Show PANDE BASIN PLACERS J J Rogers Finds a Good Situation In the Wilds of Alaska J J Rodgers the wellknown mining man and attorney who was for sometime some-time associated with the natural gas company of Salt Lake and who was interested in various mining enterprises throughout the state has secured a good position at Sitka Alaska where he is now assistant clerk of the United States district court under A D Elliot El-liot a former Salt Laker who is chief clerk of the court In a letter to Jim Kennell of this city Mr Rogers states that there is a grrat deal of excitement now over the dts < overy of what is called the Pande Basin placers about ten miles from I Sitka and he incloses an excerpt from the Alaskan of that place showing the metallic contents of the gravel j from these diggings as demonstrated by assays made on samples brought in fifim the new finds by Henry I Willey M E of San Francisco the results being i be-ing as follows I No Value of Value of Gold Silver I 1 S 207 10 3 lSfi32 lCO 7 5 923JC 4764J 2C2 6S j 9 71S17 4m 11 S44fio 2S4 S 13 itSoS 225 I 1 Hg24 96 17 4 SSfi 2SI 19 01077 367 I Mr Rogers states however that it ivili be a month or six weeks before the I mountains will be clear of snow so i that the diggings will > e getatable I v hn it is anticipated the country will be overrun with prospectors The papers have made mention of the Pande basin gold discoveries and I it is more than likely that Sitka is on j I the eve of a mining boom almost as Important as that which now characterizes charac-terizes the rush to Klondlke |