as that of Washing
ton city. The gold was in the shape OF
nuggets and dust, and along in 1857
more than nifty million dollars worth
Of metal was washed out of the grass
roots The camp was then given up
Gold is now being found much turtner
down. II may exist for hundred reef
below the surface and If go vast
amount Of free gold will be discovered.
In the Occur d'Alene country, in west
ern Washington, we have valuable
mines Of lead and silver. The stand
| ard mine there Is paying SiovO0 a
month in dividends. The lie Roy Bold
mine. in which senator Turner rs m
| terested. Is paying dividends of SjO,OOO
a month. and there are valuable mines
ON the Colvllle reservation. There ~
! considerable placer mi-'ng, i am 10
| ing something OF this myself on the
| Salmon river in Idaho. We have
| there 1GO-acre farm, 1.-THE dirt from
which we are washing In the river to
get out the gold. We find about 10
cents worth in every cubic yard. ana
/ can clean up from ten to fifteen thous-
and dollars year This Is not great
| deal. but the property cost us very
little. and II gives us a big percentage
| on the investment
| OUR GOLDEN EMPIRE OF ALASKA.
II suppose you have good facilities
on Puget sound for getting Information
concerning Alaska, SENATOR
yes" replied Senator Wilson. "Our
| people talk little else than gold now.
have met scores OF men who have
Just returned from Alaska, and NUM-
Der who have prospected In other parts
OF the territory than along the Yukon.
There is no doubt about the enormous
amount of gold on the klondite, but ]
| believe If anything that there Is more
gold in Alaska than In British Column
bin Old prospcctors tell me that they
have never yet washed earth from an
Alaskan stream which has not shown
some color Nearly all the beaches OF
the Alaskan islands have gold mixed
with their sand on the big island OF
Kadiak there are men who are always
washing the sand to get out the gold.
and they make a good proht me
Alaskan Commercial company has
mines on one of the islands which pay
them $4,000 q month The great
Treadwell mine keeps pegEing along
turning out more than half million
dollars worth OF gold every year, and
there are undoubtedly great quantities
Of gold about Juneau. There is gold
at Cooks Inlet and ON the Copper river,
and you have heard Of the recent now
discoveries In the AlunoOk region be-
low Fort Yukon,
A SPOKANE MANS RICH FIND.
at is question whether southeast
W.. Ia ali Inn ne ttiondii-, ,rhsra
go 49,, ,,,,,,.,d c,,,itt, fror,, ,,,,, t,,,,r
-, sr,,i,,,,' ,,,ha bns iust come bgcl-
Lrineing a hig LAT Of free gold WITH
him. He has been prospecting along
the Sticllecn river. near Fort Wrangel
and he says he has discovered gold
which win assay 100000 to the ton
The gold is free gold, You can see Il
In his samples The yellow speck!
stick out all over the chunks of ore
He saws IL lies in a fivc-foot ledge be
tween walls of porphyry and slate, an'
that the outcroppings can he traced
distance Of 300 feet. The ledge crop
nut on the side Of a mountain half
mile above the sea. II is on Salmo
creek. about thirty miles northeast q
Fort Wrangcl.
us that "A hard place to reach, sen
ator?'
mo. [ think not" replied Senate
Wilson. Fort Wrangle Is on the mai
Alaskan route of the steamers plyin
between Seattle anu Juneau . ~ ~ -
be easily reagheu ny ,.i,'ag ~,
by slnhller sphoHi'eI H., LIS ~
. Smlth you '1Nlu 'a,iloHs " " ~
gold regions IN WHsul, " Nv VI
a wagon r9au coulu ~ t,,'i ,' W IT., - -
says that summon rlNer n"9 N"1H P'n''
u ground an the way w 10 uut X,
.. ledEg ne nus ul1VuN ~ W - -
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. september ~ luS H'i 10y tt.ui, .
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