Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-10
GOLD ON THE ST|kEEN.
Promising Placers Reported From Widely Separated Local.
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Glacier Creek Will Be the Scene of Continuous Operations
 During the Summer.

Two promising discoveries of placcrs are reported from the Stikeen. One is on creek flowing into that river at what is called the Big Bend, some fifty miles above Glenora. The gravel here has yielded 90 cents pan for an aver age of fifteen pans. Quartz running S97. 90 has been fouud in the same vicin- ity. The discovcrcr says he banned out gold enough to live on all summer and to bring him back to Vancouver.
 The other discovery is at Glacier Creek. tributary of the Stikeen flow ing in from the south and six miles be- low Glenora. The creek was first pros pected by Mr. McDutfce, of Portland, and some associates. who were mem bcrs of the unfortunate Eugene party.
 He says that he felt pretty badly over his disappointment in connection with that expedition. but is inclined to think that he was in luck after all. for he is sure he has good thing in Glac- fer creek. The Colonist is indebted to him for the following statement regard ing the creek. Mr. McDuffee comes recommended a5 5a reliable man and his statement may be accepted as correct. Glacier creek is about thirty miles long. It rises in d lake surrounded by glaciers. streams from which feed it. No gold is found at the lake. The stream is very rocky and flows through many canyons. It cannot be followed ary to climb over two high ranges of mountains. There is gold in the bed of the creek. but the boulders are so many that except very rich deposits are found there will be no profit in working it. Between the canyons are benches. At Discovery the benches are four in num- from 300 to 100 feet wide. In these the gold is found distributed through pay streak about two feet thick. The gold is gravelly, to use Mr. McDutlee's ad- jectiye: that is, il is rough and angular
 The samples which he had with him looked as if they might have come from disintegrated rock. As high as 30 cents pan has been taken out of dis covery, with an occasional piece worth more. The opinion of the experienced miners on the ground is that bed rock I.,. was thought first to be bed rock at the rivers edge is simply an outcropplng. The strata of earth dip away from the stream, and it is thought that if these are followed until they strike the base of the mountain lodges. nuggets and very rich gravel may be found Forty at least two of the claim owners. name ly McDutfee and his associates and Shaw and Tomlnson. traders of Glen ora. will run tunnels through the bench es with the hope of striking bedrock at the base of the mountains. The other miners all keep busy, and they expect to have considerable gravel ready for a cleanup as soon as spring comes.
 The creek has been staked for about ten miles. The stakines are not contin- uous. because the canyons occur at short intervals and all the stakinys are on the benches. A bout twenty miles of the creek are as yet unprospeeted. The first discovery was on September l2 and since then 100 claims have been prospectcd and staked. Between twen- ty and thirty log cabins have been put up and arrangements have been made with the postmaster at Glenora to for ward mail. There is good pack trail
 from the river for distance of six miles, made by the claim owners. who each contributed specified number of days work to make it. Four pack trains have been busy taking in supplies. During the winter Shaw and Tomlin-