ON THE CREEKS
Ford & Adams have taken out
some rich pay on 22 Little Minook
Jr. the past two weeks. Jerry is in
camp for a few days.
John Jack is back again on Little ;
Minook Jr., getting ready to assist!
in sluicing up the dumps taken out |
by Ledger, Jack & Parsons last
winter.
Hill, Climie & Calham are doing
great work on discovery, Hoosier.
They have accomplished in fwo j
months what ordinarily would con
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sume four.
It is reported th&t a find was
made on a new creek over Trouble
some way not long since. The
find being made April 1, the creek
was namd Fool creek.
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John Palm and Tom Antonson
have finished their season’s work
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on 24 Little Minook Jr. Immedi
ately after the washup they will
begin work on 7 above.
H. A. Tofty has sold his interest
in the lay on ra Glen to Sinclair.
Ed Ferguson will prdbably repre
sent G. A. Kelterer in the lay this
summer.
Keep your eye on What Cheer
bar. Scott, Falkener & Woods are
not saying much, but the magni
tude of their pay will astonish the
camp when summer sluicing be
gins.
Jack Welsh returned from his
Morelock creek trip a few days
ago. Jack reports nothing doing,
and says the discovery boys have
lost their pay. Tommy O’Leary
and Gilchrist have doubled up tor
the summer.
Pearson, Magnuson & Mayden
baur, 3 Little Miuook, are making
preparations for sluicing. They
have instalied a hand-power saw
mill and are rapidly turning out
sluice-box lumber. They picked
up a $2.50 piece a few days ago.
DR. GIBBONS IN 8KAG WAY
Skagway, Alaska, March i, 1904.
Editor Forum:—I have been here three
days in the worst blizzard ever known in j
this wind-swept region. Would gladly]
exchange such weather for the Articity
of Rampart.
I feel that the trip out was a howling
success, the chief unpleasant experiences
being several days of trail-breaking in
the Flats and facing a blizzard, 45 deg.
below, near Eagle.
Overtook Mr. Marion at Circle and
arrived with him at 3agle, nineteen days
from Rampart. Came on stage from
Eagle to Dawson in two days; rested
there two days and started south on a
bicycle. After two days of good progress
a snowstorm put the wheel ©ut of busi
ness, and I was not sorry to get on board
a White Pass stage* Arrived in White
horse Feb. 25, thirty-three days from
Rampart. Came to Skagway next day.
The railroad has been blocked ever
since—the first time this season—and a
steamer that left Juneau sixty hours ago
has not yet reached Skagway.
Circle City seems dead and is short oi
supplies. Dawson looks nearly as bad
as Skagway did three years ago, yet I
traveled the w\iole length of Hunker and
Dominion creeks and dumps are being
! taken out the entire distance. White
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horse is booming. The copper mines
■ are proving rich and extensive, and a
] great rush is on to the new gold fields
! 100 miles westward.
] In Skagway, interest is divided be
tween the new gold strike and Seward.
The Alaska Central railroad is believed
to be ah assured fact.
I kept up with the mail all the way
out; am in fine health and will go south
on the first boat. C. H. Gibbons.
The Northwestern Commercial
company has purchased the steam
ers Tacoma, Victoria and Olympia,
and will give a six-day service be
tween Nome and Sound ports.
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can read same at this office.
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