The Alaska prospector., 1903-07-23
Doing Wei at Slate Greek
News of The Mines Ky cur s,e- ciai Correspondents. A
 Good Season.


 on Slate creek is on the boom. Ilicre Is more activity than ever before, and in nearly every case the various claims seem to bc showing up be.ier than ever.
 Discovery on Slate is at last oo- ing to pay big money. Much diff culty has been experienced hereto fore in finding way to take the gold out of this claim, because the best pay Is in the bench where there is no water. This spring a long ditch has been put in, and the water raised about twenty feet. Work was commenced on the rim at the lower end of the claim. Bed rock, where the men are ai work. Is only > to feet deep. The gold Is coarse, and differs some from the creek gold. Last year several shafts Were put down on this claim and all prospeeted well. This, to- gether with the Utley benches on lower Slate are the only bench claims that have been worked in this district up to the present time. It looks very encouraging for the future.
 The claim below Discovery is be- ing worked by Jas. Newcomb witu very good results. The Tacoma takes nearly all their water off this claim. Frank Bartlett, who at one time owned a one-half interest with MT. Newcomb, sold out to the Ia coma combine. This deal insured the Tacoma claim water for all time 70 come.
 The Tacoma people have just put in ditch across the claim, picking up the water coming out of Iron gulch. and collecting the seepage coming out of the swamp to the east of Discovery. This is fumed across Slate creek and turned into the main ditch. Several large clean ups have already been made. Billy Fnical IS running the claim this year, and has on two day shifts and TWO night shiits.
 Years ago when Jack Miller and l were college chums away back in Sweden, We were sitting around the fire place in our cosy little room in the Swensk college at Stormberg, Jack always was so quiet and dreamy like. This evening he was sitting in his chair dozing away. Suddenly he jumped up, looked me in the eye, and remarked that he thought thai the best pay streak on his claim was over next the bench. And suiting the action to the word, he set an Irishman, named Myers, a Swede named La Belle, and a Frenchman named Tom Mckinny, to work prospecting. He played his dream to a finish, and is now taking out all kinds of money. Yesterday he cleaned up 5000 at two shifts running hours-and that is no dream.
 The Kraemer-Leavelle property is doing better this year than ever. Mir. Kraemer has all the men at work that can be handled. There is plenty of water and everything is moving at a rapid rate.
 Hurd has on two shifts and as usual is taking out good money, as is the Cole property on Miller gulch. Gerow & Rudolph are work ing the Cole interests on Miller and Slate this year and are quite sue cessful.
 Jno. Hanson has leased the Date Rosenthal property. and is talk ing out good money.
 Means X Simpson are working the California claim. They have on two shifts of ten men each.
 Grogg X Johnson are doing very well on the Tenas fraction.
 Sandberg has big gang at work as well as 0hlson and The Four Black Dogs. Every claim, both on Slate and Miller is showing mp bet ter this year than it did last. New ground is being worked and better appliances being psed,