The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-21
THE STEWART RIVER
AND UPPER YUKON.
STAN pedes to streams " mere Pioneer
Miners Struck Ktch fay-tsreat
Area

The tendency OF the miners 20 seek new
fields has caused many Of those who went
10 DAWSON last year 20 ,urn Up stewart
river. which enters the Yukon sixty-eight
niles above Dawson. and there are said
10 be Row about 40 miners on that
stream, There Is large area OF almost
untouched ground there. Tor the river IS
said 10 be about 4to miles long. It's aifu-
enis ana smaller streams and guiehes
making an aggregate Of zoe miles. ae-
cord.ng 10 Mr.. Ogiivie, who says Of 1T:
Now The Stewart river enjoys the rep
ufat!on Of being the best paying dirt IN
the country. When Ii was nrst mined ~.
many miners took from $50 TO SiS n day
out of the bars along the river. by or
binary rockers. ana since that time pros
pectors never failed 70 find what is called
a srahStake. that Is. sufficient to pur
chase provisions, clothing and other ueces-
saries for one year, on its bars. They are
Cleaned on from year 10 year and the
wash Of the river seems to renew the de-
post Of sod. Now this gold must GENE
from somewhere and prospecting never
yet revealed from where. Special atten-
lion is directed 10 this stream as being
one of the largest and most promising
fields In that district"
Events have verified Mr.. Oxiiyies optpe
ion. for the Indications were found good
by pann!ng at the mouth OF the river: on
Eureka creek. tributary. bedrock dirt
ran S2.65 per pan; on Nine-Mie creek, the
pay streak is seven feet deep and rpans
80 cents: on No. % Independence cfN1k.
the dirt averages 81 at depth OF eight
feet Rosebud creek. another tributary.
has given such good prospects a. to cANsA
q stampede.
Dig and Little Salmon.
Miners are also making their wsy vV
White and Big and Little Salmon rivegAr
and from what Mr.. Ogilvie says OF tAH
.wo latter streams. good finds shouldsoo
made on them. This is his comment:
Big and Little Salmon rivers have also
been prospected. with the usual result.
that more or less gold has been found
everywhere
From the discoveries made at scattered
points along the Yukon up TO its head
waters, as noted by Mr.. Oglvie, mining
camps Will soon be strung along the whole
upper course. He says that on his ex-
ploring trip In 1887, about six miles below
Lake Lebarge. he found many coiors 20
the pan In bar at a sharp, short bend
In the river and adds:
1T may be said generally that colors
are found anywhere on the river between
that point and the boundary, and also on
the tributaries which have been pros
pected. About eighteen miles be-
low the Tesin I saw the first place that
had been worked for gold. Here a hut
had been erected and there were ind.ca-
tons that a party had wintered there
Between Il and Big Salmon six other To-
cations were met with. One OF them
named Cassiar bar was worked IN the
season OF 1856 by a party Of four. who
took out $500 In thirty days They were
working there when I passed IN 1887 but
stated that all they could get was $40 per
day and that II was then august 3D.
about worked out. In conversation with
Mr.. T. Boswell who had prospected the
TeSn river. I learned that the whole
length OF that river yielded fne gold. gem
orally at the rass OF s. to SO per day"
Stampede to Walsh Greek.
Recent events are in lire with Mr.. Ogil-
vie's statements. Last year two English
men struck pay dirt at the White Horse
rapids and are reported TO have taken
out nineteen and threequarters pounds of
gold In a few days. Then came the strike
on Walsh creek. which enters the Yukon
four miles below the Big Salmon Early
reports were much exaggerated and caus-
ed a stampede and the location OF over
800 claims with the natural reaction and
rash statements OF the disappointed ones
that the creek was no good. The best
pan found was 81 TO 10 cents and % cents
IL likely TO be above the average. that
figure being given by ]. D. McIver who
sold claim In the heat OF the exc.temens
for 500 Colors are found on the sur
face, but Thomas kIeg, the only man
who has so far sunk 10 bedrock ,;li not
given up and has another shaft down six
teen feet.
Another strike has been made by Jack
Wales on Tsy river. tributary OF the
Peliy. where several large nuggets ana
fine gold were found.