The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-12
WILL ASTONISH
 THE WORLD.
An Experts Report on the Amer
 can Yukon.

William NJ. Fitzhugh, the we'll known English mining expert, who is recognized authority on min eral deposits the world over, is now in Seattle en route to Eagle. A year ago Mir. Fitzhugh, at the in- stance of English capitalists, made 2 trip to the American Yukon and furnished them with report on the Seventy-Mile, Birch creek. Tam ana and Eagle City country, on which they have based large in vestments in all these sections. The party there now is en route to the districts where, under the direction of NIT. Fitzhugh, large operations. employing several hundred men, will he started soon as the summer season opens.
 When l made my first report in London on my return from the jean Yukon country. said Mir. Fitzhugh, many of the best mining experts of England thought could not possibly be right. However, the report was productive of the investments. and the future will show that what l have said is cor rect.
 AS mining engineer of expcr- fence prcdiet that the Alaska gold bearing gravel will astonish the world. The output of Ameri- can Alaska will last for many years to come and will be by far greater than anyone to the present time has dared to predict. Some of Us will live to see the time when the American Yukon, including large part of American Alaska, will produce hundreds of millions of dollars in gold. It is not the char acter of country such as the klOn- dikc was. It will not give out. The only trouble is that tle people have not yet learned the way to work the gravel deposits. and to do this will take time.
 This was the history of Califor- mia. When gold was discovered there in lSi9 the miners knew they had it. but it was not until years later that they learned how to work it and get the metal out of ground. In time they learned, and then the California gold output increased 50 as to astonish the world. The same will be the his tory of American Alaska, and when this is accomplished there will be q permanent output of gold that will be far in excess of that secured by scratching at the present time.
 In many parts of American Alaska the gravel will run as high as $3 to the yard for areas twenty miles in extent, and in fact there is no telling just how much there is of this class of gravel. In time this will be ascertained and the people engaged in mining there will learn how to work it. Then the country will be settled up and the new methods will be employed in all districts. That is the day when the output of American Alaska will astonish the world.
 Last year l spent June, July, August and September in the vicin- ity of Eagle City and the creeks I have mentioned. l also visited other creeks for the purpose of as- pertaining just what the showing would be. There was not place visited where the proof did not exist of the richness of the gravel and therefore l apply my remarks to American Alaska.
 The people represent this year will conduct large operations on Seventy-Mile, Birch creek and Panama. They will hydraulic their claims and the result will he good. There is an abundance of water which is easy of access. and there is no necessity of there heinz any waste.
 l do not think there is another part of the world that is so fortun- ately situated with deposits and