Douglas Island news., 1900-10-31

mon, promises to be wonder Hoota- linqua is the gateway to the country and from there one has to pole up IS miles to the cut off over the mountains to discovery on Livingstone. There are two discoveries on Livingstone, upper discovery owned by Black Bros, and lower discovery owned by J. B. Peter, Ben Cavanaugh and Sam Lough. These are the only two claims that were work ed last year and both did we'll. Upper discovery turned out about S10,00O and S20,O00 was taken out of lower discov- cry. The former would have produced much more had not the workmen through careless blunder got away from the pay streak and sunk their holes in the wrong places. Lake creek, which flows into the Salmon above Liv- ingstone, has some good claims but yet no output The great trouble with the whole country and in fact the reason no gold has been produced before now is that the ground has been staked by men who rushed into the country and are waiting for someone else to do the work of development. Nuggets to the value of S15 and S20 have been found on Lake creek and high pans have been washed. The government has already made preparations for erecting post office at discovery on Livingstone and establishing police barracks. The N. A. T. & T. company of Dawson have had men in that country all summer. In fact the country is covered with pros, pectors."
 Forty men will be at work this win ter on Upper LaBarge, where the stream splits up into several channels and thus forms dangerous shoals on which have grounded so many steamboats and scows. These men will build a wing dam of brush and stones from four to five thousand feet in length, with the object of diverting all these channels into one of good depth and thus making it easy and safe to navi gate. The work will be done under the direct personal supervision of Domin- ion Engineer Tache, of the public works department, Ottawa. The gov ernment appropriated s75,0O0 to be ex- pended before next spring in the inn provement of navigation from White Horse to Dawson, and this work at Up- per LaBarge is only one of several i'm portant improvements that are to be made on the great waterway.
 Some parts of the Koyukuk are un- doubtedly very rich, as testified to by miner just returned from there whose word can be relied upon, and speaking only from his personal experience this summer. The gentleman in question is J. M Goheen, who is returning to his home at Whatcom, Wash, with number of large nuggets and several gold bricks turned out by the mint of the A. c. company at Dawson. MT. Go heen and his partner are owners of dis covery on Emma creek, of Nos. and 5 below and No. above. They bought discovery for $500. Six men took out S36O0 on No. below in ten days. Bed rock is from two inches to six feet The biggest single pan yet taken out on the creek was produced on August 13. The amount was S228. The largest nugget found on Emma creek weighed eight ounces. Myrtle creek when first dis covered showed up little or nothing but recently on No. Il they have been talk ing out S120 per day to the man; No. F, $36 per day to the man, aud other claims good wages are being made, certainly better than S15 per day. Wages are S15 per day.