Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-10
FIGURES FROM JUNEAU.
Careful Estimates of Next Springs
Output Are $3,0OO,0OO

LIS AicShd Mlu1uS NEWS, puDuSn0Q
at Juneau has, among other things,
these items of new interest concern
ing the new Yukon fields.
A conservative estimate of the
winter seasons yield in gold ON the
Klondike can be placed at $50 900 900
A number of single claims will yield
from a half million to million and a
half, and there is not only one such
claim in the district, but a dozen OF
more of them. Both Hunker and
Gold Bottom creeks are conceded tc
be as rich as Bonanza and Eldorado
many of the claims on Hunker yielding
$4,000 to the box Claim No. 80
Eildorado, with but one man shoveline
one shift or twelve hours, cleaned up
/ $4,000. On Skookum gulch, from
claims Nos. 1 AND 2, two box-lengths
| produced $4,000. Some men who own
interests in different claims, are con-
! fident of taking out from 81, 100000 tic
100000 by spring. The above figures
are given to us by both Messrs. Bach
and Mallory, two business men of this
place, who have just returned from
! Dawson, and can be relied upon, and
who generally know what they are
talking about. AS an instance of how
! the gold was pouring into Dawson, ten
days after the down-river boats left,
which, of course, took what dust the
/ North American Transportation and
Trading company had accumulated a
quarter of a million dollars in it's safe,
and the Alaska Commercial company
had fully as much.
Relative to the copper deposits ON
Copper river, nothing but meager in
formation given by the Stick Indians,
has so far been received, as the foot
of white men has never yet trodden
the ground. Such information locates
these deposits On the headwaters of
the east fork of the Chittyna, which
is the east fork of the Copper, or more
definitely speaking, at point nearly
northwest from Mount st. Elias. From
the Dalton post on the Alsek river,
the Indians say, the distance can be
covered with pack animals in summer
in about six weeks time, the distance
by trail being 400 very bad miles. The
Indians obtain their chunks of copper
as nuggets picked out of the gravel
banks along the river, and say they
are quite numerous. We have seen
such nugget as large around as a
plate, and from one to two inches
thick AS to the origin, Or source, of
this copper the Indians know nothing
or are too dull to speak. They are
content to pick out of the gravel as
they go along enough pieces to answer
their wants for bullets and trinkets,
and do not concern their minds from
whence it came. There is no doubt
that the region holds within it's con-
fines great deposits of virgin copper
and copper ores, but is the trouble and
expense of getting the red metal out
worth the gain?
In the Klondike or middle Yukon
region in midwinter the sun rises
from $3.50 to 10 a. M, and sets from
| 2 to p. M, the total length of DAY
| light being about four hours. The
sun rises but a few degrees above the
horizon at that date in midday. Obser-
vations taken during the winter by
the coast and geodetic survey for a
period of six months i'm the middle
Yukon division, give the following
mean temperatures:
| October, 33 degrees above zero; No
vember, 8 degrees above zero; Decem-
| Der, IL degrees below zero; january,
/ II degrees below zero; February, Is
degrees below zero; March, 6 degrees
above zero; April, 20 degrees above
zero.
| The daily mean temperature fell
and remained below the freezing point
from Nov to April FL, thus giving
1913 days as the length of the closed
season, assuming temperature only
! The lowest temperatures registered
January. The greatest continuous
cold occurred in February, when the
daily mean for five consecutive days
was AZ degrees below. Generally
cloudy weather prevailed, there being
but three consecutive days in any
month with clear weather. In June
| the SUN rises about 1:3U IN the morn
/ ing and sets at 1920, giving about
| twenty hours of daylight and diTused
twilight the remaining four. The
mean summer temperature ranges
between so an0 70 degrees. Although
there is almost a continuous sun In
the summer time, the evaporation is
slow, owing to the thick moss which
will not conduct the heat. The con-
sequence is the ground is always
swampy on the surface and frozen
underneath. In winter there is
usually considerable wind.
POULTRY NOTES FOR OCTOBER.