The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28

that a certain few might get in and
make locations before the stampede
came. They might as well have tried
to stop the wind as the news OF strike
when a breath of 1t escapes. Steamers
charge $40 each way from Lake Ben
nett to the mouth of Atlintoo The
Ora, Nora and Flora are other steamers
on the run. They are working two
crews and stopping neither night nor
day. It is estimated that four thousand
men are already on the creeks on the
east side of the lake. At the head of
been staked out and named Takou City.
Atlintoo River is about seven miles
long. Steps are already being taken
to construct a tramway along it.
The site of Takou City is about
eighty miles from Lake Bennett. A
sawmill is being taken in. Lumber
there is worth 81 per foot. Weppler
says it took his party over nine hours
to get up the river, but that he and
McClusky came down the seven miles
with the current in eighteen minutes.
The general opinion here is that WEEP
piers watch must have been SO
thrilled by exhilaration that it stopped
several minutes on the way down. 1t
is about twelve miles across the river
to Discovery Creek and the creek it.
self is about sixteen miles long. All
the ground on it is said to be located
by this time. When the last party
left 40 above Discovery had been To-
Gated. The distance to Discovery is
about five miles. It is all staked be-
low. Frank Kinds, purser of the
Flora, was one of the lucky ones in the
early rush. He got a location and the
first painful of dirt turned out 81 in
gold about a foot below the surface.
The Canadian police are already on the
ground, Major Strickland in charge.
Many of the Skaguay Railroad hands
have quit work and vamosed to the
new diggings. Bed rock in the new
strike is said to be five feet down.
The Miller and McKinnon party took
in five men to work the claims. WEEP
pier says they were panning out $40
per day to the man. When sluices are
built and all the preparations COM
pleted for working the dirt the output
per day to the man will be much
larger. All reports to date agree in
that considerable area of very rich
gravel has been found The rule is
that placer deposits become rich the
farther they go down and that the
maximum value is greatest at bed rock.
The prospects on Pine Creek are just
as favorable for fabulously rich dig
gings as they were at Discovery on
Bonanza, Ell Dorado or any other trib-
utaries of the Klondike River. Pulses
which have beat on the even tenor Of
their way since the excitement first
subsidized over the Yukon are now leap
ing in the wrists and temples Of all
men up here who have two hands and
back strong enough to shovel gravel.
There is another and near route
to Lake Atlin which promises to be-
come a rival Of the Lake Bennett way
of getting there. 1t is UP Takou In
let, ten miles below Juneau, then forty
miles up the Takou River by steamer,
twenty miles farther by canoe or small
boat, and then over portage of about
twelve or fifteen miles by an Indian
trail, whence it is about twenty miles
of floating down Pike River to the
head of Lake Atlin. Business men
are considering the matter of putting
on a small steamer to run from Juneau
up the Takou River. BY this route
the distance to the lake is about ITO
miles. This steamer may be put in
commission If good reports continue to
come out from the new mines.
HAT HnrvEMAN