The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-18
ATLIN LAKE GOLD DISTRICT
ONE PART OF ALASKA THAT
SEEMS TO PAN OUT ALL RIGHT
Facts About That Part of the COun-
try as Related by Frank Brack-
EFT, Who Is Meeting with More
or Less Success There.

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov II. - (Spe-
cial)-Owing to the great Alaska gold
excitement last year, based partly on
authentic reports and partly on the
DRY. hundreds of gold seekers went
west into Alaska, many with little or
no idea of where they were going with
the result that, while a great many
have returned better off financially and
physically. larger number have come
out thoroughly Disguised. No finds at
all were made in the Copper river
country, Cooks inlet or KotzeDue
sound great amount Of GOLD has
been taken out of the country trlb-
utary to Dawson. The one great dis
covery of placer diggings, however.
second to none and one nearest home.
is the new find in what is known as
the ''Atlin district" in Southeastern
Alaska
The following facts bearing on this
district are taken from an interview
With Frank Bracket, son of George A
Bracket, who built the Bracket road
across White pass from Skaguay.
The new gold fields are about sixty
five miles on straight line, or Us mles
by water from Lake Bennett, the
route lying through Lake Bennett
Cariboo crossing. Lake Tagish and up
through Talxu arm TO Taku City. From
Taku City you take a boat for about
two miles TO Atlin lake. which is al
most forty miles long and ten miles
wide
Atlin City is within seven miles OF
Discovery on Pine creek. The trail
from Atlin to Discovery is smooth and
level, and more like a bicycle path than
mountain trail. There Is plenty Of
game in the country; persons going
along the trails scare up fiocks Of par
tridges and other birds. Going fur
Their into the mountains there are found
plenty of moose and caribou, and high
er up, mountain sheep and goats. one
man shot two musk oxen back Of STR
prise lake. Mr. Bracket says:
when first striking Discovery
went two claims above on a bench, ard
in the first pan 1 ever washed IN ny
life took out 70 cents worth of gold. a
little further UP the creek a friend Of
mine from Dyea, in company with an
work four ounces of gold that assays
at SIS per ounce. This gold was taken
down from the beach in sacks and
dumped into the sluice box and washed
out, which is the crudest way of wash
ing out gold. A person with the lat
est mining machinery would be able
10 increase the washings 20 per cent.
Samuel Lowell. an attorney from Skag-
uay, in months work on his oench
: took out 81, 500; above him Capt. SpeTry
took out like amount. These claims
were all bench and worked in the
same manner as above mentioned. Two
F'renehmen. about one-half a mile be-
low Discovery on Pine creek, took out
$4,000 in less than months work.
This goes TO show the richness OF the
country. I helped 10 clean UP on a
claim owned by James Garcon some Of
the most beautiful gold 1 ever saw.
Right creek, fifteen miles above
Pine, and running into Surprise lake,
Is very rich. On Discovery, out of
small hole, there was taken $500 worth
Of gold, all in nuggets and very coarse
Different prospect holes on Right creek
show the creek to be very rich. Spruce
creek, running into Pine creek little
below Discovery, has cleaned up very