Douglas Island news., 1900-08-29

Tanana will have a brewery for next seasons business, says the Daily Alas kan. Geo. L. Rice, one of the most en- thusiastic 'frontiersmen of Skagway, and his partner, John F. Quinn, will own it. They will leave Skagway in about 10 days for Circle City with the plant and several tons of other mer- chandise. They will also take thirty dogs with which to freight their outfit to the south fork of the Panama, about 12O miles distant from Circle City. MT. Rice has great confidence in the Tanana strike. He has kept we'll informed of it and has letters from many old miners
 who are there, and all are enthusiastic They believe they have struck another Klondike, with a pay. area several times as great as that surrounding Dawson. "When such old timers as Bill McPhee, Jack Carr and others, said Mr. Rice, "quit as good camp as Dawson and go to Panama, and after thoroughly pros pecting, decide to remain, it can be set down as all right. There is no doubt of a great strike having been made in that country. Many people are writing out for their friends to go in. 5l to the pan is the rule on many of the claims. | have sc much confidence in the coun- try that 1 am going to invest several thousand dollars in brewery and mer- chandise to take in. l am informed that in the Panama, Birch creek and Circle City itself, which is the head quarters for the district, there are now nearly, if not quite 5000 people. I look for great developments in that country next year."
 The next big mining excitement in the north will be in the Panama coun- try. At least, such is the oninion of IL. J. M. Malmin, attorney for the N. A. TT. X T. Co.,, who was in Skagway last week enroute to Dawson. He had just returned from Nome. He had gone to Nome from Dawson in connection with business for his company, and has made a careful inquiry as to the situation all along the Yukon. "The Tanana dig gings," said Mir. Malmin, "were located by old Yukon miners who know a good thing when they see it. They are satis- fled that a rich strike has been made and that it covers large area. The To- cators are developers so good returns are expected from that country before long. There has been quite a lot of gold to come out of the country all ready. It is coarse and rich. The gold in size resembles wheat slightly aatten ed. In Dawson and at all points down the river, everybody expects big rush into the district near the headwaters of the Tanana. So confident are they of the coming development of the coun- try that elaborate preparations are now being made to handle the business. Two towns are competing for the place of supply point. Those at Weare, at the mouth of Tanana river, believe their town to be better situated to han dle the business than any other town. They claim that steamers can run up the Tanana to within forty miles of the diggings, and they are preparing for. that purpose. The other town which is candidate for metropolitan honors is Circle City. It is already becoming quite active on account of the increas- ed travel into the country. Those com ing up the river will probably go via Weare and those going in from Dawson and up river points will take the trail from Circle"