The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-20

years. On Barney creek, from three
TO six ounces per day to the shovel has
been taken for the last three years.
The other tributaries are as good as
Barney, out u is only now when peo-
pie are spreading out, that much work
will be done. A number of men are
now at Star City getting their outfits
up to the mines.
From Seventy Mile to Circle City is
being prospected. n creeks are found
here there which give good indica-
tions. Coal and Sheep creeks promise
especially well. and also the Charley
river. Circle City has been practically
deserted since the rush to Dawson. but
the riches of Mastodon, Independence,
Eagle, Deadwood and a dozen lesser
gulches in the Birch creek district will
revive the town. A moderate fortune
can be made in that district in two
years of hard work. Miners are re-
turning to Birch creek from Dawson.
They appreciate a district in which
there Is no royalty. no wood and log
tax and no timber grants.
Across from Circle City is Jefferson
creek, which is now being prospected
for its whole length. 1t will be cheap
ly worked because of being so readily
accessible from the Yukon river.
Further down is the Minook creek
district. which has been so thoroughly
advertised this year. 1t has developed
some claims which have paid s27, 900,
s25. 600 and SIS. 900 for the winters work.
The country is to a great extent an
unknown quantity. The discovery of
Idaho bar. from which men have taken
out 800 a day with a rocker, is a great
boom for the district and the prospects
OF the camp are extremely bright.
A great country will be opened up in
the Koyukuk. 1t has been known TO
miners for 10 years. and n prospector
who went in there has never failed to
bring out a good grub stake. The ter
ritory to be worked is of vast extent
and offers many opportunities 10 the
new conner. The Tanana, Kuskoquim
and Chandler rivers have all been
brought prominently to the notice OF
mining men this year! All things con-
sidered. the American side would seem
TO be the place OF the future.
AS for Dawso City itself, 1t Is un-
ouestionabIy the greatest mining camp
i'm the world. Frank Canton, United
States deputy marshal In Circle City.
and i'm former years an officer or the
peace in many of the largest camps OF
the West. has said that nothing he mas
ever seen approached Dawson as a
model mining camp. Accustomed as ne
has been to dealing with the roughest
class of criminals, his commentator or
Dawson as a law-abiding town has
great weight.
The sidewalks are crowded with men
and women from morning to night.
People are even forced to walk in the
middle of the streets to make progress.
1t is a great tumble of the good and
the bad, and the only pledge of respec-
liability required is regular attendance
at church. Dawson's population mas
grown until II Is now W 5000 and
! 10. 900 people. Nine-tenths of the new
corners are not In the country 10 work
and when they find that success In the
Klondike can only be bought by nara
labor. they win be ready to come out.
A great exodus of unsuccessful men
will take place this fan, and the cities
of the Pacific coast to which these peo-
ple will go Will be overrun with a
rough. desperate and altogether unde-
sirable class. They are now in Dawson
as the dvanc guard OF the more SUB
stantial men 10 follow. 1t is a repeu-
ton of the history of Circle City.
When the Birch creek mines were dis,
covered two years Ago double the usual
invoice Of people went there, but soor
left disguised. Had they renamed
they would nave been in on the grouno
floor I'm the Klondike discovery.