The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-22
JUNEAU AGAIN
 CENTER OF OLD
 TIME STAMPEDE
Prospectors Are Crowding Into New Taku Mining
 District Tn Numbers

The mo ment of prospectors to the recently discovered mining dis trict in the Taku River country and the centralization of interest in the premises have caused people to recall the old stampede days. Juneau has again taken on the roll of an outfitting point for pros pectors, People with packs on their backs moving toward the water front is again a familiar sight.
 William Strong, owner and opera tor of Taku River boats, Patrick Lynch, who is operating diamond drills on the Eaton Williams prop critics, and others who have come into town over the week end, say two dozen prospectors' camps dot the banks of the river on both sides, and the river boats arc kept busy night and day trying to ac- commodate those desiring trans portation up the river. Many are waiting at the mouth of the Taku for an opportunity to be taken up- stream.
 Oldtime Stampede
 Nothing like it has been seen in years in this vicinity, according to mining men and oldtimers Prac- tically every prospector in the dis trict and many who have never 'prospecteEs before have g5ne to ri1e Taku or are planning to leave with in few days. Those who are not going themselves, are wiring for miners permits and grub stalking prospectors.
 MT. Strong has been busy taking in tons of freight, and capacity loads of passengers and others have gone into the district on the Alas ka-W Washington Airways seaplane Ketchikan and Juneau MT. Strong plans to leave Juneau for the Taku River every three days with pas sengers and supplies. He will leave tonight with several hundred tons of freight and a crew of men from the Alaska Juneau who will work the Big Bull Mining claims recent ly discovered by Vic Manville.
 There is more activity up the River than there is in Juneau. People are going in every day and more plan to come. I think there is no question but that there will be some very valuable property discovered, in fact several fine look ing prospects have already shown up," Bill Strong declared.
 Looks Good
 Pat Lynch, of Lynch Brothers, Seattle, the diamond drill firm, which is doing the drilling on the Tulsequah property for the United Eastern Mining Company, said things at that property look splen- did Ore is showing up to a depth of several hundred feet and the whole aspect is very satisfactory
 "E s i'm a ting conservatively, I would say that there are at least two dozen camps up the river with other men waiting at the mouth for boats to take them up. The Taku country in general looks very good from the prospecting aspect, though as yet there has been little actual prospecting done,' MT. Lynch said.
 T would not be surprised to see several good properties developed in the Taku district" he said. Mir Lynch plans to leave soon for the south but will return to the Tul- sequah claims later in the season.
 It is reported that one of Syd Barrington's Stikine River boats is to be transferred to the Juneau Taku run. Another report which is widely circulated is that be- tween one and two hundred people from Seattle, Vancouver and Vic toria, are making plans to join the stampede. These rumors have not been confirmed.
 Juneau hardware and grocery stores are outfitting men every day in increasing numbers, and the carpenter shops have more orders for boats to be built than can be filled for some time.