Yukon Valley News
Vol. I.
RAMPART, ALASKA, MARCH i, 1905.
No. 30.
IMPORTANT FIND
ON HOOTLANANA
linl<> to Bedrock Discloses
(•oori Fat—815.50 Nugget
Taken Out.
John l’alm ami Tom Anlouson
arrived from Hootlanana on Friday
evening. They brought with them
$30 in gold taken from the bottom
of a seven foot hole on upper dis
covery. There is one nugget worth
St.s 50 and the balance is all coarse
gold. The hole from which the
gold was taken ts about ten feel
from the present channel of the
creek, tight limit. It is about 200
feet below where considerable gold
had formerly been taken from the
partially exposed rimrock; and the
bedrock is uncovered for a space ot
about 4 by 12 feet. The $30 was j
secured from occasional pannings
as the dirt was removed, light j
colors showing up in the gravel,
but all the coatse gold coming from
bedrock. Bedrock pitches from the !
cieek.
This is a brief ouiliue ot what is
believed to lie one of the most i in -
portant finds yet made in the dis |
triet. Mr. Antonson, in speaking
of it. said: “Formerly 1 did not
have much confidence in the creek,
but now I know the gold is there.”
Antonson, Palm, Fred Cassidy
and Jerry Ford intend to work the
ground in partnership nest sum
mer. Ford and Cassidy are there
now, and Ford is prospecting lower
down on upper discovery. Palm
and Antonson will join them in
a few weeks, when lumber will be
sawed and preparation made for
the season’s work. The creek is
strictly a summer proposition.
Hootlanana is a tributary of Ba
ker creek. It was stampeded in
the winter of lyoi 02, but every
ImhIv let’* and went to the Fair
banks excitement aid up to the
present time the creek has received
no decisive prospecting. It is a
decidedly •’wet" creek, and water
ha* prevented prospectors trom
teaching bedrock In the winter
of 1902 0.1 Herman Schweitzer, in
doing assessment work, found
coarse gold tour or tive mile* tie
low upper discovery, but water
druve him out ami he could the
grouud mi thorough lest
The creek ha* plenty of water
f>>r all purposes. At upper discov
ery, about five miles from tiie head,
there is four or live sluiceheads iti
the dr vest seasons.
The creek is expected to be a
big producer.
United Stiitess Hillss
Cirenliite nt Tanann
Arrivals from Tanana state that
numbers of United States bills of
small denomination — principally
one's and two’s—are circulating
there. This is an unusual circum
stance on the Yukon, and is due to
the soldiers being paid with them.
The new is being rubb“d off much
ot the paj er around the gambling
tables.
MISFORTUNES
END IN DEATH
One of the (reiiger Brothers
Sueelimbs at Fairbanks.
Fairbanks News, Jan 25: The
Creuger boys, both well known
young prospectors of this district,
are experiencing a siege of hard
luck that supports the old adage
about troubles never coining sing
ly. A. B. Creuger, while hunting
in the Bonnitield country some
time ago, nearly lost his ey esight
from powder burns, caused by the
explosion of his title. Suffering
terrible agonies, he was hauled to
town on a dog sled and committed
to the hospital.
While Creuger was recovering
after a doubtful siege, his brother
was brought to the hospital, suffer
ing from pericarditis The first
m in was discharged some time ago,
but the brother afflicted with the
heart trouble is -till in the hospital
and is a very sick man.
The many triends ot the Creugers
will t>e sorr\ *o hear that the man
has since dt \rthur It had ar
ranged to take hi- brother’s re
mains outside.
Pmtltt trriaii Clmirli.
Services at the courthouse Sun
dav evenings at 7 1°
M K. K'xinct, Missionary.
S|. \nilrr*w’* Miv>it*»i.
Suinlav Services.
Morning prayer and «erm> it.
Kvemng praver and 1 '• *
Fridas Service
Litany at 4 p. at
J. li. Strode and Ed I.arson have
abandoned prospect work on Quail
creek and in the Troublesome coun
try for the winter. They have
moved back into town to remain
for the present.
Mi-Weekly Dance
'Tuesday, \Inrcli 71
The every-other-week dances of
the A. 15.'s have become so well
known and so popular that it is
only necessary to direct attention
to their dates. The next one will
take place next Tuesday evening,
March 7.
E. D. Minard is expected in front
Quail creek today.
FREEMAN BENCH
DISAPPOINTMENT
Piece of Fairbanks Ground
Belied Its Promise.
The Freeman bench has been
given up by all the laymen on it as
practically a hopeless proposition.
Bennett James, who was working
a part of the ground, came in last
Wednesday. He reports that noth
ing had been found in any of the
numerous holes put down, and that
the ground had practically been
abandoned. He was among the;
last to give tip, and only did so!
after convincing himself that there j
was no more on bedrock than on i
the surface.
George H. Gibbs, formerly of;
Eldorado > Klondike), is one of the
laymen most seriously affected bv
j the inability to locate pay. He,
'like most < f the others on the !
j claim, had figured that it was al
most certain the rich pay streak ran
through the ground, and installed
(expensive equipment before sink
ing. Fairbanks News. Jan. 25.
John Brenner, on No. 5 Little
Minook has been driven out by
water which flooded Ills shaft last
night He will abandon the work
ings for the winter He was on
very good pay.
The law firm of Clavpool, Ste
veil* \ Cowrie*, at Fairlsink*. has
taken into partnership Judge krl
hitu The new firm will he ntvled
Clay pool. Stevens, Kellum &
Cowles.
BEAVER ABANDONED:
NOT SO CHANDELAR
No Paystreak Located Yet on
Either—Beaverites Go to
Fairbanks.
All the prospectors who have
been in the Beaver creek country
this winter have abandoned it and
gone to Fairbanks.
That is the report given out by
Paul Schult/e. who has been spend
ing a few days in Rampart, and
who is now ready to return to his
trading post at I)all river.
A trapper from the Beaver coun
try recently arrived at Victor’s,
and biought the first authentic
news of the winter from the men
who went in there last fall. The
trapper said no pay had been lo
cated on Beaver. From Victor’s
the mail carrier brought this word
to Dali river, and from what Mr
Schult/.e learned he thinks the pros
pectors left the creek three weeks
aeo.
Men on the Chandelar.
Mr. Scliult/.e learned that some
of the Chandelar prospectors had
recently come into Fort Yukon for
supplies. They returned to con
tinue prospecting. The trapper
from Beaver also left Victor’s for
the Chandelar.
As high as $1.10 to the pan was
found on rimrock last fall, and a
number of men have put in the
winter in that vicinity; but they
reported at Fort Yukon that no
paystreak had been located.
Frank Burke came in yesterday
fiom his wood camp twelve miles
up the Yukon, where he has been
isolated all winter.
Al. I.avigne will start to Chenu
tomorrcw. Being shown the re
marks attributed to him in another
part of this paper, he said he was
sorry they got into print; they were
ill nowise intruded for publication.
He is afraid the remarks will !*•
coiistiued as censuring the enter
prising men who did so much foi
Fairbanks On the contrary, he
thinks they deserve credit tor their
efforts. His own private opinion
that they built the t >wn at the
wrong phe e was not intended t •
be displace*) in the papers.