The Nome nugget., 1901-08-23
,lN "A SHORT TIME.
Dahl Creek Is Rich and So Are the Benches Base of Supplies Is Needed-OOOd Chance for rlercan- ttile Investment Is Offered.

|I don't want to boom the country. but want to say that the kougarok district is all right" said NJ. J. COch- ran, United States commissioner for the district, the other day. "The con- 'ditiOns underWhieh claims have been swOrked this year, however, have been .most unfavorable. It has cost men too a,N,ch money, time and labor to get stheir supplies in to the creeks. They sthad to wait until the ice left rivers and lakes. and were unable to take advan- sage of the high water. Then when they began to move their supplies the water had gone down, and interminable stoil was the result for them.
 ''What is needed to enable the kou ;garOk section to be thoroughly opened lp is base of supplies at the head of tnavigation on the Kusatriem. Then taninerS could get into the country in the early spring with the knowledge that plenty of supplies could be had there, thus relieving them of the ne- .cessity of exhausting themselves and 3their funds in an endeavor to reach their claims. If some strong mercan- atile company would establish a big trading station in the kou9arok, where a miner could get anything he wanted from pound of nails to a thousand feet sof sluiee lumber, the concern would make d winning and at the same time aid materially in opening up a rich country, for the section issrch. no mat ter what may be said to the contrary. Dahl cPeek is marvelously so. The benches on Dahl are most promising. &and I, myself, have seen, excellent pros poets taken from far up on the hill sides"
 Martin Dahl, after whom Dahl creek is named, Was also in town this week. MT. Dahl owns valuable interests on kDahl. as wellas on other creeks in the Kougarok "What We need in this country" he said, ''s miners, There are few real miners in the KOugaOk, and men unused to a life of hardship .become easily discouraged. By the time they get few supplies to d creek sthey are ready to quit. and then they iblame the country. And this section i,itull of just such kind of men.'
 Roxey Reber is another old-timer who evinces the utmost faith in the Kougarok country. Mr. Jseber re- turned few days ago from that dis ,trict, where he spent four weeks. ''The country is all right, he said. "I saw pokes full of gold coming into KOuga- rok City, and portion of it was used for the purchase of supplies. On Quartz creek, against which so many knocks have been made recently, where the paystreak is not found in the creek. it is being located in the benches.
 IA good deal of work is being done zen the tributaries of the best Known creeks Macklin creek is a promising sone. As for Boulder creek, state >ment made by former well-knowr ,citizen of Nome, J. ". Logan, ma! interesting Mir Logan is practical miner, a1fi has been in the kougarob for some time. In answer to ques stion as to what Boulder, creek offered 'he wrote the following: T panneo about a dozen pans ard-th smalles pan got was 10 cents and the larges :$.70, at about three feet below the tol of the payst-eak. In four pans l gt -$5 16 Then 1 took a pan of the rid edlings and got $l.75 cent nugget. Th day before they gotta 80 nugget. Th nugget was found on the upper end 0 x No. 3, owned by MT. RoberSAn.