The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29
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Some Plans of Connecticut Gold Miners.

some Hlans or Connecticut Gold Miners.
 It appears that all of the Ninety Fighters" who started from Stamford together last Monday have not arranged to keep together Some are going to Dawson City, but the company organized at Stamford, under the title of Connecticut and Alaska Mining and Trading Company are bound to the Copper River country, which is on the | Alaskan coast
 This company has bought a small schooner and will also have steam | launch. boring machine for prospect ing, fifteen months provisions, tents, | tools, medicines, blankets, sleeping bags, arms, ammunition dynamite and drills for blasting, chemicals, forge saw mill. large quantity of rope of all sizes, blocks, chain and anything needed for carrying on mining on large and successful scale.
 Exploring Copper River. | As described by one of the company: "We propose to start for the mouth of the Copper River, leaving Seattle about February l. We will sail up the river as far as the rapids, which are about 100 miles up from the mouth: we shall then launch the steam launch, load it with provisions for a two weeks trip, rope, blocks arms, ammunition and boring machine and ten men, and start up through the rapids. Once over them, we have 200 miles of good navigable river. We will steam ahead until we find the miners who have gone up there ahead Of us, and if they have found gold in good paying quantities we will locate near them and stake out claims and leave five or six men there, the rest returning down river to the schooner. The men on the schooner, in the meantime, will have built good sized barge with lumber which we shall bring with us from Seattle and have it loaded with provisions, tools, saw-mill and the whole outfit.
 We will steam slowly up the river, prospecting as we go with our boring machine on every creek and gulch we see on both sides of the river If we find gold in large quantities we intend to stake out a town site, build block house to live in, put up our sawmil, establish store or trading station, dig out some gold and send it down the river by the crew of the schooner, and start them back to Seattle, show the gold and boom the location, load the schooner with provisions and number of men to help work the mines.
 Crowds of prospectors will rush in, then we can sell them claims, building lots provisions, lumber, tools, or any thing they want to buy, including medicine, and then the fortune we are going to look for will simply float in without much severe work"
 Continuing, he said that if the Copper River outlook was unpromising, the party would go to the Yukon and es- there.
 Outfit of an Expedition. l The boring machine before mentioned is similar to an artesian-well boring outfit, which will bore through the frozen ground to bed rock bringing up the soil as it goes down, showing at once of there is gold there, saving | mouths of time and laborious work sinking prospecting shaft.
 Following is a list of purchases made or to be made by the company (some to be made in Seattle after the arrival of the party:)
 100-ton schooner ...................$20 $2 00f 10-ton steam launch. .............. 1,5Ot Lancaster boring machine. ...... 50t 15 months provisions (of good
 n OFF Hardware, consisting of tents,
 stoves, tools, cooking utensils,
 rope, nails, sleds, blankets.
 sleeping bags and sundries..... 1,SOt 30 Winchester rifles, 5000 cart
 ridges ......... .................. 63( Lumber for barge. ............... 15t Medicine, including stimulants.... 30( Boiler, engine, saw-mill and steam
 pump ............ ................ Loot Blacksmith forge and tools, with.
 bar and sheet iron and steel. 20( Hose, steampipe, steam-f1tters'
 toolS ..'.-........ ............s... 10 tons coal. 5( s11,05t Capital, 30 men, $40O each. .... $12, ,0Ot | Balance .,......., ........... $95,
 Brennison Recovering.
 Arthur Brennison of South Man. chester, who was prevented from start ing, Monday, owing to being wounded by the accidental discharge of his re- volver, is yet at the Hartford Hospi- tai. and he is improving rapidly. As soon as he has sufficiently recovered to he q hla ta tIa1,al iaa y1,ill sas