The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-28
Glow Says the Yield This Year
Will Be Over $1,500,000.
MUCH PROPERTY ussrAxs D.
Richest Section So Far Uncovered
Is stxty-Aere Tract Known AS
Gold Bench, which This Season
VIII Give ID at Least 500, 200
only rive Hundred People There
ana the Climate Il Heaithfui.

From time to time reports have reached
the outside world regarding the koyukuk
country In Alaska. all Indicating It's rich
ness In the yellow metal. The latest ar
rival from Tint section Is Charles r.
Glow formerly a Seattle business man,
bur ever since the fire has been making
his home in the East, until three years
ago, when he turned prospector and cast
bts fortunes IN the far Northern district
from which ne now halls. He IL en- route
East nm milling matters, connected with
his properties in the Koyukilk. and ex-
poets 10 rettirn TO that section Just as
coon az he has completed his business.
Mr. Glow. who n VET Young man, rs
enthusiastic over the Koyukuk, and
gives II as his opinion that although only
q few claims are as yet being worked.
the output for this season VIII exceed
81 10000
"The koyukuk country Is. very rich in
goid.v M enid az the Butler yesterday.
land will prove this assertion this year
As yet there are only about twenty-five
claims opened up. but roughly estimated
these VIII produce, | should say, over
81 $4,000 this year
'.Abott fifteen Of these claims are To-
cnted on Myrtle creek and the balance on
Slate crock Gold bench and South fork
creeks. Gold bench IL probably one OF the
richest properties In that part OF the
and the best prospecsors. who have gone
ever II. claim to have found the dirt pay
Is 20 20 cents 10 the pan, summer dig
gfngs. thing most peculiar to the sec
ton In that the gold commences at the
grass roots and runs anywhere from to
9 feet deep. but 30 far has been lost at
bedrock In fact. the bedrock Is on top
there. There ~ an abundance of water
there, and conservativeiy estimating this
one section will produce at least sooA6oo
thia year Jne claims on Gold bench ARE
owned bye. r. Bett&s and: two MEM
bcrs OF the Katie Heinrich Company,
which understand outntted in Seattle
1.-THE Koyukuk country proper Is Of an
III iii i should judge there are not more
than 30 people In the district There Ia
still plenty OF room for new corners pro-
viding they are men who will engage
'srramway bar has been paying, since
June last three ounces OF gold To the
shovel OF dirt This dust assays tiS-io an
ounce.
The new crowd that has come into
the district from Dawson and there
abouts, have. as rule, been able to get
s soS ba rfopsra,ss Ihsy srn we pleased
ualiy II Will be a valuable gold bearing
district. The climate is most agreeable
and healthful. There Is no disease. Last
winter. our coolest weather was ~ de-
Erees below Zero but. even that was not
what might be called severe weather.
III is n remarkable thing when You
coTe 10 compare the few deaths In the
koyukuk with the list In other districts
The health OF the camps Mt oil times
during my three years residence there
IN all the district do not include more
than eight graves, even with those who
niet death by freeging
1T may be OF interest to their Seattle
friends to know the u. A. McKenaie,
Formerly engaged In the real estate busie
ness here and David Vi Durie. formerly
81 Moran Bros, are both doing we'll He
ride some valuable properties they both
own, their wives are also owners of rich
claims adjoining Gold bench An effort
was recently made to buy one OF these
adjoining claims but the man who own
ed a one-third interest refused 10 tIia-
pose OF II for 100000
The North fork OF the Koyukuk has
been thoroughly prospected and II pro-
bounced very fine. The gold 40 far found
has run from ! cent 20 Is cents To the
koyukuk, has yielded the best az any
or The outside crehkRs- prAapectnre re-
port from cents In gold and cents "a
platna 70 the pan, upwards
The Alaska Commercial Comnany Is
now engaged In shipping Ia an immense
amount OF provisions for 4 winters ann
Ply and when | left there ON Julv 4
was informed they expectesl Ia have ~
loast 40 % 100 tons Oh hand. The storiss
haye Fesn regarding sexorbiiant prices
Ter tuodstuTs arr untrue. The prices
prevailing throughout the whole district
are about The same as those that obtain
There Il no doubt ahau, the future Of
tho keyukuk" ~