The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-07-22

ana lpcdtcd claim ~ the ilrHt branch.
which was named by the miners Bonan.
m creek Carrnich reached mis- claim
in August iic had to cut some logs
ana set provisions 10 enable nim 70 he
kin work on his claim. he returned
with g few weeks provisions :or him
seif. wife and hrothyr-ln-law undlans)
IN Tho last u August. AMI Immediately
set about working his claim. iAe gravel
iifcls be had 10 carry In a box on his
back from thirty 20 one hundred feet
Notwithstanding this. three men. working
very irrsgulply. WASHED out ai.9O In
eight days. and Carmich asserts shat had
he had proper facilities he could have
done Il IN two days A branch OF the
B0nanza named Eldorado has prosp .cted
m1sulnceHtly. and another branch named
fly creek has prosDected we'll There
are about i7o claims staked In the main
creek. and the branehes are gaod for
as many more, aggreg lting abou. 30
claims some Of which wlll rrqairs over
thousand men TO work properly. A
few miles further up. Bear creek enters
Kiondykc and II has been prospected
and located on. About lwlve miles above
the mouth OF Bear creek Gold Bottom
creek joins Klondyke. and on It a
branch named Hunker creek very rich |
ground has oeen found on Gold Bot
tom creek aud branches there viii be |
probably two or three hundred claims |
The Indians hav, reached another creek |
much further up. which they call Too |
Much Gold creek. on which the gold |
Is plenuful; as the miners say in .oke.
You have to mix gravel with t to
slulce It.
"Cp &c date nothing dednite has been
heard from this creek. From all this we
think We have here a district which viii |
give loo claims OF ioJ feet IN length |
each Now. 100 such claims viii require
at least 500 men TO work hem properly.
and as wages for working In the mines
are from S TO $40 per day, We have
every reason 10 assume that this partic-
ular territory viii In a year or two
i0,OO0 souls at least. for The news
has gone out 10 the East. and unprece-
dentci influx Is anticipated next spring
And this is not all. for large crcek
called Indian creek Joins the Yukon mid
way between klondyke and Stewart riv-
ars. aud all along this creek good pay
dirt may be found All that stood i'm the
way of working heretofore has been the
scarcity of provisions ana he .,lnculty
of getting them up there. In Indian
creek is quite a large stream, and L IS
probable it win yield Ave or six hun
lrcd claims.
"Further south yet lie the ends of
several branches OF Stewart river. on
which some prospecting has been done
md good indications foun1, but the wan,
,f provisions prevented development.
Now gold has been found in several
'treams Joining Pelly river and also
iloug the Hootaliuua. In the line OF
hcsc finds, further south. are the Cas-
air sold fields, in British Columbia, so
he presumption that Ne have in our
territory along the eastetly branches
" the Yukon a gold-bearing belt Of in
iennite width and upward OF 800 miles
org. exclusive OF the British Columbia
'Nrt Of It,
quartz OF good quality is reported
n the hills around Bonanza creek, but OF
bis | viii be able 20 speak moro fully
Ifter my proposed survey. 1t is pretty
ertaln, from information l have got
rom prospootors, that all or nearly ali
Il the northerly branch Of White river
$ on our side OF the line, and copper is
ornd on It, have also seen a specime
# silver ore. said TO have been picked
p In creek flowing into Bennett lake,
bout II miles down it, on the eastern
lde. When 1t was fairly established
3onanEa creek was rich IN gold there
vas g. rush to Forty-Mllc. The town was
Ilmost deserted. Men who had been in a
hronic state of drunkenness for weeks
we're pressd into boats as ballast end
akin up to stake themselves a claim and
.laims were staked by men for their
rlends who were not in the country at
be time"