The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-22
NEWS AND GOSSIP Of THE mining WORLD.

Beatty brothers. Riley and others. with
pick and shovel. and Is now owned By
two. hydraulic companies. the Bear creek
H.. Sleeper. general manager and prfnci-
pal owner and the Bear Creek Hydrau-
lie Mining Company. J.. O. Buzara, man
ager Both are bona fide enterprises with
money and Intelligence back Of them.
Mr.. Sleeper is now on the ground. work
ing all the men he can get. putting In a
Wagon road this fan in order to move up
PIPE this coming winter. This is admit
tediy a paying proposition from the mo-
ment the plant Is In operation. Mr.. Blu
cara rs operating pipe in gravel near
OF less than 10 cents per cubic yard, and
IS not yet On bedrock and II is believed
20 be a dividend payer at the present
The Palmer Creek Mining Company. J.
n. LORD, Of Pfttsburg. Pa. manager. has
bought al OF the claims on Palmer creek,
paying from $500 10 1900 per claim, and
OF men building road and doing dead
winter
and shovel where worked. and IL seems
2 simple proposition as 10 the results
later on.
the Resurrection Creek Alaska Mining
Company. E. 7. Robie, Auburn. Cal.
president. owns 800 acres OF placer prop
critics on Resurrection creek. and after
TWO years Investigation by @. w. Pass
water water ana a., MT Norton has i seen Of e
move II onto the ground this winter
Their investigations have convinced them
that the gravel averages better than 80
cents TO the. yard, and bedrock has not
been reached. Last year they shoveled
60 yards OF gravel into sluice boxes and
sunk TO a depth OF twelve feet. cleaning
up siss ~. an average of s2h cents TO the
The individual miners have done excep-
uonaily well on Resurrection creek this
yea yea Their names could be given. but
made from SO TO $40 per day at the boxes
and there has been absolutely no occasion
for an idle or broke man In either district
II he was willing TO work. either for HIM
self or wages.
Gold Across the Arm.
There are several streams across the
arm that have never been worked, but on
Crow creek, tributary OF Glacier creek
Andy Williamson and L. F. Arthur have
doing dead work, sinking to bedrock. run
ming deep cut for a bedrock fiume ara
lately by building good road, spending
IN the aggregate probably $4,000 TO .sls,ce@.
principally their own money. and next
year expect to fetch In modern plant.
They are extremely conservative but the
indications are they will have veritabla
klondike when opened up. The seve-
claims on Crow creek below them are
owned by Perry. Jack, Davis. Barton.
tlidham FenStermacher. Brooks Rucb
ley and Spilmer, several OF whom az,
over there this fall and IL appears To be
rich enough for them 20 open up In a
modest way and pay for a plant from the
output. While receiving n cut In as ana
not on bedrock. they found scs nugget,
ana the gravel viii so better than wages
Last year above the Williamson ground
In cleanup a SIS nugget was found
fhysicabv row creek IL the ideal n.y.
draulic proposition OF the country.
Very little work has been done on Br,ar
creek this year other than keeping up the
assessment work. On Indian creek II. a
continue their prospecting and develop
ment work. employing a number Of men.
with what results the public does Not
know except that thev appear satisfied 80
continue on In the future ana fr~m their
expressions are very confident as TO the
future OF the Tnmeyani Arm placers.
Only stringers of Quarts.
No quartz has as yet been found other
creek beds are laid bare II Ia more than
likely leads will be found that viii brtSr
" iight the real riches of the country
rms ~ no poor mars country. and such
should keep away. other than q moaers.e
NUMBER VINO are content to work for
daiiy wages, but for intelligent capital TO
investEate and then possibly TO tnyes,
better country could not be found nut
we VIII also add that for the sake OF the
country, as well AZ the investors haek Il,
the States. the wildcat schafrer and
swindler should also keep away. az they
90 no possible good 70 any 0ne other than
themselves. but only refard the aeeeIon-
iuent OF a country destined to be one az
the richest gold producers IN Alaska.