The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-19

40 20 definitely determine what there Ia
here bat the present Indications are s--
esIisrt. on ore creek. Maaook creek GENES
into The Ynkan Oh the left hank about =
rnsie aS0se Ranfart City. Hunter creek.
IstzIs Munook creek and Hoosier creek
are smaller streams. all running into
M&nook creek HUnter creek comes IL
about four miles Little Munook about ssx
mixes. ard Hoosser creek ahow eight
miles xrcm she mouth 81 Musook creek.
often called Fig Asncok 20 distinguish {,
from Little Aanoak-
The sketch accompanying this letter win
show roughly the location OF these creeks.
In the order OF their supposed merit, the
creeks come. first Lsstle Munook,. then
Hunter. and then Hoosses. Bur little work
fsas bsen done on the last two, and they
may be found 20 he IS rich as Lizzie
Nanook. or they may rot. The work on
them This season mas hardly begun. as
they. especially Hoosier. freeze. more solid
iy than Little Manook. and but little can
Be deae until the ground Is frozen GO bed
rock.
Little Manook n Rich.
The work on Little Munook Is progress
Ing rapidly and with very gratifying re-
suiss to the owners Of number Of the
claims. where large nuggets and rich pans
have been taken out. One stght-ounce
and d ons-0unee GID nugget and several
smaller ones have been found on william
AeI>ains claim. No. above discovery.
within the PAST two weeks. and they ars
said 10 he banning from % cents TO G-c5
per pan on the claim. J +. Burk.nan and
Peter Jackson. OF Seattle. have lay on
the claim
On No above discovery. I.angford &
JohnSon's claim. they are said 10 DE pan
ming from ~ cents to $f.s0 per pan. One
pan On No. .. an exceptional one. sf course.
reached SIS. News has just come in that
n 81 nugget has been found o. No.
above discovery.
If this keeps up. and as good or half az
good results are obtained on the other
claims on the creek, IL can readily b. seen
that Little Munook viii show up a. .
wonderfully rich creek. The spring clean
Up viii be needed 10 definitely settle how
rich the creek is. but the big nuggets and
rich pans have caused n good deal Of
excitement here. aad everybody is feeling
sutst and claim owners on Hunter and
iioosier are arguing that there l. no rea-
son why those creeks should not turn out
q rich as Little Munook. They are all in
the same neighborhood and all Tow into
Big Munook within a short distance OF
each other
The claims on Little Munoox are one
thousand feet long aud those on Hunter
and ffunSleF are I'VE hundred All TIE
claims on Little Munook. Hunter and
Hoo~ier are already taken. There are a
number of small streams flowing into them
Dawson Miller and several others with
out any special names. The latter are
known - pups and are for the most
part already located. There are numerous
other streams within a radius OF fifteen
or twenty miles OF Rampant city that
look promising but whether they contain
gold In paying quantities can only be de-
teTmned after they have been worked.
Among them are Alder creek, Chapman
creek Russian creek. Gold Pan creek, Chi
cago creek, Hess creek. and across the
Yukon Hiyu creek. Their locations are
shown roughly on the sketch l enclose.
Seattte's Representatives.
There are forty-slx people from the state
Of Washington registered on the address
book at the store. There are probably
few others here who have failed 10 regis
ter. The following Seattle people are on