The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-05-11
.SU|C|NG HAS BEGUN
 0N A1l|N s GREEKS This Seasons Estimated Out put is Over S5,0OO,OOO ON BRACKETT CLAIMS
Predicted That These Will Produce More Than the Whole Atlin Out put of Last Seasons
 Stamp Mill to Start Next Week.

The slulcing season has begun in the Atlin mining camp. Several claim owners have begun work on Pine creek, and the work from now on for months in the dis trict will be active The Fantail trail Is no longer passable. This news was brought out by ]. H. Russell. owner of the Russell house, In Atlin, who arrived lasl evening by way of the Fantail from Atin. He leaves today on the Topeka for Wran- gel to take back to Atln a brewery plant of Soo gallons day capacity. which he once had in Glenora. MT. Russell is registered at the Occidental, where he last evening said:
 Among those who have begun to sluioe in the district are Charles Lambert, on IS below discovery on Pine, and Copeland and others on the same stream. Lambert was shoveling the pay dirt into his sluice boxes as early as last Sunday.
 "Atlln is to be one of the best camps of the north. The output this season will probably run from S5,ooo, GOO to S6,ooo,- 900. Royalty was paid on S87o, 900 last year, but believe that sum was far from the amount actually taken out.
 "The hvdraulle concerns that are at work this season are going to do some thing worthy of mention. The Brackets are going to run big Hume oyer their property along bedrock. and have found the earth rich right where they have dug the trench for the Hume. They have taken out bottle full of the yellow metal. More gold will be taken out of this Bracket property on Willow this season than was taken from the entire district of Atlin last year. Eighty men are at work on the property making preparations for the sea sons extensive operations. The Bracket group embraces an area 500 by 300 feet.
 "DeIsamar is putting iu improvements on his hydraulic properties on Boulder that will require 47o,ooo feet of lumber. MT. Christopher is superintendent.
 "The Pen-Dugu ig people, on Wright, are spending thousands on their hydraulic proposition. A party of CaIifornians have gotten control of number of claims well down on Pine which they term the Sun. rise Group, and are prep ring to operate on an extensive scale.
 "A woman mine operator of the camp known by :he familiar title of 'Pop-Corn Kate.' who has been tunneling on a hill- side claim opposite Discovery on Pine this winter, took out an average of an ounce of gold to the man day, and had several men at work. One can. imagine what might be done on such property were it operated by hydraulics. Just let two big giants be turned loose on that claim and the output would be great,
 1.-The stamp mill on Lord Ernest Hamll- toms quartz properties on the lakeside will begin operations next week. Manager Featherstonehaugh told me a few days ago that they would be started in ten days. There ar. known 10 be 5000 acre: of ore iu that place, and all of the same grade. If one part pays to work all ir the group will pay.
 "The Yellow Jacket is wonder. The ledge is four and half feet wide, anc phenominally rich. .. II believe there are 1000 people in Atllr today, and there is not an idle man in the camp. Wages are S per day with board Cooks are in demand, Nearly every one cooked for himself during the winter, but all are now too busy to cook.
 ''I was two days making the trip from Atln to Log Cabin by dog team. hirec a regular teamster to bring me out, and tht fare was $3o. Through the winter 1t wa: about SIS, and when went in not Ioni ago 1t was $25. The team which brough me cut comprised eight dogs, and we hat a very hard time getting along. Tn, driver was the only other man along ant we had no freight.
 "The hardest piece of trail was on tn, portage from Otter to Teepee, It wal muddy and in places 1 was in water to my waist. We were five hours making three miles. At places between Log Cabin anC Teepee the snow is six feet deep an( slushy and miserable to traverse.
 "We met fifty people on the trail an( they were all laboring under difficulties Some of them with heavy supplies, fear will not get through. Amog them wer Jack Byron, with Goo pounds of freight and party of surveyors going in to sur vev the Yellow Jacket. Some of thes people may be caught between water courses when the snow disappears fror -