The daily Alaskan., 1913-09-12
PROMINENT MINING ENGINEER MAKES REPORT ON ClnsANA
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Going southorly up to the head Of Glacier Creek one comes Into skoo- Ilum Gulch which iu half q mile Heads into Little Eldorado ,a stream about two miles long emptyIng into Bonanzo Creek, two and one half miles above its junction with John son Creek.
 Little Eljorado is wide open gulch to within 500 yards or lJs mouth. Then it narrows to about 90 feet width. At that point the original discovery of Che district was made by James and Nels. The day Of my visit there, five men were snoyening into string Of three 3luicc boxes, taking tho gravel from a width of about 20 feet and a depth of two and one half to three toel ] judged they were taking up
 from to I2 inches of bedrock, a broken slate like rock. In the after noon passed the place while the cleanup was being made, and estimated that there were from 70 to 5O ounces of coarse gold in che pan. Fleudle thought there were nearer so ounces. It being about | $IG gold, my figure would mean a. bout $I5O per man a day Of seven or eight hours shoycllmg asked if che balance of the gravel on the sides of che gulch carried values and was told that it does. They said that their present operations were for the purpose of obtaining ready money and that next spring they intend to put ia a plant to take the full wiJtr of the gulch and clean the bed rock. The first claim above the discovery was equipped with three boxes and some gravel | has been washed, but we could not ascertain the result
 A mile down the Bonanza below l Little Eldorado, three men have a fraction In the creek bed. They ! had three boxes rigged up and had
 made their first run the day before our visit. They too were taking up | two and one-half to three feet of ! gravel from the creek bed. We wsr | told they got 25 ounces from seven hours shovclling In the clean up was a S42. nugget, which we saw. |It was clean gold, free from quartz
 Apparently these were the only | two places from which gold in pay ing quantities had been taken. On ! Che other hand, so far as l know, these were the only likely places in which bed rock had been reached. Most Of the men in the district wer 1 busy doing the work required for recording their various claims, hunt ling Cor fractions, and whip saving ! lumber. Several had encountere
 frozen ground
 It is likely that the gravel on the ! Wilson creek slope and that includes tho larger part Of tn edistrict, is considerably deeper than that on Little Eldorado and Bonanza and ex cept in the creek beds, frozen. The | gravel of both Johnson and Wilson l Creeks is undoubtedly Of consider able depth.
 Considerable jumping of claims is said to have occurred and 1t is told that there has been more or less blanketIng. l saw some claims with at least two sets of papers. The recorder George Morgan, told me that 25O claims had been record ed and that about 15OO had been staked.
 People going into the district now should be prepared for a so- jouru of several months. They mus either wait for claims to lapse thru failure of the initial work or they must search for gold on new creeks. |If were to so in there as a pros pector l would not hesitate a min ute about pursuing this latter course. As you will remember, a |umit was set upon my return to | Whitehorse and l had no choice a- bout remaining, The Shushanna country looks promising and the gravel deposits seemingly extend al SO down the Beaver Valley into ! Canadian territory. I fully expect that new and desirable discoveries win be made outside of the district l described above.
 We left Wilson Creek August l7 and went across the Johnson to the Beaver Creek watershed and fol- flowed the course of that stream for 35 miles. A mile below where Ptarmigan Creek empues into It. we found tho trail across the Rab- bit Creek divide to Canyon City, IS miles. From Canyon city we took l the regular Eluane Lake trail, ar IrIylng at Silver City August 30th.,