, Pioneer Creek
and the
Neighborhood
Pionkkk Crkkk, Jan. iS. 1905.
Work is pro,reusing finely in
Pioneer district. K er/body is busy. 1
Mr. Diver and Mr Henry are
working on the North Fork. They
are down over 30 feet. No bedrock ;
yet.
Mr. Jordan has got his big boiler
on Dead wood creek. He has three1
men besides himself, and he is push
ing the work as fast as he can. If
he don't strike it rich it is not go
ing to be his fault. He has another
man working on his rich bench
claim.
Messrs. Hebb and Gaetz are in
350 feet on the tunnel which they
are running to drain their ground
in the mouth of Skookum creek;
and they have got 350 more to run.
It takes a good dealjof cfjnsige.
Messrs. Nelson, Slatt and party
are pushing work on their la£ on
the high lim of Pioneer. 'lthev
have got prettv fair piv.
Mr. and Mrs. Nellauy are living
happily in their new cabin on the
east bank of Skooknni creek. Mr.
Nellany is prospecting the high
rim of Pioneer between Seattle Jr.
and Boothbv creek.
Mr. Thu nun with his force is
taking out pretty good pay < n Doric .
creek. They are working pretty
hard. He is happy and welcomes
everybody that comes along. Mr.
Young is as lively as ever.
Mr. and Mrs. Lane are spending
a fine winter in their happy home
on the bank of Doric creek.
Messrs. Dalton and Green are on
8 above, Eureka, looking after their
interest in that part of the country,
and they have got pretty good pay j
Messrs. Graham and Bush are
working faithfully on 16 above,
Eureka creek.
Mr. and Mrs Spicer are always!
ready to receive you and make you |
feel at home t
ItV, Ourself L <>. We ate tear
ing things around our location. It
is a pity to keep idle; it takes so
little to keep us going. We are
having a streak of lat and a streak
of lean; but give us more fat wi
nced it in our busuies*. We take
the paystreak to sink our shait*,
and we take sight of the north star,
and see which way the liedroek is
pitching- We examine the mu
carefully, aud if we don't find it
already salted we salt it oursell
Then we drift lor the assessment.
If we don't find things to suit us,
we pat a 14a»t in the ii-dnaiious
and salt the dumps. When the
paystreak pa ward our way she was
m a hurry. She bad no time to
stop. She just hit the high spots.
If ever we find her we will tear
her. We will pick it nugget by
nugget until there will be nothing
left. We live in hope. Fortune
never knocks at the door but once,
and it i our turn i.ext. We have
our gold in bank—gravel bank. It
is as good as any other—don’t you
think so? And we love our neigh
bors as ourself, because we think
they are just the stuff.
Pionkkr Prospector.
Mines and Miners,
Ami Progress of II Tork
On Hunter Creek
To the Editor of the Yukon Valley News:
After the reported doings of all;
the principal creeks in Rampart;
mining district, it seems to be only
just ta give the mines and miners
of Hunter creek also a fair shake.
There are a good many miners
working on Hunter creek this win
ter, and although of course every
body knows that Hunter creek is;
so far not a veritable Eldorado or
Bonanza, in the Yukon history, it
is still a producer of no mean possi
bilities.
Commencing from the uppermost
workings, this \ear, there is Swan
son on 23a and 24a, who has what,
he calls “pay,” ranging from 15
cents a pan to 15 colors and less.
Then there is the great hydraulic j
outfit of Davis & Co., 17a, 18a, 19a [
and 20a.
Although, Messrs. Ott & Swanson
ire not doing much more this win
ter than getting ready for next
summer’s big work, they have
nevertheless tunneled and located
the well know,ij Hunter creek pay.
cm 15a.
Mr. I«imeburger has let a lay
to Charles Johnson. The latter
has out a pretty* big dump, and
though he claims not to have it
very rich, he has recently applied
for ai d got a gold scale. His dump I
will lie a surprise the coming spring. '
Mr. I.imeburger himself has out aj
nice dump on 14a.
Next comes William Pikeon t ta. j
who has, according to his own state
ments, from 4 to j feet of very likely
pay. It ts rather low grade, but
when a man has such a bulk of pay
and practically no waste he can
wheel out a very Urge dump—
which will also u. a surprise, lie
cause iber*? are nuggets hire aud
there, though at present invisible.
He gets 50 cent puns. Pike is not
a believer in panning when you
kuow there is gold in the ground,
so he bred his pan away last tall;
but. seeing so many colors sticking
out here and there, he couhi not
resist, bat hunted np taw pan again
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and bought a new panning tub.
Next comes. Cap Collinette. He
lias also a layman on the ground.
The Cap lias tunneled ? forty leet
through muck, boulders and stumps,
and ,has struck it at last.
Then comes Hill Lord on 4a, who
is wheeling out a mountain of pay
dirt between 6 a. m. and 6 p. m.
daily.
On 2 and 3a Fred Bevere is doing
splendidly. I am sure he will beat
them all 011 Hunter creek this win
ter. Not intending to do much
more than prospect No. 2, he ran a
tunnel about 150 feet, plumb 011 the
base nf Idaho’bar- having lair pay
all the way in. and picking up sev
eral chunks which weighed all the
way from two ounces to two dollars,
but he is nbwbn the very best pay
streak known on Hunter creek. It
is where everybody predicted it
would be, right under the big bar,
and Fred's glad smile extends from
ear to ear when he shows Iris pan
nings and pickups for the winter.
On discovery there is Shdrtv
Floyd.* The unfortunate good tel
low has been down ever since the
sun went out of sight with one
malady or another, but now on the
rettir’n of our glorious sun his old
vigor and eiK-rgv are returning also,
and he is making up for lost time,
trying to put in a shut and a half
every 24 hours. • wheeling out-the
renowned di-c wery pay
Farther down toward the mouth
are the’ jaunt-ton’ brothers, cele
brated as the decpf-d shaft ^inkers
with wood Ares in the whole of
.Alaska, if not in the whole world.
One or two hundred leet of sinking
is no object !o them, even If there
is that much bedrock to go through,
if they suspect pay lies underneath.
Th/?y surely deserve and I sincerely
hope they will have a golden lor
tune in the spritf*.
•' Hv5:Tri^(?RKKK Miner'.
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Hernardo Sanchez, charged.with
murdering an Indian, escaped from
jail at Nushigak, from which place
he was to be seijt for, trial aj, Valjjez.
Seward, the terminus of the Alas
ka •Central railway, says the Skig
vvay Alaskan, >sExperiencing; a
building Ijooru. People are getting
ready for .a big business ntjx4.sum
C.eorge M chel, discoverer of gold
on the island opposite EagleT and
recently sentenced to imprisonment
for two years lor stealing a fiqt'se.
has been pardoned on jacconnVof
the bad state of, Aii* health and the
fear that he was unjustly convicted.
Skagway Alaskan. ••
The district of Alaska during the
fiscal \ear ending June,, yit 1904,
contributed to the treasury of the
United States the sum of $i6X,975.
43 in license lees. This sum does
not include the license taxc^ that
were pai*l by thosy in incorporated
towns It includes only the ipuuey
that luniid its way into the national
treasury. Alaska also paid. $197,*
460 70 as taxes on fur seal skins.
Of course the district also cot.tnb
u’ted its fair share of the tariff
taxes, the internal revenue taxes,
and all' the other taxes that ate
levied to defray the national ex
penses