The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-02
GREAT RICHES FOUND
ARGONAUTs REPORT VALUABLE FINDS
IN MlNOOK CREEK.

Hunter HoosSsr and Little Minook Are
Turning Out Much Wealth-Big Nuggets
Have Been Found In the Last Named
stream-work Of Developing Claims.
The first direct news from Minook
creek, OH the Yukon, since the hundreds
Of prospectors were caught on the ice by
the freeze up last fall came in the other
day to Seattle, Wash. The news comes
in letter from Rampant City, dated
Nov. 90, 1897. The letter establishes
beyond doubt that very rich finds are
being discovered ON the American side
of the international boundary line. On
this point the writer says:
"The prospect is good for rich min
ing camp here. 1t will take the spring
clean up definitely to determine what
there is here but the present indica-
tions are excellent on one creek. Mi
nook creek comes into the Yukon on the
left bank about mile above Rampant
City. Hunter creek, Little Minook creek
and Hoosier creek are smaller streams,
all running into Minook creek. Hunter
creek comes in about four miles above,
Little Minook about six miles and
Hoosier creek about eight miles from
the mouth of Minook creek, often called
Big Minook to distinguish it from Lit
tie Minook.
Sin the order of supposed merit the
creeks come, first, Little Minook; then
Hunter, and the Hoosier. But little
work has been done on the last two, and
they may be found to be as rich as Lit
tie Minook or they may not The work
ON them this season has hardly begun,
as they, especially Hoosier, freeze more
solidly than Little Minook, and but lit
tie can be done until the ground is
frozen to bedrock.
The claims Of Little Minook are /, 600
feet long, and those on Hunter and
Hoosier are 600 All the claims on Lit.
tie Minook, Hunter and Hoosier are al
ready taken. There are a number of
small streams flowing into them-Daw-
son and Miller and several others with
out any special names. There are nu-
merous other streams within radius
of 10 or 20 miles of Rampant City that
look promising, but whether they con-
tain gold in paying quantities can only
be determined after they have been
worked.
1.-THE work on Little Minook is pro-
crossing rapidly and with very crafty
ing results to the owners of a number
of the claims, where large nuggets and
rich pans have been taken out. One
eight ounce ($136) nugget, one five
ounce 1856 nugget and one ounce
($1O nugget and several smaller ones
have been found ON William McClain' s
claim, No. 8, above discovery, within
the last two weeks, and they are said
to be panning from 40 cents to $1.65
per pan ON the claim. j. +. Burkman
and Peter jackson of Seattle have lay
on the claim. On No. 6, above discov-
cry, Langford and Johnson's claim,
they are said to be panning from 30
cents to $3.50 per pan. One pan on No.
8, an exceptional one, of course, reached
$16. News has just come in that So
nugget has been found ON No. s, above
| discovery.
eff this keeps up and half as good
results are obtained on the other claims
ON the creek, it can readily be seen that
Little Minook will show up as q won.
derfully rich creek The spring clean
up will be needed to definitely settle
how rich the creek is, but the big mug.
gets and rich pans have caused good
deal of excitement here, and everybody
is feeling good. Claim owners on Hunter
and Hoosier are arguing that there is nc
reason why those creeks should not turn
out as rich as Little Minook. They are
all in the same neighborhood, and all
flow into Big Minook within short
distance of each other"
Harold Preston of the law firm OF
Preston 81 Gilman recently received
from General K. M. Carr letter dated
Hunter creek, Minook district. General
Carr declares the Minook district to be