Douglas Island news., 1901-10-09

ground as is to be found in Alaska. Frank Stevens has just returned to Rampant from that guleh and reports that Lorenson, No. aboVey has ground that will go a dollar to the pan and av- erages 40 cents throughout his pay. Belcey, on No. ? above, shoveled in six hours and netted S260. This is not his best pay, the richest ground being , feet below the surface. The following day the cleanup amounted to S94o. The first nugget found on the claim weished $. Gill and Roden are sink inc on , above with a thawer. The boys on discovery, in the opinion ot Stevens, are opening up the richest bo- nanza ever struck in Alaska. The ex- tent and permanence of the new pay is now assured. So thoroughly is Mr. Stevens satisfied as to the richness of the creek that he has taken lay on 20o feet of above at small percentage and will put men on the ground this winter
 The four steel and two wooden life boats belonging to the lost steamer Is lander, which were brought down from Juneau, together with the oars and five ifebelts, were sold at auction the other morning on the wharf across James Bay. With the exception of the five Hfebelts, which were bought by Mir. Wey for one dollar, the boats and equipments went to the c. P. N. for in the neighborhood of $500. The bid ding was mostly between the represen- tatives of one of the Sound steamship companies and the c. P. N. company. The first boat put up, one of the steel Ifeboats, was sold for S70, and another boat identically the same, went for S23O The same price was paid for the next one offered and the other steel boat brought S12O. The two wooden lifeboats brought S45 and S55 respectively. The oars were sold for s1 pair. The bid ding on the larger boats was started at $50, mounting bid with bid at s a bid.
 The Ketchikan Journal says that news from the Puyallup mine IS of the most encouraging nature. The tram way has been completed and the man. agement now has from ten to fifteen tons of rich ore on the beach ready for shipment. A pocket, or chimney, of very rich ore has recently been eacoun- tered which, together with the rich pay streak, will result in very materially increasing the general average of the ore shipped, if indeed the management does not conclude to reserve the richer ore either to be treated by hand or sold separately. When it is understood that the pay streak, together with the chimney recently encountered, show assay values of from sSOoO to S12,00O per ton, pretty fair conclusion can be arrived at as to the average of the vein all of which is of the quality denomin- ated high grade.
 "It is like eating gold to live in the Tanana at present prices" says R. Ab- ernathy to Yukon Sun reporter. "Fhe distance from Circle is from 100 to 15o miles overland, owing to the part of the district that you strike. The present price of freighting is 9 cents a pound paid 30 cents for some and year ago S1. It would take better ground than there is in that country to continue to pay such prices. There have been sev- eral snows this summer. They have interferred with prospecting. 1t both cred about regular mining where ground had been opened up. The sea sons there are shorter if anything than at Dawson. The two divides between the Panama and Eagle were covered with snow three or four times this sum- mer. The big divide is not free from snow more than six weeks"
 Miners just out from the Forty Mile country have a good word to say for that region, says the Skagway News Chicken creek, they say, with develop ment will prove to be one of the best payers on the Yukon system. Jack Wade creek will also be extensively worked this winter, and is sure to pro, duce very largely, the summer work having shown better pay there than has ever been found on the creek. Bragg, the discoverer on Walker fork is in Dawson buying machinery nd