TO DREDGE
IN THE TANANA
Fairbanks New*.
tiround for (Imping purpose* is being
staked in tin- Tanana, ami it will be Imt
a short time, apparently, until the big
machines are nosing about for gold in
the many streams of this part of Alaska.
l’lans are already under way for one
or two dredging outfits next summer,
lint it takes time and money to get
started. Indeed, a large fortune is needed
to build a dredgiu- of any si/e, and the
expense of getting it here is another
considerable item.
Those aeipiainted with dredging condi
tions, however, for some time have
realized the opportunities offered capital.
There are hundreds and hundreds of
miles of streams which can be dredged.
In many of these, at the present time,
grubstakes can be worked from the
river bars, liven after the gold has been
worked out of the hills—and most people
agree that that will be far, far into the
future—there will be plenty of ground
for dredgers to work.
The Pawson camp has resolved itself
almost wholly into a dredging proposi
tion, and the machines are employed in
Nome and certain parts of interior Alas
ka along the Yukon; but there is every
indication that the dredgers will be
working here along with the miner and
prospector. It has been the history of
mining, save in the Nome camp, that
the dredgers came in after the gold had
been worked out from the bills bv the
miner. This camp promises to see min
ing carried on in all its different forms
at the same time. While the miner is
hydraulieking down the hills the dredg
ers will lie rooting up the river beds;
other operators will be working the dif
ferent creeks with machinery, the same
as now, only on a more extensive scale
as the years pass; the prospector will
continue to hunt new ground anil burn
holes to bedrock with wood tires, and
during this time the hard-rock miner
will have interested capital in the rich
lodes that apparently rib some of the
mountain ranges, and all alike will en
joy the benefits of ehea]>er supplies by
reason of railroad transportation. The
handwriting upon the wall presages
these conditions.
NEW GROUND ALL RICHT
Oeorge Knitting anil Nick I»1«><»m, on
John Kean's lnnch claim l*etmeii
Omega and Thanksgiving, where a
strike mailt* this* winter, art* gifting
a-* high in ti» tl»c pan.
Mr. Krusting e«*timate*! that tin \ took
• mt over from one tir** recently.
Mr. KruMing *|>ent la.**t night in can p.
Notw itli«fati*ling it wa* «*•» late in the
4e*.<ioii liet'ore they g»»t t«* work, he ex*
jiect« to have nine or ten tl»oti*un«l latch*
et* ri ailv for the w.nlittti.
Win rt* K. II Wright** Thank-giiiv«ic
rhiiin «*xt» n*U Kiito tlti* Iwtwh |kiv h»*
iiN*i Uitflv I** In thi* in^ltHM***
lIn- |n«y 14 m l » xtruonlimirily rirh, *•»
itr, Itiil it i* «iIm >#it thru* f»* | in |»t fei.
Tin |it>iiM lui* si i«4nl***I *i I'lmrt* r •*»
tin- I'aritetflv r«*ll*gv f«»r tin- *lvillt« t«
t«i« nl .»rl »•-!*«• I*in* in tin* I niinl
!*t;it»** Tlw nJltHf ’•ill U* H|i)it«vi|
*»th tn» ut*Hi»»ii ♦ittlbri.
Items of the Camp.
Logs are on the ground for the What
Cheer Bar bunkhouse.
M. R. Downing lias joined Sevier and
Crockett on it and 10 Little Minook.
M. S. (lill has the logs on the ground
for a tine mess house till by .‘10 at Glen.
I!. II. Wright and Fisher are pros
pecting in the vicinity of Thanksgiving.
Billy Graham and dim Larson have
moved out supplies and will prospect on
Millcr creek.
I'itgu Minook is taking pretty plenty
of Whitehall in a trap recently put in six
miles up the river.
Walter Sundbnrg is doing the honors
at the postoffice while Postmaster
Fleiseliman is visiting on the creeks.
Louis Iverson, accompanied bv Allen
Crane, has returned to Sourdough gulch,
Stjurw creek, to continue prospecting.
George W. ..Is, Charley Swanson
and Dan Sinclair are to begin getting
out trestle timber for the 1 lousier hy
draulic people.
The McLeod boys got in from the No
vitno last Friday. Kinney McLeod and
the other Ramparters will come back,
most of them before the breakup.
Messrs. Frank & Graham arrived last
Friday from Bay River hot spring. Mr.
Graham, who is a sufferer from rheuma
tism, was considerably benefited by his
course of baths.
Mrs. John Xeussbaum, who went out
side last fall, is now in Skngway. In a
letter to Julius ltahmstorf she says she
and Mr. Neussbaum will probably re
turn to Rampart.
The machinery seen red by G. W.
Spicer from Ed Hopkins for work on
Eureka is already upon the ground and
is expected to lie ready for business the
beginning of next week.
George Cowan and Dave Rushing are
preparing to put tip a stock of ice for
local consumers the coming summer.
Between oO and 100 tons will be stored,
and more if orders are received.
Joe Kamil ski has staked water rights
on New York and California creeks and
proposes to construct a ditch to supply
water to Omega and Thanksgiving. The
length of the ditch will be ab*ut six
miles.
M. S. (till, recently in from (.Men, said
lit1 failed to strike pay in tin* deep shaft
just finished there. The shaft is 72 feet
deep, amt a little gold was found all the
way down, with about a rent to the pan
on bedrock
Kd Itiedelinan, recently nrriveil from
Mike Hess, is teaming !• «r Smith tV Mc
Hugh. Mr. I'tiedelman met S. It. llud
s*in and Maurice Farrell fifty miles up
Mike Mess on a trapping ex|»slition.
There were no marten tracks and rab
bits were so scarce it was hard to keep
up the supple of ilng meat. The trap*
l» r* were g .imr higher up stream.
A wirv wh* r«<’«iviH| ImU* thi* uftvr
»i**• *»i -tilting tliiit .hft«lgt» Witk.r^lmm
li*(t \Vi(«)tintft<>rt l‘**r tin* v*m+\ t*»lav. un*l
that W I*. Il*»\fira?t «tart»*«! t«* Winhiiiu*
t"ii t<. fMjilt r m itli tli*> mim-tir • >? tin*
it»l*Ti**r. |'iv«itmtiMy in ontmtii.n with
iiuittvr* r« lut hvr !•» Iih • I»»t»••<• hi *4**\
l •**• t *1 v* i ii-i .M.in intr<«l»i« « «l
it tall I • *lt»n« fr*»«t« tUbing tn
«4lt n • |»t with r«»l an* I
•jraf »FI' thr *»<&•*«• *tt«M*«l Ml.
TT IS A MISTAKE
to offer your friends Inferior tea,
when you can just as easily give them
CEYLON.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, Agents
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE.
OUTFITTING _
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(In the Postofflce Building)
Cigars by the Box a Specialty
YUKON POLAR INSTITUTE
Dawson News.
The proposition of makins experiments
lit re for the Yukon l’olur Institute pro
ject to go to the pole will receive a fa
vorable recommendation at Ottawa by
Governor Mclnnes. The governor stated
this morning that he would report favor
ably on the scheme, anti that he be
lieves the enterprise should be supported
by a grant from the government.
II. A. Harms, a former Dawson pho
tographer, writing front his old home in
Yountville, Napa county, California,
says that he would like to join the
Variele polar expedition as official phi -
tographer. Darius was one of the most
expert photographers ever in the north,
anil one who knows how to mush in the
ci ild.
Godfrey Chealander, of the Alaska
Yukon exposition, has offered his mov
ing-picture apparatus for Variele to
take polar pictures, and now that Harms
is on deck to do the camera work, Variele
will soon have a long line of experts
following his wake.
Born
Yestenlay morning, to Mr. anil Mrs.
John K. Prake, a ilanohter.
I»r. Ilmloin asserts that in some seven
lmmlreil yonnasters lie has intnsluceil
to a]n>reeiative eonnnunities, this little
woman has lieen exeelleil by none in
(ihysieal eharms anil iroo.1 behavior.
She weivtheil ei|iht } win nils ami a half.
Saw Mill to Start
the First of April
ti. T. Ile lriek i« nettiiiK S K. lleeter's
saw mill in sha|<e at Mureka.
The mavhinery is all in |>luee ami it is
en|a*ete*l the mill will Is* reuily to start
by the first of ,\|>ril.
Lost
Dog
Strayed from tlie vicinity of
Eureka, Jan. 2<>. Weight
about !H) pounds; black;
tan legs; tan spots over
eyes; short haired ; answers
to the name of “Spot.”
Suitable reward if turned
over to <r. W. Spicer, Eure
ka, or John Stanlev, 35 B. M.
(
A nr vnil one °f ,l'ose people who
HflL I UU seldom write home?
They will know you are all right if you
send them the YUKON VALLEY NEWS.
Mail yours or let us send one weekly.
)
QUEER NOME WEATHER
Nugriret. Feb. 6.
This section of Alaska is experiencing
l>eculiar weather for this latitude at this
time of year. Considerable rain has
fallen, at intervals, since last Saturday.
The snow has melted rapidly, and water
is running everywhere, interfering with
mining operations. Today at noon the
thermometer was 40 above.
Trapped.
Valdez News.
Last Sunday night a Valdez girl, after
entertaining a young man until the
chickens were crowing their last nightly
crow, handed him a pencil and paper
and asked him to make nine ciphers in a
row, thus: 000000000; then to com
mence at the first, and from the right
side of the first cipher draw a straight
line down, the right side of the fourth a
straight line up, on the right side of the
fifth a straight line down, on the right
side of the seventh a straight line up, on
the right side of the eighth a straight
line down, and then to read what he had
w ritten.
Grandma’s Reason.
“I'm glad l'illy had the sense to marry
a settled old maid." said tirandma
Winkum at the wedding.
“Why, tirandma?" nsktsl the son.
"Well, gals is hity-tity, and widders
is kinder overrulin' an' u|wttin‘. But
old maids is thankful an' willin' to
please "— Kxehunge.
Chas.A.Traeger,
Hats, Clothing
and Furnishings.
SAMPLES OF SUITINGS
All the Latent Stvle* for Spring,
Summer and winter Wear.
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made-to-order suits sent In.
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