The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-11
STORMS ROUGH TRIP
KLONDIKE PROSECUTOR WHO WAS
BADLY HURT IN ALASKA HAS
RETURNED HOME
SAW CHILKOOT sNoWsLIDE
Mr.. Storms Assisted In the Removal
of the Dead Following the
Horrible Avalanche
of 1898,

Frank w. Storms, of 4S9 Rondo street,
is home from Forty Mile Alaska, on ac-
count of injuries received by falling down
a prospecting hole at Jack Wade Creek,
where he went to visit friend January
Goth last. Jack Wade Creek is about ten
miles from the place where Mr.. Storms
has an interest in numerous claims Mr.
Storms says that he went there to visit
his friend, and found him working down
In prospecting hole about forty feet
deep, and that he went down in the hole
to have talk with his friend. He had
only been down In the hole about ten
minutes, Mr.. Storms said, when he COM
menced to feel the effects of the gas, and
started up by means of a rope that was
used in going down and up. When he
reached the open air he collapsed and fell
backward into the hole, breaking his
right hip and arm and fracturing his
right wrist. He was picked up uncon-
sctous, and after weeks of suffering he
was finally able to begin the journey
home. When seen at his home last night
by a Globe reporter, Mr.. Storms express
ed himself as feeling a great deal better,
and stated that he was recovering re-
markedly fast Seated on couch with
his crutches beside him, Mr.. Storms told
the following story about Alaska: L left
st. Paul on January %, 1898, in company
with F. S. Schimansky and j. J. Silvert,
Of this city, and W. A. Martin, of De-
troit, Mich. Arriving at Seattle, we pro-
ceeded to Dyea by way of Skagway, and
from Dyea we went over. the Chilkoot
pass, and went the rest of the way by
boat to Forty Mile, on the Yukon river.
We were at Sleeps camp on the Chilkoot
pass when the snowslide occurred, April
8, 1898, in which so many men lost their
lives, and 1 helped to dig some of them
out. 1t was horrible sight to see so
many dead.
THE snowslide delayed us for about ten
days. Chilkoot pass is very difficult to
travel over, as you have to take your
stuff across the summit in instruments.
The Forty Mile district is an elegant
place, and great many of the old pros
pectors did their prospecting on the Mil
Ter, Glazier, Poker and Dairs creeks.
People who have been prospecting in the
Forty Mile district during the past two
years have only prospected it to certain
extent, as they have been unable to pros
pect 1t on an extensive scale on account
of the high price of living. I think, how
ever, that as soon as prices get so that a
poor man can stay there any length of
time 1t will become a very prosperous
ristrictat present at Troy, O. The
district.
Forty Mile is bound to come to the
the star American gold camps of the
North. Jack Wade creek is looked upon
as a stream which will give camp its
greatest brilliancy. Jack Wade creek
has proved a good creek this winter and
several of the claims have yielded big.
However, the creek is not extensively de-
veloped, but I am led to believe that
next season 1t will produce 1000 000
Forty Mile district and Forty Mile camp
are not over populous because many of
the prospectors have gone to Nome.
1.-THE town of Forty Mile is almost de-
serted. left in fact, to the clerks of the
commercial companies, and less than
dozen others. About 100 people remain on
Jack Wade creek and they all have good
property. Frank Austin Elmer Shier
and D. Hefey; of the state of Washing
ton, have practically made Jack Wade
creek what 1t Is. Hansen & Remnant
have claim there that yielded $4,000 at
the clean up this spring. They also have
a number OF other claims that promise to
be big paying properties.
Grant f. Lenont, who came down with
me as far as Seattle, had with him one
of the finest, if not the finest and most
complete, map of the Forty Mile district
that has ever been compiled. 1t has lust
been made by his brother, G. w. Lenont.
who is at Forty Mile, and is well in
formed on the district. The map shows
all the principal creeks, together with
trails, mountains, rivers and their feed
| ers. Mr.. Lenont had with him the fourth
largest nugget found on Jack Wade
creek 1t weighed six ounces and is
worth Sl14, The gold in the district is
chiefly nuggets. I have an interest In
nearly fifty claims If the Forty Mile dis
trict and expect to so back there as soon
as am fully recovered