The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-31
eDLD-I|NED GRAVEL Bars.
JAAEs DIETRICH sAYs KOYrkCk
- no PLACE FOR A rOOR NAN.
Descriptions ef the Hfssrsi f"r
tioa ~ the Ceantvy by an Expert
Min<r-<soId II COMMUNICATIONS
ecverer VIII strike II Rich.

James De4.ysez. cue Of the hass Known
mining meg IN sAs Alaska country. - IA
the city. having returned from kc7nkuk
river Via Dawson Oh tas STEAMER ely ~
eeassie .aat SUNDAY Essnf Nj. Destssex
has a l4rEa ns4nsDEr III nihefs ssusaeyea
along inc X oyuauk and it's FioasAriss.
While a. Dawson ss gave isls A4sn91As
Miner q very comprehensive and intssi-
gent statement conserving the k0sakak-
ire Miaer said.
-yxnaes Dsitrfek, ore Of the best mining
nss. ia sslig country, ta 81 Daw~ofi. Inspect
ing Sums mining property. he lately cane
ksre by deg team across The nseaaiAsas
from tns kayasus risef. r. sy.ax Pax -, -
try Mr. DesfE!Ek s8ys the koyukgs TFer
covers a vast fisis OF mining country sinai
lar ia exteai to that Of tie state 81 easl.
fofnla IL the product % god turns OUT
1uaf the same az at present 40 1alf0fnaa,
II Will be quite satsstaetery. The koyN-
kuk river is some i.ss miles long and mas
many tributaries Of considerable isDxth.
The gravel bars for so miles along tie river
hare been rocked on for years by the IT.
dians and q few white usn. VITO have
taken oat little dust and s0uie fair ssxsa
nuggets. The scarcity of provisions nas
prevented any winter mining Gnfii now
Ard the real condition Of tie concentration
81 placer gold along the Upper koyukuk
may be determined this winter. The sea-
sen OF bar ;nining II short and i has given
those who faye tried Il heretofore only
W.ntsr< eYuh@take. The tributaries and
creeks have been neglected and nothing
definite - known or TIE ffcbfess OF hhe
placer ground.
trimming from the northwest TO the
southeast aersss the headwaters ID great
belt Of congiomeratA. cefneBtsd grasei.
which carries low percentage OF god 10
the yard not enough to pay fof Workink In
. favorable climate ike California. Aleng
the banks and extending back fur miles
ere large deposits 81 gravel, an ancient sssi
bed which carries very low percentage
Of gold and which he wcald not undertake
to work even Ia California Along the
creeks, and even the river. one finds Jar
locking quartz isdges. some tn s.ass. do
rite, granite, p0Tphofy and IN the contact
BY rplyefixing the quartz ole fnds IL goes
very low grade In gold.
ssi'he extreme frost, long cold winter and
severe breaking up OF the spring causes
ths cong,onefate 10 break on ard from ex-
posture TO free its mite Of gold: the gravel
beds 10 wash down into the creeks and
river aud To free tagtr holdings and the
quartz TO break OF and tumble down into
the streams and % be broken and crushed
BY the moving water and the gravel bars
70 catch the gold as the wafer brings II
along.
Nov the lucky proapector who dnds
the concentration VIII develop another Boz
Marlza and Esdofado. which have made
Dawson fauoug. Unt.s thlz IN done the
poor man will have a hard time OF IL on
the Koyukuk and l advise ali who have
pot at least ssaG cash IN their pockets 70
Keep away from the kagakak.
1T Is the most diflieaIf country to get In
or out az III the far north. The Alaska
Commercial Company has established a
store Al Bergman. about soo miles mp the
koyaknk river. where they have about
etxiy-fve tons Of supplies. Tho North
American Transportation and Trading
Company has established store at Peayy
- miles mp the koytkuk river, where
there II plenty Of good timber for fuel and
building purposes.
Hoih companies ara inclined 10 sell
goods very reasonably on account Of II be-
Ing new eountry. The North American
transportation and Trading Company has
had constructed At Pessv suitable school
honss and a church aud will have a per-
manent town UP IN ths Arctic circle Mr.
Feavy. now deceased, for whom the place
fs named. was prominent citizen Of Ports
mouth, Me, a lawyer by profession and a
man az sterling gobd chafaftsr. The Peavy
Club organized M Ire rssIxena II shat
hustling camp. has SIS It's ultimate yisw,
the Enlistment cs a station nj the North
Pole. The members fsare II cut tina, II Is
about as easy sa make stations and reach
tho pale with safety from Fesyy which Il
supposed To be- about 100 miles distant as
from Franz Josef Land and tourists who
wish To view the pole eau do 90 via this
entEFprtSsng camp"