Arizona republican., 1899-07-10
NEW GOLD FIELDS IN ALASKA.
Rich Finds in the Large Peninsula
 North of St Michael.


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 Placer gold running as high as sS.52
 to the pan is reported to have been taken cut in the region Of the new gold discoveries near Cape Nome, Alaska,
 just across Norton Sound from St.
 Michael. The situation of no gold | fed in Alaska is easier to identify without a man. because It is on the peninsula that forms the nearest ap- Iproach of America to Asia. West of l it is Behring strait and south is Nor ] ton sound, into which the Yukon emp ties. The report sent homo by Major
 E. s. Ingraham of Seattle is that six of the fourteen men sent out a year ago at the expense of Prince Luigi of Italy land Seattle business men banned out
 in four days of Sptember last 3 little less than S1,S00. Miners are pouring into the district, and 300 locations were made up tc February.
 This report shows how little is yet known of our great territory. Here is Q rich mineral region that can be reached in a couple of days from St.
 Michael but nobody dreamed Of it's value. It was ignored at the very dc-crs of St. Michael, from which place dog ems of steamers have started for the gold fields of Forty Mile and Dawson, 2,000 miles away. The peninsula is not mentioned in the reports the govern ment published last vaar on the miner al resources Of Alaska. Gold silver, and copper, however, are indicated on some Of the recent government and other maps
 This region. however. according to the strange story Of Nr. John Cooke Green. has not been wholly unknown. for the peninsula has been the scene for fifteen years past of a unique and romantic mining enterprise, if the mar rative Mr. Green published a few months agC is credible. It is a strange and unusual story, but the Sun Is not aware that it had been discredited in any quarter. Green says he has been quietly working a mine for eighteen years on this peninsula.
 He says that in 1880 a sailor named Boefner, who had been on whaling cruise tD Behring sea, tod some friends in San Francisco that his ship had an- clored in Galovine bay, on the north side of Norton sound, and he found ashore a colony Of FskimCs who had an abundance of lead, of which they made bullets and utensils. They said the lead came from the mountains to the north and there were vast quanti- 1 ties of it. Hcefner's captain gave him | 2 few days leave, and, with two na- tive guides. he went to the lead mine i md secured few pounds of the ore, l which proved to pc a silver lead. and | which he exhibited i'll San Francisco. l
 MT. Green says he heard the sailor ! tell his story. had the ore assayed and | made 2 bargain with HOefner to pilot 1 an expedition to the place the follow | ing summer. They found everything | at Calovine bay. when they reached | 1t in the summer of 1881. as Hoefner | had described. The Fish river emp | ties into this little bay. and up this | river the sailor took them in a small | boat for seyenty-1ve miles and then i struck out twenty-five miles to the northeast. to the foothills Of the Omf- lak mountains. where they came to the mine. which Green believes is the larg- est deposit or vein of Iead-silver ore that has yet been discovered. It was no trouble to get out the ore. and in a few weeks a hundred tens were abroad the vessel and the expedition to an Francisco
 Every season since then except two Green says he has been able to get to the mine and transport to the coast in one way or anothc- enough ore to load a small vessel He has always sold the product in San Francisco for enough money to Pay the expenses of the expedition. support his family fer ] year. and leave a handsome balance in bank. The ore on an average hes turned out 74 per cent lead. 142 ounces silver. and several C0,a1rs gold to the ten. He has used on his trips nine diff ferent vessels. which he names. and one of which was the Alaska. lost in 1889. She had seventeen men in the crew and cargo Of ore from Greens mine. and was never heard of after she left ialovine bay. This silver mine is about severty-fYe miles northeast If the gold discoveries made last fall. None Of the government exploring parties in the field this season will en- CT this almost wholly unknown regfcn. r at least exploration in this district s not included in the 3ublished pro- York Sun.
 ROOSEVELT OUT OF LINE.