The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-28
IT CAUSED A STAMPEDE
Another Rich Strike in the Klon-
dixie Country.
WHOLE RIDGE STAKED OUT
Pay Dirt Found Below Lake Lebarge.
Other Rich Strikes Made in the
Big Salmon District-Rich
Quartz Ledge.

Skaguay. Alaska. March "a. via Seattle.
Wash, March Z7.-One of the biggest
stampedes yet recorded in the Klondike
region vas occasioned on Feb. IL by a
very rich strike on the divide between
the Big and Little Skookum. This strike
was made In bench diggings on a high
hogback, 300 or 400 feet above the level OF
the gulches. Pay dirt running from SIG
to $50 to the pan was found. Following the
announcement of the strike occurred a
stampede from Dawson of immense pro-
portions and the entire ridge was staked
out I'm an incredibly short time.
This news was brought TO this city this
week by A. Piche, official courier and dis
patch bearer for the Canadian govern
ment. Mr.. Piche passed through Skaguay
last December bearing government dis
patches for Dawso He came out over
the Skaguay TRAN and has gone back on
his return trip.
MIR. Piche says there was immense ex-
element at Dawson when he left over
the Skookum strike. and that more than
200 men were standing In line at the re-
corder's office to make a record of their
claims.
MIR. Piche also brings news of a new
strike on Lewis river which is of great
importance If it develops as is now prom
Used. On March 6 "A man named Connolly,
while prospecting a small pup" leading
off the Lewis about 75 miles below Lake
Lebarge, found pay dirt which is big in
promise. Piche personally visited the
claim and took from 50 to SO from a single
pan. The discovery is about three miles
up the stream from the Lewis.
The latest reports from the Salmon riv-
err country are brought Out by Charles
Fitzpatrick, who arrived here from that
district yesterday. Fitzpatrick says the
find on Walsh creek is all that has been
claimed for il. as he took from his own
claim $3.50 to the pan. He says there are
already about 1900 people at Walsh creek,
which Is 500 more than can secure claims
on that stream. The stream is not
80 miles in lengths as first reported. II will
not measure more than % miles In length.
He says. however, that the whole coun-
try in that vicinity is mineral bearing and
that i'm his judgment the next three
months will see some further remarkable
strikes. He says:
"For instance, I think the south fork
Of the Big Salmon will turn out a paying
investment. 1t is about lbs miles from
Lewis river. Then, there is the Lotto. or
Lote creek, which has already shown up
favorably, running about 70 cents to the
pan, and | could mention four or five 9TH
err creeks in the vicinity which are equally
good"
Thomas Phipps and Ralph Smith claim
to have unearthed a ledge of rich quartz
bearing free milling gold. The location is
kept a secret, but is described by them as
being within an hours walk of the
postofice." 1'he value of the find cannot
he determined until returns from the as
say office at Juneau are made. The pros
pect bears every evidence of being more
than a surface cropping. Samples picked
up at random were beaten up with a
hammer and particles of yellow gold
washed from the dust excited much inter-
est. The locators claim to have abundant
capital to develop the mine. and say a
bucket tramway will readily solve the
problem of getting out the quartz.
Charley McCarty, a ~well-known ward
politician of San Francisco, was shot
through the leg in this city this morning
by Charley Ritter. a waiter in the Horse
shoe restaurant. The row grew out of q
drunken brawl. McCarty's wound is Sc
rious though not dangerous.
Al about the same hour another shoot
ing affair occurred on Mckinney street
in which several shots were fired. NJ
visible results were left save a bullet hole
through the sign of a newspaper office.