Douglas Island news., 1901-11-13

or MdUmOGn lNOIy III <A1aohe', WhAOh 10 believed to be of great value. In fact, it is almost as rich as the story he tells. Hesreeounts of friendly band of h. dians which was so rich in ivory that they built their totem poles of it. They finally piloted him to the scene of the ivory bed, hauling him blindfolded for miles through the woods on sled. ''FinalIy the bandage was removed from my eyes," he says. "We were in deep gulch, with oyerhanging walls, covered with snow and ice. Without loss of time the Indians began clearing away huge pile of brushwood, and be- fore evening they had revealed the first of the ivory. The brush served to fill a large pit which must have been twen- ty feet deep, a hundred feet long and fifty feet wide. In the bottom and from the sides great curying tusks of ivory protruded. They were from if teen to twenty feet long and so heavy that two'men were required to lift one. They were attached to huge skeletons, but they were easily broken away. Oc- casionally we found a tusk that had been driven into the skeleton of anoth CT mastodon, for such they must have been. I made close examination and came to the determination that we were on the scene of titanic conflict between the monsters known as Arctic mastodons. Some had undoubtedly died in battling for the supremacy of the herd, while the majority had prob ably penetrated into the gulch and perished in way that would be diff cult to account for.n The pipe did not 90 out here, for this. truthful James" says he is going to organize stock company in Washington to exploit the find.
 The Yukon Sun says there will be a hot time in the old town should Daw- son bankers, and business men and government officials who are now on the outside, or on their way there to spend the winter, ever meet together in the same town in the effete east. To the average city or town there the i'm pression would become widespread that the millionaires of the world were gathered there in convention, and gen. erations hence fathers would relate to their children the story of the day when the princes of the Arctic, pos sessed of fabulous wealth, gave their town touch of high life.
 E. c. Hawkins, late general manager of the w. P. & Y. R. R., aftrms that he will build and operate a railroad sys- tenn radiating from Dawson, trayersing the most prominent creeks in the dis triet, and he expects to begin work of construction this winter. It will be a standard guage road. The line will run up Bonanza to the divide, thence to Dominion, thence down that stream to Indian river, thence to the Yukon river and en to Dawson, with Klondike City the terminal Branch lines on the Klondike, Hunker, Bear, Quartz, Sul- phur and Eldorado are also provided for.
 Geo. Hayes, an operator on Gold Run in the Klondike, places the limit of placer mining in that district at four lyears, and its final abandonment at a period closely approximating the date above named. There are others, how ever, possibly as we'll qualified to ex- press an intelligent opinion, who affrms that % years will elapse 'ere the last sturdy representative of the golden conquest turns his back on the scene and bequeaths to solitude and silence, the greatest placer camp the sun ever shown upon within the memory of man, past or present.
 Miss Mabel Franklin Mayer, daugh- ter of Jas. J. Mayer, fomerly connected with the -Bruhn O., at Skagway, was recently shot and killed by one John Stano, a Turk, in San Francisco. Mir. Mayer, who has been at Dawson the past season, was on his way to San Francisco to visit his family, and the first intimation he had of the tragrdy was through the purchase, at Skagway, of San Francisco paper containing an account of the affair.
 The Sun says that wholesale prepara- tions for the reception of winter have been made in Dawson and all the com forts ,of Q home on the outside will help |