WOULD PROSPECT
UPPER PELLY.
Discoverer of the Klondike Thinks
Other Great Finds May Be Made
in Canadian Territory.
Bui) Henderson, the first man to dis
cover gold in the watershed of the
Klondike river, is now drawing a salary
of $200 a month from the Canadian gov
ernment as assistant mining engineer,
the place being given him as compensa
tion for valuable ground he staked but
w as w rongfully deprived of by dominion
officials.
une <>i tne conditions ot iiemtcrsnn s
pension is that it deprives him of the
light to hold mining property. The
justice or injustice in the ease is some
thing we on this side of the boundary
line are not called on to bother ourselves
about. However, it is interesting and
instructive to note that he asks that the
$200 a month be continued and he be set
footloose to go out and prospect.
The Dawson News says Henderson
has prepared the following address to
lion. Frank Oliver, Canadian minister
of the interior, on a proposition to pros
pect a remote but promising section—in
which, of course, lie aspires to take!
a. leading part. Of the countless sugges
tions to both the Canadian and 1'nited
States governments for paternal meas
ures for the far north, we have seen
none more sensible than this one:
“1 believe that I was the first discov
erer of gold in the Klondike and the
credit of that discovery is generally at
tributed to me. 1 need not say anything
to you of the great value of the discov
ery. That value was not as great to
Canada as it should have been owing to
several reasons, chief among which, 1
lielieve, was the fact that at the time the
Klondike goldfields were discovered the
Americans had been interested in similar
matters to such an extent as to prepare
a great number of their citizens to take
advantage of the new find, whereas
Canadians had been almost entirely
without any exi>erience of the kind.
American business men knew well the
wants of the new country and how to
supply them. As a consei|Uence the
major part of the advantage of the Yu
kon was reaped bv Americans, not by
Canadians. Seattle was revived and
made a thriving city by the Yukon trade,
while Vancouver and Victoria scarcely
felt its influence.
*‘t ai iuhan-* have* now l een xml< u ntly
marie aware of »•»>n«liti«*n-» to injure a
different r* -nit • Ii'**• »\ *• ri* — at
magnitude U* marie in thi* n*>rthlnnri.
I Iwlieve Mirli iliM'iiviTtr.^ will eertninlv
follow pro|*r investigation ami seureh.
I have f<>r a long time lx*en familiar
with the i-otinfrv lying U*tween the
tipper rearhex of the IVlIy river an«l the
up|x-r part of the l.iank ami have spent
a |«art of four »nmm*r -♦ a*on«* in that
eountrv. I ha'* obtained g**o*l panning
result*, often a* high an ten rent* |*er
1*1111. without at any time having gone
t*» lx * I roe k <>r nior»* than a few feet from
the nurture. It wa* n«»t p*--4ble in the
time at my ttixpaxnil or with the mate*
rial* I eoitUl |*««-4% >n i»*> kwk t«* go t*»
lx‘«lr»**k. an*l I never *li»l. The gravel
are in man> pla»e* from Jti to f« et
of more in »(epth an*I are very entrn.-ive
III area.
“I found gold ;it IIoolt> canyon on the
I’clly and good prospects on Woodside
river, Campbell creek, Mink creek and
many other creeks. I found in one place
on Mink creek at a depth of four feet
from the surface two pieces of gold that
together were valued at 7 cents. No
better indication of large gold values
could lie found than these finds at so
short a distance from the surface. 1
have no doubt that in the country which
1 have indicated are some of the richest
deposits to be found.
“That country is very difficult to
reach—much more difficult than was
Dawson in the early days. It lies up
stream, commencing about three hun
dred miles above the junction of the
I’elly with the Yuk >n, opposite Selkirk
In reaching Dawson the early voyageurs
had merely to get in a boat and float
down stream. In going up the I’elly
one has to breast the current for three
hundred miles, poling or towing one's
boat or canoe. To reach the mouth of |
the I’elly from Dawson requires a travel
of 17•"> miles up the Yukon to Selkirk, at
the mouth of the I’elly.
"1 hrinly believe that no bettor ex
[lenditure could he tmnle hv the govern
ment in tile Yukon than upon an ex
jiloration of that country. By private
enterprise it will not probably be under
taken for many years. The mining
centers, Dawson, the Tanana and others,
retain people who but for these old
mining camps would probably make the
venture. Many of the first-class old
time prospectors have left this territory
and today there is less prospect of the
country to which I refer being properly
explored by private individuals than
there was four or more years ago.
“My proposition is that the govern
ment should set aside, say, if5,(XX) to
cover tiie expenses of a party of ex
plorers in that country. The party
should be, say, ten in number, one of
them to act as mining recorder for those
staking claims in the region of any new
discovery. Five pack horses would be
returned and outfit ami provisions su Hi -
cient for two years. An experienced
prospector should lie given charge of the
party. The country would support the
horses, as hay is easily obtained in the
valleys. 1 would propose that the party
be landed by steamboat at lloole canyon.
Five thousand dollars would cover all
the expenses of outfitting the party and
provisioning it for two years and trans
porting it to lloole, from which jioint, i
if properly outfitted and provisioned, i
the party would look out for itself.
“Hood men for the undertaking could
l>e got in the Klondike, who would re
quire no further compensation for their
services than 1 have stated, except the
rights in any new discoveries allowed by
the cxi-ting regulations.and the further
right that any mu* ot tin* party who
made a iliwovery on a rreek to whii-h hi*
l»ii«I hern aligned emild stake ami re
cord cl.lints n«»t only for himself, hut f«»r
tin* other metiitior* of thr party win* ha*I
IH*t*n aligned il-ewhere, thus obviating
thi* of other member* of tin*
party having the exph ration* to wliieh
they h i*l Im'«*vi assigned arid rushing t*»
tit** new diseoverv, whirh would only
occasion I'**'* id time.**
KUSKOKWIM STAMPEDE
I* tiMH4 1 iikoit M.iri'k !•*.
Fiwn lUisil \nt «lu, who has ju-t ar«
rived lr»»w» kkrim *, w»- !«-ari» that a
*tamf»n|*" is *>n to the k»i«k>*kwt»»i I p
w.»r«| of titty turn Imvc I* ft the Xovitmt
and "lln r pirt* for the *n|>j« ■**<♦! strike.
Manhattan....
The Nevada Camp that Has
Superseded Tonopah as a Star
Attraction for Gold Seekers.
Tilt* discovery of gold in the Manhat
tan canyon tv as made hv John ('. Hum
phrey, FranktL Humphrey,C. A. Cooper
and (i. E. Maute on April 4, 1905, says
the Manhattan Mail.
Rock taken from the Ida and Lottie
claims was assayed, giving a return of
$t.2S a ton. On the strength of this
showing John Humphrey staked the
now famous April Fool, War Eagle, Tip
Top, Lottie and Ida claims. After
staking these the parties returned to
their Peavinc ranch in Smoky Valley
and did not visit the Manhattan prop
erty until in June, when they came up
to do their location work. On a hot day
in the latter part of June the Humphrey
party was enjoying lunch under a pine
on the hillside on the War Eagle. John
Humphrey carelessly broke a piece of
rock from a ledge near where they sat.
Frank Humphrey picked it up and
found it to he literally impregnated with
shining gold. The party finished their
location work and only staked one more
small fraction in the upper gulch. The
news of tin* strike did not spread very
rapidly. The Humphreys and their as
sociates were convinced that their for
tunes were made, and through the
summer, when the knockers were after
Manhattan the hardest, the original
locators did not worry in tin* slightest.
They were intimately acquainted with ;
the fact that there was not only gold in
Manhattan, hut knew it to he here in
unheard-of richness. Some time in July
the news of the phenomenal strike
reached Tonopah, and during that
month and August there was waged a
terrific campaign of staking. In the
latter part of the summer some effective
knocking was done, and it began to he
said that Manhattan, after all, was a
false alarm. Hut this was only a false
impression of the ignorant. The miners
in the Manhattan camp knew their val
ues. The leasers kept on finding ledges
ami from tin se took shipping ore from
the start.
lllUTl^t in .iiaiinaiiuri a^uill in-yau in
hum mill hy the lir.-t uf lhvi>iul«T tin
ninvciiiflit tu Manhattan hail nuietlv
Iwyun. Hy thu t'liil uf lUrmnlH-r the
mnvfiiiriit wiih nil ttvnlmit'lii- ami the
fvi'n "I Nrvmla iiihI tin* I'nunt weri* mi
tin- nt w i'iun|>.
Frlsco-SIberla Steamers.
Sun Kranriaro, Ft*l>. 10.— It ha* Iwrii
•llviilml that a Uli-i-ian line <>( nteumir*
will In' »!>•• rati'il la twi'i'ii thin |»>rt a in I
tin- Siberian •.'••ant, urranwi'iiiintn ti>
•'miiiiwni** at mil l'.
Chas. A.Traeger,
Hats, Clothing
and Furnishings.
(A DP vmioneof those pcop,e w|,<>v
Ant I UU seldom write home? \
They will know you are all right if you 1
send them the YUKON VALLEY NEWS. I
Mail yours or let us send one weekly./
NOME HYDRAULIC PIPE
NuegPt, Feb. 10.
A. <1. Browne & Co., Imve jnst com
pleted an order for 3,000 feet of 15-inch
hydraulic pipe for IV. L. Leland. This
pijie will he used in connection with the
big elect ire power plant which will be
erected bv Mr. Leland at Salmon lake,
Pilgrim river, as told in the Nugget
several weeks since. The pipe will be
hauled out to Salmon lake this winter.
There should be a good opening in
Nome for the manufacture of hydraulic
pipe on an extensive scale. As it is the
local manufacturers are kept ipiite busy
filling orders. Browne & Co. employed
on the contract four men for five weeks,
their wage account reaching $1,150. The
firm begins work on another pipe con
tract within r few days.
FOURTH OF JULY CREEK
Dawson News, Feb. 16.
.John Moe, formerly of Bonanza and
Dawson, has jnst completed a deal and
taken an option on a mile of Fourth of
July creek [fifty miles below Eagle],
owned by /.eke Oglevie, who formerly
operated on 3 above, Bonanza, 3 above,
Hunker, and discovery bench on Do
minion.
The ground has been prospected and
shows values from 3 to 7 cents, with five
feet of pay.
Mr. Moe intends to place a dredge on
the ground.
Capt. .1. .J. Donovan is operating on
the creek and is very enthusiastic over
the outlook.
REINDEER TO HAUL ORE
reller, Alaska, Feb. 5.—(Sj>ecinl cor
respondence Nome Nugget.)—Ward, Da
vis ,V Deny, who are the owners of a
valuable cupper ledge near Teller, have
made arrangements with the Teller
reindeer station to have 100 tons of ore
hauled with deer from their mines to
Teller, to be ->!■ ixoI u|w>n the opening
of navigation to the Tacoma smelter.
The assay from the smelter shows $131
in eopjier and gold.
Mr. Ward believes lie can freight the
ore to Teller with reindeer and make it
|k»v a g*»sl profit. There are plenty of
well-broken deer here available for the
IHtrpoMt.
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