The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-20
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Central City Staked Ont at Its
Mouth Within a Few Days.
-. 7. wallace, OF Dawson, Returns
ON the Del Norte. After Locating
an the New Creek-Twenty NIL
Hons In the Next kiondilse Clean
rp-How stampede. Start-A Sew
3 Way Of scaling kIcndtike Wages.

". J. Wallace, OF Saginaw, Mich. ar
rived in the city early yesterday morning
an the steamer Del Noste. having come
direct from the new discoveries on Walsh
sersek and but a month away ffcm Daw-
secp. Wallace Is the first man to bring
7eports from Wash creek from personal
observation. He spent several days On
4hs creek and with the other members OF
his party made locations. They first tried
fhs surface gravel, and In every instance
found coarse gold. Their last location
vas No. is, the entire creek being located
Tor over six miles fTom Its mouth.
:. That there Is every evidence that Walsh
creek IL 10 be- a permanent gold dlggngs
/, shown by the founding Of a town at
the mouth OF the creek. IL Is 10 be known
as Central City and townsi.e was being
staked out when Wallace left there Cen
tai City will have one or the best sites
o! the towns along the Yukon. as the
lard near the mouth OF the creek Is very
suitabie.
y walsh creek. n few miles below the
mouth Of the Big Salmon. is the latest
Aiscoyery OF note In the INTERIOR said
Nr. Wallace yesterday 10 a Post-Tntel!i-
xencer reporter. Although the discovery
claim was located but a few weeks ago.
lE claims had been staked and recorded
I'D 10 the time We left Considerable pros
pect,ng has been done on the claims first
located and the Indications are excellent
Gold Is found from the surface down and
although the frozen earth has been pen
e,rated but few feet, pans run in the
tneiEhborhood OF 81 cents. The creek vii
All be located In a. short time. We met a
great many people going down the river
A. we came up. They were those who
had been wintering at Lake Bennett.
Hearing Of the discovery. they Were has
fsnng down the river over the Ice. A
surveyor Is working on the creek ana
many OF the Claims have been surveyed.
One OF the best features about Walsh
creek is that II - summer digging For
this reason very little actual work viii be
done until summer.
every few people will come out from
Dawson from this time on until after
tho spring cleanup. This will b.A made
IN July and will be record breaker II
win be followed by rush back TO CIV
iiizasion on the part or hundreds OF Men
who have spent one or !hore winters in
she country They wiz; bring back with
them an enormous quantity of gold dust.
"A great many OF the miners did not
bring out the results OF last years clean
up and Will be very rich men when they
have washed out the dir; taken out during
the winter
mo less than SIS. 900 0ao In yellow Klon-
6!ke gold Will be washed out In the July
cleanup. The amount will probably go
ever SEQ, 900. Last year the mining vas
Ill done. practically. on Eldorado and Bo-
sanza creeks. and the cleanup was enor-
nous. Consider. then, much larger out
put from these two creeks. and then the
hundreds Of thousands of dollars that will
De taken out OF the gravel banks or Hun
ker. Dominion. Bear. Sulphur and the
tsnany smaller tributaries az the kiondike.
The result cannot fail 10 !un into the mil
lions.
The frequent stampedes from Dawson
e the now creeks is remarkable feature
q this kiondIke business. II IL surpris-
ing the number of times that men Will go
into a headlong rush to some new creek.
There are several hundred men around the
camp who do nothing else but so out on
rainbow chases. They seldom get any
thing. but are just as eager 20 strap on 4
light outfit and so ont on another mad
run. The way these stampedes are started
Interesting. man will come into camp
from some unknown or unheard OF creek
He makes a location az the commission
er's ONCE. and then tells around The sa-
Icons that he found gold on the creek In
question which ran n ddiar or so TO the
pan. This Is ali that is necessary: the
crowd OF s.ampeders ask directions, and
are off like a flash.
Dawson was very quiet as d mining
camp when we left there on February Is.
Nearly every enc Is hard at work at the
mines, and there are very few men iround
Gambling goes on necessarily. however.
The faro limit OF So. oQo has been reached
several times lately. As IS always the
case. tho gamblers are making money and
hats OF IT, There are six places where
games are run, wide open and all the time
BETS running as high as s5.fso and <iung1
Ere common. out IN the mines wages are
being paid on a peculiar scale. on the good
claims only the hest miners can get work.
and they are paid 81 80 per hour The
Claim owners not fortunate enough 10 pos
sess honanxas pay but sl.25. and on the
poorer claims the miners get 81 an hour.
III seems 10 me that men going into
the Yukon for the first time would have
better chance 20 strike L sf they de-
voted their lime and attention ~ thu west
SIDE % the Yukon. The country Is prac-
heally unexplored and there seems ~ be
no reason WHY gold should no, be found
III the bars OF the west side streams as
VEL a. on the east. There - a ,remeu-
sscas GENTRY Ia prospect and men Of
proper grit VIII make discoveries. Those
s"ae~srs not put on an independent basis
: ey the spr.ng cleanup az Dawson Will
Probably so down the river 20 soraa %
me summer dssglngs. The men who get
Hth Will nearly all eome out for time
have serious doubts about colny back
70 The Yukon country. I certainly will
a'' 80 II can dispose Of my interests on
.ae outside IL is 10 snap 10 h,, cur OF
EsroE, cf.liss ,ioa fer months. and there
fe hundreds Of other drawbacks 20 in
te''er life. The drafts purchased before
'''n'hg ont were secured rr0m the Alaska