The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-01
ANACONDA NEWS,
TONS OF YELLOW GOLD
Found by Railway Men Fifty
Miles From Skaguay.
TALE OF TREASURE TROVE
Brother of an Anaconda Man Is One Of
Twelve Who Will Reap Wealth
From Natures Store-Alaska's
First Railway Creeps North.

And still stray tales of treasure-trove
find their gilded way from bleak Alaska
to civilizations houses. to whet the greed
OF man and northward turn his gaze. This
time it is a tale-and a. true tale. too--of
gold quartz found half a hundred miles
from Skaguay that assays from $1,000 to
900 the ton. The report has it that old
mining experts have pronounced it the
richest strike in all Alaska, away above
and beyond. The story of this goldrotten
quartz mine was told to Standard man
yesterday afternoon in the lobby of the
Montana hotel by Walter L. Goodwin
brother to Harry Goodwin. a member Of
the Standard force.
The way chance and knowledge figured
IN the location of this mine is odd to say
the least. Two years ago Mr.. Goodwin,
who a the present time is in the employ
Of the White Pass & Yukon Railway COM
pany as constructing engineer, journeyed
with party to Skaguay in charge of ma
terial for the building Of the w. P. & Y.
railway. In August Of the present year
Mr.. Goodwin and others were engaged in
surveying railway location in the neigh
borhood of Lake Bennett. At this time
many returning prospectors were coming
boat route across Bennett At this sea-
son Of the year it is customary for the
winds of the earth to come out of their
caves in the hills and play the deuce Of
carnival with the lake. Thus 1T happened
that frequently the outcoming voyagers
became "windbound'' and INDUCED in
camping siestas on the shore.
So the surveying party and the prospec-
tors fell in, and to the railway men the
.boatmen showed samples of ores they had
brought out with them from the interior.
1t happened that the miners looked
on their samples gold pyrites, una
ware of the exceeding richness of the
quartz. They volunteered the neighbour
hood from which they had taken the sam
piles and by degrees continued their way
to the states.
The surveyors, on being shown the ore.
had recognized it Immediately as being
remarkably fine, and they decided to
strike off into the interior and nose
around for colors. This work was in
trusted to Mr.. Goodwin and two COM
panions. The result of their little side
expedition was the location of the mine of
which the party of u men who own the
property believes will make each of them
independently rich.
Men Who Will BE Rich.
The - owners are forming themselves
into a limited liability company. Their
names are: W. l.. Goodwin, A. 3. Lewis.
W. L. Thompson and Merritt Robinson of
Skaguay. w. H. Strong of New York city,
II. 3. lie Fevrc of Puyallup, Wash;
Hank Diers, Charles Diers, Fred T.
Kellog and J. j. Default of Tacoma:
Fred T Bradley and Charles Anderson of
Canada. They are arranging to send in
stamp mill in the spring. and it is even
possible they will take one in this winter
over the ice.
The mine is situated 50 miles from
Skaguay. seven miles up the Taku arm
of Lake TaSish from Golden Gate, where
the steamers and Fan-Taio routes con-
Verge on their way to Atlin. An abnor-
mally large vein of gold-bearing ore, six
feet, has been struck in a 60-foot tunnel.
All the ore is free milling. At present
four men are working the tunnel and
there 60 tons of ore on the dump.
Touching the progression of the White
Pass & Yukon railroad, Mr.. Goodwin
said:
Two years ago, before the idea of an
Alaskan-interior railway had begun to ag-
itate the public mind, the White Pass e.
Yukon Railway company was organized
and with party of construction men
was sent to Skaguay with materials and
party, commissioned to begin the build
ing Of a steel road from Skaguay north
over White Horse Pass and the Summit to
the upper waters of Lake Bennett. Tht.
work accomplished, laying A miles OF
track and Surmounting an extreme att
tude OF 900 feet. Our present Northern
terminus at Bennett is the headquarters
for upper Yukon travel.
I'VE arc now building 2S miles of road
nnrthward to Cariboo at the lower ends
Of Lakes Bennett and Tagish. From Car