Big Minook.
Described in General—Her Importance
And Tributaries—Town Talks
From People You Know.
Having described the surrounding
country in gtn^ral in previous issues, we
now proceed to to mention the various
creeks of the different sections, all rich
and auriferous. Meeting the Yukon a
few miles above Rampart is $ig Minook
and is the main artery into which Hunt
er, kittle Minook. kittle Minook jr..
Iioosier and Chapman with some ol less
er importance,run into the east side,while
Montana, Ruby, Slate and Granite do
likewise on the west.
While the whole is surrounded by a
belt of mountains reaching on either side
to the Yukon, in a hor. e hio /.lie heels of
w hich are about 10 m lies apart, the cen
ter or apex being the pass over the divide
from the head of Big Minook into Boston
creek on the Kureka side.
Big Minook offers an almost virgin
field for the miner and while there will
probably be 300 men working there this
winter the creek being fully 30 miles long,
could accommodate as many thousands
as it now does hundreds. There is no
drouth of prospects—not colors-—but nug
gets, some much higher than $30 and
*40 and there are reasons of the sound
est that as the car illaries into the arterv
have produced millions, the ma n ve'11
would produce correspondingly.
The reason of delay in uncovering a pav
streak on Big Minook, is the great width
of the creek being as large and in some
places wider that Bonanza in the Klon
dike country. If 110 more men prospect
ed Bonanza than those who have Big Mi
nook the former might today be the
same as the latter. While these condi
tions delay, still the ultimate outcome is
certain, and B.g Mmooi; will bring an
era of prosperity that, if no other creek
be worked, will last for \ears.
Herman Webber: If I remem
ber rightly California's record as a
gold producer in any one year is
$S i ,000,000 or about a million ev
er)7 4 days, which overtops your re
]) it ol $65,000,000 last year.
Louie Iverson: Say, you fellows
w ant to be careful or you will have
that rich country on Hartford creek
acriss the river filled up before we
have control of the p ty streak.
Geo. McArthur: Our diggings on
6 l.m. are so near the creek that we
have been unable to work the past
two weeks. The weather has been
too warm and the water runs.
Mail carrier Curiier: I wish to
say to mushers from Rampart or
any other place tor that matter,
that the next time a staple is pull
ed on a mail cabin, or wood used
belonging thereto; 1 will piosecute
the parties to the full extent ot the
law —take notice.
J.L. Green: There is more busi
ness m Rampart than in all the ie;->t
of the Thir l Division and the fact
that there has been no c immission
er or deputy clerk appointed is in
excusable. We have it in our pow
er to incorporate witmn the next
4 months an 1 do without a commis
sioner in many trA.igs.
H. Tufty: I own a cabin on 55
and s6 big Minook, as 1 intended
and am wording on 2a l.m.jr. tins
winter, 1 told the bows that were
going over to Kureka to make use
ot mv cabin but see that nothing of
the contents were taken away. I
went out there a lew dav a^o and
found everything I owned that was
in the cabin missmg;tools,bedding,
provisions, in fact a complete outfit.
It stands me $Soo, if I replace what
was stolen from the cabin the 1 ast
LEGAL NOTICES.
In The District Court ot the United States for
the District of Alaska, Third Division.
North American TransportaD
lion and Trading company, i Summons for
plaintiff )
vs / Publication.
Samuel 1\ Mol >i 11, defendant. S
The United States of America to Samuel F. Me
Pill:
You are hereby required to appear in the
District court ot the UuitedState , for me District
of Alaska, Third Division, within thirty days
after the completion of the publication of this
summons i e. on or before the 22 day of December,
1900, and answer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff, now on tile in the office of the
clerk of said court; and unless you so appear
and answer the complaint the plaintiff will
apply to tiieconrt for the relief demanded.
This summons is published in compliance
with an order made the 12th. day of September,
iqoo. This action is brought to foreclose a
mortgage made by defendant to plaintiff ou
011 December 19, jS ,8, tor $1,117.42, upon 20 acres
of land on birch Creek, District ot Alaska,
situate about 12 miles from Circle City in a
Southwesterly direction, upon which plaintiffs
alleges is due the sum of $833.72
with interest at 12 per cent, per annum
from December 19, ;N,8, with reasonable
attorney’s fees.
Witness my hand and the seal of
[SPAT] said Court at Lagle City,
District of Alaska, this 12th.
day of September, 1900.
Albert R. Htilig,
C. K. Claypool, Clerk of said Court.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Circle C i tv, A 1 aska.
[Oct. 11,18,25 - ^ ov.i .8,15,22, 1900.]
two years It is hard to go these
things and some thing shot Id be
done, if they keep on the probabil
ities are that Judge L ynch may visit
the camp before the winter is over.
I have an idea who the fellows are
and where the stuff is.
The soldiers who have run the
I
telegraph line to about ioo milts
below Tatiana, are returning to 1*1.
Gibbon. They repoit the suiciue
of their cook, by shooting himself
i through the head, while lemptraiil y
insane. Word was also bioi
regarding the whereabouts of |,,n
Huntington, the missii g mail ear. -
ier, his boat was caught in an ice
jam near Kokiines, he barely escap
ing with his life and the mail; after
the solditrssupp.iedhim w ith cloth
ing etc. lie proceeded on his w ay to
Nnlato and has not been heart! of
since.
Yukon ()rdcr Of P onet rs meets evt i v
t rst Saturday in each month.
Miners Mutual Protective Association
meets every alternate Wednesday irjjht .
The M tsonic Association of Ranru.rt
meets every 2nd. and 4th. Saturday.
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