PROSPECTS
ON MELOZI
Wages Could Certainly Be
Made With a Rocker *
at One Place.
William Midgely, one of the men who
was lately prospecting on the Melozi, is
in town. He is just now from Fair
banks, and came across country from
Baker Creek.
Mr. Midgely says the scene of the
reported strike on the Melozi is about
forty miles from the mouth. It is not
to exceed eighteen miles, however, from
the nearest point on the Yukon. Jim
Carey walked across that way in six
hours.
Mr. Midgely is very conservative in
what he says of the prospects found on
the Melozi. He says it is undoubtedly
true, though, that ten or twelve dollars
a day could be made with a rocker at
one point on the river. Very fair pros
pects were also found on two creeks
entering the river from the east. Above
these creeks the ground appeared to lie
barren. Creeks entering from the north
also seem to be- devoid of gold.
Several abrupt breaks in the forma
tion of the ground cross the count...
there* The different VIts are narrow,
plainly marked, run nearly due east
and west, anil one of them carries coal.
A fire was kept going for several da\s
with lumps of the coal, and it was of
good quality; but no effort was made to
determine its extent.
Carey and two other men will stay
there and prospect through the winter.
WALLY LABOSKI
DREAMT OF RICHES
A lew weeks ago Wally Laboski found
an outcropping of coni down between
here and The Kapids. The coal looked
gisjd to him and he brought a lot of it
to town ami testsd it in a blacksmith's
forge.
He was delighted to tind that its
■ piality equaled that of the l>est 1’enn
sylvania hard coal. Now, Wally very
correctly reasoned that if he could un
cover a vein of coal like that right • n
the (tank of the Yukon lie could dig it
to lietter prolit than he can gold. So he
hiked out on a um-au stampede a<
commenced to dig. Ilia high hopesgave
him such uou-ual energy that Ik- ■
hausted his entire mine in a tew hours
ami nothing hut a hole in lie grout
feet <leep. It feet long ami S (ret wale re
mained to pester his wilted spirit. I
it was really a great mine as f r
went.
A careful search of the country round
al»ut tailed to reveal t ar slightest trace
of other iWpuatta of owl
120 MILES
TO FAIRBANKS
Webster Brown completed the work
of running the line from The ltapids to
Fairbanks Sept. 20.
The distance is but 120 miles.
There are no hard grades the entire
distance and the route is thoroughly
practical in every respect. The line
runs by the eastern shore of Minto lake
and to the westward of the chain of
smaller lakes in that Aicinity.
Mr. Brown passed upon the Schwatka
Monday night.
NO MORE BOATS
TO GOME THIS YEAR
The N. C. steamer Ida May, passing
down this afternoon, is the last boat of
the season either way. She has two
loaded barges, which she will drop at
Tananaand then proceed to St. Michael.
The Ida May had nearly a hundred ;
passengers, mostly for Fairbanks.
TO REPRESENT
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N. A. T
Vice-President and General Manager
W. II. Isom, of the N. A. T. & T. Co.,
was aboard jlie Seattle No. 3 when it
passed up Saturday night.
\V hile in town Mr. Isom appointed
M. P. Fleischinan representative of his
company at Kampart, and clothed him
with the necessary authority to act in
that capacity.
Her Curiosity Aroused.
It was the mayor of a western city
who received the following letter of in
ijuiry from a Boston woman:
“Kind ami respected t'ir: I see in a
paper that a man named John Si|>es was
ataeted and et up hv a hare whose cults
he was trying to git when the she Itare
come up and stopl him by eatin him up
in the mountaines near your town.
What I want to know is did it kill hint
or was he only partly et up and is he
from this place ami all alsiut the bare.
1 don’t know hut what he is a distant
husband of mine. My first husband was
killed in the war hut the name of the
mail the Imre et Iteing the same I
thought it might lie him after all an I
ought to know it if he wasn't killed
either in the war or by the liare for 1
have liecn married twice since and there
ought to tie divorce |mper* got out by
him or me if the hare did not eat him
all up. If it is him you will know it by
his having six lies on the left foot. He
also sings laise an has a spread eagle
t ttoed on his front eliest which you
will know him hv if the Imre did not e.t
up ttieae sine* of its I sang him. If alive
■toli't tell him I am married to J*<e
White for lie never liked Joe. Met he
you’d better let on a» I’m ded lull
dial "lit out all ymi e it him wi h
oot hi* knowing anyth . Imi it i* for.
That W if the Imre dal not eat him all
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HEETER &BURRUSS,
FREIGHTERS and PACKERS
Freighting and Packing to and from all Creeks.
Good Equipments and Service Unexcelled
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up. If it did I don’t see as you can do
anything an you needn’t take no trouble.
My respecks to your family and please
ancer back.
“P. S. Was the bare killed? Also was
he married again and did he leave any
propty wuth me laying claims to?”—
Detroit News.
Local and General Notes
The river closed Oct. 29 last year.
Cap Mayo's big cabbage weighed 16
pounds.
.1. W. Young left for Seattle on the
Seattle No. 9.
Wally Laboski will work on the big
Manley tunnel.
John Neussbaum, coming from Skag
way, is on the Ida May.
G. A. Ketterer and G. H. Wand went
up on the Cudahy, bound outside.
Ole Thronson, the Slate creek miner,
left for the outside on the Seattle No. 3.
Adolph Ott, of Hunter creek, left on j
the Seattle No. 3 and will winter in j
California.
John Mi nook, who acted as guide for
Webster Brown on the road survey, re
turned Monday night.
me nisi imiii in pass luimpuri uown
bound last fall was the Seattle No. 3, on
Oet. 7; the last up the steam launch
Rebecca, on Oct. 9.
Four of Mrs. Hall’s sunflower plants
bloomed before the frost nipped them.
The largest bloom was 6 inches in diam
eter and was a beauty.
Mary Sullinger (Moose Mary) com
pleted a month’s sentence for wilful
destruction of property and was released
from the federal jail Monday.
The Rig Minonk road had reached
Little Mimmk last night. The frosty
weather has been advantageous to the
work of clearing the roadway of stumps,
but has knocked out the grading.
The supply of gasoline may run short
again this winter. It is said there are
but ~>0 cases in camp—(0 held by the
N. C. Co. and 10 by Julius Kabmstorf.
Mr. Rahmstorf ordered 20 cases, but 10
of them failed to arrive.
Alex Jami« »<>n left on the Seattle No.
3. Kver since last winter he has suffered
from tile effects of a (reeling that neces
sitated the amputation of some t<a*s.
Healiiiug that he might remain a crip
ple throughout the winter, he resolved
to go outside.
John Hernard, the road surveyor and
ineprvtor, has b**n laid up with a I sully
sprained ankle for a few <lays. He was
nnute an A. B. Fndav evening and mad*
the lianar<loll* trip over the summit in
safety, only to In* knocked out by a triv
ial accident next day
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GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
FULL LINE
£ Tin, Granite CrocKeryware
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Sain Chace an<l W. C. Bowen, who
left two weeks ago intending to go to
Hay River Springs with Clement An
derson, tnrneil l>ark eight miles thin
side of the springs. The water war so
low in Ray river that they were afraid
to take chances on Retting out.
Hob Hchaner, of the Florence saloon,
reports that he has received "•moke
signals'' ' m Ihs- Carter, the famous
guide and hunter of big game who left
for the T Vsomc country in company
with Jaek Radigan last Saturday. Hob
says that near as lie can interpret
the *' ii I hey are b> the effect that
Iks- has a oig cache of meat and wa
assistanre to bring it in. lie will
patch dog teams to li«'i assistaios
once