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VOLUME I, HO. 25. VALDEZ. ALASKA. THURSDAY. JULY 31, 1902. OFFICIAL CITY PAPHL
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AURORA COMPANY FAILS.
Plenty of Machinery But No Ore
to Work.
Another mining failure in Cook
Inlet that savors of fraud from its
verv inception is that of the Auro
ra Gold .Mining Company, of Hom
er, which has gone up in ‘‘hot air.”
This company had forty quartz
claims in Kaehcmak bay, altout
six miles from Homer. These
claims were located in 1000 by
Downing Bros, and G. H. Dunn,
and were transferred last year to
the Aurora Gold Mining Co., a cor
poration organized by Capt. Thos.
i H. Dunn, of New York, who was
elected president of the company
and has been financing it for the
past two years. Fifteen or twenty
good buildings of various sizes have
been erected on the property, tram
j ways built, electric plant installed,
a large and expensive 30 stamp
mill with Huntingdon mills and
Cornish rolls, wharf built, and
thousands of dollars expended in
machinery and improvements on
the property. Samples of rich ore,
I supposed to K- taken from the
property, were sent to New York
land assays proved them to Ik.
very high grade. It was re
ported hat there were mountains
of it, and the stockholders were
easily led to believe that they had
a bonanza. Now the buildings are
deserted, the mining machinery ly
ing idle, having never l>een put to
gc her, the electrical appliances,
shipped from Pittsburg, Pa., with1
winch to run the machinery, has
never been unpacked, and the pro
motors have left the scene of the
latest swindle, of which Cook Inlet
has had so many.
Air. Keynolds, a .New York bank-1
er and the principal stockholder
of the company, who came up to
take charge of the mine a month
ago, returned on the last steamer
from Aurora with his expert, Mr.
Bradley of New York, who went up
to examine the proja-rty some
weeks earlier than Mr. Reynolds,
The expert pronounces the mine
of no value w hatever, and said to a
Pkosi-ectok rejairter that it was a
swindle, pure and simple.
It was not stated just who was
responsible for this latest failure, |
but Mr. Reynolds is entirely inno
cent, and is the heaviest loser. He
was induced to put most of his for
tune into the concern, and many
of his friends also invested various
sums.
m of mzitiA
WHAT IS BEING DONE AT
THE
jh Pldcer Di^infs
Rex and Chititu Showing np Pine
$14 to the Pan on Rim. News
of the Boys.
The parties who returned rceent
' lv from the Nizina gold fields re
I port that the country looks even
l»etter than early reports gave it
credit with being. Only two claims
have had any amount of work done
on them. These are No. 2 on Bex
gulch and No. 10 on Chititu. The
first named is lieing worked by
Lormcr, the only member of the
Blei party now in that camp. The
cut in which he is working is down
to l>cdrock, and to stand alongside
the sluice lwixes and sec the gold
sticking out of the face and sides of
the cut, would in itself satisfy the
most incredulous as to the richness
of the creek. But it is when one
takes a pan and tests the ground,
that he realizes fully the richness
of it.
The lied rock is covered by from
two and a half to five feet of gravel
and tlie rich pay streak varies from
twelve to twenty-four inches in
thickness. In this streak the pans
run from 50 cents to 95.00. TV
gravel uliovc the pay streak will all
pay for handling, with the possible
exception of a foot of the light sur
face wash.
1 his claim was worked for about
ten days by Dimmit and Dormer,
and although the amount of the
clean up was not made public, it
was apparent from the richness of
the ground and the gold in sight
in the Ikjxcs after each run, that a
large sum was realized from the
work. On the first of July Dim
mit left for Valdez, and since that
time very little work has been done,
as there are no men to be employed
at the camp and sluicing is slow
work for one man.
No. 10 on Chititu is located
just below the junction of Hex
gulch and White gulch, and was
located by Koppus and Kcrnan.
These two and Urillith have been
working for al>out two weeks, and
while they have a large cut, they
have not succeeded iu reaching
bedrock. The gravel in thestream
bed prospects about the same as
that on Rex gulch, but on this
claim considerable pros|>ecting has
l*een done on the rim, which crops
in the bench about ten feet above
the creek tmttom.
On tins rim pans have liven
taken containing as high as $14,
while pans running from $2 to $5
van lie obtained at any time.
This party will only sluice long
enough to obtain a grubstake for
next season, and will devote the
remainder of the summer to pros
pecting the rest of their claims and
preparing for extensive work next
year.
Koppus and Kernan were gruls
Staked by tiritliih and Kid Brown,
and they own about half of the
creek claims on Chititu, Ilex and
White. The remainder was located
by the Blei-Rowlund party. The
bench claims were neglected by the
discoverers of the creek, and later
arrivals were able to secure some
valuable ground.
It is the opinion of all who have
investigated the matter, that the
benches are the source of the gold,
for they pros|iect well from the
lower end of Chititu to the upper
ends of Rex and White gulches.
Apart from the work done on the
two claims Wfore mentioned, no
extensive prospecting has Wen
done, hut panning along the rim
and on the bars gives as good re
sults as are obtained by the same
method of prospecting on the
ground that is Wing worked.
On White gulch, about nine
claims aWve Rex, the Wd rock
crops in the creek Wttom and a
person can get nuggets running
from 5 cents to 40 cents by merely
scraping around with the fingers in
the gravel.
Another creek on which work
is being done is Calamity gulch, a
tributary of Young creek. \V. K.
Griffith, J. G. Stevens, C. B. Smith
and another party whose name is
not known have put in sluice 1 sixes
and by this time are running full
blast. They ground sluice two feet
■ >f the surface wash and from there
the gravel pays from ft to 25 cents
to the pan. Bedrock has not been
reached. They also get large pans
on the rim.
It is expected that many of the
men who arc prnsjKfting around
the head of Chittvnu, will
return to Calamity soon and devote
the fall to opening up their claims.
Gold was found on this stream
by Bert Carvey, Stevens, Griffith
and others, and they are eonlident
that when pro|«rly prospeeted, it
will show up some rich ground.
Dan creek is a tributary of the
Xazina above Chititu and was
discovered last summer. Four
claims were staked at that time and
this season Jack Williams and Dan
Kane sledded in to do the assess
ment work. They put up no sluice
boxes but while working took out
twelve ounces with a gold pan. The
creek is a canyon stream and dur
ing high water can not be worked
to advantage, so Dan and Jack
spent part of the summer pros
pecting at head of Cliittyna. They
have now returned and are getting
out lumlter for sluice lioxes. When
they get to work they will in all
probability make as gt>od a showing
as Chititu and Hex. The gold
found on Dan creek is the coarsest
of any that is found in the Nizina
country. It resembles Jack Wade
creek gold somewhat.
One good feature of the Nizina
gold fields is the timber. It reaches
nearly to the head of Hex and
White, Dan creek is timliered to
the upper end of the canyon and
Young creek and its tributaries
have trees suitable for making lum
ber clear to the head. At the camp
on Chititu Jthere are trees as large
as 18 inches in diameter, and any
amount of 12 inch lumber can la
secured.
There is no danger of there being
a scarcity of water. Rex gulch
runs a stream larger than Slate
creek. White gulch runs nearlv as
much and where they come to
gether to make Chititu they form
a small river.
There is plenty of chance for a
prosjiector yet in this country.
Young creek is a very long stream,
ami has hundreds of tributaries
entering it from the low hills ad
joining. Hold is found the entire
length of the stream and it is more
than likely that systematic prof
iteering will show up much more
good ground.
Skolai creek and the Chittystone
also have gold in the bars, and no
one has done any extensive pros
pecting for placer on these streams.
The country between the head of
Young creek and the Chittyna is
also considered by many to be a
promising placer country.
What They are Doing.
Dan Kane, Jack Williams ami
Pommy Blakcney, who were pros
pecting around the head of Chit tv
(l ouiiuuctl on Kmriii r<tge.)
FREE-FOR-AIX RACE FOR
LAND.
Is Created by the Opening of the
Reservation. Mo Deaths,
But There May Be.
On July 25th one of the greatest
rushes of modern times occurcd at
\ aide/, a rush in which men, wo
men and children took part. Even
dignified lawyers could lie seen in
the crowd.
W hen Captain \\ ilson declared
the reservation abandoned, the
mad rush began. Everyone was
loaded with stakes, axes, pencils
and paper. In a short time every
thing was staked, even to the right
of-way just laid out by the railroad
surveyors. Everyone was land
hungry and no one’s appetite was
satisfied. Those who got most
looked for more and those who got
none fought for some. There were
threats of violence but the pistols
were only shown, not used.
A city of tents was soon erected,
and no one would leave their new
possessions without an occupant.
Some sent messengers for lunilier
for fences. Those who left their
ground to secure lumlicr or a tent,
returned to find another occupant
and their rights disputed.
Most of the squatting has been
done on land that has been paid
for with script anti patent applied
for. The original locators are
doing nothing now, but they say
when the patent is allowed*, they
will take jKisscs.-ion of every struc
ture that is placed on their lands.
»fie staking liegan on tliecontin
uation of McKinley street. One
gentleman who has long since
ceased to he a hov, was seen with
an armful of stakes and a hatchet,
running down the line, driving
stakes at regular intervals. His
feet finally got tangled and he fell.
He gathered himself and tliestakes
up and continued with his work,
only to wind up at the joint from
which lie had started. He got
turned around by his fall and
thereby lost an unlimited number
of coiner lots, for several others
took advantage of his confusion
and he lost first j.lace.
Some of the rushers were quite
massive, hut their sjirinting quali
ties were excellent, and the race
was kejit up till the big Judge
called a halt, saying, "Bovs, we had
better stoji here, as this is an In
dian reservation.” The other
Judge thought it would stand
investigation, and finding that it
was only the grave of Siwash Mol
lie and a few of the early settlers
who had settled for good, the two
Judges told the Fire Commissioner,
(note the dignitaries) to come
along, ami the staking continued
till they ran out of stakes.
" e who were serenely looking
on when this party reached the
cemetery, noticeil a peculiar move
ment of the earth. At first we
thought it an eartliquake, hut later
decided it was not. Following the
example of other large papers, we
put a special on the ease, ami he
being a medium, called up the
spirit of Si wash Mollie, who in
formed him that tlu upheaval was
caused by a few spirit diat hai>
Ik iied to be hove r’r.g above the
graves, and seeing two judges, de
cided that the resurrection day had
pome, and hurried down to collect
their lames, hut while thus en
gaged they heard a few adjectives
which savoreel of another region, so
they again settled ilown to rest,
(hat is, if the courts will protect
them.
One tall lanky Missouriau, who
hail evidently traveled some, seeing
a woman rushing through the*
streets with an axe, threw up ltoth
hands and exclaimed: “Hood Uod,
am 1 hack in Kansas? There goes
I’arrie Nation.”
1 lie race was hard on fat people,
mi Fourth 1’hjji*.