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What Cheer Bar Company
Projects New Enterprise
The What Cheer bar company has
leased all the ground on Boothby creek
and will begin ground sluicing on a
large scale there next snmmer. The
present ditch was only counted upon to
supply the water for operations on the
bar alone, so in order that abuudance
of water be made available for summer
work on What Cheer bar and Boothby
creek, the present ditch and flumes will
enlarged next spring.
The What Cheer bar company opera
ted extensively last season taking- out
nearly $30,000. This property will be
worked oh a larger scale next sumther.
It is thought that the leasing of Booth
by creek by the company is but the
forerunner of the leasing of other pro
ducing creeks in the zone of their ditch,
as the company controls the water sup
ply upon which a wide area of rich
placer ground is dependent.
Lindsay & Lindeboom are nearly to
bedrocK on la Little Minook.
Chisholm & Elwell, Doric creek,, lost
one of their shafts by water. They are
on pay in the remaining shaft.
Olson, Nelson & Bush, on Joe Bush
creek, are drifting. They report good
prospects, but have not yet succeeded
in locating pay.
Louie Anderson, working on Pioneer
below Lane, Diver & Nellany, has bed
rocked a deep shaft. He found good
prospects and has started drifting.
Lane, Diver & Nellany are sinking a
new shaft lower down on their Pioneer
* ground. Drifting up creek showed a
lessening of the pay. <• It is now believ
ed that they are on the upper edge of
the pay.
C. I. Jordan came in from Skookum
Thursday evening. He, together with
Spicer,. Pete Johnson and Herman Ros
burg have been trying to bedrock- two
shafts on No. 3 Skookum, but was run
out by water in both shafts at 30 feet.
One more attempt will be made to get
a shaft down. Jordan & Rosburg will
do some extensive crosscutting in the
vicinity of discovery claim on Dead
wood shortly.
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Cleary Creek Miners Meet
And Condemn Wickersham
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FAIRBANKS, Dec. 3. -The follow
ing resolutions were passed unanimons
ly at a meeting of the Miners’ Associ
ation of Cleary creek held Thursday
night. The meeting was well attended
about eighty or ninety members being
present.
That the resolutions expressed the
sentiments of the meeting was very
apparent.. Before their passage any
person present who had anything to say
against their passage was invited to
speak. NOT A MAN SPOKE IN
WICKERSHAM'S FAVOR.
As stated in the resolutions, copies
will be sent outside. It is expected
that the same resolutions, or ones simi
lar to them, will be passed by other as
sociations on the different creeks.
Whereas, Throughout this mining
district there exists great dissatisfac
tion with the definition and conflicting
decisions of Judge Wickersham, as to
the law of discovery, and the uncertain
ty of what would be his decisions at
the next term of court should he be re
appointed.
Now Therefore, Be it resolved
that we, the members of the Miners’
Association of Cleary creek, do hereby
protest against his reappointment as
judge of the Third Judicial District of
Alaska, and
Be it further resolved, that a copy of
these resolutions be presented to the
Miners’ Association at Fairbanks at its
next meeting, and that a copy be also
transmitted to the President of the
United States, to the Chairman of the
Committee of Affairs in Alaska, and to
Senator T. H. Carter, of Montana. —
Fairbanks Sunday Times.
Kantishna News From “Times”
CHENA, Dec. 5. —Three men arrived
Monday from the Kantishna, by way of
Nenana Moneay. None of the arrivals
are enthusiastic about the ontlook of
the country, and Jim Bovard, the only
miner among the trio, is not going back.
No new-discoveries have been made.
Diamond and Roosevelt are abandoned,
and everybody has moved to Glacier.
The commissioner is alone at Roosevelt
he must stay until he gets instructions.
The country is staked to the hilltops.
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WHISKEY
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Rampart
Masonic Association of Rampart.
Meets on the last Saturday evening of es
month. All Masons invited to attend.
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NOTICE OF MEETING
A meeting of the MINERS* ASSOCIATION will
be held across the divide Thursday evening, Dee. 28
MEETING PLACE: WHAT CHEER BAR
Every Miner should make an extra effort to be present at
this Meeting. G. W. Ledger, Presidents
Notice
To Whom it May Concern: Notice is hereby given,
1 that any and persons are hereby warned not to
enter upon, or to remove any wood from claim No.
10 above discovery on Little Minook creek, under
penalty of prosecution for trespass.
Rampart, Nov. 20, 1905. Press Ireland.
Geo. Parsons is in town for a f
days from Skookum. He will retu_
tomorrow and will go to work forGaetz
& Kaulbach. He and McDonald have a
lay on the claim below Gaetz’. They
failed so far to locate the pay, McDon
ald, however, will stay with it a while
longer.