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Show WARNS PROSPECTORS TO STAY AWAY FROM ALASKAN GOLD FIELD Seattle, Wash., Sept. 1 Dr. D. D. Calrnes, Canadian government geologist, geo-logist, who has Just returned from the Shushanna, Alaska, gold district, Issued Is-sued a signed statement yesterday warn ng persons against stampeding to the district. Dr. Cnlrnes said: "On a few claims on a few small tributaries of Wilson and Johin.m c:eeks prospecting indicates there Is good pay, but no gold has actually been mined, so far ns 1 know, except what might be obta ned In ordinary piospectlng operations, with the exception ex-ception of James' orlglouul discovery on Little Eldorado. "Prospecting with pan and shovel Indicates that with n n certain small srea pay exists on a certain numbtr of claims, but with these exceptions practically nothing is known concerning concern-ing tho district. "All tho ground for moro thnn ten miles square about tho discovery had been staked by August 1. Even tho mountain tops have been staked In this area. "Therefore, It is extremely rash for any moro people to rush thero with the Idea of staking quickly nnd returning. re-turning. Tho only parties Justified n going now at this late seasdn would bo prospectors nnd others equipped to winter there. "I think there may have been con-slderable con-slderable hardship and suffering already al-ready duo to rash stampeding In tho d'strlct." |