The Red Cloud chief., 1900-09-07
THE ALASKA WANDERERS.
CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE.

year, and all of the latter class agree
that last year the beach from Snake to
Penny rivers, Il distance of II miles,
and about three miles east of Snake
river was very riCh-that there was
three pay .strcaks, the lower one being
the richest. The beach. workers iguor.
ed the first two and worked the lower
II only. BY doing so the frs Two
pay.streaks were mixed with the SAND
that carried no pay, and accounts for
small colors of gold being found in at.
most every shovel.full of sand, but not
in sufficient quantities to pay to rock"
it. The sand within the space men.
toned has all been worked owe from
two to five times.
The most disappointed people are
those who were here last season and
took out from one thousand to several
thousand dollars. and went home and
invested all their money in machinery
and broHght it in and found in many
instances they could not pay expenses
and the result Is the beach is strewn
with machinery of all kinds.
! believe there will be some rich
strikes made on some of the creeks in
the future. Anvil and Dexter creeks
and Snow Gulch are very rich. They
took out SEQ 600 at one cleanup on
Anvil. They have a nan panning con.
stantly to keep the pay streak located
at the last mine on Anvil. A party here
told me while he was there he saw them
pan out one pan which produced $35,
Some parties have opened up a bench
claim. Crhis is u claim on the side of
the mountain) Above Anvil creek
they sunk "a hole about 40 feet and
struck a pay streak five feet thick. A
party in town brought in his coat peck
cts full Of the sand and washed out 81.
| could 60 out and within thirty min.
utcs find ground that | would be will.
ing to eXpend sufficient time to pros.
pect, nut if | should find anything, the
agent of the wne would be after me,
so ii is no use trying.
There have been several cases where
men have gone away out in the noun
tains ANA opened up claims and were
making fair wages, rocking, but the
owners agent would send the soldiers
out and arrest them.
The balance of our party are now
up Snake river, about % miles, open.
ing up a leased claim. am watching
our supplies until they return. II we
can make wages we will move up, il
not, | think | will start for home as il
will he too late to make another effort
this fall,
Unlike any other mining camp in
America, this II is under martial law
and consequently the worst governed
camp known to miners. There are
three or four big companies who own
the transports and the claims, and
everything, and to protect whose in
terest the soldiers were sent. Murder.
and robberies are OF frequent occur
ence, and the perpetrators are seldom
apprchended. A well organized vigil
ance committee that has successful,
prevailed in all mining camps from 4!
to the present time would correct al
Of the evils and make life and propert,
secure. As 1t is, nothing is secure A
few days ago a man wi h skull mashe,
was unearthed in the sand, about l5I
feet from IN tent, Another maj wa
beaten into insensibility and robbed o
5000 about 100 feet from our tent. An
other about spme distance from us wa
chloroformed and robbed. A. high a
live robberies a night occur, that W
hear of, and no doubt many we neve
hear about.
The Nome thief usually has a tendc
heart, as he generally uses chloroforr
on his subjects under operation, la.
guarding our supplies, and supplies AZ
what they seem to want-while tn
balance OF the boys are out in tn
mountains, but ALWAYS lock The ter
securely by tying it in three place,
and as an extra precaution | pm 1t wit
\ large safety pin, and anyone familis
with the doing or undoing of safe,
!" pins need he no further advised OF II
u perfect security | feel when the do,
9 4 my tent is thus protected, Butths
10 not al ways come through the doc
In fact their most faverite plan is
cut n hole in the tent by your bed, rea,
an arm in with sponge saturated wi
chloroform, and when You are resin
quietly they carry oil the plund,
This plan can't guard against so we
When Mr, Walter is here he has
= gun by his side all night and says
anyone cats a hole in the tent he W