HOT SPRINGS POST
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SENSIBLE SUGGESTIONS BY AN OLD SOMRDQIKU4
After receiving the first number of The Tanana Leader,
a newsy little weekly paper published at We-gib-tan-are
bon-ana, an “Old Sourdough” anonymously contributes the
following sensible suggestions;
Editor Paper: So it wa9 not a rumor when it was said that the paper was
to be called The Tanana Leader. This is an insult to the old Yukon, and an
advertisement for the Upper Tanana. In, fact, no person away from here
knows where Tanana is. They know where the Tanana river is, and they
know where Fairbanks is, but you mention the town of Tanana and they will
say, “I know; it is the Tanana Crossing, 200 miles above Fairbanks,” or they
will say “it is the Tanana recording office at Richardson, 100 miles above Fair
banks.” The usual and average man will believe you are in or near Fairbanks,
for the reason that in Fairbanks you have The Tanana Tribune, The Tanana
Miner, the Tanana 1. O. O. F., the Tanana Lodge of Masons, Tanana saloons
and Tanana restaurants, and other divers names which will lead (and justly,
too) the citizen to believe you are on the Tanana river, and near Fairbanks,
when as a matter of fact you are on the Yukon, four miles from the mouth of
the Tanana. Now, we old sourdoughs are not dead—we are just sleeping—and
we have let this matter of the name of our town slip and slide along as Tanana,
Weare or Fort Gibbon, but it is time we got together and settled for all time
the naire of our town. Now we are, as the tourist said, “Eighteen inches wide
and two miles long, and dead.” Let us not stay dead, but get together and pull
together for a good town and a live town. We have the mines and natural ad
vantages, but we are in the old rut, and it is too much effort to say anything.
We are much the same as John, who had been keeping company with Sally for
three or four years and had never the courage to pop the question. He had
prayed for coutage, but when Sally’s bright and sparkling eyes were upon him
his speech departed, and courage oozed to zero. Sally in the meantime became
very much discouraged, and as it happened one evening in driving home by
moonlight they passed a cemetery. John pointed to the white monuments
marking the resting places of the departed, said: “Sally, there is where our
bones will be laid together when we are dead.” Sally looked at John and re
plied: “Don’t you think we had better get them together while we are alive?”
Now, to the old town I would say: We are known as Gibbon all ever Alaska,
All up and down the Pacific coast, and let us, before we lay our old bones away
unite on the name we are known by. Work for, try for, and do for the town
©f Gibbon. Keep your eye on Gibbon. An Old Sourdough.
“Gibbon” is a distinctive name; one knows at once to
what it makes reference—no further explanations are neces
sary to be understood. The word “Tanana” is being over
worked, and consequently it requires constant explanation
whenever it is used to determine which one of a dozen dif
ferent places and institutions is referred to. The Post
heartily seeonds the motion made by the ‘‘Old Sourdough,”
believing it timely, sensible, and will prove advantageous
to all the town's people. When one speaks of “Gibbon,”
we know “where we are at.”
FOR THE FULTONS OF 1009
The New York World, with its characteristic enter
prise, has offered a prize of $10,000 for the first person who
during the Hudson-Fulton celebration in that city next fall
will duplicate in the air the voyage of Robert Fulton in the
Clermont in 1807. One hundred years ago steam propul
sion was a prophecy or, as most men thought, a dream.
Fulton had offered his plans to the subtlest man in Europe.
Napoleon could see no advantage in the invention; where
he hesitated others scoffed. But there came a day when the
Hudson river was a focus of excitement for all the country
as Fulton’s clumsy craft made its slow way up the river.
Out of the Clermont ha come the Lusitania—and the
Zodiac,, too. What the steamboat was in 1807 the airship
is today, except that it has been longer the toy of inventors.
Will there yet be Lusitanias of the air, making timed and
measured flight from station to station? Let the air-navi
gating Fultons answer. To them The World makes its
proffer. _
Great success attended the efforts of the management
of a “society circus” recently held at “the head of naviga
tion” notwithstanding the absence of Chena’s greatest of
all curios, Marteen Harrias,-the man of many faces and
the self-elected lord mayor of the fishcamp. Marteen usu
ally gives his exhibition at the first council meeting after
the town election, and can, with the assistance of one saw
mill hand and R. H. Miller, pull off a hippodrome that’ll
hold the people for a whole year, and won’t charge the town
anything extra for it, either.
In a statement signed by Gompers, Mitchell and Mor
rison, the federation officials who have been sentenced to
jail for contempt of court in the Buck’s Stove and Range
Company boycott case, declare that they have not asked and
will not ask for clemency, and hope that friends will not
• urge them to pursue such a course. To ask pardon they
say “would render useless, all the trial and sacrifice which
our men of labor and our friends in all walks of life have
endured that the rights and liberties of aur people might
be restored.” They think a pardon would leave the whole 1
ease in confusion to be fought over again. Gompers heads r
the statement thus: “Judge Wright’s Denial of Free \
Speech and Free Press.” And he declares defiantly that j
“we will not abate a single word or take a letter back.” He
also refers to “the intemperate and vindictive spirit dis- »
played by the justice.” All say that even though they may J
be held in additional contempt, they are prepared to take *
the consequences. ]
RAMPART NEWS NOTES;
! Rampart, March 7.—George
Sherley and Kinney McCloud
have just returned from a trip to
Moose creek, a tributary coming
into the Yukon about 18 miles
below Rampart. They found
nothing.
A. H. Chapman, on the same
creek, has one hole to bedrock
and two holes part of the way
down. No pay yet.
Cummings. Climie & Nelson,
on 8-a. Little Minook, have wid
ened their face to 70 feet, with
pay from six inches to two feet
the entire width, the average
panning being 15 cents.
Woods (Sr.) & Cronk, on 3 a.
Little Minook, have found the
pay and are now drifting. While
they were late in getting pay,
they say if it hold out as good as
it is now—40 cents to the pan—
they will do better than wages
for their winter work, even
though they have only about 75
days in which to takeout a dump.
Sunborg & Raiding, on the
same claim, in examining some
of their bedrock a few days ago
found that they had been work
ing on a ledge of copper ore, the
width of which at present is over
60 feet. Some of the samples
taken out show native copper,
and it is believed that it will also
go good in silver. Samples are
being sent to Fairbanks to be as
sayed, and the boys will do all
they can to learn the width of
their find.
The general impression abroad
seems to be that all the likely
ground in or about Rampart is
staked. This is a grave mistake,
as the following list of open
creeks have had very little work
done on them: Russian creek,
three miles betow Rampart, was
staked three different times, and
what work was done thereon
would not prospect a single
claim. Good prospects were
found, but no pay. The entire
creek is open ground at this
time.
All the upper end of Ruoy
creek is ^ow open ground. This
has been prospected very little.
Good pay was found on the lower
end of this creek. Ruby is a
tributary of Big Minook creek,
and is about eight miles from
Rampart.
California creek, also a tribu
tary of Big Minook creek, and
opposite Ruby creek. This creek
is about three miles long, and |
only one hole was ever put down, ,
All open ground at present.
Big Minook creek, 24 miles i
long, considerable prospecting 1
done on this stream, but only ]
cross-cut in one place; prospects ,
in plenty, pay in places, and sev
eral miles of open ground ready
for location.
Hunter creek, 12 miles long,
good pay on the lower end, or
from claims No. 11-b- to No. 25-a.
All ground above 25-a. open for
relocation; good prospects have
been found on this stream as far
up as 83-a.; there are also sev
eral tributaries to this creek that
are open for relocation which
have shown good prospects in
the past.
Marshall creek, seven miles
below Rampart, about six miles
' long, only six holes sunk in those
six miles, and only two or those
to bedrock; prospects have been
found; all open for relocation.
Garnett creek, 20 miles from
Rampart, several of its tribu
tarieshave been prospected some
and some work done on the main
stream; wherever bedrock was
reached good prospects wTere
Jound; all open at this time.
Lost and Boulder, tributaries
of Granite creek, are four and
I three miles long respectively:
I Granite is about eight miles long;
| very little prospecting has been
done on any of these; prospects
found when bedrock was reached;
all open for location.
Hoosier creek—all ground on
this stream is staked from the
mouth up to 28-a.; pay found on
the lower end of the creek; some
five miles of the upper end of the
creek is now open ground, and
The Post correspondent knows
of prospects being found on 98-a;
in the shape of coarse gold; there
are also a number of tributaries
of this stream unprospected and
open at present, to say nothing
of the benches.
Spruce creek, 12 miles from
Rampart, tributary of Big Mi
nook, three miles long; very lit
tle work done; all open at this
time.
New Haven creek, 11 miles
from Rampart, tributary of Big
Minook, about three miles long,
one hole to bedrock; all open ground at
present.
Goldpan creek, 13 miles from Ram
part; some prospecting done in ’98, and
prospects found; creek is about four
BUCHAN’S KOYUKUK TRAIL
Of all the bad places for bad trails and wind,
Bob Buehants mail trail has got them all skinned;
Bob packs the mail from Coldfoot to Gibbon
And for blaze-marks and signs he should have the blue ribbon.
Some people go blind from the glare of the snow,
But I've a new kind of blindness of which, as you know,
Is caused by straining and looking for signs
Along Bob’s trail among niggerheads and vines.
Of all the fine places to camp for the night, ,
Bob’s Koyukuk trail is certainly a fright.
Of the fragrant spruce boughs, which we know are so fine,
I haven’t seen any along this whole line.
There is a little dry wood close by the Tozi,
But it is all muck a la (tundra) between there and the Melozi.
Of course, the scenery you can’t help but admire,
But you can’t burn scenery, and you must have a fire.
When it’s awfully cold and you are caught in a storm,
You may burn all the scenery, but you can’t get warm.
Bob’s a jolly good fellow and a good man for mail,
But he has certainly made a hell of a trail.
We will all treat him nicely if he will only show
How the hell he makes fires out of nothing but snow.
—“Billy” Corning.
miles long, all open to location at the
present time.
Sunnyside creek, 13 miles from Ra >
part, a tributary of Big Minook, about
three miles long; very little work dono
thereon; all open ground at present.
Chapman creek, 15 miles from Ram
part, tributary of Big Minook; good
prospects and some pay found on the
lower end; creek about nine miles long;
all ground open above claim 4-a., or all
of the upper end of the creek; there
are several large streams emptying
into this creek, and unprospected, all
of whieh are open at this time,
There is, in fact, sufficient ground
within 25 miles of Rampart that has
only been partly prospected, and which
has every indication of being mineral
bearing ground, to give each man, wo
man and child in this entire district an
entire claim of 1320 feet, and then
there will be quite a few fractions left.
The Post’s correspondent will be
pleased to give any information desired
to any parties desiring to locate in or
near Rampart, or a letter to “A. B.
C.,” care this office will receive due at
tention. _________________
Geo. L. Morrison accompanied Jim
Drummond to Tofty City last Sunday
and spent a few days on the creeks.
CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD — Camp
Hot Springs No. 24 meets every Mon
day evening at 8 o’clock in hall over
Traeger’s store. Visiting brothers
alwavs welcome.
B. A. Meyers, C. A. Davidson,
Recorder. Arctic Chief.
MAIL SCHEDULE
Arrives from Fairbanks Saturday p. m.
Arrives from Rampart, Sunday p. ra.
Arrives from Tanana Sunday p. m.
Departs for Fairbanks Monday p. m.
Departs for Rampart, Monday a. m.
Departs for Tanana Monday a. m.
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