The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-23
Southeast Alaska Goes Slate
Greek One Better.
METAL WOVEN THROUGH ORE.
Cleveland Peninsula Displays the
Latest Wonderfully Annette ISL
and should Be Open~d-Brftish-
American Corporation Makes .
Good Purchase in Washfngton-A
Diners Gaunoaade ON silver Creek

A. rlen ora haze. a fasc5rfatson have been
attnaetea during the last week BY some
pieces Of quartz and spar Ia Albert Han
sens window. Some O. them were cluster
- with large nuggets and %ere wired
through ara through Win tae precious
metal Oae y.eoa mad its lat sids literally
plated with solid gold III eighth % an men
thick. Beside taegu Mas gold orEcK-suFo
enough gold, worth s5p544. This display
was continually gazeG upon by tae iIng@r-
ing passerE-by. FOR next - is possession,
people enjoy the sight % gold.
This ore all came from a depth or about
aiEat feet IN shaft on Capt. Z. J.. Dyer
Cold STANDARD groJp OF seventeen claims
OH the Cleveland peninsula. which Il six
" rnilee south OF Wrangel and twenty
miles norta Of ketcEikatI. in southeastern
Alaska. AT the point where the shaft was
sunk there is a great fault Ia the insure
which is from eight 70 eighteen in@nes VIDE
and has been filed with spar, fatc anu
some quartz parted from the walls og clay
seEnlx. The gold plated side OF the quartz
iay next to this clay seam Oh the Ringing
wall. The gold which was melted INTO
brick was pounded cut OF the rock IN a
mortar by Capt. Dyer III cess tnan a
month. These specimens came from all
fersat point GA the property from the flch
ones which Capt. Dyer showed last taH-
The claims Oh a series of tedges
which extend from salt water up apo over
The mountain. across the intervening val
les aud hallway up the opposlie mountain
They are In Il schist formation anu range
In width :gom eight 20 len inches 20 seven
feet. the vein matter oein9 sehefaiy
quartz. except In the ficn spot from w3ien
the specimens already mentioned were
taken The ledge matter carries tree gold
In paying quantities almost throughout.
and larg. bodies of ore are very Elch. as
has been proved by pounding II UP in a
mortar bur how rich Capt. Dyer Will lot
undertake TO say. II has been shown up
hy a shaft about twelve fee deep. tan-
nel which is twenty-five or thirty feet I'M
der cover and by stripping of the Lodges
In number Of places. Even the schist,
which forms the walls. contains more or
less cube iron. Asaaying from 81 20 sls in
gold.
An arras;re. with a capacity OF half a
ton In twenty-four hours. MAS completed
before Capt. Dyer left the ground black
smith shop and comfortable mousse had
been erected and FIVE men were left at
work under the direction OF his partner.
7. +. johnson. TO run the atraStre on ore
which had been taken out of the shaft.
II Is believed that the arfastro Will grind
out at least 5000 every twenty four hours
from ore OF such character a. Is AZ present
In sight and that before spring enough will
have been produced 10 pay for gooa-sized
stamp MILL which II Is Capt. pyer's pur-
pose TO erect next season.
"Iu my Judgment" said Capt. Dyer,
that is the coming district Of Alaska and
VIII eventually equal the juneau district.
II is new. but Development has begun and
several stamps VIII certainly 60 In next
year. II VIII well repay any prospector
" no Is looking for quartz for his attention.
Lots OF people who have been going north
have gone past better country than they
were going to- From the boundary At DIX
on entrance north to Fort Wrangei a dis
tance of about loo miles, mineral will be
found anywhere on tie mainland and the
islands on Prince Of Wales Island par
ticularly, larger bodies Of minerals will be
found. gold free aud associated with iron
and copper. ga,Ana and marble.
Rev. SIR. Duncan's Indians.
This district inciudes Annette. Ham and
several eina,.r isiaa.is which have been
set aside by the government for ehe
OF the Metlakahtla Indians who migrated
from British Columbia and for such In
dians from Alaska az dloose 20 make their
homes there. subject 10 future legislation
AS matter OF Tact, the Metlakah;la In
disna under Rev. William Duncan only
occupy about one square mile on the south
end OF the West side or Annette island,
and never go 10 any other part of IT, No
Alaska Indians have ever chosen 10 make
their home there. for they ALREADY have
homes at the mouths Of the many salmon
streams of Alaska and are filly protected
there. for tina law in regard 10 Alaska
provides that no Indians shall be disturbed
In the possession or The ground they oc-
cupy. Cons auently. they DO not want
Ia go TO Annette ISLAND; they 10 not need
T. go there. and none of theia ever DO go
There. Duncan Indians never 80 - any
other par IF the -slaa1. certainly not 20
the interior for tsc central backbone iss
range of precipitoIs mountains. 2.5,a -
stsa feet hsh. which runs from north 20
south and cuts oG the west sade FROM the
east side. whore ,ha mineral discoveries
have hecn s\d@- II the Indians ever ia
wish Ia ge "a the east side they would no,
cr,Sss the moun;a ms bar would so aro9tnd
,r canoes 4! snNe of fweniy-hVc .uiie*s
Tho sr1io cxCtlSs for closing Annette
Ham and The ether reserved iSlsf,,}~ 20
white men is t1at Nj ru1sdu expresses
fear that fhe indians might he coutsrnf-
mated by contact Win rise White men.
New they have ~ iu3gCcotut 70 SO avyay