The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-20

its mouth is Eagle City. in which will
be established the United States bar
racks ard the customs house.
Twenty miles below Eagle City is
Stsr City, guarding the mouth of Sew
erty-Mile river. Tributaries of this
river have been worked for many years
On Barney creek. from three to SIX
ounces per day to the shovel has been
taken for the last three years. The
other tributaries are as good as Bar
ney, but il is only now, when people
are spreading out that much work viii
be done. A number of men are now at
Star City, getting their outfits up to
the mines.
From Seventy-Mile to Circle City is
being prOspecSed, and creeks are found
here and there which give good indi-
cations. Coal and Sheep creeks prom
Use especially well. and also the Charley
river.
AT CIRCLE CITY.
Circle City has been practically de-
serted since The rush to Dawson, but
the riches of Mastadon, Independence,
Eagle. Deadwood and a dozen lesser
SClches in the Birch creek district will
revive the town. A moderate fortune
can be made in that district in two
years of hard work. Miners are re-
turning to Birch creek from Dawson.
there is no royalty, no wood and log
tax. and no timber grants.
Across from Circle City is Jefferson
creek. which is now being prOspected
for its whole length. II viii be cheaply
worked, because of being so readily
accessible from the Yukon river.
Further down is the Minook creek
district, klich has been so thoroughly
ADVERTISED this year. 1t has developed
some claims which have paid $27, 900,
$4,000 and $4,000 the first winter s
We rk. The country is, to a great eX-
tent, an unknown quantity. The dis
covery of Idaho Bar, from which men
have taken out $100 a day with a rocker,
is a great boom for the district, and
the prospects of the camp are extreme
ly bright.
A NEW FIELD.
A great country will be opened up in
the Koyukuk. 1t has been known to
miners for ten years. and any pros
pector who went in there has never
failed TO bring out a good grub stake.
The territory to be worked is of vast
extent. and offers many opportunities
to the newcomer. The Tanana, Kus-
kCQuoim and Chandler rivers have all
been brought prominently to the no
tice of mining men this year. All things
&C Esidered. the American side would
seem to be the place of the future.
GREATEST IN THE WORLD.
AS for Dawson City itself, it is I'M
questionably the greatest mining camp
today in the world.
Frank Canton. United States deputy
marshal in Circle City, and in former
years an officer of the peace in many
of the largest camps of the west. has
said that nothing he has ever seen ap-
preached Dawson as d model mining
camp. Accustomed. as he has been, to
dealing with the toughest class of
criminals. his commentator of Daw-
The sidewalks are crowded with men
and women from morning to night.
People are even forced to walk in the
middle of the streets to make progress.
1t is a great tumble of the good and
the bad and the only pledge of respect
ability required is regular attendance
at church. DawSon's population has
grown until it is now between 5000
and 10000 people. Nine-tenths of the
new Corners are not in the country to
work and when they find -that success
in the Klondike can only be bought by
hard labor, they will be g>-dy to come
out. A great exodus os Unsuccessful
men will take place thu. fall ard the
cities of the Pacific coast. to which
these people will go, Will be Over-run
with a rough. desperate and altogether
class. They are now in
Dawson as the advance guard of the
more substantial men to follow. 1t is
a repetition of the history of Circle
City, when the Birch creek mines were
discovered two years ago double the
usual invoice of people went there, but
soon left disguised. Had they re-
manned, they would have been in on
the ground floor in the Klondike dis
covery.