Show AFTER ALA MacKenzie Stratton 5d Casey After the YellowHetal BIG EXPEDITION FORMED ft WHICH WILL PBOSECT > > ALASKA L ON A GIGANTIC SCALE 4 f W S Stratton the Cripple Creek Millionaire I Mil-lionaire Will Back the Enterprise Steamers and Steam Launches Will Form Part of the Equipment t And These Will he Loaded With 500 Tons of Provisions Sawmill Saw-mill Will toe Taken Along and a I Hydraulic Mining Plant Will l Furnish Everything hut Timber qws Water and Gold A Hew Channel Ocean Steamers Can Navigate the Yukon For 500 jttilcs Pioneer i Pio-neer Kiner Arrested Charged With Setting Fire to the Moser r Soanoke Mill Activity in New Mexico A Large Hoisting En glue Denver Oct 14 James H Mackenzie Mac-kenzie and James Casey of Cripple Creek left late last night far Seattle They will be the a < Ja > ce guard of an expedition that intend to thoroughly explore Alaska on a sj > ematlc scale They are backed by W S Stratton the millionaire mining king of Cripple Creek t It C Brown of Aspen and other men who have made millions In mining Their intention is to prospect Alaska on a gigantic scale and for that purpose the company will provide supplies and machinery of the most approved pattern Casey and Mackenzie are not men of wealth but have a practical experience in Lsadvllle Cripple Creek and Aspen The latter goes at a big salary having resigned the supenntendency of the Portland mine where he drew 10000 a year At Seattle contracts will be awarded for building a river steamer > Dr probably two to ba so arranged in sections that it can be shipped to St I l Michaels 1 TJrtee steam launches will also be bfllt for tenders and the boat when ady will be loaded with 500 TONS OF PROVISIONS calculated to last for two years Tvenjfive of the best prospectors of the west have been engaged to make locations and three more will be hired an the coast with a special view to knowledge of placers The river steamer will be equipped with powerful sic am pumps placed on the boat so the captain can prospect along the banks Xo time will be lost and If the results are good the men will at once file locations We are going up to that country to get our share of the good things if they are there and we hardly see how WI can miss It said Mr Mackenzie We will take with us a saw mill complete com-plete a hydraulic mining plant to be operated by means of a hose from the deck of the steamer with pumps and everything else we can possibly need About the middle of February Mr Casey and half of our force will be I started OVER CHHKOOT PASS ai the rest of the expedition will go arjund by St Michaels and up the yukon river IVe will charter a steamer at ate load everything on it the hI r bringing us to St Michaels At c t Michaels we HII put our steamer t bf1hpr load it With our supplies the t aw launches taling their share and l C we are ready we will steam away lP he river and will join the first at f our expedition at some point ree d ujron I A Jrdmg to our plans at present en e reach the country our pros I Core divide into pairs and will out over ihe country They WILL KEEP rv TOUCH I wit the main party 4nd will be kept supplied with proilsio is Should any prospecting party m ilce a discover that proves good the whole party will be concentrated at th it point as soon as possible and we v ill thus be able to take up all the I best part of the Ccountry Having our saw mill we can quickly build our own town and make all our preparations to mine in the proper way We are not going for placer mining alone but will look for quartz leads as well We will depend upon the country fo absolutely nothing noth-ing but timber water and gold We I will furnish the rest ilr O < teey is one of the best known I mining mpn In the vest He was one of the earliest prosfectors in Cripple Creek and discovoi < the American Eagle and John A Logan mines on I Bull Hill out of vthich he made himself him-self independent M Mackenzie is1 a native born Canadian and has many friends in Ottawa Canada and plans I have already been rade if anything worth while is discovered to secure concessions from the Dominion government govern-ment for timber am other claims Our orders con mued Mackenzie are to spare no exjense ta make the expedition A COMPLETE SUCCESS We nill take with is everything that ve can possibly need We expect simply sim-ply o prospect It wIll cOt us about 10000 for a ship to transport us to St Michaels It nc and fn tn that roint we will dId d-Id aligjiuuiy urns our own exer IBns Vou Itniw that it has been Im poseiH to su a sar mill through to the nines bf ause the transportation I companies have a monopoly on the II lumxr We will not hg bothered with any suth monopoly I wc will carry everything necessary to build a city v5 fl and we will hsc the men along ivht > can dor the Work We are feeling very enthusiastic over the scheme rnd our plans are so weil made that failure ur IF almost Impossible If the gold js there ve are sure to get more than our share of it |