The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-29
est claims on Eldorado.

the frontier or elsewhere, but we queS- ton his judgment regarding future new diggings in Alaska. His own memories of Alaska camps should show him the baselessness of his prophecy. When he went down to Fortymile and Circle on his ventures he passed dozen creeks that had been "prospected" by good men. Els pecially interesting is the fact that hundreds of men went by the Klon- dike. Some few prospected up that stream. But in spite of the richness of the first tributaries and even of the lower part of the river itself, they failed to find any coarse colors Later. Carmack found his rich prospect on bench about nine feet high and the Dawson stampede began.
 carly nineties, practically all the min- CTS in the interior were centered on
 
 good" men among them, too. They went all over the basin of the river some poor creek diggings. such as Poker creek. New riches have been uncovered in that basin ever since with the result that Fortymile river has produced more gold each year for l the past twenty years than Il ever did ! in the palmy days of the hrSt pioneers The history Of Fairbanks has been
 the same to a certain extent There are two kinds Of prospeetorse those
 who go into the virgin wilderness ze
 look for new diggings. and those weis
 prospect in the vicinity ot dsggtags az- ready discovsrgd rhs frsG siusss
 have a hard ,1-as sL a 4a,t srslaaae don't stand ors teap:4 In auna'@t Of finding any-h ls .r ma 3iusatc 1mr we-.A <-skarg "Aa ,,seumt in.,s, n. -as- a.s,, sl1S 1gits 1ai, i:iu,v,n gnu !. -cs as las's uaGl g~etfn' t'hlnet q 1-sa r.s s,s lai's Man n tht cNssss
 1-.-s 1.c sn al,se avn grnunt as m s ! Aag ssr sahtrS Aute 4sauu pn m 9 i .h.s vrxssrs <stssn fanmms III nev. pAv d1rs lz ss,s F'4-'sn1.s.t enuitne tnt
 the sane sAlzs $ n'unt 1r 1uammr III the Tolovzs-a. Fsaete ,rqe,s ,n,e nihr Tansnla ,rseasAres>,
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 sans left she es-tg a am.. ind Gsna | declaring Ina; ,hs c4@g had 3eeu worked out \ hopeful -t1a 5-a scrue prospecting on wha, $ non known g.
 the third beach hns wi.1 rsszIE,
 known to all Then after lew rtth
 years. more people went away Ant
 some new ones came. The prospect
 ing zone has continually widened ana
 more new camps have been from tlms
 lime found And more will be founs
 # we judge the future by the pas
 Not only will pay be found in sections ] not yet prospeeted but il will be found
 in |. oas that are supposed to have been thoroughly 'prospected."
 Down in California. which was over
 run with prospectors 50 years ago ant
 where mining has been in progres ever since. new diggings, both placer and quartz, are even now being found New diggings. mark you. Only tn. other day We read of a foolish, Or 1 course, and enthusiastic prospectol
 who started out with a jackass or two to hunt fortune in the hills. He journeyed along a turnpike which ha3 been travelled by stage coaches for half a century. Seeing a streak O. different colored dust in the road ahead and not knowing much about prospecting any way he stopped to examine the pinkish dust. It felt grit ty and there was a dyke of rock visi- Die on the h1ll side or the same color. So he took a pan full of the dirt down
 to the creek and washerd it. He found lot of fine colors. His investi- gations ended by his stalking a quartz ledge that he sold for $40O,0OO cash And this rich ledge ran across road that had been travelled by tens of thousands of prospectors, miners and mining experts in previous years.
 No. we can't agree with Mir Leak that nothing of value remains to he discovered in Alaska. Rather we would agree, with the government ex-
 perts and thousands of hopeful, hust- ling Alaskans. that the country has as l yet only been scratched on the surface
 and that new diggings will be found for many years to come.
 The Lang Stove, born in Alaska.