The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
JUMPERS WILL BE ACTIVE
MEN WHO LOSE RICH DIGGINGS
 EXPECTED TO SHOW FIGHT.
Miss Dolly Bennett, the Mayor of the New Mining Metropolis, Grows Rich Through Her Win
 ming Ways.
BY HAL HOFFMAN.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

Lund, just out from Lake Atlln, ue- scribes the situation in way that in dicates that things will be badly mixed up in the new diggtngs next spring. It will take a firm and level-headed gold commissioner and vigilant police force to prevent bloodshed. That there is going to be trouble over the claims there is no doubt. MT. Lund Is origin ally from the north of England lie came from New York to Lake Linder- man as agent for the Peterboro Canoe Company and learned of the Atlin dis covery in time to get in there and To- cate No. 3, below Discovery, on Pine Creek, which Is considered one or the best claims on the creek. He is also interested in No. { below. MT. Lund said:
 When the first rush was on every body thought the ground was in Brit ish Northwest Territory. and located 25O-foot claims The British Columbia Gold Commissioner came along and the claims had to be reduced to 100 feet. This let the gate open for jumping, ana in many instances not only the 15O feet but the 100 feet, to which the original locator is entitled, for the law does not take that away from him, though ne may have staked too much, were jumped and restaked. Some or the original locations were recorded and some were not, and it is the same way with the relocations. After stalking quite a number of men left Tor the coast to get ready for returning in the spring and others Stampeded to other creeks and made locations there. Very few of these did the amount or Work before or after the closed season neces- sary to hold the claims, and a number of claims otherwise legally located have been Jumped on this point of law. Now when these original locators return next spring and find their ground claimed and staked by other men there Is going to be trouble. shall not De surprised to hear of few sudden deaths.
 '1The gravel Is going to be easy to work. There is plenty of water, and the country is the most favorable for Drospecting that 1 ever saw. Under brush Is almost unknown. The tlInper is open and the ground Is hard ana dry The firewood Is so nara ana ury that if burns with bluish flame that makes a great heat. Some of this wood is so hard that 1t will turn the edge or an ax. and seems petrif1ed. You can cross the country from creek 10 creek anywhere.
 'fThere were reports of new strike up in the neighborhood Of Five Lakes before I came out. I did not stop to investigate, and don't think much of the report. Five Likes are up beyond Surprise Lake, and some good pros nects I know have been found In that section. Yes, heard something about a smoking mountain up there, put never saw it. The formation is pc culiar in there The gravel seems to l.. tO GI1rrOIn6inR country. For instance, the bottom of Wright Creek is a slate standing on end, and the depressions in 1t make natural sluice box and nipples. It Is in these crevices in the bed of the creek that the gold is found. Wright is one of the best creeks. A great many men got left who might have had good claims there because they took TO stock in the creek at first, and the fellows who staked regardless got good ground.
 "There will be two towns in there, Atlin City, on the shore of the lake, and Discovery City, near Discovery claim on Pine Creek, but I think Dis coyery City will be the leading place, It is eight miles up the creek. but Is centrally located with reference to all the other creeks on which claims have been staked. The British Columbia Government holds the town sites and leases the ground. For instance, five miles alODR the ldhG dIl0 llNC uillCo III land from Atlin City is reserved by the Government After suitable time, usually in three or four years. the lots are sold to the highest bidder, the inn provements a man has made on his lot being counted in his favor in his bid. Lots thus usually go to those who have occupied and improved them.
 MT. Lund made a neat cleanup out of the general stampede to Atlin dur ing the last week in August and in Sep tember as a ferryman. He had ca noe. one of very few boats on the lake and carried people across Atlin for as high as $20 a head. five to the load. More boats and competition came along in time, and when the fare got down to s2 50 for the eight miles diag- onally across the lake from the portage to Atlin City he quit.
 4 man known as Colonel L. w. Smith, from some place in California, has made a road across the two-mile DOT tage from Taku Arm to Lake Atlin, tected by ground located as a placer claim. He has had a pack train in operation since early in the rush. and is credited with having made barrel of money at cents pound. A wagon train will be put on next summer, and as doubtless the same experience will occur as between Dyea and Skaguay, AASNN sail and row boat ferries on the lake. Skaguay parties have interested them selves in buying or building light draught boat of sufficient power to take her up the Atlintoo River from Taku Arm to the lake. Lumber has been or dered at Juneau and Skaguay for the erection of hotels, saloons and other buildings at the new diggings. It will be sledded in over the snow. Observa ton shows that extensive preparations are being made for business at Atlin.
 The Mayor of Atlin City Is woman. One of the most successful plungers in mining property at the new diggings is a well known and very attractive young woman, who has left more than a few smitten hearts In her wake dur ing a several years residence in Ju- neau There are no rounders in Alaska who haven't heard of her.
 She is Miss Dolly Bennett, neat, trim, thoroughly up to date, and the last girl even the most experienced Market-street masher would pick out for an adventures. Miss Bennett was by common consent endowed with the title of Mayor of Atlin City" She Is credited, among other accomplishments of the season at Atlin, with having made an impression on a Government