Seward daily gateway., 1926-07-03

his claims the distance Is about one and one-har miles. One mile of this is what they call the Blue Gulch of the old channel of Mills creek. The BIue Gulch is something like 40 or 30 feet deep and Mr. Michaelsen has sunk a shaft 30 feet when water stop ped him. The gravel prospee from the grass roots down was very en- couraging. A dollar piece was pick ed ID at one time and many 50 cent and 25 cent pieces have been found Alongside of the gulch on the benches good prospects were found, averaging from two to three cents pan.
 MT. Michaelsen has cut the head Of the Blue Gulch where she broke of 600 feet up this spring 10 bedrock from the water, in fact he saw bed rock all the way from Mills Greek up. which is a distance of about 800 feet or more. He crossed the chan pel so feet up from Nils creek which shows another pay streak 50 feet wide.
 Last winter he made windlass and brought up a pump to the head Of the Blue Gulch expecting to find the channel there of at least 30 feet In stead of finding one channel he found three. as benches, pointing for the Blue Gulch which showed and proved the gold lead to the gulch- Afte- he got so high he failed 10 get Rny more gold so cleaned up expecting to find little in the boxes but in taking inc rifles of he kept the head Of wa l fer on and got 50 or 50 colors 1n the last pan unexpectedly. The bozes ] were then moved down to the lower .. channel on Mills creek.
 He then commenced rocking 40 , pans and recovered S1.60 in less than three hours. He then rocked tWO . short days after that and got S9 w0rth : of gold which he sold to Orlander : the local jeweler. Two years ago hs . was piping there with snow water | for five days and cleaned up S1O7 o' . course gold. One Of these nuggets : was in the neighborhood Of & and ' the other a $40 nugget was found ' in the pan, the total paying SS-5o !. This was in the center of the chan ' nel. At the present time he is righ . on the edge of the pay gravel wherf . six feet are revealed
 : With 3 wing dam and sluioes, shUT |. cling in, during the years of 1S96 '
 1901 gold from the head Of the Blu
 channel to the value Of S160.000 va
 recovered by the Polly mining con
 nanv. the former name Of the preseT
 company. Mining activities came !
 halt at that time due 10 the 1aS
 that the pay dropped and the Uwns'
 came 10 the conclusion the EaluE
 laved in the bench. However n
 property continued to pay sust aeo'
 miners wages. The average dEy
 work ID g shovel was about SS9
 ss0 10 the man. This was from 1i
 moufb I'D to the course gold Ss- [
 Mills har on Mills creek. After th
 the gold layed in the benches a
 that is where MT. Nichaelssn Is nU
 He has a pipe and all the necessa
 lumber on the ground and al
 wants now is water in his ditch. T
 ditch was damaged to the extent
 s5 900 in 1917. He is nov ready mine as he has quit prospecting Providing MT. MiOhaelssn can { pose of one-ffth of his claims, whi he is willing to do for S5yeo0, he tends to immediately reconstruct ditch from this money and Put ter on the ground. This is al expense, he states, necessary opening the property. He has fol prospects all over his claims and anyone wants to come out and D, ! pect for themselves they may do \ at any time. He says il is like m H other properties in the Ts-r1ti