The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-04
IIulIls RICH e|iP.
0rpsesd Of Eurska and Many
Othsr Promising Greeks.
I eeaaA.kAsLe PAY sTREAk.
= n1rnsy-sia Feet Ws1e, sax DssD.
- nay - Ten M11ss IeaG-A
neeeen Party - Rsosoeseoss M1a1e
- Discovery, FtnAlng Bedrock
- Il. PsaSsek's Nay, IN shs MoRn-
s-manook ProAts ~ she HsaA.

- afst details Of the discovery aEd
..sk.oouenf rush TO the new Eureka a.
- creek district, up on the T4nAnA,
- - nsountain divide, havs been OBJ
s~1neA ~ the Pogt-fnteiligeucer. from
V1mdnu cassie. direct from the camp. He
r0 thAse early In June. That = gold
nnn. rich ard great In extent has been
Hreeyered in Eureka seems certain from
- ACCOUNTS given by Eassle. He sailed
- seattle on the Humboldt for the
1900 by way Of 81 Michael June u.
- and returned to this city on the same
,.seee1 hut from the headwafess. rather
shan the mouth Of the great river. He
~ heen absent Just one year and FIVE
-. Prior to going north he lived for
s1shteen years In the Hawaiian islands.
- originally hailed from New Work
Eaasse In . most conservative man
Il may be stated that the Eureka camp
- already shown up six or eight creeks.
.eeabiy Eureka. Pioneer. Rhode Island.
nd1.on and American. Excellent pros
sarfs have been found on all these
erfeams. and discovery claim on Eureka
IA been sufiiciently developed 10 state
eenuits On this the owners crosscut the
eiatnp, finding eighty-s.x feet OF pay streak
~ feet deep. the dust OF which averages
s cents to the pan. Bedrock II found at
depth OF from twelve to fourteen feet.
- tho digginGs are such as can be work
q both winter and summer. that II. by
tse thAwing method In the winter and
hydreullc In the summer. The creek u
Ia miles long. and h q tributary OF Bak-
q. which empt.es into the Tanana. Sew
eg11 Of the prospected creeks named are
obituaries Of Eureka. which has already
IN staked from mouth to source. The
camp u within twenty-seven miles OF
lanoert, the metropolis Of the Aanook
dBlE1c4. and many OF the miners OF the
hitter section have already secured claims.
800 q number OF them. In Eureka
On -. PafPtek's Day.
Ihs diacovery was made by a Boston
Dassy Of ten men. Early last fall the ex-
edition started MP the Tapana In search
q gold. Reaching the mouth OF Baker.
~ turned up that stream and prospect
"a, finding good co,ors all the way up TO
Eureka. On this creek better ahowings
vese encountered. and the discoveries de-
tesminesi TO go to bedrock. They did so.
reaching the pay streak st. Patrick's day,
March H.
he discoveries had no Idea Of their
pf6zim.ty to Rampant. and did not know,
Arara,iveiy speaking. just where they
Me1e until several weeks later, when two
NaDo0k prospectors. Johnson and Rasmus.
IN. stumbled upon them. The new arriv-
IL made locations. and. with the Boston,
hns. hurried To Rampant TO record. Then
The news became generally known and Z
nAncok rush set In.
= havA no hesi,ancy." Mr. cassie re-
aArked. In saying Eureka Is a rich camp.
II nay not be az fabulously 10 as the kion-
dike. but II II district great in extent
think II has many two-ounce-p er-day-
Af~. 4 n.
usetions-fook no mans word. On iiscov-
~ claim. for instance. I went down in
the mtne. and saw the paintings. We took
any aumher OF them. not from one spot.
hu clear across the length and breadth OF
the pay streak. The pans run from four 10
svsn cents or ! should say an easy aver
axe Of ave cenfS This does not sound very
nc but II Ii big thing when the pay
eereak II eighty-sIx feet wide and stx feet
aest ! measured II myself They cross
cut the claim and found that width OF Pay.
xrtak.
Cas- work the Year RonnA.
Bedrock IL struck al from twelve TO
snnsseen feet and the digginRs can y
voeked In summer by hydraulic a. well as
y winter by the thawing process. The
csetk h ten miles long and has a number
o. tributaries On which excellent prospects
hare oeen found,
The district Is within twenty-sevep
MUS OF Rampant and already a good
wagon road has been constructed between
ne TWO camps. The discoveries had no
90 thvy were anywhere near Rampant,
cat TIVE rrospectors Rasmussen and John
soh vent out and acquainted them with
tne sacs, The invaders. however. ran onto
me dIscoserers by accident. u was a lucky
aecddent for the Manook miners. many OF
vson have secured one or more eiaime
Among these may Ae mentioned, Eras,us
hsasnerd. Of this city, He got hold OF
evesai claims In the new camp
HsAlncrd, by the way has a nns PROP
eru on Idaho bar. He bongh. the eisscov-
~ claim which Is q very rich enc HE
xnnt saken cut any hig amount or gold
ssvsa sne sact that ne IL combining himself
ssnly 70 development work Hts claim
= stet above the bed az Little Manaok
= aces on Little Msneok pup. The face
sosss M to depth OF twenty or twenty
ave feet At bedrock
0stnst Of Nanoek Dtssrtct.
ka~e thinks Manoak a great district
,. NJ v.sfsrs hydraulic mining is going 10
ufesuuoaise affairs there WITH raa-
nHahse amount NJ such anplIanres N. saws
- 1csraw-tsarr claim on Iltsl. Manook
- oasn have produced tAaaa instead of
49, The estimate given ay cassie.
t8ttis Manoak creek = Weld for th,. ,,sS,
nsson tssssie Places at ssaaa lie thinks
$50 Collins estimate 81 f..vooos for the
ssesc district a little aixh
.Ahnkfofu and 1ohn~on's claim one Of
srsy richest was NOT worked last win
ana not mach was done on lretau,i'&
80 80 Ne IN ireland. Johnson and lang
u arrives ~ Rampant from, the outside
ss dass before Eaxsle left
sse hsd the coed fortune hast spring
essssassS Pix caai field on nsr Mans,s,k
.nssaef II lies ON Horizontal bar ana I'm
AesiesanA hills overlooking Isis Ma
- asst - bat two and half miles
- nsmiast Tao coal ~ of good quail
sas toe TOR heating purposes sr-
As.nhx 20 tesss made equals two and a
- - fSfuS NJ Nona The owner SAYS ne
sssssses laying h down ~ Rampant Tor s.
came up the Yukon 20 Dawson
me standard oil tNafnfssnxts river
/ ausf osl CITY. Tls.e>h, took the ca
s 49, 70 Waite Horse rapids. and trans.
49, ~ ,ast point 80 she Australian for