The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-07-28
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Great Gold Find in Alaska.

SAN FRANCISCO, July IG-The Associ-
ated Press has received a letter from Fl.
A. Stanley, President Of the Binghamp.
ton, N. Y, Evening Herald Company,
telling of the wonderful gold discoveries
of Alaska. Mr.. Stanley wrote from St.
Michael's Island, where ne stopped on
bis way to the Yukon mining region.
Writing under the date of June 80 he
says:
The steamer Excelsior, Of San Francis
co, was the first vessel to push her way
through the ice to this station. The
Portland, from Seattle, arrived forty
hours later. From these vessels we
learned for the first timo of McKinley's
election, the result Of the Corbett-Fftz-
simmons prize tight and other news Of
the fall and winter. The ice went out OF
the Yugon about June l, and the river
steamer, Portus Wear, which wintered
at Dawson, 2,225 miles up, reached st.
Michaeps on June q. The Wear
brought authentic news of some of the
most wonderful gold strikes in all the
worlds history, and brought also some
forty.fve miners, every man bringing in
from $1,000, to $4,000 Q of dust and mug
gets, with an aggregate of more than ST.
coo, 900. Just how much the Wear
brought in on its " account as the
| exchange Of provisions and supplies fur
| nished the miners by the North Ameri-
| can Trading and Transportation Compa-
| ny could not be ascertained, but 1t isvery
| large.
The steamer Alice arrived ct st. Mi
| chael's on June %, bringing twenty-five
! miners and half a million in gold for
| them and much on, its own account The
| passengers on the Alice confirmed the
news reported by the passengers on the
| Wear, which is Us follows. The richest
gold strike the world has yer known
| was made In the Klondyke -region0 last
| August and September, but the news did
| not even get to Circle City until Decem-
| Der Is, when there was a great stampede
| over the three hundred miles intervening
| between there and the newer fields. On
I August II George Cormack made the
| first great strike on Bonanza Creek, and
l on August Is seven claims were filed in
that region. Word got to Forty Mile
and Circle City, but the news was looked
upon as q grub-stake rumor.
On December Is, however, authentic
news wa carried to Circle City by j. M.
| Wilson, Of the Alaska Commercial Com
pany and Thomas O'Brien, q trader.
They carried not only news, but pros
! poets, and the greatest stampede ever
known in this part Of the world COM
menced. Those who made the 300 miles
first struck it richest. Of, all these 200
claims staked out on the Bonanza and
| EIdorado creeks, not one has proven o
| blank Very rich finds we're made on
June 6 and 10, on Dominion Creek. Not
less than 800 claims have been staked out
on Indian Creek, and the surface indica-
! tions are that these are as rich as any OF
the others.
The largest nugget yet found was pick
up by Bert Hudson, on claim No. =, on
the Bonanza, and was worth S257. Next
in size was n found by J.Clements, on
Indian Creek. worth 1921. The last four
pans Clements took out were worth
$4,000, and one went S775. Bigger pots
have been struck in other regions, but
nowhere on earth has SO rich q general
find been made as in this section. In all
about IS lucky miners have reached st.
Michael's. Some brought but q portion
of the cleanup, preferring to invest 9TH
or portions in mines they knowto be rich.
Among the most lucky are ]. J. Gle
ments, of Los Angeles, who has cleaned
up about $175, 900. He brought out $780,
600 and invested the rest; Prof. 7. G.
Lippy, of Seattle, who brought about
$4,000, and has 100000 in sight, and who
claims his mine is worth $500,00O or
more; William Stanley, Of Seattle, clean
ed up $4,000; Clarence Berry, Sll0 600;
Henry Anderson. $4,000; Frank Keller,
$50, 900; T. J. Kelly, $3s. 900; William
Sloane, of Nansimo, B. c., SS5,0OO, and at
least thirty more who will not talk, but
stand guard over the treasure nNtheir
state-rooms. Then there are at least
twenty more men bringing from $1,000 to
4 $40, 600. ALL this gold and more to
come is the cleanup OF last winters
work.
Further particulars willfollowin about
forty days on the arrival of the next
steamer, a MI. Stanley will remain in
Alaska and gather all the information he
can. t