The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-03-23
.TANANA PLACER FIELDS
The Story Of the New Strike As Told By
People Who Are On the Ground

cents 10 the pan Apd Of unknown width. The
benches also are rich. Prospecting is praoti-
cally prohibited now, because there is neither
grub nor tools 70 DO had. People are coming
from all directions, but they Will have 10 go
back for there Is not pound OF grub TO be
bought.
staked o lot e5OxI0O for church and hospital,
and have about finished q cabin upon IL TO hold
IL.
/ had 70 pull my own sled from Rampant. go
miles, and was thirteen lays on the way.
Saturday. Feb. 81.
New reports come In every day OF
new finds. and everything Is promising for
big camp. Diggings are IS 70 30 miles away.
Don't fail TO come 70 Rampant, and by all
means come as early as river opens
NJ. f. Koonce.
REV Dr Hall Young viii strike out for the
new Eldorado at the very opening OF naviga-
tlon.l
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Stanley write to
Phil Aurahams Of this city from Circle
City:
There Is q strike about 1870 miles from here
In the Chena. on the Tanana. It is going 70 be
q second Dawson. They have prospected SIX
creeks and Il averages from 10 10 20 cents 70 a
pan. Pedro and Berry creeks are the richest
Pedro has pay gravel feet deep and over 100
feet wide. and averages 10 70 20 cents 70 q pan.
Very near everyone has left here and gone 70
chenu. Stanley has sent three men there and
is going himself In a week. Ifhe sees q chance
TO stake d good claim for you he will do so as
there is some good ground left yet, he thinks.
There is q lot OF building going on there
There are men coming back and forth from
there and they oil report the same. Twenty
four slelghs loaded, started for there few
days ago Freight IS 80 cents per pound,
This is the nearest place 10 Chena; con
make a trip ia 10 70 IS days.
Tell our friends about this. You can rely on
what say. for know IL for fact and would
like 70 sec YOU get In there and make stake.
Charles Ethelbert Clsypoo', United
States commissioner and ex-officio re-
corder and probate judge at Circle, in a
letter from that place to Manager Rich
ard Roediger OF the Dawson News,
writes that he believes the reports OF
the new strike on the TanHna are
authentic. He says more than GOO
claims have been recorded. Claims
have been recorded on SO creeks. Mr..
claypool wrote February LIST. His letter
is as follows:
The reports OF the new strike VIC have every
reason 70 believe are authentic and can be de-
pended upon. During three years here II has
never been my habit TO make false reports OF
new discoveries. In this instance have every
reason 10 believe that great new camp has
been discovered.
This IL the recording once for the new Fair
banks mining district as Il Is called. and more
than six hundred claims have been recorded
with me up 70 date.
The reports agree and from men whom
know have no interests in common. The
creeks upon which claims have been recorded
number about nfty-three and the entire large
section OF country seems to bear good pay
But little news has been received in
Dawson from the Tanana country, but
that little has only confirmed previous
good reports. says E. J. White in his
Dawson Free Lance OF the 9th inst.
News from Circle is 70 the effect that
hundreds OF miners have hurried 10
that place, recorded their locations,
loaded up with provisions and gone
back 70 the diggings. J. L. Sale is In
receipt Of letter from friend who
went from Rampant TO the Tanana on
the frst news Of the strike. He man
aged 10 secure a small fr ctlon, l6O feet
for which TWO days after stalking and
even before prospecting he refused
$1,000. The writer stated that If the
fraction Is as rich as the ground both
above and below It is. known to be, it is
worth $4,000.
The rush from Dawson down the
river continues, but not in such great
numbers as a week ago, for the reason
that the majority Of those who could
get away over the ice have already
gone. However, every day sets a num-
Der starting on the unique journey,
twenJy.seven men having started with
in an hour last Monday morning.
Manager VIM. Fairbanks OF the N. c.
Co., Manager c. E. Mckee OF the N. A.
T. st. Co. and Manager Dolg OF the
Bank of British North America ell got
away on Downing's stage Tuesday
morning. Each man goes in quest OF
news of the Tanana and, If encourag-
ing, each will arrange to open branch
OF his respective business in the new
district. # Is said that the Canadian
Bank Of Commerce will also enter the
field.
There Is scarcely a business industry
in Dawson that is not now considering
the matter OF sending an outfit to and
opening a branch house in the new
town provided reports continue as IA
vorable as those already recei' ed.
Up to the present time fully as many
Canadians as Americans. have gone
down the river from Dawson, and the
result will be that Uncle Sam will re-
ceive fully as many new citizens and OF
equally as good class as he lost here
last fall.
Ator the latter mart Of the present