The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-02

rom Los Angeles to Zielke under
 recent date, Keys states that he ex-
 poets to work his ground next sum-
 mer and employ quite a few men,
 and is figuring on being able to
 count on the aid of the railroad
 up to near the mouth of Moose
 creek at least. Lienfelder, working
 about mile below Keys, took out some pay this season with the aid of helper who, unfortunately took i'll early in the season. As Lien fielder could not get another man, he had to do the work alone, and consequently his cleanup was not as large as it otherwise might have
 been. He also figures largely on the aid of the government railroad and expects to work his claim next season on larger scale.
 Across low divide at the head waters of Eva creek, tributary to the Totatlanika river, some very rich quartz has been discovered carrying values in gold, bismuth and arsenic. Ed Quinn, who made the discovery of this rich quartz ore, had been working in this region steadily for the past eighteen months with the help of two men. MT
 Quinn, who had built his hopes on the extention of the railroad, which would have made it possible for him i to ship the ore to smelter, went to the expense of brushing out a road from his ground to the rail road near 43-mile, a distance of approximately 12 miles. He also did considerable excavating work to put this road through, and although the road has not been completed quite, it is suitable for double-ender traffic during the winter season. So confident was Mr Quinn that he would be enabled to ship the ore on the government railroad to Ne mana for final shipment to the smelter, that he invested in a very large quantity of ore sacks and took out considerable ore in readiness for shipment, which he expected i to be able to make by one of the last boats this season. The aband- onment of the old line has upset his plans a little, and he left for the States during the fore part of last September on a business visit. He has cached large quantity of grub and the sacks and expects to re- 1 turn over the ice early in the spring ! and will make shipment as soon as railroad facilities will permit it.
 Messrs Cook & Murphy, on the claims adjoining Quinn's, farther upstream, are working in wet ground necessitating pumps and other ma chlnery. They have very rich quartz, carrying high values in gold and arsenic, but will not be able to do nything with their ground until they can get the necessary machinery there. Johnson & Pear son, just below Cook & Murphy, are about in the same fix.
 MT. Quinn sent forty samples of his ore to big smelter in Colorado for assay purposes some time ago and received notification to the ! effect that the samples averaged [ $200 per ton in gold alone.
 On Moose creek, at it's head i waters and just across the low di- vide from Quinn's property, Zielke has located some free milling quartz, | but an assay of the quartz has not ; yet been made to determine the 1 values carried.
 All of the above claims are said to be above timberline and great : difficulty is experienced by the miners and prospectors in this region | in getting the necessary wood for : fuel and other purposes. There are [ said to be traces of coal veins in ! the country adjacent to the work i lngs of these men, but they figure { that it would be much cheaper to , buy the coal than to nina it This !