VOLUME 1, HO. 23. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1902. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
JAMES f SSH & Co.
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AND
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And Tom; to Too.
And make them as GOOD AS NBW
By Our
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Our Lzy3Spex Have Made Thousnds of
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W. C. 5TULL,
VALDEZ
JUDICIAL DISTRCT
BOUNDARIES.
Act Has_ Been in Effect Since
July First.
An act to redivide tlie district of
Alaska into three recording and
judicial divisions.
He it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the
United States of America in con
gress assembled, that the district of
Alaska be, ami the saint* is hereby,
divided into three recording and
judicial divisions as follows:
i he first division shall include
all that ] tort ion of said district east
of the one hundred and fortv-iirst
degree of west longitude.
The second division of said dis
trict shall consist of all that terri
tory lying west, northwest and
north of that certain line described
as follows: Commencing at the
mouth of the Coville river, on the
north coast of the district of Alaska;
thence following the Coville river
south and west to a jaunt where
said river crosses the one hundred
and fifty-fourth merdian line the
second time; thence foJlowing the
one hundred and fifty-fourth mer
id:.n line south to the west siik* of
TohtankelLa mountain and to the
Yukon river; thence in a southerly
direction to the western side of Mt.
McKinley; theme ina southeasterly
direction to the most northern
jMiint of Lake ( larke; thence along
the northwest side of Lake Clarke
to the sixtieth.degree of north lati
tude; thence west along tlie said
degree of latitude to Kuskokwim
bay. 1 his division shall also in
clude the mainland west of tlie said
bay and all the islands north oi
the fifty-ninth degree of north lati
tude.
1 he third division shall consist
of all that portion of tlie district
of Alaska not included within the
first or second divisions of said
district as hercinliefore descrilted.
1 his act shall take effect and he
enforced from and after July first,
nineteen hundred and two.
Approved, June 13,1!K)2.
in I; in]
DISTRICT.
LATEST AUTHENTIC NEWS.
The past reports of the new dis
coveries in4the]Xazinn river4district,
gave hut a faint idea of the true
value of—that rich^seetion of the
country, only a^smallj portion of
which lias yet lieen traversed by
while man. It is estimated now
that this gold licit is about lot)
miles wide and 200 long.
Starting at the Chukina river,
and running to the head of the
Xuzimt in the direction of Seolai
pass, it includes u 11_ of thu“ Xazina
watershed, lioth ^branches of the
Chittynu and extends over the
mountain range down into the
Ureinner country. All through
this section the gold belt is clearly
defined from the copper belt.
The copper is of limestone and
amygdaloidal formation, while the
gold is marked by porphyry and
diorite formation, the country be
ing cut X. E. and S. W. by diorite
and porphyry dikes.
I he thittyna has neither lieen
explored or prospected lieyond the
mouth of the Xazina, and there are
not enough men in there to look
over the ground this season.
Those who went in last winter
and late this spring centered their
energies on Xazina and its tributa
ries. The Xazina, (Jhittv creek,
Rex gulch and Young creek are
the ones that liave received the
principal attention in the way of
prospecting, and they have all
proved to lie rich, producing from
25c. to $2. to the jaui on an aver-,
age, but pans of larger, value have
l»een found even as high as $20.
Rex tiulch was cross-cut and it
was found that the pay streak is
120 feet wide and from 8 to 20
inches thick. One party got to
sluicing on a small scale and found
no diiliculty in producing 0 oz. per
day to the shovel, the work being
very easy as there are few boulders
and none too heavy4 for a man to
remove. The gravel bed is very
shallow, bed-rock being only from
three to Hvo-feet from the surface
all over the country.
On Calamity Creek, a tributary
of Young Crick, work was begun
on July 1st, anil rich |>ay was
found from the start. The creek is
uUiut three miles long and is good
the entire length*
All tlie diggings so far discovered
are below timber line and there is
no scarcity of titula r. The moun
tains are low and rolling. It is an
easy country of access in winter be
ing only 165 miles front Valdez,
and ‘JO miles of that distance is
over the ice on rivers. One man,
who went in over the snow last
spring, took 3,800 llis. from the
Tonsimt to the Xazina in one load
with one horse.
Mr. M. T. Rowland, of Bovd Co.,
-Nebraska, who was the discoverer
of this wonderful section of the
country, has just come out from
tin* diggings. In an interview with
the gentleman he states that he
has spent tlrroc years on the Yukon
and been to all the diggings there
and from bis knowledge «f the roun
try lie liclievos that the only creek
which might compare with the pres
ent find is Kldorado, in Canadian
territory, and he is doubtful if that
will surpass Rex gulch as a pro
ducer. He expects that man\
thousands of dollars worth of dust
will Ik- brought out of there this
| season as the result ofiirof poet -work
only.
\\ i- were shown a .few ^hundred
dollars worth of the gohlj that,.Mr
Rowland brought out; and nugget?
of good value seem to hcquitc plen
tiful. One of . the m ad vantagisd'ol
the new diggings is the small quan
tities of magnetic iron which proves
troublesome in others localities.
Mr. Rowland wall go East on the
next trip of the Bertha to make ar
rangements for work on a largr
scale next year.
Mr. Robert Blei, of New York,
who is very deeply interested in
the gold finds, sent C. I*. Smith and
Mr. Banta into J lie copper belt on
a prospecting trip, and from latest
reports they have been more than
successful, lulling located a num
ber of very rich liornite claims
about 15 miles from the Bonanza
group. Mr. Bieiltas secured horses
and will go into the country in
company with Mr. H. A. Cohen
and Mr. Geo. Kcslingbury. Both
of these gentlemen will arrive on
the Bertha and will go into the
copper regions in the interest of
Capt. Dclamnr. They will go to
the Nicolai and Bonanza group,
and probably on to this latest -ac
quisition of Mr. Blei. Messrs Geo.
Esterly, Jack Rice*.Cliff. Phillips
and Dimmitt will he of the party
and will remain in the interior for
the bulancq_of the season.
New City Officials Have
Qualified.
City Trustees and School Board
ElecC Officers for the Year.
The first meeting of the new
town council met in the town hall
lust Monday evening. There were
present C'ouncilmen Criirv, Wood,
Crawford and Simonsteud. Sim
onsteud called the meeting to order
and C. N. Crury was elected tempor
ary c hairman. Two of the mem
bers of the council being away from
the city, the election of a mayor
was postponed until a fall member
ship was present.
liu- loitowmg permanent oflicers
were elected. Clerk, H. LL Hil
dreth, Treasurer, J. G. Snyder and
City Attornv, J. W. Leedy. All
were re-elected and received
unanimous votes of the council.
Ihe election of an assessor was
postponed until the next meeting
of the Council.
The election of a councilman to
till the vacancy of S. I'oot who lias
left the city, was talked over, and
A1 \\ liite was placed in nomina
tion by Wood. The matter how
ever was laid on the table until the
adjourned meeting of the Council
to be held on Wednesday night.
Last night the adjourned meet
ing of the council was held and tlie
only matter of importance that
transpired was the election of
James McHic as assessor.
J. G. Snyder, city treasurer, pre
sented his annual report and stat
ed that nearly all the taxes had
been cheerfully paid. One or two
small amounts are still due hut in
most cases the delinquents are non
residents.
(CunUiuieit ou Fourth Pngij
GOOD REPORTS FROM
NEW DISTRICT.
Good Pay in Shallow Diggings.
From $1 to fix Nuggets
Are Found.
The first nut bent ic news from
the Brcnmer country was brought
to town last Saturday bv Mr. Ralph
Wheaton, who arrived hese with a
large amount of mail and some
gold dust.
As has been anticipated by near
ly all, the country luis proven to
!>e quite rich ami a numlici of very
good claims are living worked. As
the prospecting and mining con
tinues the ground is proving richer
each day and new pay streaks are
being continually found. The Uiys
have had much to contend with.as
the water has lieen very high and
they have had to whipsaw lunilier,
build large dams and much other
dead work. There are many Ih>u1i1
^ ers in the creeks, .and as no one
has any crowbars or piwdcr it is
hard work to niuvi them. Taking
these things into consideration,and
the further fact that it is the first
year that any Work has been done
here, the showing thus far made i»
exceptionally good.
The following letter from the
I’kosi-kiTon’s special correspondent
will lie of interest.
liolcoii'ln Kiver, July 1st.— loor
correspondent lias endeavored to
get a letter out In-fore this hut it
has been impossible to do so. as
every one lias In-en so busy.
l'rospectisig is being carried on
quite lively .and with good results.
The first cleanup was made on
Summit Creek by Me Clain, Gillis
and Muckier juuI amounted to S oz
IS pwt. fur one man working eight
days.The largest nugget found so far
weighed $12.00. Me Clain picked
up the next largest, wkich
weighed $-1.(10. Van Iderstine,
Monohan midi Butler are working
No. 2on Summit, and judging from
their broad smiles and from the
fact that Butler picked lip three
nuggets in the cut in less than an
hour artiiich ranged from #1.10 to
#1.5H)., they are satisfied.
Grant Sweet and Mr. Banta are
taking out_$(i.00 to the shovel on
discovery. Their claim is very
hard to open up, hut will no doubt
prove very rich. Hawes & Co. are
prospecting one mile lielow discov
ery on Summit, and are having
much trouble with high water, hut
found 20 cents ti^tlie pan two feet
from_lied-rock.
Dr. King, Anderson, Dunton and
Heron are working Xo. 3 on Mona
han. This is the hardest claim to
open in the district so far. They
had to huild a dam 30 feet long, 12
feet wide and ti fort lvighaud run a
long drain. The l>est pan found
by them was 40 cents and the best
nugget 31 cents.
Max Rigler is working Xo. 1
above on Monahan. He says his
ground will j»ay an ounce to the*
shovel.
The best pay tliat I know «si was
taken out of •Summit and amount
ed to 5 oz. 1 pwt. iu twojiays far
one man.
The remnants of an old rocker
were unearthed on tlx- Hawes claim
on Golcomla.
GoL
The Pnoopunoi will lx* on sale
at Hammond’s store at Slate Greek
all summer.