ANOTHER LUCKY SWEDE HITS
PAYSTREAK IN FAIRBANKS
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Once upon a time a prospector—
so the story goes—spent several
years alternating between "working
for the other fellow'” for grubstakes,
and driving a long tunnel Into his
claim on a steep mountainside. Final
ly finding absolutely nothing—not
even a "color" (“even as you and
1”), he quit in utter disgust, sold for
a song and walked off.
The prospector who took a desper
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ate chance at the wildcat .took up
the work where the other had left
off and—one foot further In he struck
it fabuolusly rich. "Never again will
1 sell a claim until 1 have gone one
foot further!” vowed the seller.
And how many oldtimers in this
cantip today, if they haven’t similar
experiences themselves, know of their
own knowledge of many prospectors
of this vast Fairbanks camp who
"Just missed” rich paystreaks which
have long since been dug out? To say
nothing of how fickle Dame Fortune
trifled with poor prospectors in Daw
son, Nome anil the numerous otheri
far-northern gill it camps, Comes now
Big Eldorado, Supper Coldstream's
largest tributary, just six miles due
north from here—as the old trail
(now barred by potato field fences)
used to go when nobody dreamed the
Tanana Valley llalroad wouffl have
a station at the creek’s broad mouth
Within a few years.
The Fairbanks News-Miner told rc
cerftjy of Roy Canning, Olson and
another partner having struck good,
pay on 4 above on Big Eldorado.
Why, back in 1904, Dan McCarthy,
Sr., (who landed on this island here
with E. T. Barnette, on the latters
little o’d steamboat Irfabella, and who
helped the founder of Fairbanks clear
brush and pitch camp about where
the b‘ig N. C. store now stands) found
coarse gold on his discovery claim on
Il'ig Eldorado and it really looked for
awhile as if “Old Dan" had just as
rich a paystreak there as he had on
his discovery claim on Fairbanks
creek, wh'ich was the camp’s first, as
wel' as one of Us best producers. But
"Old Dan" drifted and got a blank.
The big creek was there and dubbed
with the worst "black eye” a creek
could possibly get in those days, it
was "spotted” (and Ester was also
notoriously “spotted”). Big Eldorado
has been prospected, stampeded,
boomed, etc., every year since—some
prospectors have taken out yearly
grubstakes.
For the past several years Artie
Hill and Jimmie Cosgrove, wellknown
oldtirtfers have been working there
with a small plant, taking out small
dumps in winter and hoisting right
i:i*o the sluice boxes hn summon
These boys, though, never ran across
any such pay as Roy Canning and
others have just located. And the
lucky Canning and his partners only
just missed missing their new pay
streak. From the bottom of their
shaft they drifted fifty feet along a
layer of glacial 'ice and muck on bed
"file DICK” WAS SICK; WE
' LOSE OUR APPROPRIATION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Alaskans,
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no doubt, are going to be worried over
the fact that Itepresentative Gordon
Democrat, of Ohio, assisted by Repre
sentative Stafford, of Wisconsin. Re
publican, managed to knock out a rul
ing by Representative Saunders, of Vir
ginia. Democrat, cha'irman of the com
tnittee of the whole, the item of $500,
000 carried in the army appropriation
bill for carrying on the building of
roads and traHls in Alaska.
Col. W. P. Richardson, chairman of
the Alaska road commission, happened
to be sick in the hospital at the time
undergoing treatment for his eyes,
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lock. The pay they drifted on was
such that, while they knew It was too
low-grade for a windlass proposition,
the partners were puzzed as to wheth
er the ground would pay to work on a
large scale—which has been the case
in many instances in th'is camp—the
ground couldn't being some 90 feet to
bedrock, be worked by any but the old
expensive drift method. It’s axio
matic that no one can tell which or
what sort of conclusion a person in an
undecided state of mind will jump to—
and it was in that frame of mind
that a “point" was driven down in
to the jumbled bedrock, at the end of
their tunnel. When they took out that
little thaw- they found good pay.
Back to the mouth they went and
drove another “point” down into the
bedrock again—to find out that it was
frost that they’d been running their
tunnel along on false bedrock or not.
That’s Just what they’d been doing—
they found exactly the same pay at the
bottom of the shaft. And now tho
lucky boys have sunk a sump down in
to the real bedrock for their bucket,
and they are busy developing and
blocking out the ground and figuring
on a big plant as there is an abun
dance of water for sluicing on Big
Eldorado.
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