The daily Alaskan., 1913-12-22
INDIAN RIVER CONGLONi-
 ERATES UNDER OPTION

Quartz Creek, Dec. 2O-At last, after many years of prospecting, representing and assayiug, combined with a never give up feeling of hopefulness, the long-talked-of con glomerate deposits opposite the mouth of Quartz creek, along h. dian river, have been reported upon most favorably by an expert mining engineer, who has persuaded one of i the richest mining companies in America to get into communication with the owners of the hundred odd mineral claims in the cOnglOmerate region.
 During the last few weeks letters and telegrams have passed through the hands of T. A. Fifth, ot Dawson, who has been acting for nearly all the owners of the claims, and have resulted in a most practical couclu. sion.
 About 95 claims have been option ed and the company has promised 10 put core drills on several claims within ten days of the opening of navigation on the Yukon river in tn spring of 1914; commence the sys- tematic and miner-like prospecting, and to continuously work up to and including the fifteenth day of Oc- tober, 1914.
 The payment to be made, in case the options are taken up, will be nearly three-Quarters of a million dollars to the lucky owners.
 Some good assays have been made and as these assays were conducted by well known experts, entirely un~ connected with the property the fig ures are, without a shadow of doubt, quite dependable. About a score of the claims are not included in this option, as the owners arr asking a much higher price than the company, at present, will offer; but some willingness to join in the deal if a higher offer is made.
 To any outsider who never has seen this vast deposit of couglomer- ate, it sounds absurd to hear that some of the owners declare that much more gold vii be taken out of one claim than is now offered for the first group mentioned. Here, in deed. is a vast filed for a great company to explore.
 Each claim covers more than fif- ty acres, ad, as the deposit in places can be seen to extend to depth of 400 feet, imagination runs wild to think of the possibilities be- fore this vast area of seven square miles of cOnglomerate.
 At all events, the minds of the many owners of these much talked of claims will be set at rest in very few months.
 Some of our citizens, as well as creek residents, have held their claims for many yaers, naturally foreseeing just such an offer as this.
 c. S. Barwell, assisted by others, has spent about ten days surveying some of the claims with a jew to obtaining crown grants for the owners.
 Christopher Fothergin, an old timer of Quartz creek, has been most indefatigable in seeing the many scattered owners of the property and in getting plans and maps for the engineers, while T. A. Firth has conducted most of the office work.
 The lowest price offered is ST.. 900 per claim, while the highest cannot be bought at ten times this amount.
 Negotiations last year fell thru at the last hour, although the drills and all necessary plant were ready to be shippel into Yukon.
 Now there can be no delay be- cause the requisite documents have i been legally drawn up and accept | ed.
 A large staff of men will be at | work for about four months, and 1 much activity will be in evidence | over le whole of the conglIomreate | deposit.
 Quartz Creek, Dec. 2O-During ! the last three weeks three men in