The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-21


br0ugh. the first news o. the wonderfUl
cleanup made from the winters mining
t. steamer Excelsior arrived al San
Francisco ten days later with s5s}.ar9 IN
gold owned by twelve miners. and when
the Portland followed by bringing sky
e,gnt miners WIKI s. -5D.p 80 10 Seattle. all
The world wondered and believed that Cal
if3rn.a. Australia and South Africa ware
&c - outd1re. Sine thai date more de-
ta.l.i and accurate Information has acCu-
mn.a,@d eua pi.Gg Us 20 form n close IS
Innate II the value and Ak n of the
k.ondlke gold fields and u the probable
production Tor the year
Riches of Bonanaa creek.
/ Bonanza creek. the original cause of the
stampede. Ia thirteen mics long and has
tributaries locaged 20 total length Of
eight miles. In This length 100 claims are
being worked. employing frcm xix 10 fifty
ner each. and 100 more have been To-
Gated. The DIRT ranges n value from
sl.cto 10 S511 per box length Of twelve
feet. 4 few facts 10 tue production of
the difTeren, cams In the winter OF $50
and 1897 and prices at which they have
been sold VIII convey some conception OF
the remarkable and uniform richness %
the dirt
No. paid Bert Hutchinson s20.10
No TO- McCulloch and GaIbraith. 5000.
No II. f. ". Cobb and Pete Okswig,
$59o IN one cleanup.
No. q. l.. r. Rose, s., 900 in one clean
uP.
Ne -. H. l.. Smith. $4,000 from the first
dump.
No. q. George Moran. ss0no
No 81, Ben VOID took out $1,000 10 sl2.
90. then sold for CO. to Frank DeS-
more. who took ont S25.Nu III one clean
Up and So 90 more III the next two weeks.
Ne. q j. owned by Alexander Melon
all and James Deughtray. the former be-
ing known as the King OF the kiondike.
and having interests IN fhirty-seven
cia.ms estimated TO be worth s. 210es
From No - Thomas Pe.ky took $4,000.
Discovery claim has yielded $i.ooo 10 S.
No below. 100 from one box length,
No. below. 5000 from three box
lengths.
No. 8. {. X. lilly. $1,000 from two box
lengths.
No. 10. c. X. lilly and Robert Crook.
So In the first few days sluiCins.
No. II. john Horne. 5000 To $3.50.
No. CO was bought for sl.0"o by J. O.
EASTWOOD who sold It for slO,Do after
cleaning up several thousand dollars.
Rich d.r' WAS found last winter by
Elmer MARS III basin on the K.ond.ke
opposite The mouth IF BONANZA creek.
lie sank shaft 10 bedrock. which show
>LooLum t.uIch a Surprise.
or the tributaries Of Bonanza creek.
Skookum gulch has become most noted.
or the claims In the creek bed only two
turned out ~ all well and the gu.ch had
been set down as a disappointment. when
one day in the fall Of 1887 the proVcrbia!
tenderfoot kicked over a boulder on a
bench aud found nuggets sticking ont
under the sod and ii stampede follow Cd
40 bench claims being located IL the
twenty four hours ending on September
- Rich pay dirt began on the surface.
two men with a rocker taking out $lSl in
half day a foot below The gold Is all
coarse. being ordinarily as large as she'll
81 corn Hundreds % nuggets weigh g.
10 So. many are 81 to ga whilc some In
particular weighed $J15. si9e and sl66 re
spfc;lyely. one man picked up 81 10 IN
IN hour after lighting fige 20 ,haw out
the ground while another picked up 500
ou ms dump IN nuggets r4rgiuE as large
- 81, Prospecting saS carried ga up thA
hills and John Richie struck DIRT pay Ing
So - g., Fan on the hog back between
Big AMI little * ,okum gU.er. How
ever. the creek b,tl does u0, appear -
, have been go very dl~api@'at!ug for
rseph aud George IIauuury struck dirt
painting IS high as SO on bedrock ana
Aioxa0der Mcdonald thought VII enough
OF II ~ gay So. - Tor claims No and
TIE ienche, ana hl}sldes - Bou.der
/ ard Adams euleh-s Also proved 10 carry
tnusa coarse 2old. rugEets Of s. 10 SIC be
iuy found arectl> beuoath tee ntos~ on
H,a.tier ca}cn ara tWa rn.n on ore claim
tJs * oGt Sd" IT, &>o" q Hay.
ttaoraau Et~n R,rhsr.
E31o1a1e creek has proved go he even
ricbe~ .haa nofa0za ans IS expected -