Show MINER CARRIES RICH GOLD MINE SECRE A A fo GRAVE seward alaska A 1500 nugget with considerable quartz clinging to it indicating it had boon been broken fro mit ma vein and had traveled but it snort short distance the immediate death of tho the prospector who found it carrying to the gravo grave tho the secret 0 of f tire tho location of tile tho and find auvo added another lost mine to the th long list hat which has engrossed tho attention of adventurers throughout tile the world the find was made yomo whore on oil rapid cheuk a tributary to tho the upper tipper river according to george light tho the slab of gold was found by it prospector known us as bill ills III partner managed to learn that the ho nugget was found up tip rapid crook creek near the range vor for weeks search has been ean made tor for tho the rich vein but no one has hag succeeded in unlocking natures so BO crot V tho the upper tipper Is famed for its ila coarse gold and the anges accompanying the minor tho the gold la Is found for tho the most moat part high up on benches rather than in the istref tin beds bald down at after tor tho the of tho lip polar aco it Is only by building enow dims and impounding water that tant ing water may be obtained ahn being in small arnall tho the mining season Is short yet the old timers of tho the agatna battlos Hett Bett lea los Koc krinos and other points manago manage to filch from to 30 each during this short season tho scene of operations la Is approximately miles northwest of fairbanks l about half of 0 the dis cancu batice necessary to bo be negotiated between skagway and darwn in tho tie memorable stampede of 1888 to roach reach it by water onta I 1 Is it trip via tho the Kuyo kuk whore it montoro the yukon at travel to far flung region la Is by air it costs costa 22 conta cents per pound to hav supplies hauled in by scow towed for much of the distance by horses owing to tho the swiftness of it tho the upper tipper koyukuk and tile tho rapids of tho agatna river which enters tile tho Kuyo kuk just north of tho the arctic circle now that the airplane hoa has usurped the dog as aa a means of t travel to tho the far flung reg regions lons practically all travel to and from the in winter la is made by nad As yet the service iraq haq not included heavy freight rave aavo in transporting fresh vegetables and fruits thero there are about 30 prospectors proa and snipers in fit tho the Kuoy CuoI kuki tuk tor for tho the most part moil men ranging from BO 60 to 80 years of ago many leavo got made a lourney journey outside for train from 26 to 30 yeara and have no desire to they havo have their little cabelus cahl tia some bonio their squaws squads got get their meat front from carl caribou boll hords and other essentials from fairbanks they ground off tho the overlying grav gravels elfi pick up tip the big nuggets and shut down tor for the long winter a amuno themselves in an Arca arcadian dInn manner annor tn it Is s the belief that tho the next I 1 clr ig gold bold stampede may be into tho the arctic tl and finds which will equal if not surpass the klondike will be made on the southern watershed of the endicott range well up tip into the arctic toward the headwaters of the agatna and the multiple streams radiating from the head of the Kuyo kuk |