The Chitina leader., 1913-11-18


 pectors beginning to start on the | winter rush to the Chisana but | many are also going to the new | Nelchina district There is prac- tically only one way to go to the | Chisana. That is by train to Mc- l Carthy and by trail and wagon road | to the heart of the district. Some | are also going by train to Chitina and then by trail from there via Gulkana, distance of 220 miles. A few others will also go by trail from | Valdez, a mush of 270 miles. But naturally the short mush of IS miles from Mccarthy over a good trail that horses can draw double enders with ease, appeals to the great majority of stampeders. Several outfits and few men left
 
 ous parts of the interior. Dutch" Blanchard left with six horses for | Chitina and when a shipment of meat arrives on the next steamer and is sent to Chitina, he will start on his 310-mile journey for Fair banks. Ed Conrad and H. o. Tied mann left for Mccarthy with sup plies and horses. They will go over the glacier trail with double enders and will take in everything ..eces- sary to open up candy and tamale business. They have also bought a mining claim on Wilson creek and will have it worked this winter, using a thawing boiler. Four or five outfits were also shipped to Chitina, where the mush of 147 miles, via Tazlina, will be made to the Nelchina. Many also go from Valdez, the mush being 50 miles longer and connecting with the Chitina road at Willow Creek. This morning Robert Mcintosh, the freighter, left Valdez with ten head of stock and double enders, loaded with outfits for Nelchina prospectors. The latter will mush, and stop at the roadhouses along the route. A number of boilers will be taken in both from Valdez and Chitina, and also from Seward. Referring to the new camp the Valdez Prospector says:
 During the past week many prospectors have left Valdez for the Nelchina and the next week will see many more started on the way to the new camp discovered last summer. The great majority of the men who have left here made hur- ried trips into the new camp last fall, located claims, and were so we'll impressed with the outlook that they came to the coast to secure working outfits of food and tools, and few are even taking in small thawing plants with which to pros pect the ground.
 But little excitement was caused last summer when the first news of the strike was made, as the number of fake new camps had been excep- tionally large lately, but what few miners went into the district re- ported that it looked good to them. Others followed with the same re- port, and to date hardly a man of experience who has visited the dis trict, but has reported favorably on the outlook for a large output of gold during the next season if the claims already located continue to pan out as we'll as the indications warrant the owners in believing.
 Practically all of the miners of the Slate creek district have suc- ceeded in locating claims in the new camp and they all remained in the new diggings long enough to assure themselves of the advisability of spending time and money to con- tinue the exploitation of the ground, and once becoming satisfied of that fact they immediately came to Val dez and some have already left, and the balance will start on the return trip, going over the government road to Tazlina and up that river to the lake of the same name, near where the diggings are located.
 Fred Kraemer, Tony Ross, Ed. Spearstead, Charles Swanson and about 20 other Slate creek operators are among those who secured claims.