CLEANUP BROT
TO TOWN FROM
MATHISON CLAIM
ONE OF THE OLDEST PLACER
DIGGINGS IN NORTH TURNS
OUT RICH HARVEST.
TO DOUBLE OUTPUT IN 1926
For the First Time Since World War
Complete Summer’s Work
Carried On.
For the first time since the World
War began, when the high cost of
supplies, material and labor, prohib
ited carrying on mining operations
on their property on Resurrection
Creek, the Mathison Mining Company,
with the closing of the present sea
son, has taken our a cleanup which
will net the owners a small profit.
Charles Mathison arrived in Seward
Saturday with the remainder of the
year’s cleanup which totaled $7,500.
Mr. Mathison is here for supplies
and returns to Hope Thursday. While
in Seward he is a guest at the Ho
tel Van Gilder.
In 1S96, newcomers flocked to the
Hope district from the sea and min
ers swarmed down from the hills.
Excitement and wealth gave impulse
to the wild activity in the gold min
ing camp, consisting of about 300
tents, shortly after the word was
heralded of the rich placer diggings
in the Hope region. Gold poured
thru the camp recklessly. Rollicking
good nature abound. For months
after the rush began there were few
homes; merely shacks, tents, bunk
houses where men slept; barren lodg
ing houses, saloons and gambling
halls were the tent town’s rendez
vous; but these, within a few span
of years, disappeared and substantial
cabins, dwellings and business houses
were erected. A few years follow
ing the 1S98 Klondike stampede, re
gardless of the rich pokes which had
been taken out, the population and
operations began to dwindle down,
until, taking the coming winter as
an example, not more than forty
people will spend the winter in the
town of Hope proper.
Regardless of the laxity of opera
tions the past number of years, Mr.
Mathison is convinced, as are many
other conservative mining men in;
this district, that the rich placer
and quartz region of Hope, will once
more come into its own, only on a
more extensive and conservative bas
is. The long valley, where the Ma>
thison’s have been mining since 1898,
is on an average of 800 feet wide and
pay dirt is uniformly scattered over
the entire valley floor at an average
depth of six inches. During the past
season, hydraulic operations were car
ried on thruout the entire summer,
where last season but one hundred
and one-half days of working compos
ed the actual activity. Even so, for
that short period, $2,600 was clean
ed up.
Next year will see about double
the amount of work carried forward
on the Mathison ground, it is stat
ed, and at .the lowest, the owners
expect to take out $14,000. Prior to
the war this amount had been reach
ed a number of times. No dead work
will have to be done next year and
the ground to be worked is exception
ally fine, on whicli basis, Mr. Math;
son says, he anticipates a bigger
showing than in years previous. Sev
er men were employed in the camp
this year and three will be kept busy
from this period on, digging the last
mile of ditch which will harness up j
the last of the four small creeks
which supplies the water for the
hydraulic plant. Until this season
they had bur three o' these creeks
working.
The total length of pipe is 2,200
feet from which they handle 750
miners’ inches of water, with a 350
foot head. Tailings are stacked with
from a three and onehalf inch noz
zle to a four and one-half nozzle,
j depending entirely on the water. One
of these tailing dumps is said to be
54 feet in height. Due to th flat
formation of the: claims, the 36 feet
of sluice boxes are constructed on a
false grade. The camp proper, has
been mined out twice, and due to this
fact only, only a makeshift camp
has been established. The equip
ment of the company is most excel
lent and includes 4,000 feet of from
fifteen to sixteen inch pipe, a guy
derrick and hoist and four No. two
giants, besides many other items
found in any well-stocked hydraulic
camp.
The company owns twenty-three
claims, from Hope up, at a:i approx
imate distance of three and one-half
miles from Hope on the Resurrec
tion creek. The past season’s work
began July 2, ending a few days ago,
October 28. The gold assays 17.9
and 17.10, losing some in silver and
sand. The owners are paid $1S an
ounce for their placer. Last fall a
nugget, the largest out to date, went
$23; this year a $10 nugget was
found in the box. Mr. Mathiscn
states that 60 per cent of the gold
recovered will go thru a common
flour sifter, but at that, numerous
good size nuggets are continually be
ing found.
The Mathison boys’ father located
at Hope in 1898; the following year
Mrs. Mathison. her boys and their
families, arrived ' ’ with few ex
ceptions have bee carrying on the
work since. The old gentleman is
now located in Texas. Charles S.
Mathison, his brother Robert L., and
their mother, Mrs. L. R. Ferrin, are
the owners of a splendid property.
Aside from the annualassessment
work carried on the past summer by
A. Pearson and George Roll, not a
pick was stuck into the diggings
aside from the Mathison property, it
is said. The St. Louis Mining &
Trading company have their ground
patented and have not attempted to
operate for many years.
Gardener Quits Job with
Railroad—Goes to Sitka
Ernest Eggessgluess, head garden
er for the Alaska Railroad at Anch
orage for a number of years past,
accompanied by his family, departed
from Seward on the Yukon en route
to Seattle. He is returning to Sitka,
it is stated, where he will be em
ployed at the government experimen
tal station at Sitka.
Cadwailader Will Soon
Be Game Warden, Rumor
Charles L. Cadwailader, former
transfer man of Anchorage, accom
panied by his family, passed thru
Seward Saturday on his way to the
States on a two months’ visit. He
is returning to Anchorage and, ac
cording to local rumor will be asso
ciated with the Game Commission.
Join the Chamber oi Commerce.
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Eliminating
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En Route Home, Kodiak
Roy E. Clark, a member of the gov
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was in charge recently of the trans
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the famed corn belt of Alaska and in
this respect he said they were roast
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projects under way for next summer
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is stated. It is believed a creamery
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Conditions at Kodiak are ex6el
len-t, Mr. Clark said, business having
been fairly brisk the past year, with
every indication of an increase next
year. Mr. Clark departs for the
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Former Railroader Goes
South To Los Angeles
Robert Huntley, whose resignation
as general storekeeper of the Alaska
Railroad, went into effect Nov. 1.
passed thru Seward Saturday, accom
panied by Mrs. Huntley, en route to
Seattle and Los Angeles. Mr. Hund
ley resigned from his position in or
der to devote his entire time to th^
Alaska Glacier Tours association, of
which organization he is secretary
and one of the founders.
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Julius Johnson of the Crow Creek
Mining Company, Crow Creek dis
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departing for Seattle on the Yukon.
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