VOL. III.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH l:>, 1007
No. 29
SCHABFR IS BACK FROM GHANDLAR
k May Take a Summer’s Sluicing to Tell the Camp’s Character.
Men Now Prospecting the Hosiana.
Bob Sehaber, after a stay of several
months in the (.'handlar, arrived in
Rampart Sunday afternoon, fourteen
days from Caro.
He has nothing sensational to report,
but says undoubtedly considerable
sluicing will be done the coining sum
mer, the result of which may have to be
awaited before an intelligent conclusion
can be reached as to the district’s worth.
Seven boilers are being operated in
the district and more are going in. Mr.
Softaber says the ground is deep and
wet in places, but a good many holes
have been bcdrocked, and in several
instances partus claim to have found
fair but not sensational pay. In many
places good, heavy gold has been found
at varying depths in the gravel that
would seem to offer pay if advantageous
ly worked, even if barren at the bottom.
Mr. Scluilier said he had been too
busy while in the country to be in a i«>
sition to particularize now.
“However,” he said, "Big creek looks
like it will he a big producer. Mike
Laboski, of Uampart, finally succeeded
in getting bedrock at 47 below on this
creek and is said to have fair pav. It
is believed that his shaft is not in the
the most favorable place, l.e having to
nim for the rim in order to avoid water.
Vl.ittle Squaw look* to me like it
would be a great open-cut proposition.
"Jim Kuncheon was down St) feet on
discovery, Kuncheon creek, and ex|*ected
! t<> got bedrock :it loss than 100 feet.
“There is very little doing on the
Middle Fork.
“The Rix’kafello'v party got down 70
feet on Met della i 1 and struck gas.
They moved to Big creek.
"Slim Schofield, who joined a party in
sinking with wood (ires on Monarch,
had only worked a few days when the
dirt slumped in and the hole was aban
doned. It was down over 80 feet.
“There is no ipiestion now but that it
is a deep-ground country, and but little
lean ever be accomplished with wood
i tires.
“Coming out 1 met about fifty men
going in with good outfits. Most of
them intend to stay in and prospect all
summer. ”
The Town of Caro
Mr. Schaber said it is by no mean?*
certain that Caro will maintain suprem
acy as a town it the district grows into
important activity. Of course a great
deal would depend on the direction the
first big development would take.
“The little city is beautifully located,*’
said Mr. Schaber, “and should make a
nice, clean town. And Carter, the dis
i cove re r of the district, told me he knows
be could make $ 5 a day rocking on the
bar right in the edge of town.
“The country around Caro is most
phasing. The soil is good f«»r garden
ing, etc., and 1 have no doubt grain will
thrive there. Mr. Schaber has Iwen in
the country before.] There is the linest
pasture in summer; plenty of game,
such as moose, caribou, and, high up in
the bills, slieep. The lakes are well
stocked with fish. In fact, it is an ideal
country to prospect in.”
On the Hosiana.
Mr. Schaber says nine or ten men
have crossed over the divide and are
prospecting on tributaries of Hosiana
river. Slate and Trout arc two
creeks on which prospects are found.
Krnest McLeod, Clarence Avey and Jim
(Slim) Scofield are there at work with a
boiler.
Note.—These men are on the lirst
righthand or Pitka fork. They them
selves, according to Mr. Schaber, do not
know how far they are above the junc
tion of the two branches of the river.
That fork heads very near the waters of
the Chandlar. l’itka Minook, the well
known native, found gold there and
sluiced on Pitka creek several years ago,
but failed to make it pay. Hosiana
river, between the Chandlar and the
Hall, has branches heading near the
waters of each of these streams and also
of the Koyukuk. It empties into the
big slough a few miles below Vic lleck
engreen's old camp.]
Mr. Schuller says that Roberts, who
went to faim expecting to be deputy
marshal, mushed back to Fairbanks
knocking the country.
READY TO MOVE
HYDRAULIC PLANT
Italloti A Mann lia\r aaanli-il
to Snir<l>>ii)cli Mik»' tin- *• -iitrin-t for
fr> i-,flitii,i* tin- Hnl>y t ro-k Ity• Iruu11«
l>l.int to Hunter no* k, win ri it i» to U
»-l u|> an-1 ofwraKHl in future.
Tin- *nrk of remoial Hill Infill at
ihkt, ami in> lino- Hill l»- |o*t in |aittinif
lln I'lanl in re-nlim ** l--r Imuinrw
Iturinit ihi- rvitfn »f Niiin.t I’>io|mIiii»,
H r «• a • ij» ■ nt » »• >0.1 U mil
•■ukn ntomy.
W. G. BAKER
EXTENSIVELY KNOWN
W. 1*. Hak*r. whotlif.l at Si. Jnwph'i
h"«|‘ilal, tairlunk*, |*Vb. 17. a a* w»ll
kn«>\% ti in \ U-k.t
II** I a I tamn with ||»** Kiirni*
llitftfiiu* t'«‘in|*itjr at skauwa) an*l othvr
|»lar**«, ha*t brmitfht tra-ltn^ H»w4>l»vin
tb«* rivt*r at tlifft-wttl tit*i*», an*l at th«*
litiH* hi* • U*.%11» via* with |Y«*|U»*
at*>r«* at Furlt*ik« II** aa*> • I »*• urtr
uoa Uann* ami wa» w* H l»k*»l
N|r lk*k* r h •tirtivitl by a «ilv an«l
|«u am*, )»*rt*-« ami l*« rmaii ll«- wn«
b*»rti in ami wa* I? war* i4*l at
th** 11 mm* **l hi*
WET COODS STORE
FOR THANKSGIVING
Trank M Smith awl llarry llnrru-*
will wiuR r»tahli.«h a »uh»»n in the
Wrililit huiMing at Tl ml _ \ 11,
They art- to start over thi* morning
with titun*unit ntnrk, |n<l will la- w
r»m|«nir>i hy l*at Hum* !•> l*«>k a(t« r
thing* whilr tin- prvmi- « arr tiring |iul
in unlrr.
Thanksgiving »* «nrr ti> hr hvrty tin*
tniHNwr.Mil tluit *rvtmn will fairly Hum
tlwii Ih* la liana ValHi raili-a.l luvwa
along.
CIBBON POST
WILL REMAIN
The Fairbanks News of Feb. 15 says
the rumor of the removal of the two
company post from Gibbon to Fair
banks appears to have no foundation in
fact.
'File principal argument against the
proposed change of base appears to be
the cost involved in the change, and the
abandonment of property which has
already cost the government many hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
Plans are under way for the installa
tion of a plant to supply steam heat and
electric lights at Gibbon.
There seems to be a possibility that a
new two-company post will be estab
lished somewhere in the interior, in
which case Fairbanks might he favora
bly considered.
HUNGRY DOGS
BITE CHILDREN
Some, Feb. 7.—Charles Shepard and
Harold Clark, 4 and <> years old resjieet
ively, while playing on the iee yester
day. were attaeked and horrihlv lacer
ated by a pack of hungry malamutes.
The children’s bodies were covered
with wounds. Charley Shepard’s eye
had wounds all around it, but the eye
is uninjured. Harold Clark’s mukluks
were torn off and he was bitten in the
legs and upper part of the body.
The children would probably have
been killed and devoured had not their
cries attracted the attention of a young
man named D. Andrews, who hastened
to their assistance .and drove the dogs
away.
A. B. MEETING
LAST FRIDAY NIGHT
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a»»it*t«,«| «*v**r tli** hunt plao"* in tin* ivy
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