Douglas Island news., 1901-11-06

Mir. Fred Gasche, of Seattle, was in Skagway the other day, returning home from a 15 months prospecting trip in the Kuskokwim river country. To Skagway Alaskan reporter he said that he feels that he is in a position to speak with authority of the country since he and his party, after the loss of one of their members, travelled afoot all the way to Nome. He sums up by. saying that in the future this interior Alaska will excel in the production ot gold and produce all the rest of Alaska put together. "lt is as vast as Dako- ta," said he, "warmer than half the states of the Union, dryer than any ot the coast north of California, as fertile as Illinois, has more fish in the river than has the Columbia,--for it seems to be the spawning ground of all the salmon in the world. In fact in all my travels have failed to see a more promising country for settlement. Sheltered on the north by the noun tains from the Arctic cold, the noun tains on the south effectively screen away the moisture from the clouds the moisture which makes the south coast of Alaska such dreary place to live in."
 Robert Henderson. discoverer of the Klondike, but not of the gold therein, has just returned to Dawson from trip to the Pelly river. In sentence he sums it all up by saying that he saw quite as much to encourage him to look for gold in that country as he saw on Bonanza or on Gold Bottom in the days of '94. Then as further and bet ter evidence of his faith in that land as a future producer of gold he intends to return and begin prospecting in the spring. "The whole valley of the Me Milan and Pelly," said Mr. Henderson, "seems like the bed of an ancient lake. There appears to be sediment like that which would be washed into the bottom of lake by the infowing streams. It consists of muck, mud and sediment with the gravel deposits, which, in my opinion, are merely the tailings, and these rivers have been na- ture's sluice boxes. The gravel will be found down at the mouth of the streams, as you can see at the mouth of the Klondike, while gold is to be found at the headwaters or source of the gravel, wherever that may be-"
 The Ketchikan Journal says that from a lone cabin in the wilderness Kasaan has grown within period of eighteen months into village of thirty or more buildings, with population of 100 people, with established industries, including saw, blaming and shingle mills, a general store, hotel and school house soon to be completed and occu- pied. With the mines of the company developed as they are likely to be with in the next few months, with mine de- velopment going on all along the bay from Grindall Point to Karta Bay, Twelve Mile Arm and beyond, with it's central location, exceptional shipping facilities, with the salting industry al ready established by the company and the cannery to be built this winter, Ka- saan seems more than likely to become the business center for the entire Ka- saan Bay district.
 Mir. Peters, one of the owners of dis covery on Livingstone creek in the Big Salmon district, was in White Horse Oct. 24th, on his way outside, says the Star. When asked as to his opinion of the Big Salmon district, he expressed the utmost faith in it's flu ture as great gold producer, although it would require large capital and much labor to secure the best results. He said most of the creeks had been locat- ed by stampeders who had neither the means nor the inclination to open up their properties, but he thought that within year or two they would drop out and make room for men who would take hold in a legitimate manner and for these latter he predicted a golden harvest.
 Major Primrose, of the N. W. M. F., was arrested in Skagway Oct. 21st for being drunk and disorderly, kept in jail over night and fined s1O and costs in the morning. At the time of the ar rest Major Primrose was yelling at the