The Post
WISHES THE PEOPLE
OF HOT SPRINGS
ANQ VICINITY A
Merry
Christmas
AND A
PROSPEROUS AND
AMPART
BUDGET
Rampart, Dec. 10.—Following is a
b;ief statement of mining affairs on va
rious creeks of this district:
BIG MINOOK CREEK
William Barnett, on 40-a., has run
into very good pay, and is taking out a
dump.
Sid Williams is doing assessment
■work on 39-a. for the Rampart Gold
Mines Co.
Dunn & Staples, on the upper part of
the creek, are being troubled with
water, and are unable to get to bed
rock.
Sherley & McCloud have not reached
bedrock in their second hole yet.
Stevens & McLain sent over by Mike
Engles a boiler and 300 pounds of pro
visions to work on the upper end of the
■creek, about a thousand feet below
Deadhorse gulch.
CHAPMAN CREEK
Dave Rushen has a hole down 14
•feet in muck; no signs of bedrock yet.
SLATE CREEK
William Pike is doing well on Dis
covery claim, and is taking out a dump.
No. 2-b. is not showing up so well.
FLORIDA CREEK
J. C. Fluga is sinking and prospect
ing on the benches near the mouth of
the creek.
HOOSIER CREEK
Swanson & Ott, on 12-a., are trying
to freeze some seven holes down to
bedrock. As usual, water is bothering
3,11 who are working on this creek.
Nichols, Strickland & Kelly have
moved out, and are working on 5-a.
little; minook jr.
Fisher & McLean are doing well on
25-a., and have a large dump out.
Bowen & Cool are prospecting their
ground and getting ready for spring.
LITTLE MINOOK CREEK
Frank & Graham got bedrock in one
hole on 1-a., but found they were too
near the creek and moved their boiler
back on the bench further, and are
again sinking.
Tom Evans is taking out his usual
dump on 2*a»
Sundborg, Raiding & Son have
struck very rich pay on the upper end
of 3-a., the pannings alone for two days
^sere $22, and the buckets averaged
IS5.20 for the same time. Sundborg,
who has worked on this creek off and
on since 1.898, claims he has the best
pay ever struck on the creek. He
claims it will beat the best pay that
ever came out of 8-a. if it only con
tinues.
Olson, Nelson & Cliroie, on 8-a., have
out about ten thousand buckets that
they claim will average better than 27
cents—this does not include the pick
ups.
HUNTER CREEK
Struram and partner, on 24-a., have
good pay, and are taking out a big
dump.
Shorty Powell, on 15-a., is in good
pay, and is piling up a good dump.
Clemens & Campbell, on 3-a., are
doing well and have out a fair-sized
dump.
LOCAL TOPICS AND EVENTS
Carlo Jackett is prospecting on a
small creek up river, about six miles
below Mike Hess creek.
Grant creek, in the Gold mountain
district, about 30 miles below Giobon,
has the latest strike. On ground be
longing to Lieut.-Col. Cook, of Gibbon,
in a hole 18 feet deep 7$ feet of gravel
goes 2| cents to the pan.
John Duncian, agent of the N. C. Co.,
failed to get released from district
court as a witness in the Gibson case,
and started for Fairbanks today.
Doffenmier & McCabe, of Sullivan
creek, arrived in camp Thursday.
Their partner will follow in a few days
with a small boiler, and they will pros
pect on the benches and bars between
Little Minook and Hoosier creeks.
C. P. Cronk, who has been seriously
ill for the past ten days, is much better
and will be moved in from the creek
today. Dr. Hudgin is attending him.
Miss Masche is arranging a Christ
mas tree at the schoolhouse for her na
tive pupils. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith have pre- 1
pared a Christmas tree for their son '
Jamie and his young friends on Christ- '
mas eve.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ballou have ^
arranged a Christmas tree for William 1
Ballou, jr,, who, with his young com
panions, will keep open house on i
Christmas day.
The EJampart Miners’ Association <
have called a meeting1 for 1 p. m. at the
courthouse on Thursday, Dec. 31.
The Pioneers have about completed
the decorations of the N. A. T. & T.
Co. store building for their annual
dance and supper which takes place on
New Year eve as previously announced.
The ladies of Rampart have arranged
for a leap year dance and supper to be
given at the courthouse on Christmas
day. All are invited.
Assessment
Work Finished
A. V. Thorns was in the city from
Glen this week and reports that he has
finished all the assessment work on the
Manley ground for the year, and has
laid up the Keystone drill for the re
mainder of the winter.
There is still some little work to be
done in that vicinity, however, the
principal labor being to haul a large
amount of lumber from the mill on the
Hutlinana to the workings on Glen.
Mr. Thorns will leave this week in
company with Gil Edgar for some
quartz properties which these two gen
tlemen own, and they will look over
their holdings and make preparations
for extensive prospecting next summer.
Shortly after the first of the year
Mr. Thorns will bring his wife to this
city, where he will make his home
until work commences in the spring.
Strutters Goes
to Chena Town
J. Fred Struthers, who is prospect
ing the lower end of the Midnight Sun
issociation on Sullivan where he has a
ay, left here early this week for Chena
where he will spend the holidays with
ais wife.
Fred is well pleased with the pros
pects he has found on his ground and
will place a large plant on the ground
when he returns if the prospects con
tinue to show up as well as they have
bus far. The ground where he is
working is very close to the Dakota
issociation where the phenomenally
'ich dirt has been found and it is not
it all unlikely that J. Fred may also
mcounter a part of this rich streak.
3e will return immediately after the
lolidays and will probably be accom
panied by his partner, J. J. Dwyer.
John W. Duncan, of Rampart, passed
through Hot Springs this week on his
way to Fairbanks where he will give
jvidence in the Gibson boy case,.
Killarney Creek
Looking Better
The fraction of Miller & Reynolds
opposite 8-b. on Killarney, where pay
was struck last fall, is showing up bet
ter as moro work is done.
Immediately after the strike was
mado the owners found it necessary to
do assessment work on other ground
which they owned, and as a result the
development of this claim was delayed
for some time.
Since their return to the fraction,
however, they have run tunnels 70 feet
long both lengthwise and across the
creek, and are still in the pay in all
directions. In many places the pay is
richer than found at first, but in no
place does it run less than $1.50 to the
foot.
There is no doubt in the minds of
most miners who are interested in Kil
larnoy that good pay will be found on
many claims on that creek within the
next year, the chief difficulty at pres
ent being that the owners of most of
the ground have not the necessary
means to work owing to bad summer
experienced by this camp this year.
There are, however, quite a number of
miners working on the creek, and
some new discoveries are sure to be
made before spring.
H. T. Curry, who was foreman for
Jerome Chute on Eureka last summer,
was in the city Tuesday.
H. A. Young, of Pioneer creek* was
a visitor in town early in the week.
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Commander Pond, of the lighthouse service of the district of
Alaska, has filed his annual report and therein asks for a large ap
propriation for the establishment of more buoys and lighthouses in
the waters of his district, and for the maintenance of those already
established.
By unanimous consent of the U. S. senate, Senator Dick of
Ohio introduced a bill providing for a national fete commemora
ting the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. There
was no opposition to the passage of the measure, and it is almost
certain that the krwer house will provide a liberal appropriation
for the consumation of the plan outlined in the bill.
Lieut.-Col. Goethals, president of the Panama canal commis
sion, recently filed an interesting report in which he shows that
since the inception of the work on the canal $87,082,000 had been
expended; $36,391,000 of the total appropriation for the work is
still available.
The trial of more than one hundred men of all classes of life
in the state of Kentucky, charged with participation in the raids of
the nightriders during the tobacco war in that state, was begun at
| at Union City, Ky., last week. Great trouble was encountered in
securing a jury—men from even the most remote districts of the
state appearing to ha.ve formed some positive opinion either preju
dicial or favorable to the accused.
President-elect Taft will make a personal visit to the Panama
canal zone in January for the purpose of satisfying himself as to
truth or falsity of the charges against the big contractors on the
work, which are being made daily.
Representative Humphrey, of Washington, who is a consistent
advocate of matters favorably affecting the welfare of Alaska in
congress, has introduced a resolution asking for a strict investiga
tion of the management of the insane asylum at Mt. Tabor, Ore.,
where the insane of Alaska are confined. The resolution is drawn
in strong language, depicting the indignities and cruelties prac
ticed on the inmates, and Mr. Humphrey plans for better treat
ment and accomrnoeations for the unfortunates confiend therein.
Prominent politicians of Pennsylvania convicted of stupendous
grafts in connection with the building of the state capitol and who
are n<?w serving their sentences in the penitentiary, have been de
nied a new trial, and must remain in prison until such time as their
crimes have been atoned for.
After suffering a reign Qf terror at the hands of criminals fo
the past three months, the people of Seattle have at last prevailed
on the city government to provide for an increase of 30 men in the
police force. More will be added daily if their services are deemed
to be necessary.
Charley Worden, one of the best known of the old Eldorado
operators in the halcyon days of the Klondike, was in Seattle re
cently for the purpose of seeing some of his northern friends on
matters of mining business in which he is still interested in the ;
Yukon. At a recent election held in Rawhide, Nev., Worden was |
elected mayor after a most strenuous fight. <
The safe of the First National bank of McAllister, I. T., was <
blown open by dynamiters last week, and the robbers engaged in <
the work succeeded in making their escape with $15,000 of the 1
bank’s funds before the citizens were able to organize against them. J
Posses quickly started in pursuit, but the success attendant upon J
such crimes in the past few months leads to the belief that a splen* 1
didly organized gang is operating in the work of robbery, and J
there is littls hope held out of bringing the perpetrators of the J
crime to justice. \
Mrs. Genevieve Phipps, a millionaire resident of Denver, is <
again the object of attacks of a band of blackmailers, who are de- <
manding the sum of $10,000 under threats of death or serious bod- 1
ily injury if their demands are not complied with.
Oscar Hart, a millionaire of Los Angeles, is making a career *
for himself which, just at present, keeps the press full of his do- <
ings. Hart made a balloon ascension recently, and when at a <
great height began pouring a torrent of silver with which he had \
provided himself, upon the ground over which the balloon took its <
course. While there was a great scramble for the shower of <
wealth, some people were seriously injured by the descending <
coins, and Hart was arrested for disturbing the peace when he de- '<
scended. j
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