The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-19
THREE PLANTS WILL WORK IN
 OLIVE CREEK
MEN TELL OF FUTURE OF TOLOVAEA CAMP.

Although they agree that it will
 be practically impossible for any great amount Of gold 10 come ou,
 of the TolOyaua district this sum
 m"r. there will be at least three
 good sized plants working on Olive
 creek alone. according 10 the state
 mcnts of returned stampeders. They
 will be that of Lynch. Nerdier X
 Stone on the lower end of discoy cry. Gus Peterson on the upper end of number 1 below discovery, and Cascaden. PiersoH X Johnson on the upper half of discovery.
 LOOKS LIKE OLD TIMES Tt certainly looks good to see plants being hauled over nearly i'm passable trails and 10 see the amount of work along a prospecting line which is being done in the Tolo yaua said one returned Fairbanks an yesterday Everybody is busy either sinking holes or hauling out fits, and the scene is good re hinder to one who has seen both of the early days of Fairbanks" l NEW PAY STRUCK.
 That Dave Cascaden and asso cia,es have struck pay on the third tier bench. opposite number above discovery, on Liyengood creek. is the latest report Clarence Dorfling CT stating that they have five feet of dirt which will average about seven cents to the pan. This pay was struck on ground high up on ! the rigEt limit bench, about 1,S0G ! feet from the creek proper. Teddy Hudson. who arrived in town Sat urday, also brings word of pay be 1 ing found oE number ? above OF ] Lillian creek. by Billy Barker, the
 Ester creek mining man. Lillian
 creek comes into Liyeugood at : | below.
 ! PETERSON NEARLY THERE. | J. D. Mcintyre, the Garden Is land freighter who reached town 1 Saturday night from the Tolovana says that Gus Peterson's big plant 1 has nearly reached its destination i He himself assisted in hauling in | the hoist and other equipment II i is expected that the big boiler will | be landed on Olive creek today 1 Robert Logan, the local freighter came into town with Mcintyre. They i report that they succeeded in land l ing 1he wireless plant at Lake City
 WATER GCARCE.
 ] In the opinion of Luther (. Hess
 the local mining man who returned 1 from a trip to the Toloyana last week. the scarcity of water for sluic | ing purposes will be tie one great i drawback to mining operations il' the Toloyana district There are i no springs in that country and the snowfall there was not SC heavy as it was in the vicinity of Fair | banks. The operators will, there l fore. have to depend on the rainfall ! fer their siuicing water after the snow goes.
 | It is understood from other sources 1 however. that the operators of Olive creek contemplate the construction of long ditch for the purpose of | bringing water to the scene of their 1 operations. it being their intention ! to have the intake several miles above the mouth of Olive, on the Tolovana river Il is believed that l the nature of the soil is such that a ditch could be constructed with
 out a great deaf of trouble, although | it would involve the expenditure of a considerable sum of money.
 Excepting Liyengood all of the rreeks of the Toloyana district are very short, and the supply of water they will be able to produce, even in the rainy season, will be very small It is therefore, probable, according to returned stampeders that it will be necessary to construct ditcl es all over the country, and secure the general water supply from | the TOloyana river.
 WORK GOING ON.
 Luther c. Hess, who returned to town last week from a general trip
 over most of the Tolovana district brings a clear and concise state ment of all of the work being car
 ried on there He is of the opin-
 ion that the country generally will
 show up well as low grade mining camp He bases his opinion on there
 i Among the creeks visited by him was Olive creek where Lynch, Yer dier X Stone struck the pay sey- eral weeks ago, and where Gus Pet trSOn Ill operate llIIS Sulu4llcl. Peters0n's operations, however, will be more along the line of prospect ing than Of mining. Cascaden, Pierson X Johnson have sunk two
 holes on the upper half of discovery
 claim, on the right limit of tie creek
 but failed to find pay. They are now sinking on the left limit of the creek on the same claim
 Olive creek flows into the Tolo- vana river from the right limit, about three miles above the mouth of Livengood creek, which comes in on the same limit. About one
 mile above the mouth of Olive
 creek and on the same side, is
 Ester creek. A few men are sinking
 on Ester creek and some have
 reached bedrock. but so far without material results in the way of pay.
 Going up LivengoOd creek, num- Der 10 below is the first claim on which prospecting is being carried on Burke and Sullivan are work ing there, their shaft being down
 to a depth of 200 feet with no bed
 rock in sight They found small
 prospects in the gravel wherever stratum of it was encountered.
 They have a small upright boiler and
 Little Giant hoist
 No work is being carried on be