The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-02
kOTlEBUt IS WORTHLESS.
NOT A SIGN Of GOLD IN ANY OF ITS
MUDDY STREAMS.
Long, Vain Chase They Had Up
the NOatak and kOwak In
search Of the Nuggets Not There.

The worst tales that have been told
about the kotzebue sound country seem
To be true. There Is no gold there-not
a sign of IL, except an occasional iiiusiVe
color-and OF the 1000 to l,yeo people VINO
went UP there half have come away DIS
gusted, and the other half are remain
ing there only because they have neither
money nor means to get out. The latter
will spend the winter there ana tnen
portage across 10 the Koyukuk river.
This is the news tnat was nroustia ou'
by the half dozen prospectcrs VINO re-
turned on the schooner Laurel Aiohudy
afternoon. Some of these men are ex-
perienced miners and went over every
Kotzebue river where there was ,ne
slightest hope OF finding gold, only TO re-
turn dlsheartened and full or anger
against those who induced them 10 go
there.
The following are the kotzehue sound
people who came back on the Laurel, the
same steamer they went IN on last May
Dr. Van Dyke ard party OF three; A
Behren. of Seattle; Cal. Brown. OF Du-
ID. l.. Finley. OF Auburn. Neb. Mr.. Mas
ton, OF Buffalo n. y; q. j. Olson. OF
Chicago. a former cook on the schooner
Mermaid. whose first name IS Gus; Will
lam oeiFieh, a blacksmith of san Fran
cisco. r. u. Richardson. of this state u.
Crawford. OF Ga.yestcn, Tex, ana another
.alan whose name could not De learned
The Laurel stopped at 81. Michael on the
tilIers, She sailed from Cape blossom
September u
\ party of She p-ospectoFa were seen at
the Gtohe ard Grand Central hotels last
night. They went 80 miles up the Noatak
river and so miles up the kowak, Both Of
These streams empty into Hotham Inlet,
aoosSt fifteen miles from tAie HloSson and
1t vas forty miles from the mouth OF the
koNak that the k1ss letter said he great
riches were TO &c found. ou the contrary.
ilts il no, n4ns bat "a fiat. narShy county.
With not sign or any isiiBerai-ouiy mad
The kowak has tifteeu Outlets. which uAsk,
the laud for many miles ap similar 10 the
grea; delta al the Miss sSlppi.
They went up the hogak To within TWEEN
fy-GFe miles OF The Amber river IL ;Tibu-
'ary. and although they pr0spected along
every stream they touched. they found
netting except i'll II few rare instances Il
Few C1lcfss which we're 80 sx'arce that TWO
IL three 60 tne nan Was the max mum dis
cs7Hefy. The same conditions obtain along
ts.s \vaSsk @hACA was also reported t9 b,.
a roh stream. aud parties OF prospect rs
walsh rad been To- the headWalers Of both
had nothing TO report except TO signs OF
gOaG. Reports from the Seia~ik river. an
ot5"r kotE-G4e stream, were the same.
AsT. Crawscga OF Galveston who was one
~ fhe L4aUEelS passengers. said 10 d Post
tste!A SNnccr reporter last night ina; the
ou4y ln4agce Enent that resulted IN men rs-
manning taeFe during she winter for the
Van lfS ~ party w8s aa offer ~ 500 each
Jack tlasisA. ~ stockton. Cal a Mr. Evans.
N5o lives Usar Seattle. ard IA California
tTesschgnan we're asft 90 the i5acklaa,i riv-
~. "a f3Cia enpsisss into Good Hope hay. and
Mr Craw ford says Quinn ted him Ae was
So l3e paid $40 Tor staying there although
Ae easf!uu knew the COUNTRY was Nor: nat-Ss.
IL - from taiTTy~stx 10 forty Egllos from
che hszdsafefs 90 tire kowak tn the e0srce
~ the koynkak. acrosss the divide. and Mr.
t'razs ford Saws als chose remaining on tbs.
uTEs@r part - TIE kcwak wiii spend the
winter getting rszt5y 10 make the portage.
he does }o$ se%lieve there viii he 100 people
! lctt shsre month after spring opens.