The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-14
Ample Conf nation of Former
Reports Of New Finds.
THE EMMA CREEK DISCOVERY
II. T.. Mcyamer Locates One OF the
best Gold-Producing Streams in
the Great Mining Diatrict-Clean-
ed Up $4,000 with Seven Men in
Twelve Days-A siso Nugget
Found IL Inches Above Bedrock.

Further confirmation of reports Of the
remarkable richness of the new Koyukuk
placer diggings Is brought to Seattle by
T. z. McNamer, whose good fortune II
Is TO have discovered one OF the best
gold producing creeks in the district. Nc
Manner returned on the steamer City of
Seattle, which arrived Friday. Emma
creek is the stream located by him.
Through his development work and that
OF his associates It has been demonstrat-
ed TO be great treasure pr0ucer.
The creek is a tributary of the middle
fork OF the Koyukuk It lies In the same
locality as Myrtle creek. which Is re-
ferred to as the Eldprado of the new
district. and is about nine miles long.
with number OF gold-producing 'pups''
or short creeks as tributaries.
McNamer brought out about $500 worth
OF nuggets which he and his friends took
from Emma creek gravel They consti-
tute as pretty collection OF gold speci-
mems as has ever come from the North,
ranging in value from S to stso The
largest nugget IS curious product OF
erratic glacial action. 1t is bent and
twisted Into most fantastic shape.
Emma creek was discovered late in
June. For several weeks its prospec-
tors devoted themselves TO preliminary
work, though they found gold almost
from the surface, to bedrock, which
ranges from two to eight feet in depth
During twelve days Of the first half of
August McNamer's force of seven men
took out 5000 IN gold from claim No 2.
The diggings have been thoroughly
prospected for more than half a mile up
and down the stream. with showings of
from $50 TO $50 a day to the man. One
pan Of 81 colors yielded g13 The gold
Is very coarse. 1t Is found in great
abundance not only on bedrock but in
the soil above. The s16o nugget was dug
out eighteen inches above bedrock
McNamer says. however. the gravel con-
tains sufficient fne gold to pay good
that OF the Koyukuk region. Is OF great
purity. The Dawson bankers offered Nc
Manner $3.50 per ounce without making
and some brought out by d. A. Mckenzie.
who is also an extensive operator in the
district. gave $40 per ounce. The gold,
with the possible exception OF that from
Manook averages higher in value than
any found In Alaska or the British Yu-
kon.
McNamer is resident Of Forest Grove.
Or, He has .,., been an , op-stor In Atlin
last summer he headed for the Koyukuk
with pack train OF sixteen horses II
was not his intention at that time to
packing. but he failed to nnd enough
miners in the Koyukuk section TO make
his venture profitable. and so went to
mining himself. He reached the dis
trict June e. and left August % for
the outside. Considering the disadvan-
tages under which he labored his work
In the Koyukuk district could hardly have
been more remuneratfve.
Experienced miners who have seen his
Emma creek mines say he has fortune
In them. However. he has nothing In
the Koyukuk for sale.
OF his own success in the camp Nc
Manner has but little to say He be-
iieves. however, that another great gold
producing district has been found
MoNamer expects to return TO the Koy-
ukuk about March l.