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From Wednesdays Bulletin
Bringing atout 812.000 in gold dust
from the new Valdez creek diggings.
Pete Monahan, Wut. orogg and Sul
Woffington arrived yesterday al er
ui ou from Shushitna The parly leli
Valdez creek Nov. 15, startin ' on th«
long mush without dogs or horses, pull
log their sleds by hand. Alter reach
iog thy MacLaren divide they met
Dolph Smith, dim Doggnt, O’Donnel
Stewart and Garwood, who were taking
supplies in for Monahan The threr
miners took some of Smith’s dogs au<
proceeded to town, while Smith ford
his freight on to the creek. Chus
Cowell accompanied the party from
Copper Center to Valdez.
in nt> inteiv'ew regarding the Yalde;
creek find »r. Monahan gave the fol
lowing particulars: Tire riche?
ground so far discovered is on t h<
Tammany claim, bench on the righ
limit of No. 2 above discovery. Goon
pay was found on this bench a yea
ago and this season was devote! t<
running tuuuels ou *he rim to tap th
old channel at its greatest depth. Tw.
hundred and fifty feet ot drift was rui
from the rim and at the inner end ;
shaft nine feet deep was sunk. A
there was trouble^vith the water it wa
necessary to cut another tunnel of th
same length to drain bedrock. Th
work was completed August 28, am
between that time ami October 4‘i
wheu the freezeup came, £12,000 ii
gold was taken out.
Pans as high as $38 were washe
from bedrock in this tunnel, and £3
pans were common. In order to ti;
the ground a four days’ test run wa
made, with five men working one shif
and $1,000 per flay was cleaned up.
The gold from Valdez creek is fairly
coarse, but there are few large nug
gets The largest piece taken from
the Tammany was a $7 nugget.
The tunneling already doue has
blocked out gravel roughly estimated
to contain 135.000, and Mr. Monahan
says he is confident that there will be
ten years steady work on the claim, j
Men now ou the claim have a contract
for lowering the tunnel two feet more
during the winter, and i i the spring,1
when a gravel car is *aken iu with
which to carry the gold-beariug gravels
to the 3luice boxes, the miners expect
to make a showing which vv.ll equal
anything yet done iu Alaska placer
mines.
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Six men will remain in the camp all
v inter; John Clarkson, John Johnson j
and Ed. Wickersham, who are running
a tunnel for the Shushitua Co. ©n
creek claim No. 2 ubove, and Bill j
Smith, Clark Duff and Jim Smith, who !
will devote part of their time to pros
pecting in addition to working on the
Tammany tunnel.
During the past summer considera
ple work was done on the bench claims
b *h,vv the Tammany an i between VVil
■ low creek and the Shushitna Several ;
Shafts have been sunk on this grouud j
| a sd the showing was good euoogh to;
i cause a number of parties to buy in- j
I !ere~ts in the claims.
The trail between Gulkana and Yal- j
j Jez creek is reported as being in fine
I <bapc, and as arrangements have been j
! made for mail being taken in to the i
camp monthly duiing the winter, it
will probably be kept opeu iu coudi
ion for travel until the spring rush
! i’he route to the diggings is via the
'overnmeut trail to Gulkana, and
hence up Bear creek, over what is
;nowu as the iiorse truil to MacLaren
iver and thence aeroi-s to Shushitna
r the mouth of Ynldez creek. The
i.stance is 2od miles from Yaldez.
Santa Clara Arrives
S;t»uriser Santa Clara arrived from
■Seattle this morning, and sails for
Seward tonight. Returning, she will
-ail south from Valdez December 7tb.
Passengers for Valdez were: S. T.
telly, Rev. E. P. Newton, R. McFries
nati, J II. Edwards. H. Waechter, E.
U Claud, Mrs P. O. Rourke, Mrs. H.
It. Stull, Mrs. T. Rosene, Daisy Ed
noud, M. A. Schumacher, E. Brynes.
From Cordova—F. N. Allen, R li
Tunter, S. Summers. II. G. Slater, C.
). Jensen, F. Glassbrennor, J. Conley.
Dr. Boyle, who was called to Tousina
> attend John Kipp, stabbed with a
utchor knife by a Japanese cook
hinday last, got as far as Wortman’s
oadbouse, when he received a tele
rram from the patient tba4 his ser
vices were unnecessary, as the injuries
inflicted are only flesh wounds which
ire rapidly healing. In consequence,
Dr. Boyle returned last night. The
Jap is expected to arrive herein custo
dy today
H. P Elliott, father of Harry Elliott,
met with a severe accident in Chicago
and is now confined to his bed with a
broken ankle. While exercising his
saddle horse one morning, the animal
slipped on the pavement and fell on
Mr. Elliott, breaking several bones tu
one ankle.
Andrew Neriand, Louis Anderson,
M. F McMahon and W. Wenruh, all
from Fairbanks, are at the Seattle.
I
Going Outside?
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or dust to
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accounts earn 4 per cent, interest.
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The schooner St Pad was cast upon
au island of the Semidi group off the
coast of southwestern Alaska during a
heavy storm ou the Pacific. For
nearly a month the c-ew, consisting of
Captain Andrew Anderson Hiid ten
natives, were compelled io subsist on a
diet of coru meal and the furred and
finny denizens of I he deep. The good
shi^. Dora came along on her last trip
from the westward and picked up the
half famished men and brought them
to Kodiak.
The St. Paul was a staunch little
vessel, owned by the Alaska Commer
cial Company For yeais she bad
weathered the tempestuous gales
native to the waters of that section of
Alaska, hut the hurricane of Oc ober
last was too much for even this sturdy
craft, and her remains uow lie at the
mercy of wind and wave ou a lonely
island of The Pacific.
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