The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-14
m THE GOLDFIELDs.
~. xAaIs WRITES OF THE PROS
O"'" ,.cIs NEAR DAWSON CITY.

=. Chance. Remaining For N'weom'r'
-. xlondiks Country-0rsss Rush
..a In tho Early spring-Dswson
conservation Mining Methods.
90 late conner 70 the Klondike q
~ chance to acquire . miner
nave propcuuded this question to
:, ,;'nsrs 70 the Oldest Of the miners.
~ ~. have spent years on the Yukon.
NY asked half seasoned cheecharkos'
nsw ,s;tbout prejudice have put the
sna VI, =. 70 men who have only been In
qus ! week and who already know
ps~ mi the country. I have had very
sa..," satisfaction out Of any or all OF
n's,o The gold commissioners Office is
t 1sun.sd every day with men waiting
.n,u Ave entry ON mining claims. Some
NV .s.ru are of the pioneers, but more
Sasn they have been in the camp less
a Cis,1 . month. A strange thing is that
'nan . - those who have been on the Yu-
s san Cor Years have failed to get claims,
,ou nsnsllv 10 an excess of caution.
uu %sa onsrtz men arrived on the field
-. last fall and have done little pros
'a'V A few locations have been
s.sa in the country along the head OF
=, norado Next summer will see such
.sarch among the rugged hills that
IL particularly between the Klondike
~ ops side and Indian creek and Stu
-. liver ON the other that will almost
;.mra some wonderful discoveries.
The hest of the new creeks that late
81, work has developed Is Sulphur.
whicb lies over divide from Bonanza.
TN. discovery claim ON Sulphur is about
A niles from Dawson, and many peo-
rls make the trip over there and blindly
tale claims without knowing whether
tbey are good or not. Previous location
- a claim on Klondike does not bar
An. from using his privilege on Sulphur,
., Il ia in q different district, being q
tributary of Indian creek.
The mere fact of being on the ground
IN this country is q small fortune in It
.lf The right to locate claim on the
Klopdike is worth now about $3.50 and
cannot every day be purchased at that
nrice. Not many sales of the privilege
are made on cash basis, but there are
msny assignments or transfers Of claims
and interests. For instance, q man dis
covers a valuable overlooked claim or
fraction on we'll known creek. He at
once hunts up some man who has not
used his right as miner under the
Dominion law. The discoverer describes
bis find and offers anything from %
pounds of flour to a half or three-quar-
ters interest, and the entry is made.
All locations of claims ON the Klon-
dixie that have been made from the dis
covery up to the present time have been
made hastily. At first there was rush
to get in near the discovery at the
mouth of the Ell Dorado. There was no
time for digging holes to see if the gold
was really there. A man had to make
his decision at once and abide by it.
Ten or dozen claims were staked in
the first rush, both above and below dis
covery on Bonanza and as many probably
on Ell Dorado Then it was thought that
possibly the limits of the field had been
reached. and the owners of the outer
claims put little value on their proper
ty, some Of them selling as low as $500.
Development followed slowly. The ear
ly numbers were opened by and by and
found to be even richer in some cases
than discovery, and then the later To-
caters alphabetically went to work to find
what they had. When it was found
that the limit was not yet reached, an
other brief excitement ensued, and more
claims were staked. So the field has
widened. There are ten claims to the
mile on the first creeks opened. The dis
covery claim ON Bonanza is nearly IL
miles above the mouth. Mile after mile
the ground was measured and claimed,
but up to the last days of September
there was still mile of the lower creek
open to location. Then with rush the
rest was taken i'll day. Now the Kion-
dixie is claimed for many purposes al
most to the limits of Dawson City.
Bonanza creek enters the Klondike
only mile above the mouth of the lat
ter AT the junction of the two streams
Is circular basin half mile across
which has the appearance Of having
oeen reservoir or small lake an age
ago that finally found by erosion or
earthquake an outlet to the Yukon. II
Is now fat space partly taken up by
'imoer and partly by old channels and
nominal islands, which are not now
surrounded by water. Every creek that
mas been prospected of the number that
contribute to the inflow of this basin is
literally lined with gold, and for ages
IL would seem this place has been
Satch pit for the metal that finds its way
uown the Klondike. Recently 10 claims,
winch constitute tho entire basin, were
Entered In one day as hydraulic en-
,Se,prise, and it has been named the
Aiondike Bonanza Reservoir group.
Every one looks forward with inter.
ess not unmixed with dread to an inn
nense crowd of people this year al
lawson. Opportunities for making
uoney may not be so numerous as they
uaVe been in the past, but no one car
'ay definitely whether they will be in
u leased or exhausted by the accession Of