The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-02-03
VAST ORE DEPOSITS
 IN RAINY HOLLOW
Wide Solid Bodies Traceable
 Hundreds of Feet.
THE DISCOvERER TALKS
W. A. nigeiow Arrives wi'h Prom isIng Report - Big Plume for PorcuPlne Benches.

W, A. Blgelow, known 10 the old tune prOspeetors of the realm as Long Shortv," has arrived from the Rainy Hol- low district, which he and Mr. Creedon discovered last July, and reports that it will prove one of the richest in the eoun- try, and that a railway will be much need cd to bring It's output to tldewater' He reports that the chief body is a solid de- posit forty feet wide, and can be traced for | 800 feet, after which the body nauows to eighteen feet. and can be traced much farther.
 The winter prospects being made In the Porcuplne district are also spoken of by Mr. Biglow in high terms. He says that bed rock has been reached and s2 to 8 to the pan obtained.
 "Mr. Qulgler, of Washington, D. c." says Mr. Blgelow, twill next spring put in five or six miles of Hume In the Porcuplne district for the accommodation of those having bench claims and Uho need water h working them. Jack Dalton has the contract for cutting 25o,oOo feet of lumber at his Porcupne mill, and the logs are al- ready at the mill,
 "The copper of the Rainy Hollow re- gion," said Mr. Bigelow, taking up the thread of his theme again, "lles in three vast leads running almost due north and south and cutting across the headwaters of the Klahena liver, sixtv-hve miles from salt water at Haines and twenty-five miles beyond the international boundary and within the bounds of British Columbia and three miles from the Dalton trail.
 We have sunk shaft four by eight feet and twenty feet deep and found solid deposit of ore. All along the surface the indications are of pure ore, containing gold, silver and copper, which assays from s2o to $Ioo to the ton. Fifteen to twenty per cent of the rock is copper. The ore lies between walls of slate on the west side and limestone oa the east. thoroughly be- lleve from the indications 1 have found that the Rainy Hollow leads are in the same belt as the White Horse copper. The specimens bear out the theory, and the di- reetlon that the leads follow Is couobor- ative.
 "The discovery lead Is known as the Custer, and lies nearer the coast. Parall' cling lt, and just a little farther to the west is the Copper Queen, and paralleling that and little farther to the west Is the Copper King. The Custer lead Is more fully defined than any of the others. MT. Scott of Sap Francisco, has three claims adjoining our properties which he has bonded with London capitalists for s3o,- 900 a claim. Our claims number nineteen, and none of them are bonded. We do not want to bond them. But, we believe lt will likely be two or three years before thev will be opened. Ore in our claims assays as high as forty-eight per cent in copper. Dr. RunnallS Of Skagwav, and Messrs. Creedon, Lyons and others are interested with me-"
 Good copper properties also exist along the Tahkeena river"
 Mr. Blgelow Is also much eratifed over the general outlook for the Poreupne dis trict, and says that Nugget creek is one of the most promising. Three men in three weeks took $500 from the stream by ground sluicing.
 "On Browns claim on Porcuplne creek, !" says Mr. Bigelow, "three men last fall took out $500 to sIooo by drifting and washing with a rocker. A nugget was taken from the claim worth sS2. Brown Is putting up a large derrick preparatory to working his claim more extensivuly.
 Mr. BiGelow is here on his way to Ben nett on business.