Stikeen River journal., 1899-06-03
KIondike and AtIin News.
Clippings from Exchanges Furth-
 CT North.
Absolutely Pure

According to the Dawson men who recently arrived by the steamer Dan- ube, the trails are gone and no longer fit to be callen trails. At Fifty Mile and Thirty Mile the river is open. The remainder of the ice is fast break ing up, and about fifteen days hence the toot of the steamer will again be heard on the northern lakes.
 Dawson papers brought by the late corners give the following interesting story of finding Jack Wade creek, to which stampedes recently occurred. A late issue of the of the klondike Mug get says:
 Five years ago two men wandered into an unknown stream joining Walk er'sFork, eight miles from the conflu- ence of that stream with forty Mile When eight or ten miles up the unpros- pected tributary, the men sunk two holes to bed rock. and in each found splendid prospects. They determined to locate claims, but at the very mo- ment when they were about to record the same news of Millar creek came to hand, the two prospectors hastening to the scene of the "iatest marvel.' For many years thereafter Jack Wade creek was known as profitless ''pup" of Walkers Fork,
 In September of last year the creek was staked from head to mouth, but vast majority were never placed on re- cord. About the first of January of the current year, two parties began prospecting the creek, though without the knowledge of each other one work ing near the mouth and the other near the fountain head. Almost at the same moment bedrock was reached by both parties, and SO rich results obtained that the two discoveries were put on record and the vast wealth of the strip tipped to personal friends. At the end of few days the creek had been stalk ed its entire length with also the ben ches and tributaries the latter being
 
 prospects on Wade creek, Captain Henry Benis, owner of No. from the mouth says:
 ''In my opinion Jack Wade creek far surpasses anything yet found in the klondike or Indian river districts, due weight being given of course to the eX- pense necessary to operate mining pro- perties in Alaska as against this terrt- ory The new creek is sixteen miles long. and wherever hole has been sunk to bedrock, extraordinary rich pay has been located. My claim Mo- f is not anything like as rich as those high CT up, but my ground shows an average of 70 cents to the pan, which is quite satisfactory to me. At lower discovery tha ground is much better, while upper discovery, only a short distance from the head of the creek the best pay of all is found.
 "It is all shallow diggings, bedrock being from to II feet below the sur face. The claims can be worked all the year round which is of course big item. The ground around upper dis covery will average $l to the pan, the paystreak being very wide and deep. There have been S6O, S7O and $8O pans taken out, but the average is $l and all coarse gold. Nuggets ranging from s1 to $50 are common. Of the tributaries only two, Roberts and Clark, have so far been prospected and d good paw streak located.
 "I honestly believe that there is no- thing like Jack Wade Creek in all the Yukon basin, though the future may show up something better. It is waste of time for people to go down now as evory available foot of ground has been recorded"
 Dawson is progressing. With view to the sanitation of the city, series of dttches will be dug to drain the town. The contract for the establishment of the drainage system was let early in April to Davidson & Mathews The