The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-22
YUKON'S WEALTH. is STILL GREAT.
British Mining Expert Confident Output will Last.

Tacoma. Wash. March 17.-W;lliam NJ.
FitEhugh. a well-known British mining ex-
pert, left for Eagle. on the American
Yukon. to start immense hydraulic opera
tons for an English syndicate. He Is ac-
companied by Philip H. Blackwell OF Lon
don, and Samuel Hale of New York.
Early last year Expert F1tzhugh investi-
gated the chief producing creeks of the
American Yukon. and on the basis OF his
report large investments were made in
claims and hydraulic ground on Seventy
Lille Creek, Birch Creek and streams trib-
utary to the Tanana River.
Under the direction Of Mr. Fitzhugh large
operations, employing several hundred men.
will be started as soon as the summer sea-
son opens. Regarding the American Yukon
Mr.. Fftzhugh says:
when / made my report in London on
my return from the Yukon, many of the
best mining experts In England thought
could not possibly be right. However, the
report was productive Of the investments.
and the future will show that what have
said Is correct.
las a mining engineer Of experience. I
predict that the Alaska gold-bearing gravel
will astonish the world. The output of
American Alaska will last for many years
to come. and will be by far greater than
any one to the present time has dared to
predict
Some Of US will live to see the time
when the American Yukon will produce
hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars in gold. The
country Is very different in character from
the Klondike. 1t will not give out. The only
trouble Is that the people have not yet
learned the way to work the gravel de-
posits. and to do this will take time.
This was the history Of California.
When gold was discovered there in 1919 the
miners knew they had 1t, but 1t was not
until years later that they learned how to
work it, and get the metal out of the
ground.
I'm time they learned. and then the Cali
fornia gold output increased 80 as tn as
tonish the world. The same will be the his
tory of American Alaska, and when this
is accomplished there will be a permanent
output Of gold that will be far in excess
of that secured by scratching at the pres
ent time.
in many parts of American Alaska the
gravel will run as high as s. to the yard
for areas Of 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 sscertained. 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 in gold will astonish
the world.
Last year I spent June, July. August
and September in the vicinity Of Eagle City.
I also visited other creeks for the purpose
of escertaining just what the showing
would be.
There was not place visited where the
proof did not exist OF the richness of the
gravel The people I represent this year will
conduct large operations on Seventy-Mile,
Birch Creek and Tanana River.
IT do not think there is another part Of
the mining world that is so fortunately sit
uated with deposits and means to work
them az Alaska, and that part Of the coun-
try on the American side is the best.
The Klondike has shown that It contains