FIFTEEN MILES BELOW CARO
Goods Landed by the Koyukuk for the Northern Com
mercial Company’s Post.
The steamer Koyukuk ascended the
Chandlar to a point fifteen miles below
Caro. There, on the left limit of the
river, the Northern Commercial trailing
post is being established.
The Koyukuk was at Rampart on her
way to Tanana last Friday morning. It
was not known whither the boat would
then proceed.
On the Chandlar the gravel bars were
everywhere visible, showing a low stage
of water for this time of year; yet the
depth was ample to accommodate the
Koyukuk. However, there are some
short turns to be made and at places
the current is very swift. The line hail
to be put out live times. At the mouth
of the East Fork is some skookum water.
In attempting to take up a second load
the line parted at one'of the bad places
in the river and tin? boat had to return j
without accomplishing its object. The
broken line could not be picked up.
The site selected for the post is de
scribed as a very favorable one, where
the banks are high and a good-sized
creek comes in.
Howard Turner, assistant auditor of
the company, returned on the Koyukuk
very well satisfied with what had been
accomplished.
GENUINE SORROW
Capitalists She:i Salt Tears
Over Spilt Milk.
Jack Hines, a former member of the
Nome Nugget's staff, lias written
that paper some letters from New York
about people anil events in tlie eastern
metropolis interesting to far-northerners
on account of their relation to matters
in Alaska. Here is an incident related
in one of the letters that will make good
with any hard-luck story of the year:
“A few days ago Denny lilakeley,
Harrv Walters, George Borchsenins and
myself were summoned to api>ear before
the stockholders of the old Alaska Gold
Mining Company. You remember it—
Kd Waggaman's proposition. We sat on
one side and the capitalists on the other
—the old colonel in the middle. He
started off this way :
“‘Gentlemen, I've asked you to come
here and speak before these gentlemen—
the men who put up the money for my
exploiting in Alaska, and who say 1
lohlied them and did not at any time
act in good faith. Now, I've not very
many years to live, and I want this one
thing squared up before I die.’
“They had an attorney who quizzed
us each, separately, anent our knowl
edge oi the old Alaska Gold Mining
Company's ground, w Inch comprised all
of the beach lines back of Nome We
all told conservatively of the value oi
that property, and when asked to ballot
an estimate of the possible cash value
the average of four guos-es was seventy
three million dollars. Well, sir, the old
sports just wept to think that a few
thousands more would have given them
the bulk of this fortune.
“The capitalists showed in many ways
their humiliation and only wanted some
tilings to prove to the colonel that they
were ready to make good and back him
for any amount. "
The«*h*re Tilton, who |*l;iyI the in
jur*«i*hui»l#m«l role in tin* IWwIht*
Tilton ilntiiut, ilit*l recently in I'ari*,
where lit* l»u«l live* I for nearly thirty
Vfam. Tilton *a« a man **f *trikiiiK
a|»|*-aruni At tin- culmination of the
Beecher mm min I he t**urctl the country
tleliwrintf a I* cture ntyI«1 ‘’The l‘rohh-n»
of Life"—ahicli lee**lllteil hi* wrong*
,iml diitf «h ♦ |* into the rot ten in ** of hi**
nwii home In »»*n»e *»f tin* *tate«, at
hi- got few hearer* ami the lime
|H|irr« *«»ul*l •% an ely allow hi* 'tame to
*}»|*-ar In their colunn.
PROOF OF LABOR
Must Be Filed or Claim Will
Be Forfeited.
Here is tin* law providing for tiling
proofs of labor.:
Be it enacted, etc., That during each
year and until after patent has been
issued therefor, at least $100 worth of
labor shall be performed or improve
ments made on, or for the benefit or
development of, in accordance with ex
isting law, each mining claim in the
district of Alaska heretofore or hereafter
located. And the locator or owner of
such claim or some person having
knowledge of the facts may also make
and tile with the said recorder of the
district in which the claims shall be
situate an atliduvit showing the per
formance of labor or making of improve
ments to the amount of $100 us afore
said, and specifying the character and
extent of such work. Such affidavit
shall set forth the following: First, the
name or number of the mining claims
and where situated; second, the number
of days’ work done and the character
and value of the improvements placed
thereon ; third, the date of the perform
ance of such labor and of making im
provements; fourth, at whose instance
the work was done or the improvements
made; fifth, the actual amount paid for
work and improvement, and by whom
paid w hen the same was not doin' by the
owner. Such affidavit shall be prima
facie evidence of the pi rformance "f such
work or making of such improvements,
but if sin It affidavits be not tiled within
tin- time fixed by thin ai t tin burden of
proof -hall !><• upon tin' claimant to
e-tabli-h tlii' |n ri<irmaiit-v <»f -itch mi- j
Dual work ami improvement*. Ami
u|hiii lailuri' of tin- locator or owner of
any witch chum to coni|>ly willi tin- pro
viwion- of tbi* in'!, an to performance of
work ami improvement-, witch claim
-hail ixcuiur forfeited ami open to b*a
tion by other- a- if no location of the
Mine ha<l ever tieeii made. Tin- alfidavil.
reipiiretl hereby may lie made la-fore any
officer author Uni to admini-ter oatiix,
ami the prnviwion- of werlloaa .Vi!*'..* ami
\m of the Krvianl statute- are hereby
eitemh-l to -mb altidavit-. "aid aiti
davit- -ball Ik- tiled ted later than ninety I
S. E. HEETER,
Freighter and Packer
Good Equipments and
Service Unexcelled
days after the close of the year in which
such work is performed.
See. 2. That the recorders for the sev
eral divisions or districts of Alaska shall
collect the sum of $1.50 as a fee for the
tiling, recording and indexing said an
nual proofs of work and improvements
for each claim so recorded.
Approved March 2, 1!K)7.
PLACER GOLD IN NEVADA
Klondiker Believes Diggings Will
Rival Those in Early California
and Montana Days.
Carlin, Xev., April 10.— Stirring scenes,
not unlike the Klondike rush of 1897, are
being enacted as a result of a placer dis
covery made twenty miles from here on
Jackson creek, a tributary of Maggie
creek. In several bench and creek
claims below the discovery sensational
pans are being found. Dench claims
pay equally as well as creek claims.
From a great number of pannings
yesterday from the original discovery
the amounts ran from 15 to (10 cents a
pan, mostly in coarse nugget gold. The
gold runs in all the gulches along the
base of the mountain ranges for upward
of three miles. An old Klondike miner
who has spent three years on Eldorado
says that the placer diggings here will
rival the great diggings of California and
Montana.
Gold in Railroad Tunnel.
Helena, Mon., May 20.—Employes of
the Chicago and Milwaukee railroad,
while driving a tunnel for the new road
to the coast, struck a rich vein of ore
and have staked for themselves.
It is claimed the ore is the richest
ever found in the Coeur de Alenes and
all work has come to a stop. Samples
of the ore have been handed about and
it is claimed sjiecks of gold can be dis
cerned with the naked eye.
All the ground in the vicinity has
been staked. A s|pccial representative
of the railroad company left this place
to see w lmt can be done toward contin
uing the work.
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