HUNTINGTON
OPTIMISTIC
Says Red Mountain is a Winner, in
Spite of Knocks by Price.
J. S. Huntington and Jerry Donovan
came in from Red Mountain district
Tuesday night for supplies. They re
port that timber is being hauled to open
up four claims on Indian creek. Mr.
Huntington’s estimation of the new dis
trict may be gathered from the following
communication:
Indian Cheek, March 15, 1911.
Editor Yukon Talley News:
Dear SirIn your issue of Feb. 23 I note
an interview with Mr. J. .1. Price in which he
speaks of Indian creek as a blank, saying
that there was nothing to indicate the exist
ence of pay; that nobody had anything but
a few light colors, and makes the further
statement that the stampede was started on
nothing more substantial than hot air;
which is a malicious, unwarranted, untruth
ful statement, which I consider a direct in
sinuation against my veracity and integrity
as a miner, as I was directly responsible for
Mr. Price’s trip here. I was in no way re
sponsible for the stampede; in fact quite
the contrary, as Mr. W. B. Rodman, of Tan
ana, and Mr. E. W. Griffin, of Chena, will
affirm. The stampede injured the interests
of my associates and myself. By it starting
when it did we were unable to obtain what I
consider some very good claims on Poca
hontas creek and Raven. I wish through
the medium of your paper to put the exact
facts before the people of Alaska, as the last
thing on earth I wish to be thought is a
starter of ‘ hot air” stampedes.
When Mr. Price said that no one here had
anything but a few light colors he evidently
forgot that he saw several pans from dis
covery claim, one of which went as high as
5 cents and many 1 and 2 cents. No one who
is a miner would call them “flue, light col
ors.” It seems to me that pans of that kind
might be considered something to indicate
the existence of pay.
I wrote Mr. Price last fall that I had made
a strike on Indian creel, and had staked
him; also on some of the surrounding
creeks; that I had reached here too late to
do anything, as the ice formed two days
after my arrival: but had panned the creek
extensively for a distance of five or six
miles and had raised remarkable pans for
surface prospects. Two of us panning for
two days never panned a skunk, the pans
running from half a cent to 10 cents, and
5-eent pans being quite frequent; raised a 5
cent pan in creek bed of No. 8 Felix Fork,
four miles and a half above discovery, In
dian. I stand ready at any time after the
snow goes off to show tlioee same prospects
to any man who knows how to shake a pan
of gravel, Also told Mr. Price that it was
an almost impossible country to work in in
the winter time, and that I might not be
able to reach bedrock this winter. I don’t
think that even Mr. Price would intimate
that that was hot air.
Mr. Price made one or maybe two trips up
the creek on snowshoes. The tops of the .
willows were peeking through here and
there and an occasional boulder showed its
wind-swept pate above the snow. He came
back to the cabin and said that the creek
was no good. Just think of it! Ain’t he a
j wonder? Why, as a mining expert he lias
, John Hayes Hammond looking like a dried
up, worm-eaten mushroom.
That was before I came to Tatiana for the
boiler. When I got back with the boiler Mr.
Price sahk a hole on the left-limit hillside of
discovery, Indian, and got nothing.—The
creek bed in that place is 120 feet wide.—He
sank another hole on the left limit of No. 9
Felix Fork, four miles and a half above dis
covery, and got a few light colors. That was
all he did, and on the strength of that he
goes to Tatiana and makes the supercilious
: and slandering statements which I have re
ferred to above. I stal ed Mr. Price in here
of my own volition, not because of any bind
ing obligation to him, using my own money,
performing the labor and paying all my own
expenses up until the first of the present
yeac. Yet, upon reaching Tatiana, he has
the very bad taste to try and make me ap
pear in the light of a hot air peddler to my
friends and the public at large.
The creek bed of Indian and Felix Fork
runs from 80 feet in the narrowest place to
160 in the widest. Mr. Price said that if the
gold was all in the creek bed it would have
to be awfully rich to pay} that it would have
to go better than §2 to the foot. It grieves
me to think that I have been mining for 17
years and have all that time been hoping to
find ground that—according to Mr. Price’s
j opinion—won’t pay.
Have crosscut Jo. 1 above discovery, with
seven holes to bedrock, an average depth of
4 feet 9 inches. It don’t go $2 to the foot, nor
even $1.50; but for 185 feet in width it will
shovel in from $25 to $50 to the shovel. It’s
hind of hard to think of wasting 17 years
looking for ground that won’t pay. How
ever, I believe I will linger with Indian
creek for a year or two and try to rustle to
bacco money out of this “blank” ground
that has nothing in it but “hot air.”
In future when Mr. Price makes state
ments “for the benefit of the public” about
mining ground of which he knows nothing,
I would advise him to go to some country
where his efforts to advertise himself as a
mining expert will be more thoroughly ap
preciated.
Those experts who mine with their eyes
and feet instead of their head and hands,
like the fireside prospectors, are a drug on
the market. This is the first time I ever
knew one of them to explode to the public.
For the benefit of the public I feel justified
in saying that Indian creek is going to be a
cam]), how extensive remains to be seen.
The indications at present do not justify
one in thinking it is going to be a Bonanza,
and there is no doubt but that the ground
Mr. Felix and myself have crosscut will pay
well. Everyone here, at present, are well
satisfied, and ali are working.
If the creek continues to show up as well
as it has for the last 17 days, several outfits
will he opening up ground this spring, Sev
eral boys from the Upper Koyukuk are on
their way here to prospect their ground.
There is one boiler on the creek, and it is
kept busy. Many of us will have to come to
Taliana for supplies soon. It is 105 miles to
Tanana and 72 miles to Arctic City, but we
consider it cheaper to grubstake at Tanana.
I hope Thos. Edison’s prediction regarding
the manufacture of gold will prove wrong,
otherwise it will look bad for Red Mountain.
I advise no one, who has no ground here to
come in, as I do not know of any vacant
ground. Any person who has not been here
before, would be making 4 serious mistake
by coming in now with the expectation of
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REMEMBER: We Have Just Received Oar Flower and Garden SEEDS
TAN ANA COMMERCIAL COMPANY.
JUST OVER THE ICE!
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Fresh Vegetable and Flower SEEDS.
WE STILL HAVE ALL KINDS OF
FRESH FRUITS, apples, oranges, lemons
PETALUMA EGGS
Northern Commercial Company
stalling: anything. Next July by boat to
Hughes would he the most advisable time
for anyone contemplating a visit here.
Indian Creek District is about 18 miles
south of the Koyukuk river.
Yours Sincerely,
J. S. HUNTINGTON.
P. S.—Since writing the above. I have 1 et
ter pay one-half or three-quarters of a mile
above No. 1.
Ralph Donaldson, N. C. Co. agent of
Rampart, is visiting Tanana for a few
days.
Charles Hill, better known as “Senator
Hill,” is on the trail to Valdez from ldit
arod. He spent Sunday at this place.
J. F. Xellany, of Hot Springs, expects
; to go outside early in April to join his
| family, who departed a few weeks ago.
E. D. Steele arrived in Tanana Tues
I day evening, and departed the following
day for Fairbanks. He has spent most
of the winter in the Old Man country.
Emile Hultgren, who was badly frozen
I this winter on the Indian river divide,
returned Tuesday from the Red Moun
tain and reports that it will, in all prob
abilities make a good camp.
Joe Shaw, John St. Pierre, Mike Kan
ally and Moris Morrison left this city
Monday morning for the Old Man dis
trict. These men have been prospecting
there for some time, and came out for a
few shortages for their summer grub
steak. They are very entusiastic over
I their prospects.
Notice of Postponement.
Fort Gibbon Social Club,
Fort Gibbon, Alaska,
March 21), 1911.
Owing to the demise yesterday at 3:00
p. m. of our esteemed comrade, the late
Sergeant Alvin L. Shehane, Company
“A,” 16th Infantry, who was also the
president of the Fort Gibbon Social Club,
we, the dance committee of aforesaid
club, in special session, have decided to
postpone a social dance advertised for
April 1st, 1011, for one week as a token
of respect to our departed comrade and
official.
Ladies and gentlemen receiving invi
tations to the dance of April 1st, will
kindly note the postponement of same
for one week, and are informed that the
dance in question will be held on Satur
day, April 8th, 1911, when invitations,
already tendered, will be valid.
Respectfully,
THOMAS PATTERSON,
Chairman, Dance Committee.
Shot Her Husband.
Chicago, March 25.—Mrs. Schenck,
who shot and killed her husband claim
ing she mistook him for a burglar, is
held for murder, a second bullet having
been found in his body. It is thought
she kilied him purposely, following a
night of revelry.
Business Notice.
Legal Papers, Copying and Letter-writing,
neatly and correctly done. Call and dictate
that long neglected business letter. Charges :
reasonable. The patronage of the public
respectfully solicited.
Office hours, 10 a. ni. to 4 p. m., except Sun
days. M. A. BALDERSON,
Public Stenographer.
Office, cabin cor. Front St. and Campbell Av.
NO PROSPECTS
j IN THE HOSIANA
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Party From Pitka Fork—Nicol and
Bresnahan to Quit Mud Fork.
Rampart, March 27.—Ledger, Kreig,
Patton and Desmond have returned
from Pitka Fork of the Hosiana and re
port there lias absolutely nothing been
found either on that branch of the river «
or any other part of the Hosiana.
Alex Nicol and F,d Bresnahan have
| quit the Mud Fork and contemplate
coming out. McGuire and partner have
gone to the head of Mud Fork to pros
pect, and some propose to try it lower
down on the main river.
Maurice Farrel and Dave Rushing
have put in the time trapping.
To Eat Alaska Pork.
Ed McCormick, living on the Yukon
twelve miles below Rampart, will treat
j Tanana to a novelty in the way of home
| grown meat soon after the opening of
navigation. lie has eleven beautiful
pigs of his own raising, and six of them
will be marketed here. He has two
; brood sows and has met with so much
success in pig raising that he will keep
it up indefinitely.
Engels Funeral.
Rampart, March 2<.—Mike Engels was
buried here yesterday. The funeral was
the most largely attended of any ever
held in Rampart.
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proper kind of glasses from Bends.
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