Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-04

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 This week has witnessed the consum- nation of deal whereby the Gypsy Queen Mining Co. property, including the stern wheel steamer Gypsy Queen. an electric lighting plant and a small saw mill become the property of the Quadro Packing Co.,, r. T. Bushman, manager. The consideration being $25OO %. The entire property has been removed to the Narrows and will be used in connection with the cannery in course of construction at that point. This is the sequel to an undertaking which at it's inception promised great results, but which after a short but eventful career ended in the property being transferred to w. H. Gilmore as attorney in fact for the creditors and again transferred by Mir. Gilmore to the Quadro Packing Co.,, the present owners.
 The passage by the British Colum- bia Parliament of the Alien mining law is showing it's effect on travel from Puget Sound to points on Lynn Canal. The Cottage City arrived on Thursday with only forty passengers for Lynn Canal points, while on her previous trip up she carried more than six times that number of prospectors bound for the supposedly rich mining district of Atlin. This great decrease in travel to Skagway, Juneau and Dyea is ex- perienced by all steamers going to Lynn Canal, and unless the present law is materially altered the future will show even worse condition as far as Lynn Canal is concerned. From a purely selfish standpoint the people at Wrangel have ground to rejoice, in that, existing conditions will material assist in the development of South. eastern Alaska. AS a rule, the pros pector is, to use a slang expression, stuck to win riches by the discovery of mineral wealth, and the American prospector being shut out of Atlin will simply turn his attention to other fields. Seldom indeed will prospector allow his efforts to br diverted to other channels whereby he might obtain sustenance. It is true that prospectors are often forced into other channels through being broke, but only for time sufficient for them to acquire d grub stake, when they will abandone the best paying positions and taking up their pick and shovel, again face hard ships and privations unknown except in frontier mining country. and all in an effort to accomplish their fondest dreams of wealth acquired on the "green cloth" of quartz veins or placer deposits. The Puget Sound papers re- fer to the exclusion of American min- CTS from British Columbia as boon to the undevelOped mineral wealth of the State of Washington, claiming that prospectors, naturally fond of seeking wealth in far off land will turn their attention to properties nearer home and develope the mineral resources of that state. This same argument pre- sagcs good for Southeastern Alaska where vast mineral wealth in gold, copper and coal is known to exist and where natural conditions favor those who prefer prospecting as d means of obtaining a livelihood. The old saying that Git is an ill-wind that blows no one