The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1899-04-30
COUNCILMAN STANLEY
BACK FROM AIuN
Gives Good Account of That
District.
CANADIANS NOT FAVORED
Had No trouble 10 Secure Proper
Paper for His Three claims ON
Pine and spruce Creeks-PIenty
of English Capital waiting In-
vestment.

Councilman John Stanley Is back from
'en-dav trip ln'o the Atlln district and re-
ports everything as flOurishing and promls-
ing. He went in by wav Of Bennett. hav
Ing to 20 to Taglsh for a record. From
there he wenttO Atlin. He found the tail
fair, but the river open from Tagish from
the foot Of Lake Bennett.
Bennett he found a lively burg with
great activity In boat building, five large
boats being In coarse Of construction. Sew
eral fair-slzed buildings were also going up
there along the water front and real estate
appeared to be selling well. He saw
number Of Skagwayans looking into the
prospects at Bennett. He did not believe,
however, that it would affect Skagway.
He found everyone talking Skagway, either
going In or coming out, especially in the
matter Of buying outfits. Parties coming
out Of Dawson would never think Of stop
ping at Bennett, but come on to Skagway
and buv their clothes to make a good ap'
pearance in when boarding a steamer.
Bennett was already iull Of goods await.
ing the opening Of navigation to 90 either
to Atlin or Dawson.
Atlin he found anee townsite. all tim.
Der and brush being cleared away with
good wide streets. He was surprised at
the amount Of building going on, some Of
them good ones, considering that person
cannot get a title to the property until after
the sale. He heard a great many COM
plants about wages. Carpenters get 81. 50
a day and laborerS S., but there are lots Of
idle men. The men getting $3.50 a day
were those brought up bv corporations,
who had but little to do.
Taking everything into consideration,
Mr.. Stanley believes Atlln a good town.
Business Is fair and there was considerable
Of II going on. The great trouble there
was water. The lake water was bad and
water company proposes bringing noun
tain water eight miles away in fumes.
There are two sawmills running at full
blast, turning out from 5000 to 10000 feet
a dav Atln IS very orderly and no gam
bling is allowed, nor is th,re any stealing
going on as reported. There are something
like ten or twelve saloons, three banks,
two attorneys, two drug stores and quite a
number Of wholesale houses that are COM
ing in to open branch stores. St. Clair
Blaekett from Skagway is there. He finds
plenty Of English capital in there seeking
investments.
Mr.. Stanley made two trips TO Discovery
on Pine. where he found quite town which
was also building up. He saw many Skak'
wav people in there and all satisfied with
their claims. He found his three claims
on Pine and Spruce creeks all right and no
extra stakes on them. Nor had he any
trouble to secure the necessary papers to
hold them.
The gold commissioner, he says, feels
kindly toward Americans and makes no
discrimination between them and Cana
dians. he seems to be handicapped for
the lack Of some officials, but he is doing
the best he can.
Major Strickland, Mr.. Stanley says,
while at Tagish, showed him a letter from
a Victoria attorney who Is coming up to 90
into Atin, and in this letter the attor-
neys saws that the alien law contains a
clause that makes II Vulnerable and that it
can be and will be knocked out on it. His
opinion was based on the opinions from
some Of the brightest attorneys In Canada
and England.
lMr. Stanley saw a nugget an ounce in
weight taken from a bench claim on Pine
creek, above Brownsll's and MeCauley's
claim.
He met Tom Braekett and party 60
Ing in.
Mr, Stanley has three men at work on 4
claim getting out slulce boxes. etc,
Mr.. Stanley advises all parties going in
not to use the Fan Tail trail as Il has be-
come impossible. He came out that way
and had to wade through water from the
head Of Otter lake to Tepee from one 10
three feet deep.