The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-20
1O)MY REPORT OF Alaska.
v Tributaries Of FePty-NiIe
naver said 10 Re BaTPea 81 Geld
-Rsmor That the berry C1aims
:. Eraorado Have Be~n Jsmpea-

.~s., raspatcn u she Post -InseIiigencer.
TalfoNA APRIL IA. Vi. Grisley. assist
- s4cretary OF ire Tacoma i. NJ. =. A..
- lust returned from a prospecting trip
a fourteen rnoaths 10 the hfondlks and
Fpsty Mile districts
~ men al Dawson month ago. They
soszn6 neither claims that they were salts
- with nor work al good wages the
issor cemani having been supplied before
sSey arrived Most ~ these men are
~a.firr for the river to break ap, waen
iaey propose 10 f'oa, Gown 10 81. Michael.
~ miles away and thence get home as
6esf they can. Many OF these men are
hefnS sustained this winter ny officials OF
she Yukon district and American Consul.
Nrssook Some men near Dawson are
gorktnx for as low as $50 per day and
6oerd These are the men employed BY
peiky. a French Canadian, and his part
~. Some men are Offering 20 work for
taeir board
Nr. Grflley SAYS that this winters work
has demonstrated that many OF the srfDu-
tars<s o. Forty Mile river which were
sraked out last fail are barren. Tines.
incsude Hutchison, Confederate and Fish
creeks. on the North Fork William
Eg1ost whose nickname ts .'cayuse Bill
s credited with having started the big
aampede 10 the North Fork ias. fail.
-BilF' had been engaged for years in
fsessnsing between Forty Mile and Sixty
Me river. Going "oroks." II Is said that
= reported rich finds on The Earth Fork,
v1th the intention al having himself made
recorder. Between SO and 100 men
duiy sampeded 70 the North Fork creeks.
vhere "Gayuse BIZ was already installed
= recorder He RAISED the recorders fee
opn Ss.fo To s. and cut the size OF the
dams from 1870 70 go feet He cleaned
lot Of money. but by January had
1ssn |, In" and Was borrowing from his
fnenas
csssken creek, on the south fork Of For
y-Mae was likewise reported 10 be very
ret last fall. Many Lays were worked
= the creek this winter, bn; good pay dirt
cain above The other claim holders are
nd to be stu holding on with tho intsn-
cnn Of selling out TO tenderfcet who 60 In
b the spring. The lays on Chicken creek
"a ss took took place pacs rom chieHsn creek sa to
Rock creek. forty-fiye miles above Some
fahana Indians coming down 20 Chicken
creek TO trade reported that two pYospec-
creek The stampeders set out that very
night. but the new creek proved barren.
The most patriotic citizen on the Yukon
II conceded To be Uncle Sam Patch. -
thirteen years. He digs little gold out
q bar wenty-three miles up from Forty
ME- Everybody In that country to his
friend. and the boys" grubsiake him reg
to Forty Mile post for ten years until
1.-THE line on Canadian soii. Patch has a
large American flag which he keeps
wrapped about his couch. Every holiday
Il Is unfuried AT the top OF high flag
Jtaff In front OF Ills cabin.
Mr.. GriIiey reports that claim No. 10.
Eidoraio, owned by Prof. f.ippy. % Seat
le. IL making az biz a production this win
Ter as heretofore. Mr.. Lippry's workmen
iad to abandon the richest pay hole on
be claim because of water running ia
rom mineral springs beneath. II was In
ended TO work the claim with thawtng
machines but they did not arrive. and
thawing Was resoTted To,
About March q just before Mr.. Griliey
eft Dawson, IL was reported there that
he Berry brothers had had trouble with
.ouple of their rich claims on Eidorado