MINES AND MINING
EAGLE MINING CO. RUBY CREEK PLANT
Ready to Commence Summei
Sluicing.
W. P. Beardsley, of the Kaglt
Mining Co., came in from Glen or
Saturday lie brought over $18,
ooo in dust.
The Eagle Co. has all its wintei
dumps cleaned up. They aggre
gated $22,000. The new duel:
g from Boston is about done and
m they will soon be ready to com
> mence summer sluicing.
A large lot of virgin ground i*
stripped and ready. Mr. Beardslej
estimates that his company will
take out $30,000 this summer and
fall. Operations wijl be suspended
during next winter.
Mr. Beardsley and his partner,
J. W. Belsea, will winter on the
outside.
THE STRIKE ON QUAIL
Good Pay Located «»nd the Creek
Attracting Much Notice.
“Quail creek is all right,” said
a well-known mining man from
across the divide, when questioned
by the News the other day. “The
pay so far locate 1 is on a bench
near the creek, and extends fom
claims up from the mouth. Pans
as high as $7 have been obtained,
and two or three ounces a day have
been rocked."
George Shirley, Wally Laboski,
Olson and Chapman are all on pay.
A good many strangers are seen.
LITTLE MI NOOK JK.
Bowen & Cooil are ground
sluicing on 19, 20 and 2t Mr.
Bowen says he rocked out $23 in
about three hours.
HOOSIER CREEK.
A. H. Monroe was in camp last
Saturday a.id said the Hoosict hy
draulic plant is ready to start. He
anticipates a successful summer's
run.
The Louise Brought In the
Hydraulic Outfit
i -
The hydraulic plant of the Ruby
Creek Mining Co. came in on the
Louise last U eduesday night and
I now lies in front of the N. C. store.
It consists of one mile of pipe
and a lift.
i The Ruby Co will have the out
fit hauled out to the mines the coa
ling winter and be ready for busi
ness as soon as the snow is off in
, the spring.
The amount of work being done
by the small plant now running on
Hunter is an iilustratiou of what
the Ruby creek plant will accom
plish later on
HOOTLANANA.
There is no doubt that in a few
years there will be a good many
successful hjrirrulic concerns in
operation in this district.
In speaking of this matter W P.
Beardsley,of the Eagle Miring Co.,
expressed the foregoing opinion
and sa.d he believes Hootlana: a
will Lethe best paying h\drraulic
proposition in the entire district.
LITTLE MI NOOK.
I Louie Sheqnin was in from Little
Minook last Sunday. On 3 bel< w
he is dealing up on an average
$23 per day to the shovel.
Frank & Oraham, on 4 below,
!cleaned up on Saturday $300 lor
their week's work.
On 5 below they are wort ii g and
doing fairlv well.
WHAT CHEKR BAR.
A private letter of July 28 to the
proprietor of the News from David
W. Scott, of tite What Cheer Bar
Milling Co , says: "We are doing
well. Wecompleted the main ditch
the 25th. ^ e are doing some re
pair work now. We will have the
water on the Bar from Pioneer hv
the first of August.'’
KRASHNKR S RANCH
The Produce to tie Shipped to
Rampart and Tanmt.
S K Hpeter hat bought the eti
tire crop of Dad Ktaahner’a ranch
at the Maker Creek h*»t *pritig«
The crop cowttat* of ft. non heat) .f
cabbage al»-ut hu m. ktui j*>ta
toe*, two or three ton* ml beet* ami
per hep* the war of turnips am)
caitiower
Mr Heeler will *hip part of the
produce to Ma aipart ami part to
Tanani* The pack train will *Up.
ply the Glen gulch people
The New* will have something
to say in the future al-wol th»*
ranch, ami the people residei t
hereahnnl will douhtleas he sur
prise<t when they learn ll • truth of
it* pro»lut n>ene«*. whit*- tht.se in
the States will U fo-red, lout
I Hot Poster ha* m>1«| - he g 1HJs
• ppertaming to the Glen r. a.)h..w*
t** M S (till, amt wilt no lunger
{•resole over that well known stop.
ping i ho e
RECEPTION SAI
8. H. HEKTKR
OON
W. W. CROCKETT
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND GOOD
CIGARS
The Richest Priced bet
the Beet Quality.
billiard
AND
POOL
ROOMS
lu-year-old Crow Wliiskey—The Only Stock.
Something New —'Try Our Apricot Cocktail
WHITE PASS ROUTE
To Extend its Business to the
American Yukon.
The Whit; Pass company will
enter the lower Yukon traffic field
in competi.ion with the big corn
panics now operating there. An
announcement to this effect was
made c ffici .liy in Dawson Ju y 22,
says the Daily News of that place.
The company will enter the
Tanana field. Whethtr or not this
will lead to lompietiticu on the part
»>f the company on other parts of
the lcwei river iemains to be seen.
Betoie the White P; ss can send
anj steamer to Tanai.a or Fair
banks dr an> pi int btyct.d hag It
witn car. o, Fait banks or khena
will have to be made a sub-po:l 01
the company will have to secere an
Ameiican bottom. The White Pass
steamers are all Canadian bottoms
and can ply only on the waters of
British ^ ukon. 'I be opinion is
expressed by officers of the com
pany, however, that it is lik.ely that
either Cheua or Fairbanks will be
made a sub port. Were such done
the Canadian bottoms could clear
trora Wbiteharse or Dawsou and
steam direct to Chena or Fairbanks.
As it is, all Canadian steamers ftoni
\\ hitehorse or Dawson can go no
further than Flagle, 12 mtJes down
the river from the Canadian and
American boundary line There all
cargoes must at present he in
spected by the custom* officers
whether they be in American or
Canadian bottoms
were a sub-port established at
cither of Ihe Tanaaa towns, the de
lay at K#gle for shipments in hot
toms under all flags would be ob
viated. (•uod» would go through
in toad and be inspected at the
|>ort of destination, thus obviating
the loan of time by bowls and their
passengers by tying up at Bugle
A* high as 4* hours are now spent
at Keg It and I his u no -mail time
tof Ug boats ent'i many passengers
tbacwMsagy must be cared lot
by the steamers
The White Pass has among? its ’
fleet the steamer Mary Graff, one of
the Moran fleet which was built in.
Seattle for the Yukon. An Amer
ican built boat, although she has
been transferred to the Canadian
flag, can be transferred back to the
American flag. The White Pass
could place the Graff in the lower
Yukon trade and run through to
Fairbanks and Chena without hav
ing to go outside of its own fleet
or a vessel.
The possibility of a rate war
between the White Pass and the
Northern Commercial Co. and the
lessees of the North American
Transportation and Trading Co.’s
fleet arises with the announcement
of the intention of the White Pass
to enter the lower river field. The
lower river people might retaliate
by sending boats into the up river
trade, but it is doubtful if they
could obtain any freight consigned
to the upper river route for the
simple reason the White Pass
makes it a practice to deliver
freight on through bills of lading
to none but its own steamers.
When it comes to the que.'tion
of fight by reduction of rati s for
the lower river business, the White
Pass might find it necessary to
make some alterations in the rate
now existing from Dawson. The
rate from Daw; on to Fairbanks
and Cbena by the lower river com
panies is $70 a ton. From Seattle
Dawson by the White Pass it is
$70 a ton The White Pass rate
then would lie $140 from Seattle to
Fairbanks unless altered Thepre-*
ent rate of the big lower river com
panies from St. Michael to Fair
banks is I90 a ton. From Sratt'e
to St Michael is perhaps fjo at the
most, making the tariff from Seat
tle to Fairbanks bv way of the
month ot the Yukon ft to. This
makes the charges by the lower
rivar route fjo cheaper than the
combined rates by the upper nv«f
route iwtween the tame iirrtnf.
The wr
a throw
river,
shrink