The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-03
Qudns Million

on It below Ceary. creek claim, a hitherto unocaed streak n that claim. He will feet of it dur ing the present summer. ]. H. OConnor who has been prospecting for the new pay in a direct line with the several plants above him where the pay has been ei, has just tapped the money and will rush work open up later in the summer, if possible. John Web is working 20 Is below Ceary Sam Weiss he Chaanka commissioner is working plants one r. below and l6 below. The $ on the new rich streak, and in effort lay out this year, he will work 90 men On the lower claims Mir. Weiss will employ small in pre- pairing the property his undivided attention nexr year. Charles Watson is what is known the Haz ard claim being r below Cleary Two plants will be work Cn this ground all summer, hoist taking dirt from last years shaft while the other is working in new shaft sunk the winter. On Discovery Chatani ka. Sam Vk will work about 20 He has 10000 fee of bedrock to strip On the bench opposite vlik liungerf I'd and Foster prospecting The Russian Mining Co, composed of nine Russians, is working below Chatanika Bloom Steel are removing the Gp,ooo of bedrock the lower end below This property has been in litigation for About will be employed by Dunlap Robert in taking out 450o0 feet of ground Thompson X Randall working the plan Chatanka at below. that is known the Hope claim. About 20 will be the property. All Chatankans amply supplied with water, there being volume cf IA suiceheads in the Chatanika ditch. Those Cleary above big ditch a serious pr bem when average amount of rain does not fall In the opinion of most of the operators working. Chaanka is good for from three for all of the operators now working In the Chat anika group is considered lower Cleary too, from 15 below down If more new ground in the broad Chata nka flat is opened is reasonably to be expected will be still lasting producer. No has been able demonstrate concusively whether il Ceary creek the Chatanika river that brought lower Chaanka pay down. If it the river there is the possibility that more or less continuous pay streak will be found somewhere below ? below.
 LITTLE ELDORADO.
 This creek is least promising present any in the camp, but that there is lot of rich yet to be unearhed along it's length and breadth to be the generally accepted belief. The stream has had rather spasmodc having shown wonderful rich places yet where operators have sunk and blocked out ground which they were confident would into good money, they have lost out. Al present, Noble is the only who is working plant and of Late in the spring he uncovered splendid pay. Before making this last find he had ground which carried values to keep him on il for two more years after this summer. He will have abou li bis ground this year.
 NIGGERAEAD GROUP, OLIVES.
 For this cluster of claims in the Nigger head association the mouth of Dome creek in the broad Chatanika valley has been of the heaviest ducing sections of the Years ago, when pay was found Dome, and when person who ventured that dirt would be uncovered in the flats at its mouth scoffed a D. A. klenschmdt was sinking holes when he had the money to do and working at o.her things when he hadn't. The ground deep-150 to 200 fee-and prospector was taking a long chance in putting hole down such wide panse and prospecting what of bedrock he could from shaft. There now in the neighborhood of toling within a radius of half mile from where Keinschnlidt sunk his first shaft. And there be $6OOOOO in gold taken of the ground during the present season. That ranked conservative estimate However two of the largest operators Wal Fisher and Barney Sandstrom. will have worked their lays the end of the But it is the history of the camp that ground is bound to be opened up. Adjoining the Niggerhead association on the upper Shakespeare group, of it's oper being Peter Letender Letender is in the wh several Herman Blom has just open ed into the same streak found the Niggerhead his lay being the Recorder association. He will work