The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-11
DESPITE THE WEATHER, THE CITIZENS CORRESPONDENT AT BROOKS WRITES OF THE LAT EST HAPPENINGS IN THE TOLO vANA DISTRICT.

LIVENGOOD. Dec. Back again and frozen solid The weather has dropped until it is lowering the thir- ties heavily. We have had bolster. ous night or two of heavy wind and wild snow, but now it has settled into the clear and cold stunt inde. finitely.
 The little town is full of people returning to do their assessment work on all tides. While there Is nothing new to record in finds, much hope is placed on this winters pros pecting, especially on the left limit benches and over the left limit dI- vide It is freely admitted that there is plenty of gold over the left limit divide of Liyengood. open cut work showing fine results, and much will be done there this winter Thawa in this district do twice the work
 
 of the points in the Fairbanks dis trict, and it is no unusual thing for a couple of men to go to bedrock at fifty feet in three thaws.
 The Guggenheims are accredited with working quietly in this dis l,,1 from them the first of the year on extended options on various claims They seem to be satisfied with the prospects a. well as the prices placed on the properties, for the most part. Their acCumulations suggest hydraulic work, rather than dredging.
 After arduous trips over the trails now we'll nigh impossible from rough locks, niggerheads, stumps and the lack of sufficient snow to cover the latter, three good sized boilers have landed on the creek above dis coyery in good shape, all ready foc steaming.
 Several more are to be brought in as soon as possible, among them one for Dick Barthel's lay back of town. MT. Barthel and associates have put in nearly year on the streak back of the wireless, and have pay, it is reported, a hundred feet wide, with no limit reached on either side. This, it will be under stood, is a parallel streak 2,000 feet toward Brooks from the right limit paystreak further back, against the hill.
 A very considerable amount of prospecting is going on on the flats below town, as the drill is out of commission for the time being, ow ing to accident.
 Tommy Quirk and Scotty McPhec intend to bedrock hole hard by Lake City, three miles below Brook near the left limit, which they in tend to finish this winter.
 Sig Goodwick is sinking on 2l below, intending to reach bedrock and determine values there, if any Also Goodwick, with Otto Arndt, are to sink on No. 10 below, ground owned by Verdi and Stone.
 Frank McGarvey is at work doing the assessment on several claims about Lake City in which he is in terested, some of them forming link clear across the wide flats some miles below Brooks. Mrs. McGarvey and child are at present installed in a comfortable cabin at Lake City
 A French company is sinking to bedrock on Mo- below Livengood intending to make good if there is any good to be had.
 Albert Bell ct al, are talking of sinking three holes to bedrock at the mouth of Rosebud. Battin and Koebsch are intending to prove the value of their low on No z below right limit bench.
 J. F. Dillon has ceased work on the ground for the present cold spell but has not given up the good work, after the loss of one hole of dubious forma tion and no bottom. MT. Dillon is living in Brooks for the present, having rented a cabin office on the main street.
 Before the winter is over Sig Good wick contemplates sinking several holes to bedrock on the left limit benches between Livengood and Olive creeks on the Tolovana side of the divide. And Frank McGar- vey is arranging to sink three holes to bedrock on Ester creek, on the same divide.
 Alvin Martin reached bedrock at about a hundred foot depth on No.
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