Valdez daily prospector., 1913-08-08
NEWS
 ABOUT STRIKE
Many Stampeders From That section--Advise Stampeders
 to Go Slow.

tion of the new diggings receiv- ed at the interior city:
 The first details of the find of placer on the headwaters of the Shushana, a tributary of the up- per Panama, to be received here are brought by Fred Best, an old-time Dawson man, who got in yesterday. He came down the White in a boat, which he took near the mouth of Beaver, or Snag. He was seven days com- ing from the scene of the strike to Dawson, about 275 miles. The fast time was made owing to the fact most of the journey was made down stream by boat.
 Best is one of the original party which staked in the dis trict. The strike was made in May by Billy James and Nels Nell son, while Fred was working near there on another proposition. Nelson was in Dawson shortly after the strike, and went back with few friends, who have staked since. They include Dud Mckinney, former mayor of For tymile; Tommy Doyle, of the Bonanza saloon, Dawson, Andy Taylor, the White river guide, and several others. The boys in the White river copper district !also crossed to the strike and staked. Jimmy Kingston, who left here recently for the head of the White, is said to have gone over to stake. tt is believed prac- tically all the men in the White river copper fields, and probably a number of the survey crowd have staked. Men from the Cor dova side were coming in, and several streams already were Staked when Best left there.
 "The strike" says Best, ''is thirty miles from the point where the Beaver, which is the upper part of Snag, crosses the bOun- dary line. By going up the White with polling boat, and mush- ing by way of Snag and Beaver across country. one cannot well miss it. The men from the Cop per river side have a mush of 90 miles to make, and have to come through Scolai pass, and over the glacier.
 "The discovery claim was on stream named by the discov- erers Bonanza. This stream is : miles long, and runs into John son creek, named after a Swede prOspector. Johnson runs into Shushana several miles below Bonanza.
 "A tributary of Bonanza, known as Little Eldorado, is stalk ed. Stalking also was made at the mouth of Number Eight pup, on the left limit of Bonanza; and a little farther up, on the right limit, the boys staked draw a mile and a half long. known as Coarse Money gulch. l got num- Der three on Bonanza. James and Nelson, who made the find, staked before me. Practically all of Little Eldorado and Bonanza have been staked, and some dis tance over a divide to the north ward, the boys have staked on what is known as Gold Run, and one or two other creeks.
 II will not state how much the boys were taking out, but will say it will be camp. There is plenty of water in the creeks, and it rains often. When l" left McKinnon, Doyle, James, Nelson | and others had up their sluice- boxes and were shoveling in. The ground is shallow, not more than
 four or six feet deep, and is thawed in summer to bedrock. II will return in few days with grub, which I came out to get. I heiieye the hest way there is to pole up the White The original creeks are all staked. There is much gravel in the country. I am not encouraging Eanyene. toasp in." IA g
 Reports yesterday were that as high as s8D to $i2O 2 day to the man was shoveled in. But Best will not talk on that. Sid Bar rington sent two men up yester- day with a horse, to go in from Coffee, and others are planning to go, but there is no general movement. The fact the cOun-