Yukon Valiev News
VOL. III.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1906
No. 9
WONDERFUL
BAKER GREEK
HOT SPRINGS
Harry Burruss, who returned from a
business trip to Baker Hot Springs last
Friday, was very favorably im
pressed by what he saw at that tropical
oasis in the wintry desert of the north.
He reports about thirty men working
around the springs. Ths sawmill is in
operation. A fine storehouse has been
completed, and a good two-story mess
house is under way near the site of the
proposed new hotel. There is at pres
ent a messhouse open where the public
is accommodated, and a stable near by
has room for twenty-four horses.
A large hennery has been constructed
with a bank of nature-heated dirt for a
background and the front opening onto
a broad expanse of gravel tempered by
the same agency, where seventy hens
loiter alxjut, sing merrily all the day,
ami exist in a state of perfect tranquility,
for there is never a cock among them.
J. F. Karshner is described as a happy
man. Only one thing can heighten the
pleasure of his existence: he loves to
meet and remind acquaintances of litOd
how they called him a fool for staying
with the springs while the Fairbanks
stampede was on and he had a chance ,
to get in on the ground floor. “What
do you think of me for a fool now?” he
asks, in pardonable revenge, pointing to
his changed surroundings.
Mr. Burruss says Frank Manley was
planting potatoes, expecting them to lie
quietly in the ground till the proper
time comes, and then get up and hump
themselves and furnish his table with
new |s>tatoes about the time the ice
runs out of the Tanana next year.
C'v Noble has been the principal
freighter from the springs. He is build
ing a roadhouse on Baker creek at the
mouth of Kureka. lhul Foster, of tilen,
will conduct the place, and there will Is
a bar in connection. The liurn is ul*
ready completed uud in use at this
place.
Mr. Burruss states that people at the
springs are using the hot water exter
nally as well aa internally with no evil
consequence*.___
l>r. Farter, the dentist, rx|«ets to
leave tomorrow for a professional so
journ at Kureka.
Work m suth to I* still under way on
tlte New-York Thanksgiving ilikh
bat—Between poeloffice »»d .V f,
store, Maaotuc pin. This office.
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WOULD DIVIDE ROAD MONEY
Resolved, That it is the sense of the miners in meeting assem
bled at Eureka, that recommendation be made to Captain Pillsbury
in reply to his letter, that an equitable division of the road appro
priation for this district for 1907 be made between the Baker
Creek road to Hot Spsings and the Big Minook road, and that the
Big Minook road be continued in the future as fast as possible.
The above resolution is the outcome of the meeting of
the Miners Association held at Eureka last Saturday.
It is understood that it conforms to the sentiment pre
vailing at the meeting held in Rampart Oct. 9, and that
it will go to the Alaska Road Commission as the wishes
of the Miners Association in the premises. It may also
be said with a degree of assurance that it expresses as
nearly as possible the sentiments of the miners on each
side of the divide.
George W. Ledger, president of the association, re
turned from Eureka today. He reported fifty-one new
members added to the roll.
MOVEMENT OF THE MAILS
Over 5,000 pounds of mail
which left Eagle Oct. 6 ar
rived at Rampart Saturday
afternoon. It was in five
small boats lashed together,
and was in charge of' Paul
Schultz and Joe Minard, the
last named accompanying it
all the way from Eagle. No
ice was encountered until it
passed Fort Hamlin Friday.
All of it except that for Ram
part started for Tatiana in
care of the same carriers ear
ly Sunday morning.
Ed Hicdelinan arrived with
mail from Tatiana today. He
passed Schultz and Minard
stranded on the opjs>site aide
of the river yesterday.
Schultz canto in today ami
assistance was sent to help
Minard into Tatiana.
Schultz will start upriver
with mail tomorrow morning, j
He will go along the-river j
beach.
Harry Abernathy started j
up last Thursday, walking
along the beach, with the
mail on his back.
Mails left Eagle Oct. 13
and Oct. 20. It is believed
the first one will reach Ram
part by water.
Every effort will be made
to keep the mail moving on
schedule time.
The first ice began to run
Saturday morning, and the
weather remains mild with
out snow. I'nder these cir
cumstances a late free*!'up
and a long period of hard
conditions for mail carriers
seems inevitable.
HIGH PRICES
MAY PREVAIL
AT FT. YUKON
Flour is liable to be forty dollars a
hundred and other things in proportion
at Fort Yukon before the opening of
navigation if later reports from the
Chandlar are favorable.
That is the opinion said by Paul
Schultz and Joe Minard, who came
down with the mail Saturday afternoon,
to prevail up the river.
Fort Yukon is already cleaned out of
supplies. Some of the wood camps
along the Yukon are pretty well stocked,
but they will hold their grub till they
see which way the cat hops. Circle is
in striking distance; but even if that
-11 nip can spare a considerable quantity
nf necessaries it is altogether probable
they will be held as high as conditions
will warrant.
The mail men brought no definite
news from the Chandlar. However,
they say it is asserted at Fort Yukon
that the pay Is extensive, and it is evi
dent that at that place the country is
believed to lie all right. The impres
sion seemed to prevail at Fort Yukon
that scarcity of timber near the diggings
will prove a drawhak Some people as
sert that one strike was made so far up
there is no timber, but that other and
more extensive pay was found down
where timber is plenty.
Harry Abernathy, the mail carrier,
was told that there were two discoveries
staked eight miles apart on one creek.
doe McGuire, Daniel McCarty, Henry
U. E. Cooke, John Whitney and Henry
Day arrived in Dawson Sept. 26, direct
from the strike, and told the Dawson
News that some of the gold-bearing
at reams flow into Chandlar lake. There
ire several men in Rampart district
a ho have been at the lake, and they ull
*ay timber is abundant there.
The party referred to told the Ihtwson
News that the gold-la-aring streams
•oiue out of a dome. The streams on
me side of the dome How into the north
[ork, and those on the south aide How
into the middle fork. The north fork
;>u**e* through Chandlar lake. ftig
•reek and Little creek, the men said,
tre among the moat important Mowing
nto llie north lork t niter rich creeks
in I lie district are McMillan, Rock,
■wpiaw an«l Little ?t<|vaw, all Mowing
into the noddle fork.
Concluded on page three.