The San Francisco call., 1899-05-19

X,
heading back toward the main river and
Forty Mile town, that Jack Wade Creek
enters. Other tributaries OF Walkers
Fork where pay has been found are 70
ker Creek, Davis and Liberty creeks, the
best of which is Poker Creek and the
best of this is in Canadian territory.
Good pay has been found on Walkers
Fork itself at or near No. Sc, below up
dairy line. Lemont brothers, W. H. Car
nahan and L. P. Stockings own three
claims in this vicinity, and have found Is
cents to the pan by the buckettul Ihey @
pay dirt all the way The owner of u be-
low, Cherry, is also taking out good pay.
Poker Creek has developed excellent
prospects, and number OF men are
working there. j. T. Hayes and two 9th
ers are said to have taken out $2SOO IN six
weeks and have uncovered enough TO
wash out $40, 600 this summer.
Davis Creek has been known for some
time to be good diggings. An old man
named Mcdonald, however, owns nearly
the whole creek-l5 clatms-and neither
He lives there with his young wife, whom
he married in Juneau some years ago
when he went out with ST 900 in his sack.
Mckinley and Liberty, Crow, Turk and
Tigner creeks have been Stampeded and
Staked, but since then little has been
heard of them, although coarse gold has
been found there All creeks coming into
Canyon Creek are found to be gold-bear-
ing. Among these Woods Creek has fur
nished many a man a grub stake with
few weeks labor Camp Creek, kalama-
zoo and Squaw are all said to carry pay
but they are as yet almost unprospected.
A number of men went up DenmSOnS
Fork this last winter but have not yet
reported This is true also Of the Middle
Fork, and the towns of Forty-mile and
Eagle City are awaiting them with great
expectations.
Chicken Creek, which prior to the rising
of Jack Wade was the banner creek in
Mosquito Fork. Nothing has as yet been
found on Mosquito Fork proper. Chicken
Creek is very small stream A man can can
jump over it at high water, and 1t will
be difficult to get a good slutce head at
that time. There are only a few claims
about Discovery being worked, but they
are being worked thoroughly. Joe Mathe-
son and Joe Dyer own Discovery, and
they have 100 holes down. The claim is
being worked chiefly on the lay system,
even Jim Morrison's mo. 39'' Hunker. 1t
is said of Matheson that he has been
plugging round the country" for twelve
years, getting deeper and steadily deeper
in debt To the company stores in spite of
his best endeavors. Discovery on Chicken
will this year square for him all old ac-
counts and give him home stake besides.
The upper end of Pearson's No. /, above.
has two lays working, but the lower end
is being honeycombed, fifteen men being
at work. Their high pan held $39-
Peco & Co. are working No. above and
No. l below. Water has prevented much
work being done on No. below Three
men are at work on No. above, which
has been held and merely represented for
four years. They are now taking out a
dump and have got as high as 70 cents
to the pan.
Alex Mcdonald paid $1,000 on No. A above,
but lost II, man from Dawson restak-
ing it.
One lay is being worked on Thomas
Pixies No. above Good pay is found
there.
Ten lays were let on No. 2 below, but no
dump is being taken out: A few pans
were taken showing as high as 20 cents,
good colors were found. Little else has
been developed downstream until No. II
IS reached. There the creek bottom is
very wide but they have been getting 10
work has been done.
STONEHOUSE is tributary or continu-
being worked. Mcdonald took out
dump on No. 2 and on No. 3 four lays are
working, and the, dirt is estimated as
worth IS cents to the pan. On No. two
dump to speak Of Three claims are be-
ing worked on Dry Pup, that comes in at
No. 8. Some work is being done on two
benches be- % e Bench @Gs off No as t sonehouse fs s0ms s
said to yield an average of 12 cents Wash
gravel is found all along the top of the
divide between Chicken, Stonehouse and
franklin CREEK and NAPOLEON
GsULGH enter the South, Fork
Of Fork Forty Rot, Mile bel0w hrHo,,o.A Mosquito
number of lays are are being iRngo~Ggls worked suce
cessfully on Franklin Creek, and the
No, North tIl,,. American 1gae Transportation and
work on property they own in Napoleon
Gulch; The formation there Is most diff
tieqit tndh to work and pay dirt is found in an
Is feet down under a wicker work of roots
and moss; The gold is all in large pieces
gold of Jack Wade Creek and of Franklin
Creek, which head up with Napoleon, is
exactly like It, The gold of Chicken
Creek, on the contrary. Is generally fine
O'BRIEN CREEK, which comes into
Forty Mile 81 miles from the mouth, is
prospeeted. It, i has one tributary4 how
Dome Creek. a great deqIi has been
winter. There is a pretty tale told of it,
Of how two men went out in 81 to
Seattle, both having heavy gold sacks,
The one died, but before doing this he
told to the man who nursed him the secret
Of where he had gotten his. gold, giving
that subsequently a party whom he dis
patched in had no difficulty in finding the
diggings together with the cabins form
rockers they. had used. The creek had
in the meantime, however. suffered one
OF these latter day Stampedes, from
which no break in the hills wide enough
to be visited bv daylight can hope to
escape, especially one with an old rocker
on It. l believe however, the Seattle
party succeeded in getting the claim by
some means, and 1T Is deemed valuable.
John E. Barrett and party who own
Discovery and one above on Dome Creek,
have sluiced off 300 feet and will shovel
in this summer. Several other claims
are being worked on the creek and pans
of $3.50 and $500 are not unusual.
THE NORTH FORK-More men have
turned up the North Fork than into any
other branch Of the Forty Mile this win
ter, and previous to Jack Wade ii was
considered much the most hopeful divis-
ion of the district. There is a loop in the
creek which is called the North Fork
Kink. A company has been formed to di
vert the water by cutting across the loon
and leaving the creek bed for several
miles dry and easily worked. AS one goes
up the North Fork
HUTCHINSON CREEK is the first
tributary where much effort to find
treasure is discovered. There has been
good deal of prospecting there during all
the winter but glaciers and water have
greatly handicapped the workers. On Dis
covery 81 so has been taken out of one
pan.
MONTANA CREEK on the left going
up and FRENCH GULCH and CONFED-
ERATE CREEK on the right, tributaries