The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
FIRST GOLD POKE
FROM SHUSHANNA
REACHES DAWSON
Andy Taylor and Tommy
Doyle Bring 1877 Ounces,
Two Days Washings,
From New Fields
FIELDS VERY. RICH
BUT TRAILS IN HARD
Warn Starnpeders to Take
Horses and Ample Outfits
When They Go
tspeci.I corre.p1ondence, 70 The caIll

Especial Correspondence to The Csllt
e. DAWSON. Aug. THE receipt of the
first poke of gold from the new shu-
sbanna strike. 200 miles west of Daw-
son. stirred this old town to the center
and hundreds have stampeded from
the old diggings Andy Taylor and
Tommy DOYLE brought in the gold via
the Canadian governments new trail
.to. Coffee Creek landing. on the Yukon.
100 miles above Dawson, then came
down by steamer. TAYLOR says:
The gold which we brought down
was taken from Discovery claim on
Little Eldorado. creek and was show
eled into sluice boxes by four men in
two. days. Its exact weight is 1917
ounces
THE gold is coarse and of high
grade. 1t is similar in appearance to
the gold from Jack Wade creek. The
pieces range mostly from the size of
a faxseed to the size of an ordinary
red bean, with. finer dust also plen-.
tiful
Discovery on Little Eldorado is
owned by Billy James NeIs Nelson and
Billy Johnson. They also own other in
terests on the same creek and on Bo-
nanza. the first creek struck In the
vicinity, and on some of the other
creeks. Gold has been discovered on
most of the creeks.
ALL CLAIMS PAY
Bonanza creek seems to have pay
on All claims from the mouth to the
head. The stream is 19 claims long.
Pay also is located on the Chatenda.
known also as Johnson creek, from
the mouth of Bonanza down, and possi-
l.ly is also on Johnson above the juno
tion.
.c,a-,-ev, 81 inns :.re ctal,od On Jtt+1a
I1ldorado eight on Glacier, seven on
Gold Run. two on Chicaken, three or
four on Coarse Money. Other creeks
staked include Three Pup, a tributary
or Bonanza: Skookum a branch of Lit
tie Eldorado; Discovery Pup, off Gold
Rum the Chevulda known there as
+. Elderado. and Wilson, named after the
president
Streams flowing into Wilson are
Glacier. Gold Run and Eldorado. The
others named are tributary to Bonanza.
The creeks mentioned are all above
timber line. and only willows are in
evidence. On Bonanza and Little Ell
dorado the miners have to haul wood
for cooking three to four miles. The
timber belt extends up Johnson to the
mouth of Bonanza and touches the
lower part of Wilson EIdorado and
Glacier Johnson and Wilson both
flow eastward into the Chisana. known
also. to some as the Shushanna. The
gold bearing streams IN short, as To-
!. .eated, lie between the Chatenda and
the Chevulde, otherwise known as
johnson and Wilson. These streams
are old glacial moraines. and the gravel
. in them is. three to four feet deep on
: the average, and not frozen, and has no
muck on its surface. Considerable
wa ter flows down the streams. Little
Eldorado was carrying three sluice
heads-.when we left.
GOLD Is COARSE
The gold is so coarse and rough It
evidently has travelled little and seems
to have. been left there as the re-
suit OF glaciers cutting through quartz
leads on those high exposed table
lands. James and Nelson made the
discovery when over at the mouth OF
Bonanza looking for quartz. They
soon afterward located also on the
other streams
The miners located in the district
had agreed on: SO. much work for rep
resentation. I believe IT was some.
thing like eight by; eight by six. Labor
there is counted at SIS to $25 a day
under the present. conditions of such
great cost of getting in supplies.
= we were 12 days coming down from
the strike to Coffee Creek, onsthe Yukon,
where we took the steamer for Daw-
son. We brought three horses, and
will go back that way in few days.
The government. crew is building a
fine pack trail from Coffee to the head
OF the White. Two boats are being
made for ferrying the Donjek.
The country is full of caribou,
mountain sheep, re bbits, ptarmAan
and other game, which can be had
near the diggings. The fish are plenti-
ful in Beaver and the Beaver lakes.
Any one going lin should have a %
and a large rifle, and fishing tackle.
No one should attempt TO go there
without horses, as 1T is a long trip
after leaving the head Of navigation,
and one can. not much more than get
in and back without a big outfit. No
one there is prepared to supply any
one else. 1t will be folly for rush
to take place into the country without
every one being supplied.
When we left the diggings 25 men
had arrived from the Cordova side via
Social pass, and some were men >who
had come up the Tanana river from the
Fairbanks region. They were scour-
ing the country to locate. BY this
time many more must have. arrived
by that route