Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-17
VALDEZ CREEK STRIKE REPORT
 ENCOURAGING
MEN STILL LEAVING ANCHORAGE FOR CANTWELL-60 MILES
 FROM THE STRIKE.
OLDTIMERS STAMPEDE
Few In Seward Are Preparing to De- part; Awaiting Further Particu-
 lars Before Moving.

Quoting from the Anchorage Times with reference to the reported plac- CT strike in the Valdez Creek dis trict, the Inlet paper has the follow ing to say:
 Determined to see for themselves what there is to the report of new discoveries in the district east of Cantwell, half dozen or more we'll known residents of Anchorage join- ed the stampede today, leaving for Cantwell on the afternoon train. Upon arrival at Cantwell tomorrow, they will hit the trail for the Val deg creek section in search of the place where the new find is said to be made.
 Among those leaving today were Chief of Police Lew Powless, Chas. L. Cadwallader, Huie Goodell, Lyle Larsen, E. L. Everett, B. B. Mozee and one or two others. They had the regulation mushers packs, small outfits of grub and a variety of cooking utensils and some miners tools.
 "The stampeders do not know any more about the strike than those who left earlier, which is not very much, and the reports possessed by them are somewhat at variance. They are all experienced mushers, however, and eager to have a look at the country and do a little pros pecting on their own account. It is not their first stampede and they will not feel the disappointment as keenly as less experienced men might, if nothing much is found.
 Garrison received a message Sun- day telling him of the finding of prospect on Timber creek tributary of Valdez Creek, and he started for the district to investigate, intending to return to CantNell next Friday. Carlson and a number of others are Interested in the district and all of the creeks there have been staked for many years and most of them have been thoroughly prospected.
 Louis Jensen, at Cantwell, who phoned news of the reported strike lno Anchorage, reports that the men who left Anchorage last night arriv- ed at Cantwell early today and start ed immediately for the Valdez sec ton, more than sixty miles distant Jensen's advice to others contemplat- ing stampeding is to await the re- turn of Carlson, who will be able to tell exactly what the prospect amounts to.
 Receipt of reports of a movement of oldtimers from Cantwell over toward the Valdez Creek section eliminated last evening in the de- parture of a crowd of stampeders from Anchorage, headed for the scene of an alleged strike, informa- lion concerning which is very mea- ger. The crowd, numbering about II men, left town shortly after nine o'clock on a speeder, the in- tention being to overtake the reg ular passenger train at Curry and proceed from that point today as far as Cantwell, which is the gate way to the Valdez Creek section.
 "The reports received in Anchor age were somewhat conflicting, pa,- ticularly regarding the location of the strike" and the values found. 1 The members of the party leaving Anchorage were not sure where they were going but expected to ob- l tain the necessary details upon ar- rival at Cantwell. They appeared 10 be under the impression that tho ind had been made on some creek northeast of Valdez creek, at a distance of about 50 miles from Cantwell. And the reported values ranged from 30 cents to the pan to S3."
 F. J. Rogers, oldtime mining man at Broad Pass, advised the Times as follows:
 "Quite little excitement is agi- tating the inhabitants of the rail- road belt adjacent to Cantwell, fol- lowing the report of $3 dirt in the old channel of Valdez Creek. The word was brought to Carlson's road