The Wichita daily eagle., 1900-09-06
WILL HAYS RETURNS
Continued From Fifth Page.

Topkuk one night and stole three -Four
sacks OF dirt and washed IL. setting s..
The Hays reached Nome and for ten
miles up and down the beach the shore
was alive with ten thousand people. They
stayed here Tor several days getting next.
Leaving Nome on the TAurssoa June q.
they went 20 solomon City. thlrty-ave
miles further east on the coast Th!s
held was just coming into prominence
and they had a lease on some claim.
which however, were not what thc3
wanted. They walked up the river sevel-
teen miles from solomon City, prospect
Ing. and when they returned solomon
CITY Was bein laid out Each stakcd off
a lot and within three DAYS they sold
one of them Tor ESQ. Everybody was
looking for a stampede to oSlomon city
and real estate values went skyNard
over night. but within a week the boom
broke and the man who had bought the
Hays lot Tor $S01. gave &; back TO them
and LETT the country
This camp did not pan out Wgi and
bis father prospected twelve claims ana
hled on two. which Ex-sherin Hays will
go back next year 20 work Scarcity %
water prevented their working the claims
sufficiently 70 leaTa their probable value.
Both are on the Solomon river They
made a trip from solomon City to Ton
kuk, fifteen miles away party of
thlrty-two miners who had come dows
the Yukon from Dawson last spring hai
discovered about 1850 feet OF very rich
beach at Topkuk. which ran sl.ooo to
SlRo a day tor a rocker One man took
out $4,000 in nineteen days. The claims
we're but twenty feet Ia width. extending
back on the beach sixty feet
Back from the beach the tundra. a
growth Of moss into which one sinks
knee-deep in walking. Is the richest sea
youRd IN Alaska, but "a is difficult 20
work in. First the tundra must be clear
ed away and then the ground Is s3und
frozen. Many miners were working mere
when the Alaska Commercial company,
which claimed the and. had soldiers sent
70 Topkuk and arrested thirty-ave men.
all Of whom were placed In jail
1T seems 20 me that the laws we're
administered IN Alaska with a view OF
making the poor man poorer and the rich
man rlcher." said AR. Hays. The courts
seem TO be run On that plan and 4 looks
like there was stand-iH between The
commercial companies and the register
OF claims. For example. a man viii and
a rich claim and begin u work No
sooner VIII It's riches become known than
a representative % one Of The Ereat com
mercisI Companies viii come % the miner
and ask him what he means Dy trespaSs-
ing on the porperty of the commercial
company The miner vii say that the
claim Is his and show that he flied on !i
before that time and the records Of tho
register VIII probably make such q show
Ing. Peculiarly. u Is only ths richer
claims on winch ihe company has made
these previous nliHgs.
y know many men ~ho have claims OF
lHdoubfed richness. but they arr n9t
working them because they fear q SON
nercial company wall come IN and shoar
hat u 6isd on the property before thsy
i'd Wheu they have hsd the claims
ong enough % protect them from saeh
Proceedings they VIA begin 70 Work thesu.
Al the beet claims 10 Soms are In li.i.
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eBs ouf anf the greater part q then
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