The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-31
ri MILLING GOLD ORES.
mRAL PROMISING VEINS Lo.
Gated on COOK INLET.
>.rts Tricky speckled with the
pveclOua Metal-Plaeer Claims
rugn Out Well-Hydraslie PPOpO-
s6ttons Are Gaining IN Favor.

| 4 nrrs,er of Copper river and Cook in
= passengers. who recently arrived at
-. Townsend. came to Seattle yesterday
- he steamer Alice Gertrude, bringing
- news from that couairy.
rsky say that a promising vein Of quartz
.rcyirg free gold has been found on Sa VI
"a creek which flows INTO T8rnagain
s,1ften miles east Of Sunrise City. Gold
{ danny visible all through the quartz
stbsut even the use Of glass. and assays
=, received there from San Francisco
fcw sI9a ton if the pay streak, which
4 ak TO twelve inches wide.
ne mass OF the vein matter said 20 be
togf 10 E.x feet in width. shows from $se
4 10 ton IN gold and silver. The strike
:. TIE vein Is about northeast, and the
cGsztrg rock IL STATE. with numerous bikes
q pyroclasiie diorite- The owners have
tsre considerable work ana say they in
IND 10 put IN "A mill next season
On Turna2atn arm and near the mouth
Il Kern creek another and similar vein
kss beer located by a man named Ia. ken
laugh. which Is thought 20 be ar extension
~ the SawniU vein.
A good looking ledge has been struck In
tas mountains between Hope City and Sun
r. and near the heads Of Cub ard Bear
creeks. This location is only about i've
miles from salt water. ard the quartz
Slows free gold bu' there has not been
sazsceni work done TO determine the size
H the vein. The parties who located Il,
claim to have traced the ledge for sew
ga mics among the mountains. and a
rumber Of locations have been made.
Another party OF prospeciOrs from Sun
sse have located several claims on some
quartz veins near the seacoast on the
southsrn extremity OF the kenai peninsula
Thsre are said TO be several large and
coatinuous veins, but the samples Of ore
show 1t 70 DC refractory and 10 carry some
copper.
Oh six-Miie river. about FIVE miles from
Sunrise. Taikenbaugh. a practical miner
tom Colorado. has a fine hydrau.ic prop
cry which he calls the Colorado Com
saada,ed' II consists OF ten fun claims
60 old channels Of the river, and experts
shc have examined the location pronounce
valuable. The top gravel pans over 20
tsais 70 the cubic yard, and on bedrock
4 Is likely To he fauch richer. The owner
iniends working l; next season with an
extensive plant
Nj. Mills. who is recorder of that district,
has sefne valuable hydraulic claims at the
forks Of the river which he Is preparing
70 work on a large scale. The richest oart
o! his ground will probably require the use
Of elevators.
An experienced hydraulic miner named
Webb, from California. has bought several
Gains on six-Mile, above the colorado
Consolidated, and has his hydraulic. pipe
upon the dock AT Sunrise. waiting for hard
rsezing to sled IL up the river to his prop
On Guich creek man named Walker
working several claims with pick and
saove. and is taking out some heavy gold
Aacn or II has considerable quartz adher-
ing 10 the nuggets which indicates that
h ~ near a rich ledge. The largest mug
FL found In the Walker claims was worth
on Lynx creek n man named Clark has
eeen doing extensive prospecting on the
hydraulic claims owned by his Company
ana Will put In IA plant next season
On TIE Gale claim below Clark's the
o~ner has been trying TO work fifteen or
twenty feet of gravel with pick and shovel
ana has had the usual experience H.s
men were hired ION bedrock" and as bed.
rock has persissentiy evaded them. few
nave had any pay for their seasons work.
Ihe miners meeting has given them a
Ven on The property to secure their wages
Mr.. Gale is generally regarded as an hon
esi and upright man. who would paw If he
could "
On Canyon creek the unusual rains and
high water have greatly interfered with
work. Many wing dams have been car
lied away. and several parties have hast
The seasons work and taken out scarcely
any,hine
On Mills creek the Polly Mining Com
rAny t. working about twenty men and
taxing out plenty of rough gold
1eofge Beedy on Bear creek. is doing
good work with a small hydraulic plant
IL Is understood that his property has been
sold To Boston syndicate.