| Show GREAT GOLD STRIKE rich placer diggings found on pina creek alaska FOUR DOLLARS TO A PAN on Disco discovery vory claim five mra are arc working tor for george miller hiller who located the tha claim each man itan is taking out 60 per day their wages 12 rach each per day paid jhc thc them every evening in gold dust list of tile tho find causes a stampede to the district juneau alaska an aug 10 via seattle wash wah aug 14 what la Is regarded as 0 most important discovery of 0 rich placer diggings Is reported to have been made mada on pine fine creek a small stream emptying into atlin lake a feeder of 0 lake tallah tagish tha da covery Is located in the northwest territory canada the tha news of 0 the discovery has caused a 0 great stampede from juneau and other southeastern alaska points and it Is estimated that at least 1000 prospectors prospector have started for the location As reported here the find was made two years ago by george miller of 0 tins this city about the time the klondike s strike was made sillier miller allow cd hi his Is discovery to lie dormant and went to the klondike last laal june lie he returned and taking a few friends into hla his confidence fi revisited sited the anti and staked out claims walker carter who has just le ie turned here from the diggings says 1 I saw save four men shovel in twenty six bounces ounces in two lays days one pan from bed arock containing 4 this was on discovery claim pine creek Is a about fit teen miles long and will average sev enty five feet eel in width the c current I 1 Is s v very e ry rapid the diggings aro are what i Is 8 1 known as bar diggings or summer cummer placers discovery claim Is about eight miles tron front the mouth of 0 the creek sillier miller has ivo five men at work shoveling g into philco shilco boxes and he pays the them m 13 12 a day each cacti settling every rig ht with dust taken dom the boxes tit tho 0 men tire ara talking taking out 60 a day to tho man the gravel shows front from twenty to colors capt strickland of 0 the canadian mounted police and several men aro are already on the ground and have hale staked claims for themselves find reserved ed tho the government claims whan I 1 left thirty three claims had been located and the balance of the creek la Is reserved by the canadian government when I 1 was coming out to juneau imet I 1 met a large number ot of prospectors going into every bay along tagish lake trying to find the elie spot which thy they had aheard heard of but whose location they did not know tho the news has caused great excite en ment ent li in it juneau and every boat leaving here bere is crowded with prospectors the gold brought in from the new diggings Is like that from the klondike very cry coarse but it Is said to bo be worth 2 an ounce more provisions PItO VISIONS pros prospectors S on OIL kotzebue Kotze buo sound kun short of supplies port part townsend wash rash aug 14 A it fetter ater received here today announces the arrival ai rival lit at HotZ kotzebue ebue sunday july lith of the steam schooner elk elic which sailed from this port early in june with a party ot of prospectors for the mouth of the mckenzie Mc Kenzle river the tha elk dk made the run from dutch harbor to KoLz kotzebue ebue sound in seven days daya arriving there jul july hill tho the letter states that there are more than MO people on the sound and that already provisions are aio scarce the schooner had two years sap supplies piles for or fifteen men tor 0 r ivsich a handsome figure w was as off f fei pd cd parties have commenced prospecting I 1 I 1 in n the mountains and along tho the various streams emptying into kotzebue Kotze buo bua sound but no strikes have been reported many who axe are short ot of supplies are making preparations to return south the only gold cold reported from the vicinity of 0 kotzebue Koize bue sound this season la Is about which was vas in possession of three men alio N ito had arrived at dutch harbor just before the salling bailing of 0 the elk they had exhausted their an supplies of 0 provisions and hall had come coma to dutch harbor in the hope of 0 re their stock they refused to give alle exact location of where they had been working CAN CANNOT NOT A BATE ABATE commissioner of 0 the yukon says saya must decide matter vancouver B 13 C aug ia H william the newly appointed commissioner of the yukon said today he had no power to abate the elie royalty on klondike gold or to deal with the matter reatter of the government reserved claims these he raid eald are subjects which have been dealt with by our parliament the governor general himself could not alter it |
