Yukon Valley News
Vol. I. RAMPART, ALASKA, MARCH 8. 1905. No. 31.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
OF TWO YEARS AGO
Recalled by Newspaper Clip
ping Abo.it the Tanaiia
Country.
'I'he following clipping is from
;m outside newspaper of 1903:
Tacoma, Wash., March 11.—’I'he
latest ami most comprehensive ac
count of the strike in the Tatiana
district comes in the following letter
from Circle City:
There are 150 men building a town
across the Tanana from the Heit & Hen
dricks station near the government res
ervation. No building material or mining
tools are to lie had. The town is called ,
Tanana City. I.ot jumping is fast and ;
furious. Physical force is freely used to j
enforce actual or imaginary rights. Some ;
provisions, such as, flour, canned goods, 1
meats, etc., were to be had until about j
the middle of January, hut are all sold ;
now.
People intending to go must take with 1
them supplies to last until navigation:
opens
Pay ore running from 3 to 30 cents has
been found on the five creeks. No rich
pans or bedrock 011 any of them; in fact,
the bedrock carries no pay at all. The
gravel varies from three to fifteen feet in
thickutss, carrying pav nearly all the
■,vav. A gray streak seems to run through
the gravel fiom one to five feet below the
muck, ami from that streak to liedrock |
every pan is pay ilirt. The muck is from
vix to eight feet thick. On Coldstream
several men are working, taking out
dumps. That creek is fifteen miles long,
and, in places, three claims wide. All
claims arc full-size American claims.
After discovery had been made on the
■ reek,claims were staked on each side of
discovery claim, and on all three claims
pay was found. Work is living don.- on
all of them, l’edro creek, which is prac
tically uppe r Coldstream, ami which has
iieen the first claim staked, seems to he
lietter than the lower stream, hut much
trouble is encountered on the upfier end
with water. Jack Costa i Italian Jack), !
owner of No. i above, has twelve holes to
licdrock, extending Hou feet in length and
150 feet in wulth.
Lieutenant Gibbs, I'nited States signal
service, is reported to have panned pros
pec ted aud computed Jack's claim, and
gave as his estimate that there is f j,
.100,000 in sight on that stream alone
Cleary creek, another slrram running
into Me Maim*. is about the some length
ai.d wulth aa GobUlrestn, and prospect
ing there uewve* that about the same ml
rapes ted trom that creek as GokUtream
u Pedro The gravel in the whole re
gum n highly gold hearing, ami, while
no tu* puns have been too ad, there is
reefy reason Is eapecl a camp of peohl- '
able nature there. Claim owners are
diligently searching for men to go to
work, offering $15 a day. Labor is very
scarce.
Rampart, Weare and Nome, which art
reached by wire direct from the diggings,
report stampedes from their camps.
In some respects the great ex
pectations of two years ago have
been 11101 e than realized. Then it
would have been a venturesome
optimist to predict a ciiy like Fair
banks centering a population of
more than 7,000 in March, 1905.
Hut the mutability of human judg
ment is shown by the estimates on
some creeks then and now—Pedro,
for instance.
James Langford is now prospect
ing on Toulavana. Mr. Langford
intends to move his family into
Rampait, soon, from Quail creek,
where they have been located all
uinter.
Treieger & Kalkenberg
Firm Dissolved.
Traeger & Falkenberg, the well
known gents’ furnishers and jewel
ers, have dissolved partnership by
mutual consent. This announce
ment was mad.' today. Mr. C. A.
Traeger will continue the mercan
tile business at the old stand, and
Mr. Falkenberg will retain the
jewelry stock. Kiistiati Falkenbeg,
in recalling his intimate relations
with the people of Rampart, said
that he is glad the business is left
in worthy hands, and that Mr.
Traeger deserves the fullest meas
ure of success Mr. Falkenberg is
undecided what his future business
course will be; but at present he
will take a lecreation trip to the
creeks and will probably undergo
a course of the waters of Karshner's
hot springs.
Order of Court Defining Precinct Boundaries.
An order of court, made by Judge
Wickersham Sept. 6, 1904, more
accurately defining the boundaries
of the fifteen commissioners* pre
cincts of the Third judicial division
of Alaska, has been printed and
circulated for the benefit of the
public.
The precincts aie known as the
Aleutian Islands precinct, Unga
precinct, Kadiak piecinct, Bristol
Bay precii ct. Copper Center pre
cinct, Kajak precinct, Fairbanks
precinct, Colville precinct, Koyukuk
precinct. Circle precinct, Rampart
precinct, Forty-mile precinct, Kagle
precinct, Cook Inlet precinct, and
Valdez precinct.
Rampart and the precincts bor
dering thereon are described as
I
follows:
Koyukuk Precinct—Bounded on the j
nortli by the Arctic Ocean, on the west
hv the easterly tine of Colville precinct
and the westerly line of the Third judi- ;
ctal division, on l! south tiy a line run- j
ning parallel with (lie Yukon river and j
twenty miles north thereof projected
easterly until It strikes the westerly line :
of the Circle precinct; thence along the
westerly line of the Circle precinct to the
Arctic Ocean.
Circle Precinct- H< g n* at the summit
of the mountains between the watershed
of Kirch creek ami the Chatanika river at
the pass known aa Twelve-mile, rutin <
thence northeasterly along the sunn- >f
the watershed between the Chatak I
Mike Mraanvci on the one aid
tributaries of heaver creek %>
to the Yahoo neer. trlenes- ,
Yukon rreer and running nor o
Griffin Point on tin- Arctic Ocean; thence
along the shores of the Arctic Ocean to
the 141st tnt riilian; thence south on the
141st meridian to the north l'ne of Eagle
precinct; thence following the northerly
and westerly lines of Eagle precinct to the
north line of Frirbanksprecinct; thence
following the north line of Frirhanks
precinct to place of beginning.
Fairbanks Precinct—Begins at the sum
mit of the mountains between the water
shed of Birch creek and the Chatanika
river at the pass known as Twelve-mile;
running thence northward and westward
along the divide between the watershed
of the Chatanika river and the tributaries
of Beaver creek so as to include all the
watershed of Chatakika river, and thence
west w ard and southward along the water
shed north of the Chatanika river to the
junction of the Chatanika and Henikakat
rivers; thence down the Tolovana river
to its mouth; thence down the Xanana
river to the watershed west of the Kan
tishna river; thence along the divide so
as to include all the watershed of the
Kantishna valley to the western boundary
of the Third judicial division; thence to
Mount MtKinle) . thence easterly along
the divide between the waters flowing
into the Gulf of Alaska and those flowing
into the Tatiana river to the mirth line of
Copper Center precinct, thener following
said north line of Copper Center precinct
to the westerly line of Forty-mile pre
cinct, thence following said westerly line
of Forty utile precinct and thedivnlc be
tween the waters flowing into the Yukon
river and thoar flowing into the Tanana
river to place of beginning
H 4 in part Precinct Is bounded on the
north Kv Knyukuk precinct, on the east
ami south by by Circle peecmet ami Paif
latnbv precinct, ami on the west by I be
westerly line of the Tbirtl judicial dl
THIRD TRIAL SET
FOR TOMORROW
George A. Salisbury's Case
Before ('onimissiouer’s
Court.
George A. Salisbury was before
United States Commissioner Green
on Monday, charged with using
profane and obscene language in a
public place, to the annoyance of
others. Capt. A. H Mayo was the
complaining witness, and the of
fense is alleged to have been com
mitted in the Florence saloon last
Saturday night. Salisbury conduct
ed his own case; no attorney ap
peared for the prosecution.
Fite defense made no effort to
disprove the objectionable lan
guage, and the case went to a jury
shortly after 2 o’clock. The jury
was composed as follows:
C. I. Jordan, Tom Young, C. A.
Brown, John Skinner, Cap. Colli
nette, and S. I. Chace.
A mistrial resulted, and on Tues
day the proceedings were again
gone through and the case submit
ted to a second jury, which like
wise failed to agree. This jury
consisted of the following:
\\ . .-i. wcMnney, i-rank Brown,
Peter Raining, J. M. Geggie, John
Wiehl, and William McManus.
The case was again set for 2
o'clock today, when the defendant
was to receive a hearing on appli
cation for a postponement in order
to secure the attendance of an ab
sent witness.
When brought into court to plead
on Monday the defendant was fined
$25 for contempt of court in using
abusive language. During the trial
on that day he was fined for like
offenses four times, aggregating
$too. This was remitted aud the
the first fine collected. Three $25
contempt fines, imposed at Tues
day’s trial, were to be paid today.
The case has excited much local
interest and little else has been
talked of duriug the we*k.
Latix.—At 2 o’clock today tie
defendant withdrew the motion to
postpone, aud a new jury was or
dered for tomorrow at 1 o'clock.
I>rake, Gill and Thronson, who
lost their boiler house and ma
chinerv on Slate creek by lire re
cently, have cloned down for th
season.