The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-21
Many Years. Pioneering of Which This
Was the GlHrnaM==NarY New Strikes
Are as RIcLnz=TIne New Seasons
OUTPUT of Gold
output of Gold

No. - paid Alexander Mcdonald $1s.e"
: from two small dumps.
No. ~ has the honor OF producing the
hammer nugget. 81 d3s, and paid four men
ssaaoa from four box lengths and <~vO
e from ground-siu cling.
No. 81 was bought BY Timothy Bell for
So. and sod 10 william Lock for s5o.1"o
On No - s1.E1 was taken from Two
buckeffuiz of dirt on bedrock
No. a has pay streak 40 feet wide
and ten feet deep averaging SO per pan
and has yielded some pans as high as
Sic
From No IS and s7 A Olsen, a Celene
and II. knutson. OF Tacoma, took nearly
5000 IN ground-sluicing. The largest
nugget prior 10 the big one from No 30
was taken from this calm and weighed
s5s2 g
A number Of gulches running into FL
dorado creek are also being worked, in
Guiding French, on which there are forty
. claims, IRISH. Nugget, Chief. Duchy and
Gay.
Hunksr a Candidate for second.
Though struck late in the season.
Hunker creek. which enters the kiondike
| twenty-five miles above Dawson and has
about 80 claims. promises TO be third in
production 81 all the creeks in the district
and may even surpass Bonanza creek and
/ take second pace: in fact. the claims TO-
wards tse mouth are said 10 rival Edo
( RADIO IN value. The pay streak ranges
from 80 TO 30 feet wide and four feet and
upwards in depth phenomenon recent
~ discovered on No below discovery az
a depth Of twenty feet was the skull of Il
great buffalo. the horns Of which were per
fectIy preserved. In the interstsces OF me
bone was gravel containing Sal III god.
DrEftwood. trees and stunps are also
found mingled with the gravel, all indi-
eating that geological changes have taken
place In comparatively recent times.
biologists measure time.
No 10 below has been sold for $4,000
quite recently. The dirt on No. Is below
has panned as high ISL on bedrock.
No 81 below has feet Of gravel paying
- cents 10 $50 per pan. On No. - below
the pay streak is $50 feet VIDE. with
coarse gold Of a high grade. l. is seven
feet deep on one side Of the creek and
averages 81 cents per pan. while on the
other side there is four feet OF dirt in six
holes averaging $50 10 81 Half OF No AZ
has been sold 10 James Hagan. ex-sheriT
OF SDohomkh county. for $4,000. No. -
and II have six feet Of gravel paying 81
and more per pan and widening In several
places 10 200 feet. Some pans have run as
high as si4 No. Is had SIX feet OF dirt
averaging 20 cents, with bedrock not yet
reached. No. % has four hoes seven feet
deep IN none OF which the dirt pays less
than 80 cents per pan.
Gold Bottom creek. the scene Of the or
ginal discovery in the district is one of
the headwaters % Hunker creek, and has
between eighty and ninety claims, on
which hardly a pan from bedrock has not
contained from 81 to s.. some running as
high as an ounce. The ground is psrticu-
lsriy rich near the original discovery.
A stampede 10 Rose bud creek. a trbu-
,ary of bunker. was started in January
by the discovery Of dirt running from 81
&c $40 and said to average s..
Last Chance gu.ch. another tributary
Of bunker. prospec,ed from - cents 10
one ounce per pan, according To the earli-
est accounts and recent reports are that
IL Is proving as rich as Eldoyado.
Dominion. sulphur and Quartz.
creek. fif,y-flve miles from Dawson. with
its main tributaries. sulphur and Eureka,
which Mr.. ugi,yie says weld as high rs
81 per nan. with pay dirt much deeper
thar on Bonanza and Eidorado. The
gold here. as OF Skookum gulch, has
proved rot ~ be confined - The creek
beds. tut / found also on the benches.
h'Cside~ ana hilltops The grave! en- No.
" below discovery has been sampled at
depth of siX feet. two frst above bedrock.
and averaged s. per pan. wli!" on Carihoo
creek, small tributary a $50 pan Was
:pGcd n bedrock
The nay on sulphur creek forty miles
from Dawson proved rich at bedrock.
which is generally twenty feet deep that
many men who hel3 claims here aaan-
doned lays On other creeks 10 come here
and work tht III. No 3 above has zen feet
y 59-ccrf art. Nos. ; aad as nigh a. an
ounce, No. below s. 70 e. OF bedrock
ana - cents in The gravel. NJ. - teiow as
high 80 s., No. IS below = "a = -ents in
So! rft+