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Squirrel River Country
According to the advices received from Nome, there is consid
able excitement on concerning the finds of Klery creek (Spanish
Jack’s way of spelling “Cleary”) a tributary of Squirrel river, a
tributary of the Kobuk. A report brought in by Judge P. M.
Moran, commissioner of the Kobuk district, indicates that Klery is
there with the real goods, and that they will eventually open up a
good placer section in that country.
After a general description of the Kobuk and Squirrel rivers
and the town of Kiana, just below the mouth of Squirrel, Judge
Moran says:
“On Klery they find all kinds of nuggets, and on one of the
claims, where they made a cleanup a few days before 1 started for
Nome, the foreman picked out over seven ounces of fine nuggets.
Just before I left the creek they made a cleanup of a two-days’ run,
with 14 men shoveling into the boxes, and they recovered 179
ounces.
“This claim is known as No. 1 Above Discovery on Klery and
is owned by Andy Garbin, Spanish Jack, John Tyapay and H.
Greenburg, who purchased a one-fourth interest from the above
persons.
It will be remembered by readers of the Iditarod Pioneer that
this paper published a letter some time ago from Andy Garbin and
John Tyapay to George Kilroy, now of Boulder City. Kilroy had
been a partner of these boys, and they wrote to tell him that they
thought Klery creek was a comer.
Further in his interview with the Nome Nugget, Judge Moran
states that there were about 70 people in the Squirrel country, but
that there was not work enough to keep them all busy. He strongly
advised against a stampede there until next spring, when there
would be better opportunity for labor.
He stated that there was a fair supply of wood in the country,
but that this had been discounted by the discovery of a fine grade
of coal 15 miles from the town of Kiana. The mine is owned by
Captain Theilen, who used to be in command on the Yukon river
boat “Portus B. Weare.” The vein at the surface is from 3 to 4
feet wide, and the captain sells the coal for $6 a ton at the mine.
Freight can be landed at Kiana for $35 a ton, and the steamer
St. Helens landed freight at Kotzebue last summer for $15, which
makes that place ahead of Nome as a supply station.
Judge Moran reported that an old-timer by the name of Gustav
Osthenic committed suicide late in August at the Kotzebue mission
and there was found about $700 in gold and currency on his person.
On No. 1 Below Klery, Ed Hanson, who represents Charles
Kennedy, is working and trying to turn the water so as to work
the property with an open cut. On No. 6 Above Paul Xaxier and
Manuel Labenders are taking out between 1 and ounces to the
shovel per day.
In the whole district, outside of the Russians who are working
for Greenburg on No. 1 Above, there are not 10 men working for
wages, although there are at least 30 men broke who would go to
work if they had a chanc e
The town of Kiana is 12 miles from Discovery on Klery creek
by the trail and many miles more by the river.
DSKEMAN-IDITAROD
SURVEY SOON COMPLETE
Just about the time this paper
goes to press, the arrival of the
survey party from Dikemau, with
D. S. Robe in charge, should be
announced.
Last Saturday they had arrived
at Murray’s roadhouse, after tak
ing 11 days in going from Murray’s
to Diketuati and back again. Robe
was in the lead with the surveying
instruments, while behind him a
party was at work cutting out the
road that will constitute the govern
ment mail highway this winter.
According to Mr, Murray, the
distance by the trail from his road
house to Dikemau was 13 miles,
the distance from the roadhouse to
this city being estimated by Robe
at 16 miles.
This work was authorized by
Major Richardson, head of the road
commission on his visit here last
summer and will be paid for out
of road commission funds.
It will constitute a practical high
way after the freezeup for trans
portation of whatever freight may
be caught at the lower city, which
is now generally admitted to be
very limited. According to the
call for bids oil the mail contract,
the mail must come through that
town in spite of the fact that there
will be scarcely anyone living there
this winter.
The much talked-of trail from
Dikemau to Discovery Otter seems
to have been entirely abandoned
since there is no further reason for
its existence.
A. E. Light, local representative
ot the Road Commission, left last
week to* meet Robe and the clearing
crew to take charge of the work to
this city. _
Nome Banks May All Coalesce
It is stated on good authority here
that there is every possibility that
there will be but one bank in Nome
shoitly, and that the Miners & Mer
chants, the same institution that is
doing business here. A short time ago
the Miners & Merchants of Nome took
over the Nome Bank & Trnst Company,
and it seems very probable that the
Alaska Bank & Safe Deposit Company
will join the combine.
Dyes examined free—Simpson's.
ANOTHER ATTORNEY
TAKES TO THE HILLS
Armed with an oath for a notary
public which he intends to despatch at
once to Hon. William Diston, secretary
of Alaska, that he may practice law
with a commission in the new country
across the divide, Jeremiah C. Murphy,
formerly deputy marshal in Fairbanks
and the Koyukuk, accompanied by Dun
can Gillies, also an ex-deputy marshal
at Dikeman, and Ernest Uhl, departed
Monday for the head of Bonanza creek
where they may hole in for the winter,
or proceed over to Georgetown.
Mr. Murphy is a member of the bar
of North Dakota and of Washington,
and the succeeding spring will most
likely find him set up for business at
Georgetown. However, for the winter,
the three adventurers will doubtless
devote themselves to the mining game.
Mrs. Walter Riley, assistant at
Kemp’s dry goods store on Second ave
nue, has completed arrangements for
her hairdressing and manicure parlor'
This gives everyone an even break if
you phone first.
Anderson Bros. & Nerland have just
completed several large and “classie”
signs that now adorn the big Nestor
block.
Annual assessment-work blank affi
davits on sale at the Pioneer office.
Corner First Ave.
and Richmond St.
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