The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-03

for claims, orr company should share the
misfortune with them By some concession
cut of its surplus stores. I accordingly
asked for a meeting with the passengers
generally. and after two or three confer
ences with a committee there appointed
we arranged that ten tons OF provisions
should be sold to the passengers pro rata
at Seattle prices.
Early In October Arthur f. Seymour and
four other passengers started along the
RIVER bank with about $50 letters for MI
nook. hoping that they would be forwarded
from that point. As the fee was still run
ming they had 10 travel along the stony
river bank and over the high bluffs Of the
Rampant mountains. The trip was trying
and dangerous. but was successfully ac-
complished. the party returning down
stream In boats. picking their way be-
tween the large cakes Ct aaating ice. These
letters did not leave Rampant City TIL De-
cember !, reaching the coast about March
L.
The Ice finally stopped running on octo-
Der o. just month after 1, started. an un-
usually long run. 1t Was an impressive
spectacle. Quietly but with force the ice
cakes were pressed close together as fur
Their progress was blocked from below
being left In all positions and shapes
1.-The water passing silently under
the mass. And thus the mighty river
seemed 10 cease its action and 10 have
passed into its death. The water between
these Ice cakes soon freezes 20 depth Of
a couple OF feet. cementtng them into a
solid ice cover. but leaving a rough upper
surface fun OF projections varying in
height from two 10 four feet.
II would now seem that the freezing In
or strand!ng OF Dawson passengers along
the Yukon last fall was almost providen-
tiai. II seems probable that their winter
for themselves and In disclosing on the
American side an immense mineral dis
triet that would have lain Dormant for All
other year or more.
Prospecting American Districts.
Munook creek district has beer done Amos.
entirely by stranded Dawson passengers
from San Francisco who failed 10 get over
the bars at Fort Yukon on the steamers of
the Alaska Commercial Company and OF
the North American Transportation &
Trading Company. Rampant City II now
the mast promising camp in the Yukon
basin after Dawson.
Just before leaving received a letter
from Capt. r. Il. Taylor. who. with six
others left our steamer az God Mountain
on September 80, In which he says: - . :
We have prospeesed the creeks adjoining
the river for fifteen miles each way and
have found some very promising creeks
and guicheS. We have organized n district
taking I'm all creeks ssA tributaries ON both
sides Of the river We call II Gold Noun
tain district, which We bei,eye viii sur
prise the people when We show what there
Ia on bed rock We have q coal mine
within one mile Of our camp which is
named Camp TAYLOR. Cold Mountain Is
forty or nifty miles below our winter quar-
tiers. :"
Immediately after meeting the ice. Capt
j. H. Jackson. eN-sheriff OF TIliamooE
county. Oregon accompanied by l. n. Pc
terson. of San Luis obispo. Cal. and Hen
~ Frye OF Kalamazoo. Mich. took few
DAYS. ratians ard started out to reconnoiier
for mineral country. After several days
cruising they returned. reporting mountain
creeks about twenty miles above us that
seemed 10 deserve prospecting. Capt Jack
y6n induced abou. thirty prospeetors TO go
out With him The first creek they pros
peeted was eighteen miles above our winter
quarters. II gave such coed prospects thar
they named ii Jackson creek. organized
district with DR. r. II. West as recorder
for the creek and It's gulehes. One Of It's
CLUTCHES had shown pay dirt and been
named Peterson gGlch. About 1sa locations
were made on the creek ana when I came
away about twenty holes were being
burned down 20 bed rock. and the lccaters
believe the creek 20 be rich.
our winter location happens 10 be one OF
che pcinfs from which prospeetars have
h.eD ia the hahi, % crossing over 70 the
Ee.iskuk dlggings this route goinE up the
T.orikakaf river. We are between two In
dian villages and from these Indians our
passengers learned OF the rich ground that
il believed to he on The koyukHk. As they
learned more and more the fever grew III
about thirty 81 our passengers had Meter
mined by the time left 10 SO % Tire koya-
kuk IN tire spring / will describe Tits river
q little later.
hack to His ola Camp.
Dy singular coincidence Mr.. George C.
Boswell one % oar passengers found him.
seig landed for ;he winter within guar
ter OF nsile % the cabin ne butt, ard win
tered In six years before preparatory 30 a
trip to the Koyukak the following wear.
Mr.. Roswell does not tell ali ne knows. bas
IL : enough 20 say thar he repaired the cid
cabin ard naaved ia and that he IS going
ever to the koynkuk again This year
Soon after the passengers were settled tn
their winter cabins II ws, determined 10
organize the camp For the preservation OK
reaeS and order. Accordingly i xeasrai
miners meeting - all the passengers OF
Seattle Ne. l. 81 ire Nay West ana cf the
Hs,tse r. was held. when a sent
nsltses Mas selected 20 draft a
code ~ lAAs fer the camp. con-
s4stinx CT Tire following members; Capt
EYank War;h. master - steamer May
West: Cart. Corning. master CT tne Hestle
3. Judge Danfagth Becker. OF Niiwauk
Nr &. II. MarsAs1. % Faxet,e. y, Y: Mr.
1oAn pousesi, % sioux Falls and tie
writer. Tlsv Laws Fepoftsi by he commit
tee ard adopted Al subsequent meeting
waFs fr~~Shari anA severe. Homicide was
punishable by dsssa by hanging. necessary
SCI; defense helrz re casy justification
shss cesss be pleaded Assa.l, with deadly
wsapea ana theft we're punishable by fityy
ssFfnsz Aaa sxeulssan from csur. Other
aTeases and panishreais were defined and