The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-03-23

I
all sold now.
People intending to 90 must take
with them supplies to last them unit
navigation opens.
"Seott, the ireighter, who went over
from Circ.e e last fall with eleven head OF
s ock TO freight for the government tele
graph line, is now hauling logs to the
new townsite aud charging $3.50 for the
-mallest building log
"Pay running from 8 to 80 cents has
been found on five creeks. No rich
pans on bedrock on any Of them; IN
fact, the bedrock carries no pay at all
The gravel varies from to IS feet In
thickness. carrying paw nearly all the
way. A gray streak seems to run
through the gravel from ! TO feet
below the muck, and from that streak
to bedrock every pan is pay dirt. The
muck is from o. S feet thick. On
Goldstream seventy men are workii 8
taking out dumps. That creek is fifteen
miles long and, In places, three claims
wide. All claims are full size American
claims. After discovery had been made
on this creek, claims we're staked on
each ide OF discovery claim, and on al
three claims pay was found. Work is
being done on all OF them. Pedro
creek, which is practically upper Gold
stream and which has been the frst
creek staked, seems to be better that
the lower stream. but conside able trou-
BILE is encountered on the upper end
with water Jack Costa (ltalian Jack),
owner OF No. > above, has twelve holes
to bedrock, extending 500 feet in length
and $50 feet In width.
Lieut. Gibbs, United States signal
service, is reported TO have panned,
prospected and computed Jacks claim
and gave as hi, estimate that there are
two million dollars in sight on that
claim alone.
"Cleary creek, another strt4u'ruaning
into McManus, is about the same
length and width as Go.dstyeam, and
prospecting there proves that about the
same is expected from that creek as
Gold Stream or Pedro. The gravel IN
the whole region is highly go!d-bearing,
and while no Big pans have been found,
having never heard Of a 5O.cent pan yet,
there is every reason to expect a camp
Of prof able nature there. Bear and
Wolf have one hole to bedrock each,
with working pay on both creeks.
Claim owners are diligently searching
for men to 70 to work, offering SIS per
day. Labor is very scarce. There are
now about GOO people in camp, divided
as follows:
"Men who were there last summer,
60; who went there this winter from
Circle, 800; about 200 more from Ram
part, and others, mostly ,rappsrs from
around Fort Yukon.
"Rampar,, Weare and Nome, which
are reached by wire direct from the dig
gings, all report stampedes from their
camps. The Rampant stampeders have
all reached there about a month ago,
and il is they that seem to be making
the most trouble by way OF shotgun
demonstrations.
DR.. Brawand has received a letter
from DR.. overgard, an old pioneer Of
Skagway, from Circle. dated February
.. Among other things the doctor, rel
ative to the Tanana strike, says:
Circle City, Feb. 2, 'o5.
DR.. J. Brawand Skagway;
| Dear sir-Flnally our chance has come. New
camp within 300 miles. II will be better than
Nome. Already i've creeks with paying gold
In. Pay i5OH7 feet Ten cents TO 40 cents TO
the pan. Claims are selling from $1,000 and
up. am going in March; have already shipped
part OF my store: viii get the balance over the
coming month. Freight Is 81 per pound. Are
you coming lam building now over there.
Yours,
oyergard, MI
Rev. DR.. S. Hall Young. general su-
perintendent and representative for
Alaska Of the Board Of Home Missions
of the Presbyterian church in the Unit
ed States Of America, has received the
following communications from the
Rev. DR.. NJ. Z. Koonce, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Rampant City,
on the YUKON.
Rampant Alaska Jan. 10, 1908.
My Dear Dr, Young;
Authentic news has just reached us regard
Ing the new strike at Chena. Two OF our men
have returned bringing half hundred letters
from others who have gone from here. It Is
the biggest thing ever discovered, according 70
the stories. Undoubtedly there is going 10 be
o great camp. and there is more In sight now
than there was In the Klondike when IL was
stampded IRON Circle. Pay on three or four Of
the creeks p miles apart, with pay streak two
or three hundred feet wide and seven 70 twelve
feet Of pay ground, averaging 10 cents 70 the
pan; this Is the report from many different
sources.
Ihave Just come In from 75-mile "mush, '
but will start tomorrow for chona, Nearly all
our people are going or have gone. have nc
dogs but combine with two other fellows and
pull our sled It is e25 miles from here. Plenty