The Alaska daily empire., 1914-04-14
LITTLE WINTER WORK
 IN CHIsANA DISTRICT

A mining engineer, known all over Alaska, who went to the Chisana to make an examination of that country, writing from Mccarthy, under date of March 24, just after returning to that place from Chisana, to a member of The Empire editorial stan, gives the following comprehensive statement of conditions in that camp:
 "There is very little more known of the ChIsana district at the present time than there was last fall as many of the claim holders went out in the fall and no further work has been done on their claims. Many in fact the great majority of the claims in the district, are above timber line and as most of the men at work are pros pectors their wood for thawnig has to be 'necked' up to the claims two or three miles and 1t takes the ambition out of a man pretty fast when he has to hook himself onto the sled and drag his timber to thaw the ground Add ed to this is the fact that large DOT ton of the ground is thawed near the bedrock and after the prospector has sunk his hole for days or weeks he runs into water and Is driven out. It is probably safe to say that over half of the owners know no more of the value of the ground than they did when they commenced work. The val ue of the claims will not be known till they commence sluicing next summer.
 Most of the work Is being done on the tributaries of Johnson and Wilson creeks though prospects have been found on Trail and Bow with their tributaries and on the Beaver which flows into the White river. Bonanza and Rhyolite flow into Johnson and a number of pups whose names do not know. Shamrock, Coarse Money, Little Eldorado, and Canyon flow into Bonanza. Fine Money and Gold Bot tom are pups flowing into Coarse Mon. ey with Snow Gulch, Bug Gulch, Pen. siye Pup, Ptarmigan and Skookum pups on Little Eldorado. The main tributaries of Wilson are Glacier, Big Eldorado. and Alder creeks with Sar- gent, Paulson, Dry, Chicken and Gold Run flowing into Glacier
 "The town of Chisana Is several miles from the creeks but little set clement called Bonanza has sprung up at the junction of Bonanza and John son. However, Chisana will be the main town as 1t is most favorably sit uated as regards freight, wood and water. It is well laid out and has several hundred log cabins as well as several stores. Freight from McCar- thy which is by far the best route yet found averages about twelve cents a pound and most of the camp sup plies are comparatively cheap consid- ering the distance they have to be transported. Flour sells at about $2O sack, bread fifty cents a loaf, meals $2, and drinks fifty cents each.
 There is a mail service handling the first class mail twice month though this should be improved as the people in the district number about five hundred and there will be more in the summer. It would also be great benefit to the camp if the road commission had the funds to keep several men at work on the glacier as portions of the trail over it are very dangerous and should be carefully guarded. There have been a number of horses lost in the crevaces and there will be great many more unless the trail over the bad portion of the gla- cier is improved"