Douglas Island news., 1901-10-23


 there which have already been pub hshed, are to that effect, and on Oct. 10th there arrived a claim owner, who more than corroborates the ftattering accounts. Joseph Hughes, formerly a familiar figure in Dawson, is the man. He owns No. r below discovery and has spent the summer on the creek. He says the best pay is on discovery and some ground adjoining. Only five men have been working, yet the elean-ups have run as high as $1,700 for one days work, and once, for about three days, the amount secured was in the neigh borhood of s10,OOo. Considering the small number of men, Mir. Hughes says it is a wonder for richness. On either side of discovery are strings ef ten claims each of which are owned in Dawson. They are all thought to be of the same order from the prospects that have been found On 10 above re- markable SneiSent occurred. \ tunnel for a bedrock drain had been put m. It began on and is supposed to touch 10. To encounter the pay the tunnel was driven through rim of rock that was in the way. Beyond the rim was some likely looking dirt. Just at the moment when in reach of 1t subterra- mean current of water rushed iu and the miners had only time to gather pan of dirt. In doing so they got gravel and half water and have no idea whether or not it was anywhere near bedrock. The pan produced 9 cents.
 Evidence has been found that the mines in the Kougarok district were worked many years ago by some un- known people. On Gold Run No. 3 a rotterdam, built of rock, was found. The stones were in such position that evidences of human hands were plainly visible. The dam was four or i've feet below the surface and no gold was found on the bedrock within its confines, while outside it's limits gold was found. A similar dam was found on No. 8, and on No. 14, the remnants of bedrock drain has been unearthed. The drain, according to reports, rests on bedrock and is 800 feet long and is built of stone. The walls can be traced distinctly and there is ample evidence according to the miners that the stones were placed one upon the other by hu man hands. These discoveries lead the miners to believe that the gold fields of that district were worked centuries ago and of which history gives no record.
 News of new strike in the famous Porcupine district was brought to Skagway Oct. 12th by F. B. Stubbler, passenger from Haines, who came in on the Flosie, says the Alaskan. Mir. Stubbler had just left the scene of the reported discovery, and in his inter view at the Pacific hotel, said that two prospectors from the States had arriv- ed in there a week ago, and immediate ly went to Hoots creek, which is forty miles from Dalton Post. The strangers did little prospecting which led them to conclude that they had good indfca- tions of gold bearing sands. Sluice boxes were hewed out of logs, and in two days they took out S25 with these crude appliances. Not having made preparations for long stay in the dis trict, their provisions ran short, and they came out to Haines for another supply, afterwards hurrying back.
 Gov. Brady, in his annual report, says that the grass throughout the whole of Alaska, south of the Yukon, is certainly nutritious, and it grows luxuriantly, for the cattle become very fat and the meat has a delicate flavor. The fat on the back of deer or cari- bou is from one to three inches thick. There can hardly be any doubt in the minds of stockmen who have given any attention to this subject that Alaska is bound to be great stock country. Those who have crossed the country from Valdez and Cook Inlet to the Yu- kon, tell us there are vast meadows or savanas which are waving with beauti ful grass The Yukon valley end the Panama region will, no doubt, be more reliable for cereal crops than the coast line.
 Mir. Frank Llschke, of the Dawson Sun, who is touring the Koyukuk dis trict, writes the editor of the Alaska Yukon Mipino ;JournaI that the country