VERMONT CREEK RICH
Sixty Pans Produced $900—Two
Days’ Pannings Netted $2,400.
Paystreak Is 40 Feet Wide
Wiseman, Alaska, Jan. 5,1910.—Vermont creek, a tributary of
Hammond river, and distant about 16 miles above this point, is the
main talk of this camp at present. The Haley & Shook claim,
near the mouth of the creek, is showing up better than any other
ground in- the. country, and for the past six or seven weeks has
been producing phenomenally rich dirt. The largest pan yet taken
from this claim contained $400, and was panned by Frank De Carli.
Sixty pans produced $900, and two days’ pannings netted $2,400.
The paystreak is 40 feet wide, and $10 pans from each side of the
face are very common. Martin Christenson, who returned a few
days ago from this claim, said that in scratching with his hands
through the fresh gravel on the dump, he picked up $25. Frank
De Carli owns an interest in this claim, and Ida Williams, who Is
now on the Outside, owns a quarter interest.
Last spring, Oscar Johnson, who had a lay on John Oleson’s
fraction on Nolan creek, cleaned up $267,000 for his winter’s work;
it was the biggest cleanup ever made in the Koyukuk, and it was
then thought it would long remain the record for this camp, but
now on Vermont creek, the boys all say “Oscar Johnson isn’t.in
it.” As to the truth of their assertion, the coming cleanup alone
will tell.
Between this claim and the mouth of the creek there is a frac
tion of about 600 feet on which four holes have already been sunk
to bedrock and no pay hos yet been found.
On the claim adjoining Haley & Shook, on the up-stream side,
one hole has been sunk and nothing found. Still further up stream
several other claims are now working in comparatively shallow
ground, averaging in depth from 25 to 30 feet, and while the pay
on these claims is good, nothing sensational has yet been reported.
On Discovery claim, Swift has been working two or three men
all winter, and it is expected he will cleanup somewhere around
$20,000.
There are different theories to account for the exceptional
richness of the Haley & Shook ground. Some of the old timers
think that the old channel of Hammond river has been uncovered.
They claim that the run of gold is more like that found on Ham
mond river than it is like the Vermont creek gold found farther
up; others claim that the gold has sluiced from the claim above.
In sinking the hole on the Haley & Shook ground quite a body
of conglomerate, only partly decomposed, was encountered. The
hole is 90 feet deep, and 16 points were worn out before the shaft
reached bedrock.
On Nolan creek everybody is busy. The Glenns and Pickarts
have abandoned No. 4 below. Glenn brothers have moved their
plant to the mouth of the creek where they are now sinking on the
right limit of No. 8 below, and the Pickart brothers have moved
over to'Hammond river where they are now trying to catch the
Vermont creek pay. Tom Hill, on 5 below, has drifted into the
pay on Nolan, and the pay continues good on Discovery, Nos. 2, 3,
5, 6 and 7 below. Jack White has a contract to deliver 900 cords
of wood on Nolan. Five hundred cords go to 6 below, Charley
Peterson’*claim. Peterson’s wood costs him $17 landed on the
claim. Glenn brothers and Bob Gunn also have good-sized wood
contracts for claims on this creek.
The other news of the camp is that there are two Japs here.
They are disguised as dishwashers, and it is not known whether
they are $>ies or whether they represent Capt. Barnette—who is
said to own large interests on Valdez creek, wherever that is.
Ther4? is a lot of gold up here, but much of the ground.is deep
and will require a lot of machinery to prospect it. One or two
Keystone frills might do a great'deal towards opening up this dis
trict. If the government would help to open up this part of the
country to^the extent of giving it a telegraph line and a direct
wagon roijl to the Yukon of a little over 100 miles, there would be
enough ge^d come out of this district in a very short time to finance
a war with the Samuri,
The holidays were celebrated' here in a lively manner, and
everybody, in the Koyukuk country enjoyed themselves.
Gold dust is now traded in here at the rate of $18 per ounce.
Raising Trees for Fence Posts
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Roswell, N. M., Pec. 19.—There is only one "fence-post farm" in
the United'JStates, so far as known, and it ia conducted near this little
Pecos valley city by a former governor of the territory.
Ten tsi|les east of ^Roswell is t ho Hagefman estate and on a iarge
acreage of this vast tract of land Herbert J. Hagerman, former chief ex
ecutive of yiis territory and .ben* to the founder of ^lie estate, has a farm
devoted to ihe exclusive purpose of raising fence posts.'
The tr|es are planted for the especial purpose of being grown to
the'necessary size’ and utilized to support the barbed wire that sur
rounds th| 'picturesque irrigated estate and incloses the vast apple
orchards and alfalfa fields. The trees are not grown io.r telephone
posts,'for cordwood, nor for any other purpose than fence posts.
The trips are set out in rows about a foot apart, aud are irrigated
and cultivated as carefyUy as. the apple orchards. They are allowed to
grotrto a height of 15 or .18 feet before they are cut, unless there is a
pressing nejd for fence posts before the trees reach that height. Then
they*can be^ut into from two to three posts. One tree will grow to a
height sufficient for three posts much quicker than two trees can be
groitif to sufficient size to make one post each, one planted after the
other is cut',.of course, so that the trees are therefore allowed to grow
to a height .sufficient to oiake three posts, where this is possible, and it
generally Isl
A peculiarity about the tree Is that it grown very fast until it
teaches a height of 18 or 20 feet, and then it is slow of growth. This
maker.it jult as undesirable as a material for telephone posts as it is
desirable for. fence post growths, hence it appears to be intended just
for thC purpose tor which this young ex-governor has selected it. The
HagCnhah fence post farm is one of the curiosities of the Pecos valley
and will remain so
CLEAN AND REFRESHING
BATHS
All Hours Wednesdays and Saturdays
—AT—
Williams' New Barber Shop
Front St., Tanana.
THE I0ITAR0D GALLED
"AN AWFUL FROST”
At Nome, judging from the'contents
of the Nugget of Dec. 18, the Iditarod
has come to be looked upon as an
“awful frost.”
The paper quotes Jack Ritchie, a
prospector of note who has been in the
region round about the Iditarod for
three years and who advises a friend,
“Don’t stampede here; the country is a
dead one.” He also says: “This coun
try is full of people from Fairbanks.
An awful stampede trom there into
this country took place last fall. The
stampede was led on by letters from
people with poor judgment to their
friends, and also by underhanded ad
vertising by the independent steamboat
companies, who reaped a harvest with
every load. The pay on Otter does not
look so good as it did during the sum
mer, and holes have been sunk in nu
merous places and on other creeks
which showed absolutely nothing. As
far as the great stampede is concerned
the country is an awful frost.”
ST. JAMES’ CHAPEL
First Sunday in each month, Holy
Communion 11 a. m. Other Sundays,
Evening Prayer. 7:30 p. m.
W INTHROP^PE ABODY,
Priest in Charge.
Stoddard Kay
THE
NORTHERN.
BEST WINES
LIQUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables In Connection.
Stoddard Kay
CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
H. L. HEDRICK,
GENERAL
BLACKSMITH
and;:machine:shop
Horseshoeing Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell are. and 2nd St.
Rear of Yukon Saloon.
BILLIARDS
AND POOL
Elegant New Tab! os
Gibbon Bar
best or .wet goods
NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE
United States of America, District of
Alaska, Fourth Division.
- Publi.c notice is hereby Riven, that,
by virtue of a writ of fieri facias (or
special execution), dated December 8th,
A.D. 1908, issued.out of the District
Court of thei United -States, for the
Fourth Division, District of Alaska, on
a judgment rendered in said Court, on
the 14th day of October, A.D. 1909, in
favor of Peter Vachon, J. S. Sterling
and Andrew Vachon, and against W.
W. Nelson, I have, on this 13th day of
January, A.D. 1910, levied upon the
following described real estate in the
town of Tanana, and District of Alaska,
to-wit:‘ . .t .
One (1) lot, sixty (60) by one hundred
and fifty (150) feet in size, facing on
Front street.
Also building located thereon twenty
(20) by forty (40) feet in size known as
the "Nelson Restaurant.”
I Also a- building oighteen (18) by
twenty-four (24) feet in size located on
said above lot.
And, that 1 will, accordingly, offer,
said real estate for sale,,at'public ven
due to tbe highest and best bidder, for
cash, on the 18th day of February, A.
D. 1910, at 2 o’clock p.m., at Tanana
in front of the Marshal’s office.
Dated at Tanana, Alaska, January
13th, A.D. 1910.
-H. K. LOVE,
U. S. Marshal, Fourth Division, Dis
trict of Alaska. -
By JOHN J. DONOVAN,
Deputy.
McGinn & Sullivan,
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
There’ll Be
Mushers
Galore
On the trails this winter looking for good places to stop—
more than ever^before known in the history of Interior
Alaska—and the roadhouse and hotel keepers who introduce
their places of business and their accommodations to’the
man along"the route is the fellow who’ll get the][ trade. The
Tanana Leader makes a specialty of printing large and small
SIGNS
On Heavy Muslin, designed especially for out-of-door adver
tising—they will endure for years, and will -withstand the
rigors of the Northland elements. •
CLOTH
Send in your order at once for the “business
promoters” and be prepared to do business when
winter travel starts in
THE LEADER
Tanana, Alaska
On One of the Last Steamers We Received Our Yearly
Supply of Paper for
Commercial Job Printing
OF MANY KINDS