The Nome nugget., 1903-09-09
DEXTER CREEK NOTES.

Dexter Creek, September, .. 3.-Dexter creek is having this summer season of unprecedented prosperity. Album dance of water supplied by the famous Miocens ditch, together with an addi- tional supply furnished by the Kelly Company. and both at very reasonable rates, makes q condition Of affairs very gratifying to the claim owners. The greatest amount of work is being done by Jas. O'Sulliyan and J. A. Wilkins on their renowned No. l Grass Gulch claim. Thousands of tons of dirt have been moved during the last few months, and large steam sclaper has also been put in operation, which gives en- tire satisfaction. The retuns from this claim if they were made public would astonish everybody.
 No. 1 Deer nplcn is rich piece of property and pays nand some dividends, All that was needed on thls vrGek was water, and we have 1t now at lew price.
 No. 10 Dexter is also utilizing the cheap water, and is doing an immense amount of work, no less than 10 men being employed.
 No. 9, owned by Leo LOewenherz, is being thoroughly worked under the management of Mir. Gibson. No, 9 will probably be worked out this fall, as far as.the present owners are concerned, and it will be left to the Nome EX- ploration or some other company to finish the task of taking out the rich pay.
 Nos. s. , and are being operated by the Pioneer Mining Company, and big profits are the results of their work. These claims get their water from the Kelly pumping plant. which is able 10 furnish water for both Anvil and DeX- ter creeks and tributaries.
 No. : is shut down for the season. This claim, one of the richest in Alaska. is not closed on account of d | difference with the MiOcene company, 1 but the owners have taken out as much gold and worked as much ground as | they intended to do this summer.
 No. 6, Siljan & Sveidrup's rich claim, is working full blast, and the profits are good.
 Nos. and , are idle this summer, l but will work next year on a large scale.
 Probably the finest work done in this section is by the famous Kelly c0mpan, on the fabulously rich left fork of DeN- ter creek. Ali the pumps in the pump ing plant are at work, and they furnish river of water. which is tearing out the ground in an astonishing manner. l This plant is one of the grandest sue cesses that Alaska has ever seen, and I it behooves the Miocene company to eu- large their ditch to compete with this company with their oceans of water 1 It is impossible to learn the amount oi ] the cleanups on this left fork, but it is a certainty that the shipments of gold from Alaska will be surprisingly in creased from this source. Mir. Kelly. work is under the supervision of a Mr. l ponnelly, who is acknowledged to bC the best placer miner that ever came to Alaska. His work on Grass gulcl in underground dirgings is record ! which should make any man proud. ! He took the claim when it was in ter lribN butchered condition and made it pay the N. E. Company handsome profit. Mr J. W. Kelly must feel highly elated on the successful launch ing of his well conceived enterprise, and with the largo amount Of ground he has come into possession of he will no doubt be able to look back to Alaska as a more pleasant place than the oil fields of West Virginia.
 It is said that with the cOmparatively small amount of mining they have done this year they will be able to pay al
 expenses of the company. including the cost of the claims and pumping plant