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THE ALASKA CITIZEN Vo,., \ | I'AIKKANKS. ALASKA. SATURDAY, AIMML U. T.U» Nlmukk f A New Strike is ^.own on L'hathaa Creek and a la^e uhi.nrae.i! of Rock i> Now Enrou'e ft the Fairua ;Ss Mill From the Crawforti Lea.,t;. I I h n > ,r i .1 i,. f ■<1 - ii i ■ l 'i n ti tiii-rou.il!> ' i *11l"i\ .i ni I':in i>na fill' r;.illoli> o' iiiiOUl :ijri 111»'lit ’* I ->U• • ft>i'> uv tal as tin- :ni>i. ' ’ i> si• -ioi >. Anvi -i- v. in» \ i- t> tl.i* mi art/, tnia-•> ‘> -.ii> 'in- "I aril ro • k< • r> nil..- ' di-ii- inn r ail ily s ••• . a i* ... lent i.. -s in. T a ..a t t'tat t on* In iayi i ,\»i-ii*t ■«; co.ri'it,' ; ros| ect im: •• • ■ • a-in*: stline (1 is t:iii.*i* ■ -i i i.v ml; thr i-\ .]H 111 >' ■> ■ t I"' ' • :n| .Mil' it i? (llll' sou-'i": ’ .ii I'.nit iiiuous t ootl sit.-, .vinjv •• '. ’ \ •• ns i> a not n-r. < in !.'!'• 1 a.- I -t w.-er. 1 air -banks an i unit • < ks. ijawson, •S-.h.-.-s * v V.-t i rt.v ire imills ttrionslv p ng no their exo-p ) i->nal showing of gut-d t|uritz i-V- vac i ha- ■ luu v ns ! i VOI'k.. till Whig sf :t if (1 ai a tlih-kr -s of six mehe. . is I" inches ,.ie .it tiie i ettom of tilt- sllll ft. -'ills is a l ie’ll gi ide eiarlz. with cousidc-uihle “pic fur.’ rofk showing. 'I lie bigger vein i.s still large and carries good values in iimch finer gold. Mr. Me 'arty is ipening up ibis vein while ,vlr rv. icinerseti is -driving into 11 ► - Jill ’<> tap the smaller -lie at a do.; fji of lilt fs }•'. if t!> ■ s'-ou leg :s t len '-good. a lowe*’ islit v di is. rut to giv 1 4iM 1» •- of oif above the tun tit 1 The pa ”t tiers in corn 'if i" ia . ing ti eir pi >p eriv i ; • ci ’’ by the t;-is-. ' In ti t sT : i : r if - ■ ■ al thl'J is if. apt fit ’ f a A new si ’ f f s .silt ' ll IP: lit face of I he il iV 11 st n. cross -It! ■.*.0.1 by ll.n rse'h Ac (Won, on the Pio-ieer Q-iu t . Minin?* couu nany's ciu m on i nati-ain creek. !i r 1. si lUl.r. |S fa -f been -ut htairing tou a *d t in main v -in and wid ning constant 1; . I* i t v dent i. ia11jf t untie! ha-, not a - to go to show up tii-. main ve a. :ind. if tin- siringeis tlu.t mt *r siit at e a-iy cciteriei., Mie vt in si ion 1<1 show .xce lent '.allies. Tim boys are ahsc driving up str- ain :o p'oi. up a rich stringei that show s iu one of tile ilr'lts of the old workings thas* m- now under w. iter No work is on v In op bone in the i ’• i. - h r . ’*■:ri ■ tiuiu( 1st e, w!iere Mill a til• - fot-t led.pe was slum n itj> hi it year. It i' to be hoped ti.it tins lei’pe may be Mll’tl iei piw.p -et«"i this SU 11 ilier. A lar«;e shipmoti ot r/'L from the Ci'H l, ford lease < n the Rhodes property s now iv ait m,* rrai >■ portatiou in t_'hete. lit a stitioi. This oi'e till be pit rii rob pi the mill .it i-'airl .i'll-1'in tin item future, and n il. be followed shortly after by a sbipn.ei't fro n tlie vein ala < • t o<) > fee* fnrtli-u into the ill. I'Yt.in the 'act that the ledpi* own* u >y Rhodes V Hall shows such pood values fta *a lenptli i f a'.V fe* t, s,.u »-• jdt a ran be cibta.mol is r. the po - sibilities el rl * o-dpes in tli s distric t. \! K mil i . snippir.u she second lot a. u doe- net a' tie,pate that res ll’s will i e 1> low tin* mill ri.n of * its i fail Another instance where poll - tn arinp 1 edp< s have *>sp.t foun 1 while drifting out olruer peoun :1 is cited '.'in the tpoe1 ;nt"t i f Po dro. \ n s foot led pc vaidrif •<1 iidu las’ i i. i '.iui a I<*>iiIcJt / Miners and Prospectors Waste Their Substance in Senseless Stampedes to Distant Parts, While Limiiiess Wealth Beckons Them to the Bonnifield Tiie greatest ir,inerii!tiFod .zone on the face of the earth is that pact of the Tanana valley which . lio; between the -IvnatjKhna and the Delta rivers, being bound ed on the north Ay the Tanana river and on tin* south by tin Alaskan range. This is what is generally known us JLhe. Uoiini tick! country, :inf there is not the least doubt tint the mineral wif-lth of this region will one day excite the wonder and the envy of the civilised world. A mere enumeration of the re sources of this district is suffi cient to stagger tie- imagination, and make one wonder whether it is possible for such fabulous ric-hes to )e gat) ic red in one spot. And yet the most optim stie writer can give hut a poor idea of what actually exists in t his veritable storehouse of treas ure. Mr. .1. ('. lingers, who is u .prospector c#f Id yours experi ence ill t lie western -states and Alaska, has unbounded faith in tbs> futui'e .of ttiie T»onnitield country, and is prepared to '.ouch i for the statement*! contained in this article. in copper aloie there «.r*' lit "erally millions «if tom- of '.lie ; richest ore already in sight, much of it ’I'T.nnittg to very high values. There are millrems and 'Bullions id tons of lignite coal of the very highest quality, spread over more than a thousand square 'miles. Tie-re aiv also extensive hang walls of petrified wood. There are vast quantities of sulphide of iron.. ,wind'd is found in the same forniLtion with azur iti> of copper. One mine alone in the district lias oxide txf iron for over lii'O f/-et. Lead ore is very plentiful, and antimony of enormous rich ness has bet n uncovered. •Silver ore has been found in considerable quantities. Gold placers and quartz are "being worked, while enormous quanti ties of gravel suitable for hy draulicing will be treated ir the near future. The finest marble c’s distrib uted over the district. Slate of all grades has been found. tv>ui 1 e recently a valuable iind of tungsten ore has been made, * - --i ~ - cinnabar lias also been found, although, so far. latter has not boon of very high grade. In fact, there is scarcely a mineral known to science that lias not been found in this mar velous distriot. There are more ore outcroppings in the Bonni field thill! L'r.ve ever been met with in any area of similar size in the whole world, including Nevada, Colorado, California, Arizona and Wy oming. Tim country simply teems with game—caribou, moose, I mountain cheep, birds, etc. There is an abundance of wa ter everywhere. The rivers con tain pk-nty of lisli. Timber is plentiful up to k.aPO A el. and consists mainly of spruce, birch and some cotton wood flood i grass is found at -'>,000 feet. The principal drav'bgek to the ' Bonnifield is difficulty of access. Although so near Fairbanks there Is no road suitable lor Bieavy traffic in the summer months. There is a fairly good , trnil for sixty miles A telephone ;* ml telegraph sys tem into the Uonnitield are urg ently needed. Ai present the operators and prospectors in tilt district Jia.vo to go several miles below Nem.na to send a letter or message to Fairbanks. Much \ aluabie time i < thus iost, as it ! is almost as .far to Xenann t.s it is to Fairbanks. A ]>ostoftice should i>e established or. Wood ri vet*. A .wood road would make all the difference imaginable to the ! >01111'.In id; a ml a railroad t h rough the country would be an im ! inen.se aid to development The district is being retartk*d by the heavy cost of freighting sup plies into it under tin* • ..Fisting condit ions. In s pite ol these drx win;< ! s the Ikmiidleld is being steadily •'■x -plorcd and its limitliss wealth laid ban*. The number of out tils wot Kin>* there this year will be emitter titan ever before, i About thirty non outfits will make this region ’lnur headiji’.ar ! tors'!his season., and at least laO men will be engaged in prospect ing. etc. The largest outfit is, of course, the Berr,y-Jlamil. Others work ing in the district arc the bus 1 tiivason hi'otliers, John llarlca son. < ook K' M uj'i>1 i.v . .1.Y\ Sher man. ami Johnson. Stoll & Co. The Harry iV Hand! company arc doing things on a -very large scale. The implicit confidence they have in the Honnitield coun try is proved by the tact that they expei t to spend over i?:l(M.i, UOO before their property reaches the ]iroducing stage. They.have moved nearly u00 tons of supplies into the coun try during the past winter. They have been working their saw mill for several months, cutting lumber Toj several houses which they intend erecting for their s' a IT. Hums ha ve been lniil t along the trail every lairniesto head<|i:r.rters on (fold King. The present summer trail being im passable. Messrs Kerry .V Hum'll w’il build their own road from the head of navigation to • fold King, a distance of lil or or (it1 miles. 'Over fifty men aim l':’ horses vvi! be employed throughout the summer building this road and furthering the de v'i h•mnent of the pi'opertv . A iiev ar*‘ immense quantities of gravel ready for hydraulic ing. Tlie g:oun-.! is .‘.vp *> cl to . nn Jr (vnts to the \ aril, and die cost of v orkir.g viil avr.ige if. cents to tie yard, liven when worked on a large scale there is .-iiiticieiit ground to keep ;he. i-ntor] wising proprietors busy for the rest of their lives. Owing to the abundance of ! lisli and game, and Its prox i in' t y to Fairbanks, pros . peering can be carried on in the lUmnitioJd i:t small expens-it has been.estimated that with the aid of ids gua prospector's ex [lenses should not exceed 7>U j cents a day. Tlierefore, 8a00 * would be sufficient to buy an outfit and keep a man in the ! field for over a year. Jn view of the facts above stated, it is surprising that men | will persist in joining sense less sturapedes to every likely and unHkoly corner of Alaska Why should Fairbanks people ,ehase the rainbow to the Idit a rod, file Kuskokwim, or tin Ivoyukuk.when boundless wealtl lies-neglected at their very door' It is more than The Alaska Citi zen can explain or understand Hut tliKnit is reckless insensate folly is certain. of (|r.;fiAz as big as it windlass bucket/sent on top. This showed free g/tld on being broken and several claims were staked. Motiving has beet? done since. In some places all that is need ed is the ground to prospect, and all veins found are eagerly staked and exploited. It must be said of this district that many veins have/been located without extra ex]*mse, and still lie idle most of them not even being adorned with stakes. If operators realized that a vein could easily produce in time as much as the placer 'ground on the claim, no doubt they would at least mark them for future reference. HARRY PRATT WILL W£D Whetj Harry I’ratt, the young Fairbanks attorney, left town for the outside a few weeks ago, it was an open secret that he would not come .back alone. Harry has gone to Kansas City, where he will marry Miss Mabel McDonald, formerlv ot , the city of Denver. The two have i known each other since they were —only so high. The Citizen ex tends its hearty congratulations to Ilarrv ltis prospective bade Herman Anderson, of the firm of Anderson Bros. Xerland, has invented and is busy constructing an aeroplane. If lie is as success-j till as lie hopes and deserves to be, | another article will be added to the ! already formidable lisl of things ‘‘made in Tatiana.” A Citizen representative called upon the An-; del-on brothers to inspect the ma chine, and from what could be gathered from the reluctant inven tor (who like his companions in in dustry, the Brothers Wright, is of, very modest disposition), there is everv reason to believe that a flight will be made -over Fairbanks at an early date. The body of the machine, which is of wood, is already constructed. It is five feet long and about four feet high. It has a place for the operator to sit and control the ma chine. and will have a profiler about 17 feet The length over all will be ?b(-u’.' jk> fret lac iiie motive power will be electricity. With rm Alaskan making aero planes, half the troubles of the stampeder will disappear, and the trip over the trail to Valdez will be a question cf hours instead of days. Fairbanks should congratulate itself upon having such a genius in its midst. MPT. AfiGErlSON IN SEWARD Writing from Seward under date of Match 2q,.Capi. I„. Ik Ander son states that'the town of Seward is in anything .but a flourishing condition at present. The expected rush to the Iditarod via that port has failed to materialize, the ma jority of intending -stampeders pre ferring the IDawson route or the Fairbanks-Valdez trail route. Prof. “Voting Batchy” and Frank Cot ter are also located in Seward, al though rt is not clear whether they intend staying there or not. Cap tain Ar.derson says that he is going to ccaftne his attention to quartz in the future. He believes that the K.enai peninsula has a great tuture before it in ibis branch or the gold mining industry. Prof. Casper Fischer is back from Iris trip.to the outside TONI NORDALE TO OE MAYOR At Last Night’s Meeting Was Elected Unanimously J, l CLARKE TO BE CLERK With a Parting Shot from Dan Callatrai the Olr! Council Goro Out and the New One Takes the Qat'i Accordi© io the Law. L?.s> evening 1h* which lies conducted dlcviff.iu*: of tin- city fertile past Mvi-i.v» months net for the Last *7110. 'J'lie liio<‘tiiie was railed ;* orihw hy Mayor Sabin shortly aider The urinates beino read, tile reports of tile chiefs <>f tU** deparlliierds'r.i|;j» np l«/r rnllsjd era tii *a Tic* puyu cut «f in. s'iii« >.■; sio t ) J)an i iTlrien lor ser\ iiv iin ‘I'M-iion di \ \vt.s »tconely op I)oscd Ie < *i■ t:j» ;ilie' < \i lla!i.i.n, who stated that n’Urien was tin only per?-.m lsr« alv'ni” t: w peaer on that dat-o. Or. brine- purs i tioned uboul t he mutter the rhibi ; of poiie. ad lie t ted (lot ( • Klim. ! had ene:i”s d in a tiyd'.t on elec |!ioll day. hut lie stated tier.'; lire ; lieilt (lid Dot tale- place wilib ! <) ttrieu w.i.s in tl.e pay oV fin couth'il. but alter l’hc money was (toil’re,'i to he paid. Id an pro post hur. 'Tin1 question cti patnirnt I'm £umitutv acrylic cit.vu'itices thin ! arose It .appears t b_u tlie pres lent office equipment or tlie | greater ]w.rt ol it. was tin* per lson.il property of fin* former cleric. E. Tn.vior and hup cm Iii.- cteivotut,** lor the lilitaroil j lie 1 isn't dlfei oil the furniture ti> to tlic city coo it* i! ct a low rale. Tin* propos-.t1 hud Je-vn-e o"*pt- (1 1 by the mayor on .hohalf.of the city. hit: him < nil.ilran stronply | objected to 'le. c'ty nayiap for the same. Jlis objection was | overruled, however, which ! eau.vd Dun to remnrf sarcastic ally that Urn councillors were i “keeping up their recovihto ,fbe I last. i Aft >r payment of warrants had 1 been approved and a few minor tilings disposed of tin* council rose-. At >' :4T; the new!*, elect eh | members assembled and were j duly sworn. The meeting was valleil to or i ilor; by .MeJ St:bin, as. temporary chairman. It was proposed by Councillor j Gardner and seconded by Coun cillor Callahan that A. I. Nor j dale be elected mayor for the j ensuing year. The motion was j put and carried unanimously Mayor Nontale then tori a tin i chair. It was proposed by Councillot I P. S. Gordon, and seconded bv Councillor Gardner, that J. E ] Clarke be elected city clerk. The motion was put and car j ried unanimously I A letter applying jot the po i sition of city clerk was ordered j to be placed on tile. The council then adjourned. PASSED AWAy QUIETLY The Citizen issorry to have to an I nounce the death of Hendrsejohn son, who passed away at bt. Jo seph's hospital on Wednesday'last. 'It will be remembered that ti»e.de ceased met with an accident on Vault creek some weeks ago. i From the first there was little hope of recovery, although the young man made a gallant fight for life The immediate cause ot death was pleuro-pueumonia. The Citi/.eo extends its keenest sympathy te the bereaved relatives. The iiina> al takes place tomorrow