The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-05
GENERAL NEWS OF NEW CAMP
 HEREIN TOLD
kTERESTING HAPPENINGS Al BROOKS ARE TOLD BY
 CORRESPONDENT

of the Crooks $ pay on Clarence Dor fingers ground is all that was saiI of it. One can pan 80 cents to the pan almost anywhere on the dump The gravel is four feet high also. which makes the proposition a yer. promising one. The ground is owned by Dorflinger and hoegley. and the lay is owned by Henry Crook, Dorflineer and Cub" Bair. nephew of Sam Godfrey
 Dan Dooling and associates have located pay below the Crook lay, which they have every reason to believe is continuation of the same.
 Lynn X Co are ditchng prepar. ing for slucing water. while NIT. Lynn is en route here from Fair banks with his plant
 The Eglar drill. under the man agement of Tom Mckinuon. ha, Is cated the continuation of pay on the Craig ground and has now been moved up to Gus Peterson's 1oWe3 lay to search for the continuation of the same
 Pay has also been located on th" upper reaches of the creek, about the 20's. and 1t is now considered that the upper or hitherto known streak is merely a split off thn main pay, the latter curyin2 and crossing the creek to the other side It is believed that the doubts that existed at the upper end of Liycn- good are now pretty well solved and that some money will be com ing out by fall where none existed before
 Moving the drill and the tean- nereabouts Is matter for the loss of all chances in the hereafter One teamster moving six logs had borg horses begged down and had lo give it up. Moving the drill is a study ir curves, as it vas down iii bogs. up in front and down in miro uuttI moving it seemed nothing short ot Il miracle.
 Mrs Alenwnll and Mrs Battiu have taken advantage of a pretty grove of small trees about their place to make the ground into as pretty d little park as one would wish to see. They have executed the work with mattn"Ls in d"ton' mined fashion and the result oI their work is pleasure to all eye.
 he town is exceedingly quiel, the lnenfolks having all gone 10 work, departed for the new strike, Nenana or some other place.
 Business is dead and, although something like $1OO,O0O has already been paid out for wages here, there is not a tangible cent in sight.
 The Log Jam and neighborhood resembles a modern ship building yard.
 The crying need of the place is a order to cash checks and get change, also to save men packing the gold dust to town on their backs, d painful and laborious proceeding and most unprofitable in every way.
 The new short cut to the termi nal on the Tolovana is in abcyanC', awaiting the action of certain par ties, but all admit it is indispensa- hle in bad water on the upper TolO Vana. The Newland tram will s"ryn nicely from West Fork to LiycnGoOd when the water is good in the Tolo- vana
 Dr. EvanG has had number Of serious patients in his hospital, and it would seem that Adolpi Holt man will be obliged to go to Fair banks to have his leg treated or removed, so stubborn are the in juries he received in the crushing fall of slabs of frozen dirt. He was hurt at the workings of Patter- son & Finley while shoveling in on the dump.
 Carl Christensen intended to go to Nenana, but is still confined in the hospital with typhoid pneumonia.
 Mrs Martin had the misfortune to step on {, nail, hurting foot very badly, but is now convales cent.
 A Guggenlleim representative Is now at the mouth of the Tolovana river awaiting transportation here to examine the property taken oven on option. No ? above, creek clairC. hae HOW been optioned with the balance of the dredgible ground about town.
 Vance Harris is having a slow time with the mail. Although he leaves Fairbanks on Mondays. such are the roads that the mail is scarcely available in our village un- til the following Friday.
 Judge Dillon arrived right sid up with sore feet but received quite a little sum in royalties on gold dust as salve. which ought to help some.
 Senator Gaustad, Mir. Ringseth