The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-10
nYUKUk IS THE PLACE.
MD Timers Are Enthusiastic Over
Prospects There.
ENDS ON AMERICAN SIDE,
. e. Wa.bburn Returns to Seattle
n.vxon-NaB0ok Country Hns
u<sn oxere.tfmafed-Ne Of Se-
attic People in and About RAM
,art-somc Have Done Well.

pr washbuyr. os this city. who went
=. .9aska lae. year with sx-Mayor Woods
- ,ot, CT the steamer Humboldt, re-
80 from tie north on the CLEANER
= gniea arrived Saturday. Mr. Wash
t.,v bad ne Intention o! leaving the Yukon
= 4. wpak before starting down the river.
=, asJ made pc ss4rsat -ons for another year,
.,.sctiag t. 70 10 the koyukuk country.
- SAYS he was detained at isanyar1 city
vood nart 81 ths summer waiting for two
- kas-uauk pr3speCtoTs and X WAS not
So the 3fst OF September that MIS- outfit
80 complete aud he started to drift down
.a, Yukon rs I'sckert' : station ~ the r.outh
O. he koysikuA
a, Nukiukyet the Old timers expressed
sssrs as 10 the possibility of getting up
,hsi stream al SO late day OF account OF
e. and they finally decided TO remain az
u,st point vita tae adea o. going over 10
Irrsie city on lne Snow in November or
De4ernber Mr " ash5Urn pushed on acne.
however. hoping - catch the Alaska Com
a.yciai Cou5pauys steamer Yukon on her
s.zanA trip up. but NJ met head winds, had
10 roa from morning TIL n-gnt 10 Keep II
M current, dtlsen benind countless
IsIsuIs ana iuto .nnUmrrable blind si0ugns
va painfully SLOW ~ a large boat built for
AZ nleI- september Was advancing. snow
covered the hI-a an0 mountain tops and il
became very serious question as to- wheth-
sr Of not Ii would lbs possible ~ reach Arc
IL chg even II q steamer was boarded AZ
the ns0uin of tae k0ygk ak AsroAt 100 III lis
alsJye Pickert's station "A small steamer MAS
Eet which aAd been twenty-five miles up
.as koyukuk ana then turned back. The
usrfy repJrted the water low and that
ft.s. 81. s11f-r-~ as an ~ Sx.sF
stranded on bars TIT small chance OF get
:iuz Of Or a. least of making any consid-
e.ab.e Roadway up stream
VIII Wait for High Water.
Mr. Washburn says that under these cir
eGrns.arces he concluded the wise thing
% DO would 10 To return home and wait
Until the high water OF next summer. II
was too late TO get To Dawson. if he were
70 Inclined ne had no desire to 60 back Ia
Rampant City. ana. having HE mind set
UPON prospecting n the koyukuk country.
he was dlsucned 10 ptae Al another winter
on TIE lower river over the same ground
covered by himself and others Of the Weed
eyte!Ili0u OF 1897
Dir Washbtrn IN speaking OF his obser-
Ya,ions ami conclusions yesterday. after
years experience on the Yukon said:
The Yukon country is full Of gold.
steamboats,. busted transportation com
panles grub and hopeful argonauts. who
have not as yet struck anything. | have
just as much faith iii The country as had
on August - of last year when we Left tho
Arlington dock. The Humboldt expedition
afs late In the year and vas disappointed
IN being frozen IN near the mouth OF tho
TsnaRa half way up the Yukon. Many.
!hcildng myself, proSpected Up and down
tie river for q hundred miles or more. but
Batting rich was found ana three-f0urihs
Of the Wood party have already quit the
country. We finally reached Dawson about
tse a3ll.e OF last June. The place was then
a. TIE height Of its prosperity, with l0.ts.s
dle utn walking up ana down the main
SFsci waitlng for something to turn up
81 wondering how they were going 10 put
u another T!ater Nearly all the Seattle
p02e whom met ana who had gone In
the previous fail hal barely managed 10
maze ends meet and dsCouragingly report
e. everything rs over done and the chances
sim Tor making anything like b = thing.
bad 10 intention Of remaining IN Dawson
and after ten DAYS gazing at gold dust,
hieneSs ara corrupt oi,chAissn dropped
caHn the river IN sa.--- s+lH.1tt
City.
New Discoveries Made.
Rampant or Mauo0k as It Is quite com
nenly called is little more than prospect
ing camp. albeit there arc now th0us-
AL or mere people located there. Good
prospects, were found at Little Mauook
GEEK several years ago and four or five
claims 90 thai creek have developed well.
sel 4fe not 81 fabulous richness. \ gf"at
aea. of No1h Was done. Last winter on sev-
Gal Ut & liNFE& creeks. buf WIN practi-
eaiv 10 profitable results. Late this spring
i91aUens were made across the divide in
u territory tributary 10 Mike Hess creek
AID tA.s summer farther locations have
Zee r'ale il the same ne.ehbarhOod on
siEeams running into The TanAHa. Tho
f2hrtss Of the new districts - wholly
TFte.'2.at ts8i. ncNfVtr hut | look % SEQ
'urr 3ut better than TIE Nanook creek
subhify. Waca has as yei turned out moth
= .4 .
ilese cia.nls produce the finest gold get
.lsAA ot tsr Yukon, but the owners re-
.-SV 20 oiN ,tiSe any information rs = the
= ms aiken out which has led me 20
he8ffc thew are no; OF the E1doraGa Or
9ti although II fair richness. Rampant
NpSc Not hSVe been a town Of its present
So Asd Il Mt been foT the fact that near
y a. the people bound for Dawson las;
;t"t va - Michael were dumped Of a
Aaaooh creek and having boen compelled
g winter there nave sJaked tho surround
ssk country ans are trying TO make a
HH'ns camp without any considerable
ee3+ observe notA.ug II special encCur
,,'fer' has hern found outside ~ Little
as.22k NHt t'1t Is not saying nothing
w. Re- Hunt. GA 'ners who went on
f9' taat roW famous creek - be no
49, bJf st 5Hrust out 9therWlS c. as the
el'Fa Wari knAN~ Nt10 K may turn out
st'rr H*f. YAK ! Doubt f.
- arSc n,t'. II ne MAuook people
Wh'oi Z taxed aurrg ths summer
"a" :. w. r'...~ purpose ~ cross over 80
~ AtfHsHk -e'fntry curing thc winter
tt.y t H0ne y ittie u rre pros
fS,1o'< a.tH"' tan2Tart en crooks ~'t:rh
3 SER srt.'r g. t~t St.s8fr les' WIN
- eek t- ~e- i.n u~r1ts<. avNu0t ~
~%n -r- <H' 'a+ lass s1 je.e'o pweGfs
As-rer a- sale "H tla + Nihuk
90. taH.t wta nearly aU th- ga