EAGLE COMPANY
CEASE ALL WORK
The lie ;vy hosts in tht first pan
of the mouth caused a cessation ot
work for the season by the Eagle
Mining Co., and J. \V. Belsea and
W. P. Beards.ey departed on the
Lavelle Young last Saturday for St.
Michael and the States.
The Eagle Mining Co.’s cleanup
amounted to near $50,000. They
built two ditches this summer—one
from Boston 2J* miles long and one
from Rhode Island about a mile
long. The Boston ditch cost $2,500
and the one from Rhode Island
about $1,000. Just as they had
these ditches completed the ground
commenced to freeze—on the first
of September, something that has
never happened before since the
writer has been in the country,
which is since ’98.
They have about 400 feet stripped
and ready to shovel in. According
to the v.::y the d has been
running the ground they have
stripped will turn out about $70,
000. That will be only a small
portion of their next summer’s
work.
By putting on a big gang of men,
the Eagle company think they can
work their claims out in three
years.
James Butler and Billy Oslin
have taken a lay on No. 3 on the
Eagle company’s ground and will
look after their interests this winter.
SALISBURY GOLD
MINING COMPANY
George A. Salisbury, the well
known attorney, arrived on the
Cudahy last Thursday, after a so
journ of a year on the outside.
While in the States Mr. Salis
bury, who is extensively interested
in Rampart mining ventures, suc
ceeded in organizing and incorpor
ating the Salisbury Gold Mining
Company of Alaska, with a capital
of $i,000,000. “This company ex
pects," said Mr. Salisbury, "to set
on foot a line of exteisive develop
ments in this distiict. 1 have ever
believed luuiou^hi} hi a ought fu
ture for this sectiun of Alaska, and
Ujy i« Imriif out bv new
and rich strikes in this vicinity, and
the encouragement with nhich
prospectors are meeting.
"What the district needs is new
life, new energy, and machinery;
the gold is here, and these three will
brtug it to the surface, amt we pro
pose to introduce them. The bulk
ot the capital which is to be put
onto the ground secured by m\ as
sociate* is to come from the east,
hut some of it comes from men who
are welt known here. "
Mr. Salisbury’• laaiiy are resid
ing in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
THE GOLDBUG
HYDRAULIC CO.
The Goldbug Hydraulic Mining
C . is a new concern organized to
operate in the Rampart district. It
is composed of well-known local
mining men and monied people of
the Pacific corst.
The company has a hydraulic
plant now on the way. The plant
will be set tip on Rhode Island
creek. The company has at pres
ent seven claims, commencing on
No. i above discovery.
If the plant arrives all right it
| will be placed on the ground this
! winter, in order to get it to running
as soon as possible in the spring.
The manager of the company has
received notice that the plant was
shipped from San Francisco on Aug.
18. The freight is all prepaid to
Rampart.
While the writer has had rather
hard luck on Rhode Island, be still
thinks the right man can make a
homestake there.
Many Leave Dawson.
Passengers on the Lavelle Young
from Dawson last Saturday said the
get away-from-Dawson fever is al
most reaching the proportions of an
epidemic. People who are doing
well on the creeks come into town
and Iroard the first boat, no matter
whether up or down. The Tatiana
by no means gets them all; many
are headed straight for the outside.
YAKATAK AND
INGA DIGGINGS
Pokes containing $10,000 in
treasure from Unga and Yakataga
Beach were brought from the north
on the Alaska Pacific Navigation
Co.’s steamship Kxcelsior, which
reached port last night, says the
Seattle Times of Aug. 25. The
bulk of the gold is from Yakataga,
and represents the largest shipment
since strikes were made recently
along the coast to the westward.
The lixcelsior anchored off Yaka
taga Beach. Information was re
ceived at»>ard the vessel that more
than 200 miners would winter there.
They ex|*ct to work throughout
the winter months.
A large number of miuers left for
Yakataga Beach this summer and
indications point to good cleanups
in the spring In many ways the
beach resembles the Nome dig
gings, hut it is longer. As yet
' there has been little prospecting m
the interior.
Yakataga Beach ia in the vicinity
' of Yakutat
Heeler'a scow departed up river
Saturday in rharge of Hiedelman
and lliek*. It goes a few mile*
above Hurt llamlin to bring down
e land of key
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JOHN STANLEY’S DREDGE SCHEME.
John Stanley, an old Ramparter
who went outside in the spring of
1903, returned on the Cudahy last
week.
While in the States Mr. Stanley
connected himself with the A. F.
Schmitz Alaska Dredging and Min
ing Co., of Seattle, and as manager
of the company in Rampart district
will operate a big dredging plant on
Big Minook creek
It had been the intention of the
company to land its plant on the
ground the present season, but at
Mr. Stanley’s suggestion extensive
alterations were made in the details
of construction which necessited a
delay until next summer. The ad
visability of these alterations was
impressed on Mr. Stanley by a per
sonal inspection of many of the
most important dredging opera
tions ou the Pacific coast, including
those at Shady Creek. Nev., and
Oroville. Cal , where they are now
handling dirt running 6 cents and
' net rnSir- v-»rd at Port.
land. Ore., where excavations are
being made for an artificial lake.
With a thorough knowledge of
the ground to be operated on sup
plemented by the large fund of gen
eral information thus obtained, Mr.
Stanley entered the Washington
Iron Works and had an apparatus
constructed after his own designs,
the work being nearly completed
when he started for the interior.
The Washington Iron Works will
manufacture dredges after this
model for use elsewhere, and a
Dawson firm has arranged to in
troduce them into Yukon territory.
Mr. Stanley’s company is capi
talized for $500,000, of which $350,
000 is treasury stock. Eastern
capitalists are the largest holders.
If the dredge operates successfully
it ought to prove one of the best
paying concerns in the north.
Mr. Stanley says the Rampart
district was wholly unknown to the
people he succeeded in enlisting in
this enterprise when he formed their
acquaintance. The mint statistics
rquality of Ram
part gold was a great surprise to
them.
Swjihk** *>il rtt Seward.
Kxcitcment ha* been created at
Seward by the discovery uf seepage
oil about ten mile* from that place
While a number of workmen on the
Alaska Central railroad were mak
ing a cut through one of the low
hills, the oil waa found i >tteer* of
th- steamship Kacel*a>r *ay that
fr<>m the amount ol seepage ^hown
it U likely that there » a large body
ol petroleum in the near vkinitv
Seattle Time*.
He»v) I"|*|H.*r Yukon Trmltlv.
The White I'ass steamer Cana
than, which was advertised to leave
Dawson lor the Tanana, could not
lie spared on the up river run. The
traffic is so heavy there it is scut
it keepa the White 1‘aaa people busy
to accommodate it. ( The Dawson
News, received since the above was
in type, says the Canadian waa not
>>ffvr*d enough business to justify
her in runuing to the Tatiana. It
savs. however, the White 1‘asa boats
are all needed t»n the upper rivet.)