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SOME FIND A HOME STAft ---SOME A
GRUB STAKE--ALL GET MONEY.
SOME FIGURES.
The pranks played by our gold bearing
streams are certainly bewildering to pros
pectors. For four years have they stood
the ordeal of probing and prving into their
treasure chests. Time and again have
they given up thousands and sent home
the fortunate one transformed from the
poor prospector to one of comfort and
plenty, this probably bdng the result of
the find in the first shaft on his claims,
his equally enthusiastic,yet less fortunate
neighbor, who ,by reason of appearance
only, located on a d fferent stream, has
a quite different expeii u.ce to relate, re
peatedly he reachts bedrock and onlv
sufficient lor his subsistance rewards his
labor.
We might exemplify tluse differences
by granting the former to be working on
Little Mirook or Hoosier where practi
cally one has only to reach bedrock tohave
defined his rich pay streak and the latter
until recently on Ibg Minook. The Big
M nook miners are all sluicing now,how
ever, on account of recent developments.
What the miner has been finding his
gold on is not the genuine bedrock but,
false, overlying a still richer scam two or
three feet deeper, ofTwii ch nuggets from
$52 to S oz. have been taken during the
winter.
While these creeks are thus frolicking
with the miner here conies Little Minook
jr. for her share of the pin se a ml not loth
to ] a\' for it: Last year’s prospecting
gave No. 17. estimated $200; 20, $5,142;
51, $6,^20; 22, $15,348; 22 fraction, $1,366;
23, $12,266; 25, $3,200; 28, estimated^300.
The miner supposed he was working the
only pay streak on the claims, but, not
so, a second known as the ‘mud channel’
lias shown excellent prospects and has
giving good returns on 22 for several
months and Mr. Douglas on 17 is now
developing what appears to be the chan
nel on 22.
WORK RESUMED ON TELEGRAPH.
Twentyfive men, from each com
pany at Ft.Gibbon,have been sent to
Kokrines to begin work on the tel
egraph line between St.Michael and
Tanana, considerable work was
done in the early winter before cold
weather compelled them to wait un
til spring.
A painful accident happened to
John Minook, last week, Thomp
son, his windlass man, dropping a
bucket down the hole on him. His
hand will be useless for some time.
Chas.Taeklesome is working on
Idaho bar.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
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The Tinted States of America,
Tinted States District Court, District of
Alaska, Third Division
Prank II. Austin,
Plaintiff
VS.
Melvin T. Rowland,
Defendant.
Sum in011s
for
Publication.
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The President of the United States of Ainer
i iea, Greeting:
To the above named defendant:
I Yon are hereby required to appear in tlie United
; States District Court, in and for tlie District of
{ Alaska, Third Division, within thirty days af
ter the completion of the period of the publica
; tion of this summons, to-wit: within thirty days
after the twenty-first day of February^ 1901, j
I and answer the complaint of the above named j
; plaintiff; and unless you so appear and answer, |
the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the re- |
j lief demanded in said complaint, to wit: to quiet
! and confirm in the plaintiff the title
| of apart of placer mining claim known as No. 6
above lower discovery, Jack Wade creek, Alaska,
and to grant him a perpetual injunction in re
spect of said property as against defendant,
i The date of the order by the above named
Court for service by publication is November
15th., 1900.
WITNKSS the Hon. Janies Wickersham,
Judge ofsaid court, this fifteenth day of Nov
ember, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and of our independence the one
hundred and twenty-fifth. Albert R. Heilig,
| George K. French, Clerk.
! Attornev for the Plaintiff,
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I Jail. 10,17,24 31, feb, 7,14,21,1901.
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