The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-08-17
MINING NOTES
FROM CH|SANA

CHISANA, July 2O-There is con.
mining activity in this camp
during the present season, and in the
of $50 men are busi1y
engaged in the effort to extract gold
from the ground. Most of the work Is
being done on Bonanza creek, with
very satisfactory results. On No. II
"Dud Mckinney is in rich pay and
pans running as high as $50 are OBJ
tanned. James and Nelson are entend-
a ditch at cost of $4,000. Many of
the operators are sluicing on the diff.
ferent creeks and considerable pros
pecting is being done.
The great surprise of the year was
occassioned by the richness of the pay
found on Bonanza creek above Coarse
Money creek as far No. 10. James
Murie on No. 10 having one cleanup
Ill coarse SOlQ.
The season is very backward and
little gold is being recovered in CON-
parison to what would have been done
had there been a plentiful supply of
water. All above claim No. 6, on Bon
ANA creek and its tributaries are
for lack of water. When
there is water to work with the men
are worked night and day trying to
make up for lost time.
The following is a resume of the
workings on the different creeks of
the camp.
Bonanza Creek.
Best & Green with a crew of five
men are sluicing on No. 3, and are
with fair results.
Mcclellan & Willy and crew of five
men are slucing on the upper end Of
No. 3, Fraction and are working in
good ground.
F T. Hamshaw's crew of twelve men
have passed the line of No.4 and are
now working on the lower end of No.
5. The ground they in is quite deep
and still frozen on bedrock. They
are also working on the lower end of
No. 6, above the dam.
Max Altman with a crew of nine
men have taken out a number of cuts
from the point below Hamshaw's camp
on No. 6, upstream and has met with
good success.
Briggan & Hooker with a crew Of
five men are working the lower end Of
No. Z, from the old workings of last
season, upstream.
John Ludwig and partner are sluc-
ing on No. Z, Fraction, which was
worked successfully by Billy Taylor
last season. They have not as yet
made big cleanup.
Hagan & Smedley with a crew of
men are working on No. 8, and so far
have not become enthused over the
Discoverer Billy James and brother
with a crew of six men are working
on No. 9, stripping the ground with a
hydraulic nozzle connected at the end
of 1000 feet fiume extended from
the mouth of Coarse Money Creek.
James & Nelson are extending a
ditch, wrich will connect with the
f1ume now in use by James. This
ditch, which will connect with and ex-
tend down creek to No. 4, crossing
from right to the left limit of the creek
at the upper end of No. 6. The esti-
mated cost of the ditch being $4,000.
On the lower end of No. 10, Bob
Clark and partners sluicing.
On the upper end of No. 10, James
Murie with a crew of II men sluicing
with good money in sight.
On the lower end of No. II Huntley
& Moore, laymen of bud Mckinney,
sluicing, alongside old workings.
On No. II. bud Mckinney with a
crew of men sluicing and good pay
in sight, as high as $50 pans being OBJ
tanned.
On the upper end of No. II Fraction,
Wright & Anderson with a small crew
are sluicing on good ground.
On No. ~. George Bitner and part
ner with a crew of men sluicing, the
ground showing up good.
No. 10, is being prospected by
James, Eagan and Ryan.
No. II, is being prospected by John
ny Nichols for Sam Shucklin.
johnson Creek.
Hawkins & Dahl are prospecting
their creek and bench claims, located
between the towns of Chisana and
Bonanza, as yet no report has been
given out regarding the results of their
noel,