The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-11-02
FOUND NEW
GOLD FIELDS.
1t Has Been a Daily Occurrence
In Alaska.
NEW ONES PROVE VALUABLE,
Much More So, Indeed, Than tho Ola ono =
That Caused the First Excitement
The Native Indians Are
S aryiur.

the abatement of the Klondike excite
ment prospectors have been going about
their work in a methodical way, and as
n result new fields are being opened up
almost daily in some part OF the vast
Alaskan gold fields. AS in the case ot
Colorado and California, the later finds
are proving quite as remunerative as
those which caused SO much excitement
The fact that both the Canadian and tic
United states governments are taking
an active part in aiding the miners, AMI
are gathering authentic reports as to the
output, has tended to give all more
confidence in the reports that come from
the yellow-metal country.
The steamer Amur. vile arrived yes
terday, brought news OF several valuable
new placer strikes on Chandler river,
which enters the Yukon fifty miles be.
low Circle City. United States Consul
McCook, of Dawson, who is on his way
to his former home in Pennsylvania,
says that the discovery was made by
some men who had several horses and
We're engaged in transporting goods in
to the Koyukult country. The trial was
very bad, and they decided to wait til
winter to continue their work. In the
meantime they decided to prospect the
river. The first discovery was made
| about 100 miles from the mouth of the
river In this part of the rivers course
1t receives several tributaries, all Of
which were prospected, and in every
case the results were most favorable.
They took out n large quantity of placer
gold before the news Of the find reached
the Yukon, and when Consul McCooli
left that region large numbers were go
ing down TO the new fields in boats and
scows, which were provisioned for win
ter. The consul expressed the opinion
that this find would result in opening
| up another large field in American ter
ritory.
Census Enumerators William Beck
| and George Sexton have just returned
| from Juneau on their way from the
| Copper river country, where they have
| been engaged during the summer in
taking the census of the 500 Indians and
600 whites they found in that region
The Indians in that section, they say,
have been dying off by the score dur
| ing the past summer. Unless some
| counteracting influence sets in at once
| In the course OF year the Indians will
| become extinct. The enumerators at
| tribute the high mortality to tn, hard
| conditions produced by the immigration
of the whites, without corresponding
increase of means Of subsistence open
to- the Indians. q large number 'uf
| miners have come into the region, which
fact alone would he sufficient to de-
| crease their means of procurin ing a livci-
| hood in n very material way, but more
serious still has been the destruction of
the salmon supply by the cannerles
| that have been established at the
| mouths of the rivers the last season
| Large numbers of the Indians have
| died of starvation while many others
have been carri . ofr ~ disease induced
| by their famisked condition.
STRIKE AT COPPER RIVER.
| Part of the WORK OF the enunrrators
was to observe and report ON the in
| dustrial conditions II tre TCpper river
| country. raev state that on July 4
| rich fields were dis ,oy.red on Tasl'r a
| river, the best claims being on State
| creek, tributary to the Taslina. The
| miners had but few tools and the de-
| velopment work was carried on in only
| the crudest way, but in three weeks
| four men took out $4,000 in coarse gold.
Several hundred miners have since en-
tered that district.
They report that the copper belt of
| Prince William sound region will pro-
duse untold millions Of mineral wealth.
| They Travelled several weeks with Gov
ernment Geologist Schrader, who ex-
pressed himself as believing that the
deposits of copper in that region are un-
equa!ed by any other deposits in the
world. Along the new government
trail to the copper center very rich ore
has been taken out, but the mines can
not be developed to advantage until a
railroad is run into the region. There
are many miles of lodges, they say,
running high in value where the ore has
only to be broken off the face of the
| cliffs.
The construction of the government
telegraph line through the Copper river
| country Is still under way, but 1t cannot
be completed this fall. The work has
been retarded by the lack of horses,
but 1t has so progressed that 1t can be
finished early in the spring.
| FIND OF ASBESTOS.
Mining circles are much excited over
the discovery of two metals that were
not known before to exist In the Alas
/ NAL i'idpioups <t9pcSlOS has UeGT us
covered in large quantities on the north
side Of Klondike river, between Bear
and Dawson. The find, which was
made by John Lawrence, is located
about 1000 feet above the Bear creek
ferry. A company is now being or
ganized to mine the new metal. The
other new metal is tellurlum, which, IN
itself, is not valuable, but 1t shows the
presence of quartz containing gold in
paying quantities, fact that leads ex-
| perienced miners to conclude that the
| Alaska fields are not to be confined to
placer and river mining. Henry ID.
| Dieter, the dscoverer, had been looking
for quartz for three years.
| The survey of the disputed Mount
Baker boundary line was completed yes
terday by Canadian Surveyor Dean.
| Americans are much gratified at the re-
| suits of the survey. The line places all
the mines Of Importance In the district