The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-21


slowly. This was due 20 a alm9er o.
Causes. the ren0teaess % ths COUNTRY. fns
difficulty Of penetrating q the F!g0rS q
tn Climate. the absorption Of the mining
pop4is ton b. otner d.strlcts nearer tae
Lnes % gSTnunicstlcn. and rAsstiy the
opposition OF me great fu.-ts1ding com
ranles 20 the lnfiux OF settlers no you'd
drive ;be fB~-b~aFing animal ia'g ihr IL
Accessible fAstEssses % gae m"aH a. rs
snd ultimately exfevm.aa;s Them TaUE II
Il that r. Wh@up@T ~ his "Tr4ta4s IN
Alaska and CT taa Yukon" ps3n..sH@d ~
5sss. say TAT "mlrute srrckz - gaia have
been found by some of INC Had, "a bay
CoInpanyg msn IL TIE Yukon DA. UOt Ia
Quantities to variant . rush 10 TIE io@.al-
fly"
But four years later Il party Of pros
pee.orz went from British Columbia IL
search OF gold on the Yukon. II ~is com
posed ~ Arthur Harper. Frederick Hart.
Samuel Wlkfaaou. George " Finch ard
Andrew Kansel!ar. After an extended
trip Ia canoes from the Lard river 10 the
Arctic. Arthur Harper summed up the
result thus.
Nothing on the Nelson tan af,uent Of
the LARD. prospects OF the Lard. moth
'ng on the Mackenzie, good prospects OH
sae Peel. some on the porcuplae and prog
poets everywhere on the Yukon"
First Work on stewart Hiyrr.
Harper joined T. n McQuesten IN es-
tabiishiBg store a. Fort Reliance. /
short distance below The present site %
Dawson City. aud by correspondence In
ducet some British Columbia prpspect0rs
to go into the country. In 1878 George
Holt crossed the Ch.lkoot pass and found
coarse gold IN the uootallnqua river. \
party Of twenty-five. headed by Edward
Bear. found dirt paying S2.s1 day on a
n he
were also made on the Big Salmon and
Peily rivers. The best success up 10 issS
was met with on the Stewart river. from
which ali amount as high a $50. 100 IS
ported 10 have been taken In that and ;hs
previous year some Miners making as
much az sleo Il day. The engine. of The
New Packet. the first steamer on the Yu-
kon. Were used by three or four m 'ners
in the fall Of lsSG "a pump water for sIuic-
ing. and In legs than a month tho miners
cleared 81 900 each. besides III equal amount
20 the steamer. The mining on this
stream war all done on bars In the river
and a fresh deepest. % gold is made on
them every year. and as regularly cleared
OF BY the miners.
Discovery ar Forty-MiIe.
But the gold so far found was all fine,
requiring mercury IL save H. and the
miners Were All in search Of coarse goi3,
which they could save easily and IN such
quantities a. TO accumulate Il acfnestake
In 4 few years. They therefore Journey Ell
down the river IN searrh az II and were
rewarded by It's discovery In isSs oH Fortv-
Mile creek about tweuiF-threH mai one
half m!iss above ia mouth ana a few hun
dred yatds west of the boundary. All the
miners or the Yukon stampedsd thither
in this and the following year. ana Thorn
90 Williams. anticipating a rush from out
n IRA ans ,asNt h. p .
came out over The Chllkoot pass n hrirg
the news 10 the trading companies. bur
died at iDyea from exhaustion after teli-
Ing the Indians Of the strike The existence
OF gold In Fol - Nile creek wns known a.
early as 1894, for in that year a clerk en-
ployed b. the Hudson BOY Company At
Fort Yukon wro'e 20 his father.
There Is small river not far fran
here flat the minister. the Rev. Mcpon-
aid. saw So much gold on a year or two
ago that he could have gathered Il with L
spoon. have often wished - ~. hu.
could never ilud the tine. Shou'I / nua
gold In paying quantities.. mas turn
gold dagger. bar this IS rely las; re-
sort When caa ~ n0 better"
Williams news caused several huG.irel
men 20 b. "a Forty ME- creek. auf d,s-
coverirs Wee extended - S'x.y-N e. and
Birch creeks. where some Ella Gs pt.A Slu
to so day per man, w!th pAus As high
"a So. Miller o0e claim on Watch paid
17..sl Crooked Independence Me~.e}on.
N9ol' mute and Preacher, Al tiibet3..aa
Of Bitch creek. Up to the ead If 1895 TIE
Forty Mite creek district hal produced
about sse..'Ho chiefly from tAe Aitskt
ellie II the boundary tn 80 anj 'n-}:iing
iSS1 NJ osi,, ie estimates sN~ 'ntal pro
duet - The Yukon mines az 50
The number or m'uert who w~u. e. th.
ruken had steadily iacrcass3 rsat ~