The Seward gateway., 1922-10-20
IAIus GREEK PROPERTY
 SHOW GREAT PROMISE

| Robert MichaelSon, the Well-knoWn placer operator on Mills creek, arriv- l cd in town on Wednesdays train, and 1 will remain here until Monday. MT. EMichaelson ha one of the best placer properties on Mills creek, tributary Ito Canyon creek, This property was located about 2S years ago by MT. | lEIichaelson and four associates, the original location consisting of eleven claims, of 20 acres each. The firm took out about $136,000 from the ground, at which time MT. Nichaelson and Jack Renner, the latter also a well-known miner on Canyon creek purchased the interests of the other partners
 After working the claims for few years MT. Michaelson and MT. Renner dissolved partnership, dividing up the properties Up to the present time about $2O0,O0O has been taken out. The pay streak is about 50 feet in width, bed rock being found at 26 feet, about  ating an everlasting dump. Improve ments consist of several buildings and Ia blacksmith shop. About 400 feet of pipe carries the water to a No. One Giant which has been installed, the values being carried into Hume, which at the present time is too badly routed to work properly. MT. Michael son at present is working his claim with a crude rocker, and averaging about $14 per day of twelve hours. Three average pans gave values of 47c $160 and $2.16 respectively. The for nation is slate the gold being in pock cts.
 She property is considered valu- able one, and is lying practically dom mant through lack of capital. It has proven values, the district being rich in placer gold. Properly worked with improved machinery it would be bon anza.
 Mills creek is in the Moose Pass dis trict about 50 miles from Seward, and is tributary to Canyon Creek, where the Canyon Creek Development Com pany is erecting large dam to con- trol the water for it's valuable proper ties It has been a steady gold produc- er for years, lack of roads and trans portation facilities badly hampering development of a number of rich mines.
 Robert Michaelson, the owner of the Mills creek properties is an Oldtimer in Alaska, having first came to the territory forty-eight years ago, land ing at W1angell MT. Michaelson mined in the vicinity of Wrangell for short time and then went into the Cassiar district wheret he remained eigh years While here he made the acquain tance of Miss Nellie Cashman, who journyed to this far-off camp to help the scurvey sufferers. He was one of the vast number of men nursed by Miss Cashman, and relates many stor- ies of the heroism of this intrepid AL askan.
 Leaving the Cassiar MT. Michaelson and companion sailed in 22-foot Col umbia river fishing boat for Yakutat, where he mined the beaches for a time. From Yakutat he struck out across the Gulf of Alaska for the Cook Inlet district, landing at what is now Cooks Inlet, from there going up to Anchorage Point where he was the discoverer and locator of promis- ing claims. He mined here three years or more From Anchorage Point he travelled to Hope, on Turnagain Arm, at which place he mined until 1895, following which he prospected Canyon and Mills creek, locating the claims he now owns.
 MT. Michaelson, after AS years in Alaska is as optimistic over the min ing outlook as in his younger days, and is now certain that fortune is within his grasp.