The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-03-18
MAMMOTH
NUGGET
Value Fourteen Hun
dred Dollars.
RECENTLY FOUND 1T DiWSOl
Was Picked Up on Eldorsdo Creek
on . Claim Belonging TO
Berry Brothers.
RECENTLY FOUND 1T DiWSOl

sKAGWAY. March Is. II. II.
Holmes, % Helena. Mont got IN from
pAwr9n last nlEht. having started
~ 10 o'clock on the morning Of Feb.
fuary 20. The only excitement when
b. left Dawson, he said last nighs
81 the Occidental. vas IN regard to
a big nugget that the Berry Bros
had taken out - their Eidorado
claim a few days before he iaft. Its
value was 400 and Some odd dollars.
ana this being the largest nugget
klendiks has ever produced. theirs
was Soma enthusiasm about Il. II
WAS hoped that Il would a. least be
put on public exhibition. but this
proposition was declined by the
nprryz
Money II now easier In Dawson.
In December and january the mer-
chants and saloon keepers had a
hard time 70 make EXPENSES. Rut
rockers have been recently worked
On the benches. and q pretty fair
amount ~ auft has been coming In.
@ town from them. Asked where
the water caine from 10 oparate the
rockers. Sir. Holme said couple OF
tubs ~ water wenld run a rocker
nearly all dag. ana they used the
same water over and over. lie
HAD made a large number Of SNOW
pans FOR the miners. sheet iron boxes
fiye feet BY ten feet. with a flrs box
underneath Snow wa. shoveiled
into the boxes and melted. and then
used for the rockers.
Mr., Holmes has been in the stove
and the macblnist business since
June laHi. and has done well. lie
has nut IN I'VE acrtyiene gaa ma
chimes In Dawson. and these have
worked well The electric light
works have been shut down all vim
ter ewing 20 lack OF boiler eapac
lty. The company got tho boiler
from the Willie Irving. and one or
two other small steamers when
they started these boilers the com
ranY screwed down the safety valves
to Get The highest pressure. and Of
course the tubes blew out some
WHERE. 80 Dawson has only the
atetslenc KAH and coal oil
Coal ail has been holding AZ ttAs0
per case. there having recently been
= break from SIS. Every commodity
T. cheap there now cxeeut sugar.
butter. ard mlik Sugar Il really
scarce, and waN coz. per pound when
Mr. Haine left. but butter and
milk are being held Cor higher prices
IN the spring
The rock on the bench claims. ac-
eurisng u Mr.. Holmes. removed to
some extent the currency strsnecncy,
otherwise all the merchants had to
10 was e. hold on as best they
could until the spring cleanup. This
years cleanup Ia to surprise the
world 1T win certainly be more
than double that u last year said
NJ, Holmes. why. look nj II your
self Last year nearly every ounce
% aust came from f.ldoraao. and
nnnanEa creeks. They wiii produce
just as much. n not more. than last
year Add to thai twelve miles of
benches on ronnuaa. ten miles %
benches on E.ldorado. and the pro-
duct - Dominion. Sulphur. and
Hnntcr creeks. and the bunker
berches, The pups on lower Bon
anza have turned cut well, With few
exceptions. aud there are other
claims that viii be astonishing in
their productiveness,
And the great part 81 this pro-
duet " coming out this way. too.
The Canadian Development COM
pany iH putting on several steamers
from Dawson 20 Bennett. and 40 is
the y. A. T. 8 T. 60. The latter
viii probably send all its gold this
way. and most OF its supplies. This
~ gninE 20 be the route"
sir. Holmes viii take in from nifty
20 100 tons 81 merchandise with him
when be returns 10 Dawson In a few
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