The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-26
RICHES Of ATTN
NOT EXAGGERATED.
Mckee Greek Thought to
Be Even Better
Than Pine.
RUSH LIKELY NEXT YEAR.
Seattle Prospector Picks Up Dirt
Going ST to the Pan, Not
Counting the Fine Gold
Claims Open for
Relocation.
RUSH LIKELY NEXT YEAR.

II GRACE LEACH, a well known Seattle
III printer. formerly on the Post-Inteili-
- gsnceA accompanied by nineteen
others. arrived in the city Oc1o-
Der Is from the Atiin mining
region. They win all return 10 the
mires In March. as all have claims they
wish to develop. The party, numbering
tweniy-one persons, had left Atlin fourteen
days previously IN a Towboat for Bennett.
They had very hard trip out, and boy.
young fellow from Chicago named Kirby,
about II years old, was i'll with typhoid
fever. His father was along. The boy and
his father are now at Bennett.
THAT is the finest country under the
sum-" said Leach. Il have claims on Little
Spruce, Dixie creek, Otter creek, Slate
creek and Mckee creek. Otter creek is a
good creek and Is coming to the front. J.
S. Fem. who came out with the party, is
ore Of the discoveries OF Otter creek"
Have you heard anything much con-
corning this new creek called Mckee, was
asked.
Yes. it is the richest creek in the dis
trict. 1t Is better than Fine. / was on the
creek November /. and have a claim two
and half miles above discovery. Fem
and myself panned out about eight pans OF
dirt. almost freezing our hands, and max
ing no effort to save the fine gold. This
is what the eight pans brought.
Nuggets From Mckee Creek.
Leach unrolled a cloth in which nestled
out saving the fine gold Or even the coarse
particles, the dirt went over 81 10 the pan
in nuggets.
Mckee shows I'D better than any creek
In the district" said Leach.
Leach went into the Atiin country three
months ago with A. ]. Stoel and Lee Biz
land for stock he ever saw, and concern
ing the general characteristics OF the
ground he said:
THE ground Is never frozen badly. The
~ h41p
thus affording protection for the ground.
The ground being always warm accounts
for the iuxuriant grasses in the early
spring and throughout the season. There
is no portion OF the region where a man
cannot get about on horseback with ease"
Leach will return in March.
ut VIII be about May l before active
mining operations can be commenced"
said he. but / will get in early in order
to build my cabin and erect the sluice
boxes. etc. predict great camp there
He says that there will be many claims
there open to fling In the spring which are
now staked- He SAYS that many OF the
claims the locator VIII he unable 10 repre-
sent. owing to the number of locations he
has made.
Full Conformation of Richness.
In letter from Skagway 10 the Post
Intellisencer, w. NJ Brook. president and
manager of the Ruby Sand Gold Mining
Company, OF Lituya bay. says:
Every miner who comes from the Atlin
mining camp confirms the reports OF the
great richness of the district. c. II. De
Witt sold n half interest in the claim.
which is nifty feet above discovery on Pine
for Sl,00 in gold coin to A. ]. WOOL. Of
Sacramento. Since this sale word has been
brought out that this claim Is worth ten
times the value placed on II by the owners
Sam McColley. of Pendleton. Or. sold
half interest in two claims on Spruce and
Birch creeks today TO De Witt for S2.aoa
Mr. McColIey is the man who discovered
the first bench claims near Attn. It was
he and Capt. Sperry who dug out the big
nuggets this fall on Pine creek