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Show I1, "BISH" BECHTOL HAPPY. (I Former Salt Luke Man Finds the '', jl ! 1 Goods in Tanaun. n From the Yukon country comes news which will bo of Interest to the older 'J residents of Salt Lake, who knew "Blsh" ' jl ' Bechtol when the old Walker House bar j, i was under tho management of tho John tt G. Bochtol and his .partner Sands. Bech-i Bech-i ft h, tol drifted to the great Northwest, in 1 4 the belief that Salt Lake was getting , 't i "too much East." The Yukon World, has i the following to say of a find made by i I Bechtol's son on Clcary creek In tho 1 Tanana: " Blsh' Bechtol Is In high feather over ' the lato rojwrts had from his claim on I . jl j Cleary creek In tho Tanana, which Is 1 j , being operated under the direction of hla , ! son Charles. Tho claim Is five above. At ii I ! the dale of writing, a little over two j '! I j we'ks ngo, sluicing had practically ( ' ! I ceased on Cleary, partially on account of j! the cold weather and partially owing to '. ft, . the low water In tho creek. The work ', I on No. 5 was closed down aboht Sep- 1 ' tcmber CO, at which time there was not 1 ' i . a full slulcehcad running in the creek 1 even during the warmest part of the day. i 1 i The cessation of the work came at a time I j , when it was particularly exasperating, as f young Bechtol was anxious to continue I , prospecting on account of Indications '' ! found In a drift to the left of tho main 1 . j shaft Having dctormmed the character i lii I of the pay to tho 'right of tho shaft, for j ! o 1 an experiment a short drift was run In p ' an opposite direction toward the crook, , k in which better pay than any yet dis- , , 1J m covered In tho old drifts was found, tho ' 1 , , tunnel tapping a coarse run of gold car- 1 1 u : rylng nuggets weighing as high as $20. U Bechtol has done, as exten3lvo prospect- i 3 j lng as any man on the creek, working a ,, 1 gang of eight monsand has driven about j ! jj 1 soventy-five feet of drifts. The prospects, , i jl he says, show a pay streak of about six 1 ill fcct ,n thickness that will yield on an j I AM average S3. GO to the foot." |