The San Francisco call., 1897-11-13
Almost Pure Ore on
Prince William
Sound.
BLACK HILLS MINER
IN LUCK.
Stakes Out Claim Which
VIII Yield to Him a
Fortune.
OIL AND COAL DEPOSITS
FOUND.
ICooks Inlet Country Rich In Prod
uCts O.her Than Golden
Nuggets.
special Dispatch to THE CALL.

SITkA, Nov. 3. (by steamship City OF
Tone ka to Seattle, Nov. y. )-One hundred
and twerty-:hree miners, prospectors,
surveyors and laboIers arrived here on
the steamship Dora from Cooks Inlet and
Prince William Sound. While every
p7ospector ana miner carries back with
him a small sack of gold as the result OF
MS seasons work, none brings news OF
strikes OF fabulous richness. though there
were all kinds OF extraordinary reports
atOat soon after the ship tied up at the
wharf Apparently authentic informa-
tion was brought down, however, of the
discovery o. extensive beds of oil and
veins OF coal near Prince William Sound,
which is 10 the east OF Cooks Inlet, on the
henai Peninsula and on the Alaska Pen
inSu.a TO the westward.
The larder OF the Dora on the down trip
was entirely exhausted owing to the care
fulness OF the new captain to anchor over
night William Bebe of Seattle said face
tously that if there had been few more
buoys to tie to they might have starved to
death before they reached port
The Drospec;ors and miners who came
cut are: Robert Elliott OF 423 Kearny
street, San Francisco; William Bede of
Nl4Cs JUN 44Hd0N VI CGdlllS, T ISu
Erickson OF Seattle, Phil Macbeth, John
McLennon and Ed Pitcher of Port Towns
end, James Walker of Fresno, Cal
Geor-e Harvey, Isaac Isaacson. Jack Ell
lis and J. D. Trapp of juneau, Henry Ed
wards and wife and Mrs. Pierce of Seattle
These men we're working on the lower
C--eks OF S.x-mile creek. While the party
Ha.ch came cut about four weeks ago was
Ho-Ilng on the upper creeks and was
driven out by the cold, the upper cree
pros peCtors we're more successful than the
present party, as they came down with
about $500 900 out of the total estimated
output o $3.50, 600 in the Cooks Inlet coun-
try for the season. The fact, in brief,
d Dout the Cooks Inlet country so far as at
present prospected is that while consider
able pay dirt has been found and worked
at a profit the paystreak, if there is one,
has not vet been found.
The most sensational story brought
down by any OF the party is the report OF
the discovery OF rich copper ore on Prince
William Sound. An element of mystery
was thrown into this by the fact that
there was a man aboard who exhibited a
large nugget OF almost pure copper, but
who refused to tell his name or where be
found it. He is going to San Francisco.
/ have learned that this man is Mike
Gladhaugh, an old miner of the Black
Hills. HIS discovery is on the beach on
Prince William Sound, near Taiteklah.
The ledge is said to be nearly pure copper.
1t crops out on the beach below nigl-
water mark, and when the tide is at its
maximum the ledge is out of sight, but
this does not dampen the enthusiasm OF
this old miner nor reduce his confidence
in the belief that he has good thing.
He has very little OF he vein in sight, but
he has already set a price of $50 0JO on
the discovery.
On Tatanch Island blowout OF copper
pvrites OF gigantic dimensions has been
! 1und. Down on the beach there are said
be huge bowlders OF almost solid cop
= pr. Other locations in this section said
10 be equally promising have been made.
These rel orts come straight enough, and
if absolutely true, copper has at last been
found in Alaska in great and paying
quantities.
The Alaska Commercial Company seems
TO be quite a S active in the Cooks Inlet
territory as it is in the Yukon Robert
Elliott said he had heard reports that
The company was buying up claims
around SiX-Mlle Greek for he purpose of
working them on large scale With
giants. He said he heard the Polly MIN
ing Company was offered $3.50 600 for its
claims, but he did not believe II, as he
did not think The Polly property was
worth so much money. That this or
other companies of large capital are
buving and bonding large tracts of
ground for hydraulic mining on an exten-
sive scale there is no doubt.
The largest coal and oil fields so far dis
covered are west OF Cape Yakatago, near
rI,f0 Hort is,r o..
trollers Bay. These have been discovered
and located by the Alaska DEVELOPMENT
Company of Seattle which has had pros
pectors looking for oil ard coal in that
region Tor the best part Of two seasons.
I. J. Hamilton, vIce-president and gen
eral manager OF the company. who mas
spent ths season there. and who was
passenger on the Dora, says that one of
The tie ds has a frontage of five miles and
the other OF nine mics. He SAID That the
oil was certainly lubricating and that the
coal was biruminous ana the finest on the
Pacific Coast.
1t IS sail in this city that ne Alaska
Development Com pany is another name
Tor the Standard Oil Company. Vice
President Ham lton denies this. When
asked if he o jected to being gobbled oy
the oil monopoly he said he did not II his
company could be swallowed al It's own
once. Benz nearer the Oriental market,
kAs com pany expects to compete with the
andard OH Company for the trade OF
Nl!na and Japan.
- ce-President Hamilton talked rail-
roan lust before he sailed for the south on
the CITY OF Topeka like a man who has
unlimited capital or is backed by some
company which has. He said the COM
pany intended to start preliminary sur
vey next season for the railroad from Con-
trol.ers By to Circle City, Forty Mile,
luQaNV ana Dawson Conner R.Yer
comes out lew miles 10 the westward of
Controllers Bay. The railroad route would |
be TO cross Copper River above the can
yon, about 100 miles above the Delta, |
girdle on the northeast on a high plateau |