The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-10-12

hesitate TO give HS uIeS, but the SIHple
truth is that his various interests will
yield from 100000 to 100000 this
winter These figures are staggering,
but true"
The statement is made that Henry
Bratnober, agent of the RothchildS,
who has been spending several weeks at
the diggings, offered million for ten
claims adjoining one another on Ell
Dorado Creek, but the offer was de-
clined. Maloney offered $4,000 for a
one-half interest in claims Nos. 30 and
SO on the Ell Dorado, which offer was
likewise declined.
Charles Anderson. on claim % Ell
Dorado. PANIED out 500 in three hours.
This was an August 10th. James Tweed
in two hours "shoveling i'm on No. 80
Ell Dorado cleaned I'D 252 ounces Of
gold.
GOLD FIELDS VERY RICH.
SEATTLE. Oct. 11.-Pat Calvin, who
arrived here Saturday from Dawson
CITY. and who is recognized as one of
the bonanza kings of the Klondike,
where he has been engaged in mining
for. the past three years, in an inter
view to-day reviewing the gold regions
of the north. and estimating their prob
able output, said:
There are 461 claims which have
been in operation sufficiently to prove
their richness. There are $50 other
elaine staken out but not developed,
which. by reason of their location in
connection with other claims shown to
be very rich. have no doubt will prove
equal to the other 461. Taking these
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contents and making a conservative es-
innate I do not see why the output
from these claims alone will fall short
of SOC, 600 600"
Mr.. Calvin unhesitatingly declared
that nothing which had been published,
SO far as he knew, even appropriated
the truth of what is really contained in
these great gold fields.
COOKS INLET DIGGINGS.
PORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 11-As an
evidence that gold is found elsewhere
than at Klondike, the steamer City of
Topeka, which arrived this evening
from Alaska brought down an aggre-
gate of 100000 in gold dust, all from
Cooks Inlet, the result of this sum-
mer's work. This amount is distri-
buted among eight-five men, who are
coming out to spend the winter in a
place where climatic conditions are
more favorable than the country they
have just left.
On the 22d of September 116 men left
Cooks Inlet on the steamer Perry for
Sitka, where they took the City of
Topeka for Puget Sound Thirty one
of the party stopped at Juneau, where
they will spend the winter
No rich strikes are reported at Cooks
Inlet, but the average is So in dust ev-
cry Gay they worked. On rare occa-
sions a man would pan out SO per day,
and often as low as So Among the
passengers was Robert Michaelson who
has been IN Cooks Inlet for ten years,
and who is making his first visit to the
outside world in that time. He brought
out several thousand dollars, how much
he would not state. Nicholson will
spend the winter at his old home in
South Dakota
H. A. Schemser has upwards of S10,-
600 after stay of seven years He
is going to San Francisco for the win
ter. and will return in the spring He
owns four of the best claims in the
entire group.
7. J. Riley of New York, who went
to Cooks Inlet in March, 1896 and
staid there all winter, for the reason
that he had not sufficient money to pay
his way down, was also a passenger on
the Topeka to-day. He is the owner
of two quartz claims on Bear Creek,
in one of which the ledge is two feet
wide and assays $3.50 per ton The
other is eight feet wide and assays $50
per ton Riley has with him So, 600 in
dust, which he washed from a placer
claim during the past summer. He will
return in the spring with machinery
for stamp mill.
Provisions are reported as being plen-
tful at reasonable prices at Cooks In
let. There was little or no sickness
there during the season. About eighty
of the 800 men who were at Cooks In
let during the summer will winter
thersa
DENVER, Oct. liz. Guilbault, for
merly a Colorado mining man, has just
returned from Alaska He is a mem
Der of the Pennock expedition that
started out about three years ago and
went to Cooks Inlet Mr.. Guilbault
states that the country about Cooks
Inlet is fully as rich as the Klondike
and that the climate is much milder
Miners there are taking out from S25
to 800 day, he says.