The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-08-11
MINERS
 NEEDING WATER
 FOR CLEANUPS

ators of the Tolovana district is rain," said President R. c. Wood of the First National bank, who re gently returned from an extensive trip to that region. While there are constant showers in the town of Brooks" he continued, failing al most day and night, yet three miles up Livengood where it is most need ed, there has not been enough rain in the last six weeks to make steam enough for the boilers. However there is considerable work going on in that district"
 MT. Wood made the trip with R D. Menzie and Mine Inspector Bot Sommers, and all of them praise the Tolovana camp and operators highly The resources of the region are at their highest and there are years of prosperous work ahead of the opera tors there, especially when they get an unfailing supply of water and cheaper transportation methods.
 Some of the activities of the sev. eral creeks are noted below:
 On Livengood creek, proper, James Sampson and Mike Kelly are sinking a new shaft on the Jewell bench There still remains a good portion of their last winters dump which con. tains a great deal of the rich pay they uncovered last winter and which they are unable to clean up for lack of water.
 Harry Patterson, on the Italy claim, is hoisting steadily and sluic. ing when water conditions will per. init. He has for the present aban- doned his under ground scraper, al. tho he has not lost confidence in that machine for economical under. ground working.
 Colbert & Wurzbacher have finish. ed hoisting for the summer on the Muiretta claim and are now giving all of their attention to the sluicing of their last winters dump of which a good portion remains.
 Frank Gularte, AntOne EnOs and partners have taken out several pill. lars of fair ground on the Eagle bench, altho they are greatly handi. capped for water in sluicing.
 Brochu X Moquin.. on the Simon's fraction are opening up in a conser- vative way and, it is expected that, before the end of the season. they will have taken out very consider. able amount of gold.
 Frank Fontas & Tom McKinnon. on the Lietrim, are still working in the same good ground that has character. ized the claim since its discovery. Part of dump taken out by them a year ago last winter, as well as a portion of their last winters dump still remain unsluiced by reason of the scarcity of water. MT. Fontas has been slightly under the weather for the past few weeks but is i'm proving rapidly. He expects to take a well-earned vacation to the states on the last thru boat.
 Peterson Bros. and Tom McKinnon, on the Love lease are working a crew of about forty men. They ex. pect to finish with their present block of ground by the first of Sep tember.. This firm is busy stripping the overburden from their creek claim preparatory for open cut and hydraulic work next summer. They have a large area of ground to work should the results of their next sum. mer's operations justify it.
 Price & Co.,, on the Fish claim, are still drifting but are greatly hindered by the scarcity of water.
 Johnson & Dahl on the Banner bench are hoisting good pay. They too are being greatly retarded by the drought.
 Charlie Lynn and Chas. Greaner, on the Cans association, are sluicing continuously and are fortunate in be. ing able to secure the water from Myrtle creek. They recently encoun. tered some new pay but just how extensive it is remains to be proven.
 Clarence Dorflinger and partner, on the Ready Bullion claim, opposite the town of Brooks, have been steadily developing what promises to be a a large body of exceptionally good pay and which they have cross-cut for a distance of 1S2 feet. This is the farthest down stream claim in which pay has been found and is an encouraging prospect for the pay. streak to continue down LivengoOd creek. The ground has been well opened up by DOrflinger and his part. ner and deal has just been consum. mated by James Sampson to take over the Dorflinger interest in the lease. It is predicted that some heavy cleanups will be made from this ground during the remainder of the summer, as Sampson is pre- naring to 0nen m for very exfen