The Alaska sourdough., 1911-12-19
AN ALASKA oCToGENARTAN
Continued from last week.


 cross the summit at Chilkat, we return to Sitka and reported the facts to the captain of the man of-war which was stationed there. The captain sent some soldiers and two heutenants in a steam launch back with us. When we arriy- ed one of the lieutenants made speech the Indians not to bother us, and told them that if they did he would turn the gatling gun on them. So we went through the pass. When we reached the lakes we sawed some lumber and built boat When we reached the can yon we took our boat up on land by the aid of skids. We went a considera ble distance down the river, cached our grub, and went into the interior with days and found some gold, but not enough to pay. As it was approaching fall, we turned back and made a port age on the return.
 On the way out we went up into the Atlin country. We prospected up there and found some gold. We only stayed about week, however, the snow driv- ing us out. We planned to go out by the Taku, but one of our partners got sick, so we went out the way we came.
 A few days after we arrived in Sitka, Dick Harris and Joe Juneau got back and we asked them where they got the ore, for they had pretty rich ore, but they would not tell us. We were sat isfed, however, that we knew pretty nearly where they had found it, so five of us, John Prier, James Roswell, Frank Berry and Billy Mehear and myself, bought a canoe and started. After we had gotten some distance on our road, we got into a storm, and 1t was thought at Sitka that we were lost. Citizens of Sitka went out to look for us, and oe- sides, a government launch was sent after us. Those rescuing parties failed to find us, and the fact that we were lost was duly chronicled in the Sitka pa per. But we reached an Indian village, waited until the storm abated, and then rested for day. The storm spoiled our provisions.
 When we reached the Gastineau chan nel we met an Indian on the beach, and he told us that it was not very far to where the white men had been camping. When we got to the place, we found John Williams and Billy Bennett. We asked them for the news, made camp, and stopped over night. The next morn ing we got our packs and went up the the mountain to the Silver Bow Basin.
 We found some claims already stalk ed The first stake we found was that of Captain Glasse. Another set of stakes were for Lieutenant Maclanan. and still another for Rockwell Lund. We also found the stakes of Harris and Juneau
 We took the ground that was staked for Glasse and the lieutenant. We camped there for nearly week. We thtn came down and each of us took up a lot on the beach. We built cabin on Billy Mehean' s lot and nov ed in. It took us only few days to build the cabin.
 A few days after we had moved in to the house we went down to Sheep creek prospecting. We found some float on the hillside, and some veins, but did not take up any claims. We camped at Sheep creek that night, and in the morning we crossed the channel and were pulling slowly by the beach when we saw a piece of ore sticking out and we stopped there to prospect. We thought it was good ore, and we banned some dirt at the foot of the rock We thought we had a good pros pect out of that, and we took another painful. We got about six bits to that last pan..