Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-02-11
GOLD M. DISTRICT
 YIELDS RICH PAY
Hiscoverers Keep Find Sec ret Until They Stake Free
 Iy And Then Tell


 right limit of the Yukon thirty-fivc mile below Fort Gibbon, has shown up d big paystreak, according to William Lane, nephew of C. D. Lane, ofNomc, and r. Warner, now in Fairbanks for the purpose of purchasing machinery for their .. sIdings on Grant creek. They made their strike on Grant last November, but kept it secret until after tiic first of thc year when q number of old locations ran out, and they were able to acquire now ground The strike was made on the Alabama association located about eight miles from the mouth of the stream. At this point nineteen holes were sunk in cross-cutting the valley and pay streak @l2 feet wide was located. This pay is nine feet in depth and aver ages ten cents to thrpan. The gold is coarse containing q fair prcccntagc Of small nuggets, and is found al- most entirely in the gravel. Bodrocl: is for the most part Of Schist# with occasional granitcs and scrpcntincs.
 Mcssrs. Lang and Warner have been working on Grant creek since last September, using four boilers and employing fourteen men. Since that. time they have put down nearly d hundred holes, aid since making the strike ill November, have traced the paystreak for moro than four. miles. They now own eleven miles of the ground, including eight miles on Grant proper, and tMrcc miles on Lynx creek, a tributary oG Grant.
 The ground varies in depth from thirty-tWo feet to eighteen feet and is an ideal open cut pro position. As was before stated, McsSTS. Lane and Warner are now in the city to make arrangements for machinery to handle the dirt. They will return to the lower camp about the last of the month.
 Grant creek, like others in the Cold Mountain district, was stakcd 4 year ago last fall, but the prospcctors did not follow up their stalking, being content merely to make a discovery; and it remained for someone to come after, do the real prospecting and reap tho rewards. On Mason creek, Charley Cum, formerly on Clcary, struck pay late in the fall, taking out $lOO from two box lengths that he cleaned up. Cum now has big crew of mon at work putting in dam in preparation for extensive worl; next caSon.
 Sam McDill and Jim Langford on Illinois arc also said to be in the money, but the most. extensive pro paratiOns being made in the district arc those of Dick Hudson on Hudson creek, tributary of the Little McloM. To reach Hudson creek, one has to go up Illinois creek and then cross the divide. Hudson has built sCvCn- A
 teen miles of wagon road up Illinois in order to get machinery and lumber for a drCdgo onto the ground, and ia now engaged in hauling tho lumber up from the Yukon. .--Tnana I'ribnnc.
 c. F. TalmagC, commercial aConL of the Alaska Steamship Company, who came north on thc Ohio, is in Valdez where he will remain until tho departure of tho Northwcstcrn. Mir. Talmagc ia ono of tho most widely known steamship men on the coast. For several years he was with the Pacific Coast Company in Seattle. The purpose of MT. Talmago'a prcg- ont trip is to ro-famiiarizo himself with Alaska, as he has not been in this part of the world for several years. Mir. Talmagc says that when he left Seattle it was about as cold as it. is in Valdez.
 c. E. Bradley, of Grccnvillc, Ohio, has written to the Valdez lodgc of Masons asking assistance in locating his son, George s. Bradley, who was last heard from in Nnldez Onlnhcr 12.