The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-30

Correspondence 5f the Post-Intelligencer
SKAGWAY, June 22.-The first news Of
the season from the remote American
mining camps OF the lower Yukon has
just come out, being brought by men who
have reached here after travelling up the
Yukon on the first OF the lower river
steamers 10 get TO Dawson, and then pro-
ceeding by other boats 10 White Horse.
thence by rail to Skagway.
Latest arrivals report a new strike
100 miles back of Circle City. on three
creeks known as Faith. Hope and Char
ity. which empty into the Tanana- A
new strike is also reported on Walkers
fork OF the FoTty-mile. which was once
before staked. A stampede has resulted.
and others have rushed in and re-staked
the country.
The first news as TO the cleanup in
the Rampant camp this year has just
reached here, being brought by Col Il.
d Wiggin, land commissioner at that
point He says n quarter OF million
has been washed up In the camp; that
the various creeks have been proved re-
mhrkably rich, and that the output for
this season. including what Is TO be taken
out this summer, should aggregate 81 co.,
90.
Many Claims Prove Payers.
Fine pay has been struck on number
OF claims not heretofore considered pay
ers. Eureka. struck last summer, has
proved wonder so far, and has a pay
streak eighty feet wide and four feet
deep 1t Is expected Eureka viii this
year yield s1,5oo.ooo.
-Four hundred people spent the winter
in Rampant, and there was much trouble
over jumping Of claims, some of which
had been re-staked. Early in the fall
the rush, and those too poor who had to
remain behind. fell heir to the cream of
the new discoveries. Everyone in the
camp this spring Is well-to-do.
Col WiGgtn believes the RAmp0rt CamD
Ia good as the creek camp Of Nome. and
thinks many OF the overflow at Nome
win push up the river to Rampant and
help make 1t big producer. He has the
belief there IL eol0'ln koyukuk. but feels
that the evelobmSflts are scarcely enough
yet to warrant great faith In the camp.
However, from all sources come the re-
port that many are rushing into Koyu-
kuk.
u. c.. Lenont who has Just arrived from
Forty-MilA and other promising American
camps reports the cleanup on Jack Wade
this spring has been demonstratiye OF
good camp. The creek Is scarcely pros
cry yielded 800 600 at this years cleanup.
Lenont predicts great future for the
creek. and estimates the output Tor next
season at 10000: He is going after
has a nugget from the creek weighing
six ounces and worth SIG Gold of Jack
Wade, also OF Rampant. is worth Sls an
ounce. Jack Wade gold Is mostly In mug
gets.
Ex-Gov. McGraw's Rich Claim.
OF those who have been among the most
successful is the man who Is working the
claim OF ex-Gov. John II. McGraw, Of
Washington. known As No. $. on Little
Manook. II yielded the last winter 5000
OF which s. 900 or 5000 was nuggets picked
out from the pay dirt ny hand. Last
year McGraw thought he had worked out
the pay streak. and let another man work
It on lay for % per cent. OF the pro
ceeds.
No. 6. on Little Mnnook. this winter
Welded ss."" NO on - 'n s,s sane "a Gf t,,s
big Msnook have also proved rich. mn
side property on Big Minook has yielded
as high as s. TO the pan
Idaho bar, on which rich discovery
was made in ls9s. was all staked at that
time. but not much was taken out and
the dump was not washed because OF
scarcity OF water but has been restaked.
Lieut.. Herron's Expedition.
Lieut. Heron, L. g A. at the head of
an expedition that left Cook inlet "a year
ago for the Tanana over an entirely new
and untrodden route 10 the white man,
Skagway from the lower Yukon with his
party ~ five men. They Travelled leo
miles overland, side excursions included,
in getting from Cook inlet TO Tanana.
They started with two Sushitna Indian
guides, who deserted them when winter
closed In For two months they travelled
without guides until they came 10 an
Indian village, Fourteen mules were
taken for packing in the beginning. but
they had 10 be abandoned because OF lack
OF forage when the winter came on. The
men herolcsuy pushed forward and got
through safely.
The expedition was 20 learn the con.
ditions ~ the country and it's peculari-
ties II lead up the Sushitna, thence TO
the KuskOkwim. and thence past Mount
Mckinley and 20 the mouth Of the Ia
mana The Indians % the region knew
scarcely any English. but Lieut.. Heron
dealt with them patiently.