The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-09-04
sHUsHANNA CAMP, Alaska, Aue

Seattle Post -lntelligencer special cor
respondent arrived at the Shushann
diggings yesterday and found Is
tents scattered over an area of te,
miles wide by fifteen miles long, pop
ulated by about 400 stampeders, most
ly sourdoughs and pioneers from
Nome, Fairbanks and Dawson. AL
the old miners agree that this Is
fine gold country, but all the availabl,
ground has been staked for ten mile
around. The coarse gold placer dig
gings extend for radius of fift,
miles.
Name Town Woodrow.
! No permanent camp has been estab.
lished yet, but there probably will b.
a townsite started eight miles from
the present camping ground. George
Hazelet, the Cordova townsite man
has applied for scrip townsite
which probably will be named Wood
row, on Wilson creek
A solid gold nugget worth $40 and
silver nugget as big as mans fist
were found, August II, by Joe Nc
Clellan on his fraction on Bonanza
Copper also has been found No. /,
Little Eldorado. has been producing
the greatest results. The ground
iSkt ho1,@ h
thick with gold which can be plain
ly seen. The Post Intelligencer cor
respondent PANIED some of the ground
with five-inch frying pan and OBJ
tanned IS to the pam
$500 Per Day Per Man.
Billy James and Nels Nelson, own
ers Of Discovery claim, are working
four shovelers and average per man
from $500 to $500 per day. Carl Whit
ham, brother Of the port engineer of
Seattle is working No 2, Little Ell
dorado. The only other working on
the creek is Fletcher Hamshaw, who
acquired by purchase and location
ground on four Of the best creeks and
probably is doing more work than all
others in the camp combined. His
party has a large camp on Wilson
creek
Old pioneers are buying or leasing
locations and leaving for supplies for
the winter. Jimmy Function, James
Cowles and Charles Freeman, Of Fair
banks. prominent miners, have leased
a bunch Of claims from Dr. Williams,
a lecturer and physician of Boston,
and work is to be started Immediate
ly.
Provisions are Scarce.
Provisions are scarce. Packers are
not bringing in enough for the de-
mand. There is suffering as men start
Improperly clad and with little food
and no money. They endure hardship
on the trail, exposure and hunger, fail
to make a strike at the diggings, go
broke, can't get food. start back i'm
mediately and report the camp no
good.
The old miners are prepared to start
in to the hills prospecting. Packers
make big money as they charge 81 n
pound for freight, but the trail may
get bad any time.
northern commercial boat arrived
on the upper Tanana with 100 tons Of
provisions, seventy miles from the dig
gings, unloaded and left Immediately
for more
Pack Trains Slow.
Pack trains are slow In arriving on
account Of rain. The men beg to buy
ups of -four or rice for 81.
Durham tobacco is $3.50 a package.
There is some sickness due to ex-
,osure to showers and wet, Doggy
,round of the camp. There is plenty
# meat. but no other food There are
10 roadhoises and no stores A pc
ition Is in circulation for a postof-
Ice
Men are coming and going by the |
ozens continually.
The average man stops three days, |
s he is not prepared to prospect
OF ESQ who left Mccarthy August |
0, 40 arrived. The rest turned back
t the Birthstone glacier. Many are
repairing to winter here at the dig
ings, which are 1000 feet above sea
vel.
Camp ls Unusual.
Sourdoughs say they never saw
imp like this. No effort has been ',
lade to establish town and little In
rest is shown.
Attorney Foster Of Seward jumped ,
claim owned by Billy James on Lit
Eldorado. He asserted that the !
'wer of attorney had not been re-
rded. This caused much indigna-
IN among the miners. +,
Men are mushing in from Dawson
0 miles. exhausted and starved They /
II pitiful tales Of misery on the trail
"a how they lost packs in the river. d
any horses have been lost on the o
cCarthy trail. c
sixty-five old-timers from Fairbanks =
We Just arrived. 1t is ruuored that s,
are on the way from Dawson. q
oscar freedman, the hotel man from ',
rdova, is on his way with pack I,
IN to open roahhouse, which Is a
lily needed c.