Yukon Valiev News
VOI.. III.
RAMPAUT, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31. 1907
No. 49
300 LOCATIONS MADE
Sensational Features Attend New Strike
Across the Divide.
Sensational reports were brought from
across the divide three days ago regard
ing a gold find to the south west ward
of Ttianksgiving.
Dave Hushing was the tirst to bring
the news. He saw some of the gold,
which was coarse. Corroborating re
]x>rts came in, alleging that several ten
dollar jiieces had lteen found. The
scene of the strike was given as a point
on the Tatiana slope, eighteen miles
from Eureka and the same distance
from Hot Springs.
A good many men went into that re
gion early last winter anil the belief has
been general that the rich Thanksgiving
pay extends in that direction.
The present story is that two (icimans
staid there all the winter and up to the
present time. The spicy part of it is
that Michael Joseph Sullivan, a hunter
and trapjier who has a cabin in the
vicinity, strayed that way a month ago
and was promptly held up by the tier
mans [and kept captive till they could
make further investigations and com
plete their pencil work.
Michael Joseph, himself lteing fairly
trapped by furtline, got in on the ground
•floor and didn't .squeal.
The following telegram is in answer
to a request from the Valley News for
particulars:
HOT SPRINGS, July 30.—The new
strike was made by Harter, Schneider
end Kemple on Sullivan creek, a tribu
tary of Kish lake which heads in Moose
mountain. The new government Hot
Springs-Fort Gibbon road crosses dis
covery claim. It is sixteen miles from
the Springs, tiftv-two miles from Ram
part, and is supposed to lie a continua
tion of the Glen pay. It looks .good.
Fair prospects found in creek and
benches, twenty to sixty feet deep.
Three hundred claims have already been
located. There is a big rush on from
the creeks and the Springs. One boiler
is on the ground and three more are on
the way in.
Michael Joseph Sullivan's home cabin
is one mile north of the strike and the
creek is named after him. George A.
Salisbury, Herman Tufty and W. 1*.
McManus were first to get in on the
ground.
[ Rampart jample familiar with the
ground say the strike is an easy day’s
travel from here going straight across by
the upper part of Fish creek.]
NEW PAY IN
CHANDLAR
The otlieert* of the Lavill** Young,
wliieh arrive*! fr**in upriver early Mon
thly morning, *aii«l that Joe !h*ger»* haul
Arriv»*«l ait Fort Yukon the *lay l»ef«>re
with the newt «>f a ri« h atrike on Sheep
ereek, i 'haiellair.
I*navenger* on tlu* Young aahl i**«*ple
at |%,rl Yukon attarh great imp* name
t*» the re|nnrt. K«ncen* anal a* high »»
♦4 |«nn hml h »*!* foiital*
If the HihI prove* t«» le icenuine it
will rintae a ren**al of eolilitlenre in the
t 'halt* liar
Tliere i* A Hkvrp ereek **n the K»»ftt*
kuk ai*le of the ilivale, whu l» h«-*«l« up
near the t'lmialhif. an*I emir people in
Uampart livlivvr that »» a here the
«tnke aa* Hualr. I»r. t I* • after*
however, who arrive*! Iron* Tbmm yea
t«r«lay. «aU U Imm* hmftt •*< a *hv*t«
«reek *«• t haralhir *ale Aral l*eHevr» that
t« the »e« ► Flora* l»*.
Has options
ON HUNTER
Benjamin t\ Warnick, a Philadelphia
man with lartff interest* in the north—
e*|N*cially at Atlin, IS. t\—hftK obtained
"I'tioiiH on th»* Hunter rntk ground ,,f
I.. M. Ihivix aiui a*-oeiate«
It appear* that Mr. Warnick’* cmir*e
ha* not herti fully determined, hut the
plan- la* ha- in inincl include putting
• *n«* or two large -t* am *hovel* on tin*
rmk.
> tea in shovel*, lit* mijri, have Urn
very *ucc» --lul in Atlin and other place*
within hi-t knowh-«lye, an«l mater fa
vorable condition* he ronshier* them
the moat effective appliance* for the
cheap and thorough working of placer
ground. In common with the local
miner-, he Itrliew* llunter will Uitnur
a creek of large prodtietarn.
I nder IiU plan the machincrv will lie
brought in hihI preliminary w**rk ar<
fort»ph«he«| ne«t «nmmer. that a
aewaon of pr««ltH'ti%e operation can U
carried *»n in the •ttmmtr of pa#*.
NO CHANGE AT INNOKO
Country of Possibilities, but Opportunity
Lacking at Present.
Pete Jepson, a well known miner
lately from the Innoko, eame up from
Tanana on the Lavelle Young yesterday,
lie eame to Tanana from the Innoko on
the Florence S. three days before.
Mr. Jepson says the Innoko is so far a
failure as a placer country. What gold
has lieen found on Gaines creek is on a
narrow bench. It doesn’t amount t(
much. In the creek proper scarcely a
color can he found. Specimens of very
rich quartz was seen, which Mr. Jepsoi
said was dug out of slide material. On;
piece less than a cubic foot in dimen
sions had coarse gold all through it and
he believed it contained $d00.
Having an opportunity to come out,
Mr. Jepson did not stay to make a j>er
sonal examination of the country and
admits the bulk of his knowledge is
second hand. However he met friends
who have been there since the first of
may and knows it is absolutely impossi
ble to do anything now. The country
is all staked, and the bulk of the stukers
have departed; some claims are record
ed at Kuskokwim, some at Xulato and,
]>erhaps, some at Nome; so one can
neither locate untaken, ground, tell
what was abandoned without Iteiug re
corded, or purchase ground or obtain a
lay from the claimants.
Captain K. R. Sondheim, part owner
of the steamer Monarch and interested
in other boats, was on the Young yes
terday and was also lately in the Innoko
along with Captain Langley of the
steamer Tana. On the whole he consid
ered the country one of great jsissibili
ties. He thought likely the quartz find
will prove to he a blowout—but. even
STEAMER ELLA
IS TOTAL LOSS
The steamer Klla, which Hank in the
Tunana a mile aln*ve Tolovana ten •lays
ago, i* a total lo** ami i«* leing 'liftman*
thetl ami tlive»te«l of her machinery.
This* information wan ohtaine«l from
Captain K. H. Somiheim, a well-know n
nteamlioat man who war* on the Lavelle
Young en route to IHiwhou ye-tenlay.
Contrary to former report*, the Klla
wan *h»w nhotiml when the trouble came
ami coiiM«H|iiently cur mil m» cargo.
Captain I Hair of the Klla felt no *hock
to imlivate that the boat ha*l -truck a
Niuig or ra k \\ lien he lir*f ilinvo\ere«l
there wat *oim-thing wrong the limit
wt.o tilling to fa»t he «uw it «,im Uuiml
t * tink ami he ran it har«t on to a har
ami it re»te«l in rout put ati\e|y shallow
water.
"Mother’ a r ha me ter wnleU
known along the Yukon in l*m- <4»umk
later, liaw a ro**lho«i*r in the Imont conic
try «»f N« va*la
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l^TiTTTTh ,m-l V«i r>' in-liiti-l I*>r
the l'>|aUln \ii.lii—-n W a
*Mllhy man, ami Iw luui a |>ri>nmi«nt
I'laMf 111 uMiiita 111 In* ilNint'i. limn
iNWimiviluiit (wmling in ihi- <li»crt«'t
i»*wn ("i m-«vry ul an interval in |Im
IK-me (>r*-|ierty.