Yukon Valley news., 1911-03-30

was no good. Just think of it! Ain't he a wonder? Why, as a mining expert he has John Hayes Hammond looking like dried up, worm-eaten mushroom.
 That was before I came to Tanana for the boiler. When got back with the boiler Mir. Price sahk a hole on the left-limit hillside of discovery, Indian, and got nothing.-The creek bed in that place is 120 feet wide,-He sank another hole on the left limit of Nos Felix Fork, four miles and a half above dis covery, and got a few light colors. That was all he did, and the strength of that he goes to Tanana and makes the supercilious and siandering statements which I have re- ferred to above. I sta ed Mir. Price in here of my own volition, not because of any bind ing obligation to him, using my own money, performing the labor and paying all my expenses up until the first of the present yeac. Yet, upon reaching Tanana, he has the very bad taste to try and mai.e me ap- pear in the light of a hot air peddler to my friends and the public at large.
 The creek bed of Indian and Felix Fork runs from 80 feet in the narrowest place to 160 in the widest. Mr. Price said that if the gold was all in the creek bed it would have to be awfully rich to pay; that it would have to go better than S2 to the foot. It grieves me to think that I have been mining for r years and have all that time been hoping to find ground that-according to Mir. Prices opinion-wont pay.
 Have crosscut No. above discovery, with seven holes to bedrock, an average depth of 4 feet inches It don't go S2 to the foot nor even S1.50; but for 1855 feet in width it will shovel in from 1925 to $50 to the shovel. It's Lind of hard to think of wasting IT years looking for ground that won't pay. How ever I believe I will finger with Indian creek for year or two and try to rustic to- bacco money out of this plank" ground that has nothing in it but hot air.
 In future when Mr. Price makes state ments for the benefit of the public" about mining ground of which he knows nothing, I would advise him to go to some country where his efforts to advertise himself as mining expert will be more thoroughly ap- preciated.
 Those experts who mine with their eyes and feet instead of their head and hands like the freside prospectors, are a drug on the market. Th!s is the first time I ever knew one of them to explode to the public. For the benefit of the public I feel justified in saying that Indian creek is going to be camp, how extensive remains to be seen.
 The 1nulcatlOnS at present do not justify one in thinking it is going to be a Bonanza, and there is no doubt but that the ground Mir. Felix and myself have crosscut will pay well. Everyone hcre, at present, are well satisfied, and ali are working.
 If the creek continues to show up as well it has for the last IT days, several outfits will be opening up ground this spring, Sew eral boys from the Upper Koyuilulx are on their way here to prospect their ground.
 There is one boiler on the creek, and it is kept busy. Many of us will have to come to Tanana for supplies soon. It is 105 miles to Panama and 72 miles to Arctic City, but we consider it cheaper to grubstal1e at Panama.
 hope Thos. Edison's prediction regarding the manufacture of gold will prove wrong, otherwise it will look bad for Red Mountain.
 advise no one, who has no ground here to come in, as I do not know of any vacant ground. Any person who has not been here before, would be making serious mist Ike by coming in with the expectation of