The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1898, Page 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1898. KLONDIKE'S GOLDEN The Output of the District Will Run Upward of Twelve Millions. Conservative Estimate Made Up From a Personal Inspection of Every Mine. BY SAM Total estimated output for this year of the Klondike and Indian River divisions of the Yukon mining districts, based on a personal in- spection of every working mine in those districts by Sam W. Wall, 7,640,000. $ Bear Creek Dominion Creek Sulphur Creek. . Gay Gulch Last Chance Creek Gold Bottom Creek All other creeks in the two divisions. Immediately preceding my coming | away from Dawson—starting “out”—I | made & tour of all the gold-bearing | creeks in the Klondike district; that is, all the creeks where something more than prospecting was being done. My | purpose was to gain in advance of the | clean up the best information possible as to the probable yield of gold. I vis- | ited every considerabie dump on EI Dorado, Bonanza, Bear, Hunker, Do- | minion and Sulphur creeks, talked to the owners of the claims when they were to be found, and to the foreman, men and miners on every such From them I got the results of ir daily pannings, from which they computed the average value of the| dirt. This information was sometimes freely given and sometimes reluctantly and sometimes sought by the owners to be e 1y W reld. The mine or claim owners a t as a rule boast- ful of their pc »ns now, since the Government seeks to take ) per cent of the output. In se, however, I ultimate- areful and conservative estimate from some one connected with each mire, and cap, with them all, sum Canadiar from them up the probable output of the Kiondike | and Indian River districts based upon | something more than a mere vague | guess. Guesses have been made in print ranging all the way from five to | forty millions. The thick run of yel- low metal to be met with in Bonanza and El Dorado creeks or the light trip- ng of the tongue over large figures that is a familiar part of every man’s | conversation in that big country makes | to run to exaggeration. The | great part of the product of this year, as it did last, will come out of eleven miles of frozen ground on Bonanza and four and a half miles more on El Do- rado, and when that is considered the figures that I have to present as being the reasonably certain output of the mines will have their true value in the forming of an estimate of the country, its probabilities and possibilities. The output of last year—that which roused the whole world to a stampede . the like of which the world had never seen before—was one million dollars. Some few say it was two millions. Creeks that at that time were jokingly re- ferred to as frog ponds or were not known at all will this year yield double the higher amount, and the output of El Dorado and Bonanza and the other creeks in the Klondike district, exclu- sive of the Indian River district, will rise above $27,000,000. The country is a wonderland of gold. And if I did not know it T would not say it, for I have seen the nothing ADVERTISEMENTS. FALLING HAIR RESTORED Soon after I was taken ill my hatr com- menced to fall, 50 that each day more came out than I thought I had in my head. Iwas turning gray rapidly. FinallyIbecameafraid to have it combed, but the nurse said that wouldn't do, and used vaseline to keep it in, then used beef’s marrow, then quinine tonic, and finally (CUTICURA ointment), which belped it immediately. The nurse said she rubbed up a fine white dust from the scalp where she could see nothing before com- mencing, and the scalp looked heaithier and more natural every day. Now 1 haven't as many gray hairs as when I commenced using CUTICURA, and I have a crop of fine brown hair all over my head about an inch and a balf in length. I only lose a few hairs when combing every day, and always more gray than brown. My nurse is delighted becauss the new hairs are brown. I never had very luxuriant hair, even in my youth. It is as thick on my head today as it ever was, and CUTICURA did it. Mrs. J. M. LAWSON, March5,1898. 302 Hamilton 8t., Albany, N. Y. LUXURIANT LUSTROUS HAIR with a clean, wholesome scalp, free from irritat- Ing and scaly eraptions, is produced by warm ebampoos with CuTicURA BoaP, followed b | told about | thawed out of the ice in such quantity | | @s to amaze the miner, and it is none | grouna 1s not w | of fun that it had developed. light dressings with CUTICURA, purest of emol- lient akin cures, the most effective skin purifiers and beautifiers in tho world. They clear the scalp and hair of crusts, scales, and dandruff, destroy microsoopic fnsects that feed on the hair, sootho irm.-;led.l)uhing surfaces, stimulate the bair follicies, and supply the roots with energy #od nourishment. Bold outthe world. Porrss Dxuo AXD CxEx. Co: le Froge. Boston. Luzariaat Haiz,” malled free, HARVEST Working WALL. . 812,465,000 | 10,727,000 1,000,000 | 2,138,000 500,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 300,000 | 100,000 | 60,000 | 50,000 less than frightful results of the rush of unprovisioned and unprepared peo- ple into that frost-bitten land. I have that. I have seen gold | claims the less my business to tellabout that. I | did not see Alex McDonald take $11,000 | from four buckets of dirt gathered | from the bedrock of No. 27, El Dorado, but I have it on so much authority that T may say that I know he did so. | 1 did see single pans of dirt yield as much as $50 so frequently that itceased to be a matter worth noting. I saw a little girl stand on a dump in El Do- rado and by permission pick up all the nuggets she could find before the next bucket came up from the shaft. A few minutes later the resatts of her brief industry were weighed in a neighboring cabin and developed a value of $35. They keep a watchman on the dump at 29 Bonanza in order that no thief may steal the dirt at night. But the most important thing that I have to say h s that this very rich helly confined to these two creeks—Bonanza and El Dorado. | That is the question constantly being | asked, and I am able to answer it. On June 5 of last year the first stake was driven on Dominion Creek. That was a little more than ten months ago. On the 12th there was the usual stam- | pede that follows the first reports of a new discovery, and a number £ claims were staked. Then came the custom- ary reaction. Many of those who joined in the trying summer | Journey over the divides from | Dawson, about twenty-five miles, refused to record their claims, believing them to be of no value. The stampede became a joke. Along the | trall ‘as T came over about March 1| last I fcund remembrances of the spirit Posted upon trees and upon boards that then scarcely protruded above the snow | were such notices as: “I claim ten miles of this creek to be used as a frog pond”; “I claim this tree for climbing purposes”; “I claim th. sky | above for the purpose of raising an- gels.” Very many of those who took the trouble to make the trip thought | so little of what they secured by it | that they refused to pay the $15 that | it cost to record it and so make it their | own. The techarcos, or new-comers, knew so little about mining in Alaska, or the Northwest Territory, and what | constituted reascnably good-looking | ground that some of them built cab- | ins and began prospecting. It was only | during the latter part of the winter | that there was a trail from Dawson to | either Dominion or Sulphur Creek that | could be followed with any kind of cer- tainty. Now both these creeks are staked from the hilltop to the mouth, | and claims are valued as high as $100,- | 000, and the most remote and unpros- pected claims are quoted above a thou- | sand. And the change is not a matter | of mere booming, but is the legitimate | result of what the men who dug in the ground found there. Out of the pros- pect holes dirt has been taken that showed two ounces of coarse gold to the pan. Dominion and Sulphur creeks are branches of the same stream, empty- ing into Indian River nd the story of one is the story of both. The owners of the claims are jubilant, and expect to see their properties placed in the class with those of the Bonanza and El Dorado. This expectation has such reasonable basis that Joe Barrett, who owns some of the best properties on both Bonanza and El Dorado, told me that if$50,000 was takenout of Dominion Creek in the clean-up this summer, in view of the slight development work | that has been done there this winter, he would put all the money that he | takes out of his first-mentioned prop- | erties into the purchase of claims in the | newer field. This Is what many of the | so-called bonanza kings will do and are doing. Alex McDonald, who is the | king of these kings, in that he owns more rich claims than any other, is do- ing so. He is buying up claims not on- ly on Dominion and Sulphur, but on many other creeks about which even less is known. He owns a dozen claims | on both the creeks named. He is build- | ing a large storehouse on Dominfon Creek about midway between the two “Discoveries,” to cache supplies for their development. This summer a per- manent trail will be built, leading over the divide from Bonanza Creek at Cor- macks down into Sulphur and Domin- ion. Pack trains will be dispatched and | make regular weekly trips from Grand Forks, the town at the mouth of EI Dorado. Next winter will therefore witness such scenes of extensive de- velopment on Hunker, Dominion, Sul- | phur and perhaps Quartz Creek as we now find only on Bonanza and EI | Dorado in this upper country. A com- pany has Leen formed and steps taken for the building of a telephone line con- necting all these creeks, and it is prob- able that the work will be compieted before the return of winter. So it is not strange that the habit of laughing at the stampeder and his claim because the creek located upon has not been heard of before has gone out of fashion in the far north. The result of this winter's prospecting has | guessed at. produced such results that a claim up- on any creek within a certain radius, and bearing a certain relationship to | the discoveries, is held to have some speculative value. For that reason the whole winter has witnessed a con- stant - succession of stampedes, and oreek after creek, guich after gulch, has been staked off and recorded. The Gold Commissioner’s office is a small, single-room, rough-board affair, and his corps of assistants through a great part of the winter consisted of two men. He had several others in the early fall, but for the lack of provisions was com- pelled to send them to Fort Yukon. The work of recording was thus inade- | quate to meet the conditions, and thus " Ui every day, and all day long, there were | drawn up in front of the office a score of the latest stampeders, stamping their feet and swinging their arms to keep from freezing—often unsuccess- fully—while they awaited their turn to record. With the moment that the exodus up the river and the exodus down the river of last fall and the early winter relieved the town of the fear of star- vation that oppressed and paralyzed it, the prospecting of new creeks began and Interest in mining revived and in- creased with each day, as almost each day brought its rumors of new finds and new locations. These rumors were so frequent and most of them had so little foundation that as the winter dragged its slow length along they came to be little regarded and only those who took the pains or paid the price to keep properly posted knew what to believe. There were a num- ber of these, however, who, having money, were in a position to take ad- vantage of the situation, and they kept scouts out watching the work of de- velopment on all near by creeks. As often as good prospects were found these bought up the neighboring claims where they could at bargain prices. A few men, taking advantage of the necessities of those who lacked money and particularly of those who lacked provisions, bought up, or secured op- tions upon claims for the purpose of sending them *out” to be sold, or of- fered for sale in the mining markets of the world. Numbers of men found relief from very embarrassing, not to say distressing, situatlons by this means. They found a ready market with these so-called brokers or agents for any claim upon almost any creek at varying prices, of course, ranging from $25 to $200. In most cases, how- ever, the broker paid but a few dollars in money, if any, supplied the stam- peder with provisions, taking an option on the claim at a fixed price ranging from $500 to $1500 and over, according to the location, the money to be paid only in case claim was sold. Brokers who had a good stock of provisions often had several men constantly em- ployed In_stampeding and securing claims on these terms. That was in the early winter. Later this business got so far beyond the Gold Commis- sloner’s ability to record for all appli- cants that he made a terse law of his own that no man should stake more than four claims in one year. He based | this ruling on the law which requires every claim owner to be upon and work his claim continuously for three months in the year, and there being but twelve months in the year no man could do that, he argued, for more than four claims. Numbers of claims were sent out dur- ing the early winter. All this time development work was going on and every now and then big pay was struck on this and that among the newly lo- cated creeks. With each new find came a panic among those who bonded claims, or who, as agent or broker, had sent them out to be sold at figures quoted for comparatively un- known ground. Some of the speediest journeys from Dawson to Dyea were made by men who came out to recover deeds that had heen sent out earlier or to otherwise head off and stop pos- sible sales of claims that had increased in value by $50,000 to $100,000 since the papers were signed at Dawson, Among the earlfest of these strikes was that on Hunker. Several among the men who were forced to go down the river in th~ fall for lack of provis- ions held claims on this creek which they valued at from $1000 to $5000. The strike woos made before communica- tion had been re-established by the ice on the river. No sooner had tie first dog team reached Dawson from Circle City giving the sign that travel was possible than a race was on to reach these men for the purpos: of buying their property before they became aware of its value. Several semall for- tunes were made in a few days in this way. Then came the strike on Bear Creek and after it on Dominion and on Sul- phur and other creeks. Many claims on thse creeks had been sent out under options that v.lued them at $lwu or | §1500. Their values suddenly ran up in Dawson along a scale from $10,000 to $100,000, and messenge:3 were sent scurrying out over the ice and snow 600 miles to Dyea with instructions to get into telcgraphic communication as quickly as possible with the agent who Leld the authority to sell and to with- draw them from the market at the | price ~reviously given. Dawson has been literally isolated all winter. While individuais started “out’ at comparatively frequent intervals no one cal in. What was going on in the world outside was only to be The first mail from the outside reached Dawson on February 28, and it was the end of the first week in March before it was distributed. This brought money to many and in- telligence to all of the lively interest thut was felt by the people in “the States” concerning the Klondike and this again quickened activities. It is expected with the clean-up and the arrival of the great army of peo- ple now on the way that this summer will see in Dawson the liveliest mining camp that has ever been planted on the earth. I think that there must be 15,000 people on the trail. On the lakes they were marching in single file over the trail as far as the eye could see, each with his outfit on his sled and nearly all running with sail set hefore a fa- vorable wind. It was a most remarka- ble sight. The clean-up will be retarded some- what by the scarcity of nails necessary for _he making of sluice boxes. A neighbor of mine sold ‘for $5 the right | to draw out and carry away the nauls he had driven In the walls of his cabin | of hanging up his| for hthe purpose clothes and other things. Of co there will be no gold lost on nccé‘::i of the scarcity of nails, but the first boat may not carry down the river as much as it otherwise would. How- ever, another and still better reason for their not doing so will lie in the fact that very much of the gold will be held for reinvestment in the mines. The detailed report of the output of the mines which follows is based, as statel, upon the very best information obtainable from a personal canvass of all the crecks and is placed conserva- tively upon this Information. The new regulations which require a tax of 20 per cent of an output above $500 a week may materially interfere with the wash-up. If it is to be enforced very many of the claim owners say they will only wash up enough each year to come within the limit for the year— that is $26,000. Major Walsh, the new executive of the territory, whom I in- terviewed at Lake Bennett, declares that it is the law and he must see that it is carried into effect. It will have a very demoralizing effect to say the least upon the minin7t interests of the | whole territory. There is a strong tendency among | American miners to go down across the line into An erican territory and the last months of the winter saw stampedes numbering hundreds of men toward Mission Creek, American Creek, Charley Creek and others, all on the American side, as well as to the creecks about Circle City and even further down. To put an estimate on the output of had | | Bucke | for 345,000 paid $5000 cash and took the bal- | the Yukon country there must be added to this about $1,000,000 coming from the | mines on the American side of the line. Following is the detalled report of the probable output of the mines in the Klondike and Indian River divisions of the Yukon district in the Northwest Territory. EL DORADO CREEK. Total ocutput, estimated, $10,727,000. El Dorado Creek—First location, fall of 1896; 5§ claims staked. 15 feet in width. e No. 4. Owned by James Quinn, John - fey and William {uu is ?he ’y‘{;;nm claim worked. Three men are employed there, four holes sunk to bedrock: high pan $11; largest nugget $153; clean up $35,000, No. 4. John Hartwell, John Ashby, Webb Lumpkin and John Janofsky. Two men work- ing; 3 holes to bedrock; high pan $20; will clean Rt 1w No. 4i. Same owners. Prospected all winter; only recently found pay; will clean up $20,000. No. 43. George Bunt, Norman Woodworth. ;f‘sr;oz lays let, but ill-‘success in finding pay; No. 42. T. C. Healy. Bix men working; will clean up $50,000. No. 41 Alec McDonald, Pat Gavin and Geo. Byrnes. Nine men working, but seven gave up lays, two only remaining; these struck pay February 2 ,000. No. 40. Same owners. Two lays let late in the year; $12,000. No. 39A. (Fraction of 85 feet). Kirkpatrick and Harper and Ladue. Two men working; four holes to bedrock; $25,000. No. 39. Same owners. Two lays let; 10 holes down; 5 men working; $80,000. No. 35. Barnes & Matlock. Claim pected; very rich pay located; claim not worked this winter. No. TA. (400 feet fraction). Robert Emboldt and George Reynolds. 13 men working; o holes ;lfln]wzra; will clean up $150,000; nugget found, No. 3T. Alec' McDonald, 8. J. Btiles. Two men on lay; four others on wages; have been ororling but & ehort time; will cléan up 360,- ros- ing No. 6. Same owners. Claims opened last year; fav streak located; two men on lay; will take out $300,000. No. 8. Mrs. J.'J. Healy, Fritz Kloke, B. E. Gay, Charles Turgeon, Peter King. Eight men working; have drifted from the surface and hauled dirt out by means of dogs: $10,00 No. 34. Alec McDonald, John Nelson, Harry Smith, Densmore, et al. Thres men on iuy; $50,000. No. 33A. Two men_working; $30,000. No. 33, Jenkins, Regan and Peterson. Ten men; 6 holes to bedrock; wide pay streak lo- cated; $250,000. No. 32. Henry Anderson, Charlls Worden. Little work done; §25,000, No. 3. Willlam' C. Leak and O. W. Ashby. Six men workin . Two men working; last summer; will clean up for winter's work 3:0,000; this 1s a fraction of 5 eet. No. 30. McDonald and Chappell. One corner of claim being worked; balance summer dig- &lngs; $100,000. No.” 23. Charlle Anderson. Twelve men on one lay, and 3 men on wages; $250,000. No. 25. Amboldt, Gage, Fred Hutchison. Four- teen men; nine shafts; $250,000. No. 21. Alec McDonald, Joe Barrett. Eight men working: four shafts; 150 feet is being worked for Parrett; McDonald has elgnteen men employed, and two lays are being worked. This is the claim from which McDonald panned 41000 out of four pockets, taken off the bed- T $600,000. No. 26 'Stanley and Worden. employed; $300,000. 0o &0’ No. . Twenty men working; No. 23. Lou Ellis and Frank Beicher. Eight men working; $100,000. No. 22. Alec and Duncan McDonald. Four lays; will work out this winter; sixteen men employed on wages; $300,000. No. 2. J. J. Healy and Jos Barrett. men working 150-foot pay streak; regular pans run $10 to $20; $300,000. No. 20. Healy & Barrett. Prospecting; only one hole to bedrock; $3000. 1l b orey, MeGee & Son. Ten men work- ng; $60,000. No. 13. Skiff Mitchell, John Lynn, Louts Sloss, Densmore Wilson & Co. Sixtéen men working; $300,000. No. 17. James Hall, N. Picket. Two lays; fourteen men working;. $300,000. No. 16. Thomas Lippy. Sixteen men work- ing; $300,000, No. 14 ‘and No. 15, James McNamee, Willlam Scouse, William Young and Thomas Flack. Let out In ten lays; forty men employed; $1,000,000. No. 13. Willlam Leggett & Co. Thirty men working: $200 taken In one pan, $1100 in one Leggett bought this claim last year Twenty men ance out of the ground n six weeks; will | | clean up $630,000. No. Healy. No. 12. Louls Langlots, George Ellls, Mrs. ght men at work; will yleld $200,000. 1 Bruceth and Blake. Eighteen men at work 5,000, John Erickson. Sixteen men; two | 0,000, | . George D. Mars. Sixteen men work- 000, 0. 8. James McNamee and Eighteen men; en 1s year: $400,000. No. 7. Fred Hutchison and Louls Empkins. Twelve men working six shafts; $800,000. Nos. 6, 5 and 4. Antone & Berry's Forty men: working; $1,000,000. No. 4A. /(133 foot fraction). Thomas Pelky. All let_out on lays: $150,000. No. 3. Knutz Halstead, Fred Bruseth. Six- Charles Lamb. ire claim will be worked out " clatms. teen men working: $200,000. No. Frank Phiscator. Eighteen men work- in 5 ) | kiff Mitchell, Wilson, Newman and Mizner. Fraction of 150 feet below Eilwell. Four men on two | seven men on wages; partly summer diggings; $250,000. BONANZA CREEK. Total output estimated, $12,290,000. The three claims comprising Discovery, one above and one below, owned by George W. Carmack, and the two Indlans, Skookun Jim | and Tagish Charley, will yleld $1,000,000; se enty men are employed on these’ claims, to- gether with six lays; the claim worked to- gether under one superintendent, Mr. Clemens. No. 2 above. John J. Dusel. $25,000. No." 3. Stuart, Kirkpatrick, Harper and La- Seven men working; $60,000. Hill, Connor, McConnell and Green- . Eight lays left} $160,000. - Haltman and Stewart. Sixteen men 170,000, No. 7. James Tade, Waugh, England, Me- Galgh and John Helghtman. Twenty men working; $200,000. No. §." J. J. Healy et al. feet deep; $50,600. No. 10. " John Smith, Arthur Cook and Fox. Thirty men working; dirt averages lic to Zc; streak about 40 feet wide; $100,000. 0. 11. Lumpkins & Co. Seven men work- ing; '$60,000. .12, Harry McCullough, Harry Wright and ce. Seventeen men working; $200,000. 13 and 14. Picket, Lafond and Grant. Five men working. Good ground; but late in ; $60,000, . 15, Frank Conrad, Thomas Blake, R. 8. . Twenty-five men at work; $300,000. No. 16. Matlock, Monroe and Smith. Eight lays; very rich; $300,000. No. 17. Oxvie and Louis Langlols, J. J. Healy et al. Fifteen men working; $200,000. No. 18. Densmore, Spencer and McPhee, Con Doyle, Willlam Wilkinson and John Lynn. Seventeen men working; high pan $§15 20; two pay streaks; $250,000. No. 19. John Wick and Willlam Lawton. Twelve shafts; three lays; $200,000. No. 20. Frank Pechon and Willlam Gouvin. Slx men working; four holes; $100,000. No. 21. Louis B. Rhodes. Ten men working; 11_holes to bedrock; $150,000. No. 22. Monroe and Cowley. Eight men work- ing; $80,000. No. 23. Lou Rhodes (claim 333% feet long). Two lays at work; $50,000. No. 24B. Smith and Pickert. Laymen have worked out half. Owner drifting with six men on the other half; $50,000. No. 25B. (Fraction 41 feet). be- gan work late; $10,000. No. 25A. James Rowan. Fifteen men work- })gg six windlasses running; high pan $20; $150,- No. 33. Andrew Nelson and John Delgard. Sixteen men working; high pan $75; ounce pans frequent; $350,000. No. 34. J. A. Stewart, T. S. Scott. Not working: summer digging. ~o. 1. Leonard & | Two men work- | Four lays forty Two men; Summer diggings; § feet to bedrock; putting dam to run sluice in’summer. No. 35A. (Fraction 75 feet). Peter Welberg. At Work; handicapped by water all 00, Pat Gavin, George Byrns. $100,000, Nine men No. 3. D. Sixteen men working; high pan $7; §150.000. No. 37. Jack Bros. Six men; three shafts; $60,000. No. 39.J. J. Healy and Joe Barrett. Thir- teen men working; § holes; $250,000. No. 41A. Martin _Christopher, Three men working; 7 holes to bedrock; $50,000. No. 41" Thomas Pelky, Charles Gilbert. Four- teen layers working; high pan $132; $400,000. Nk Jym Derry and Antone.” Nine men workin: 000, No. 42. L. Warburton and Ed Ward. Twenty- six men working; 20 holes: $300,000. No. 42A. (Fraction). Ward & Webbleton. Sixteen men working; $100,000. No. 42 B (fraction 250 feet). and Mill. No. 43. Anderson, Salter Eight_men working; $50,000. M. F. Johnson, C. B, Frankifn; §20,- . George Johansen. One man working $5000. O. Johnson. Two men working and pay streak: §I0 No. 57. Josiah Wilson and Fitzgerald. Two men working; pay streak six feet deep: fol- lowed it forty feet across without running out; $10,600. No. One man at work; found good pros- pects; . No.'6. Willlam Farrell and Mrs. King. Two men recently began work: $10,000. No. 2 below. H. MecDonald, Bob Eggin and gomhr:)w Felix et al. Twenty-s{x men working; 500, 000. No. 3. Ashby, Leigh and Land. Thirty men working: 350 feet worked on lay, 160 feet by can pay running expenses by daily : pay streak 250 feet wide; total clean up_$700,000. No. 4. Owned by syndicate, whole claim be- ing worked in 50-foot lay; thirty men working; $500,000. i No. 5. Dodson and Fox, their claim being worked ‘on lays; thirty men working: $700,000. No. 6. James Ogelby, Alex McDonald. Claims spotted; three lays given up, one very rich; $40 to $30_per pan frequent: $400,000. No. 7. Gasford, McDonald and Matlock; fur- teen luys; fifty Men working, but their claim will be worked out this year; high pan $25; ), 000. No, 8. Isaac Powers, Alex Bomier, S8am Pay runs across creek, 80 to : Mfl\mvnn $1; have not struck the | Matthews, Rudolph Flour, George Parment thirty-five men working; $650,000. No. § A. Cooks et al.’ (416-foot fraction), all cl ims sent out for sale; under bond for $100,000. 21 Barnes ; N & Matlock, 4 men on lays; nNC(»‘do 22. Jobn Baker & Co., 6 men on lays; No. 23. Gordon, Battles & Jack McQuesten; 8 009. men working; $26,000, No. 24 Howard Hamilton et al; 2 men working; $30,000, 0. 2. McCoy & Co. No, 26, e X Vos. 2§ and 2. Sixteen men working; $25,000. No.'20. Day Bros.; § men working; 30,000, !:.8. W Toons Painter and Leak: $40,000. No. 4. out’ s -4 working: $iioog t 10 lays; twenty-two men & Pone ldays being worked; $50,000. No. 46, ‘ne Al 2 1 S o ¥ Antone; five lays being - Ten lavs and laymen hiring men at hour; $150,000, . e No. 45. Upper 'end rich; worked; $50,000. No. 49. “Sloper; two lays; $15,000, No. 5. Isaac’ Powers and Judge Morford; four men working; $20,000. No. 51. Ten lays working; $150,000. No. 62. Neal and Crawford, Brand and Jer- ome; six lays working; $150.000. Two bench claims_off 62 will pan $75,000. No. 85. Owned by Canadian company at Ot- tawa; four lays: $40,000. No. 8. Frank Jones and others; six lays; will clean up $50,000, No. £9. Lower ‘end is rich; $50,000. No. 0. Minnick & Co.; let on lays, entire clalm betng worked; $150,600. No. 6l. Working on upper end pros, ; small dump; 820.06‘0. o il No. 8. Twenty men at work; $5,000. BEAR CREEK. Total output, estimated, $500,000. No. 18 below discovery; s at the mouth of the creek; owned bv Ired Knocson, Gus Carl- son_and Henry Seymour; seventeen men at work; five holes to bedrock; largest pan $60; will average $1 per bucket; pay streak twenty- two feet wide, three feet deep; no burning i necessary on this claim, the ground being kept thawed, “presumably by the backwater of the Klondike, into which the creek empties; will clean up’ $60,000. No. 18. Henry Cheney and W. D. Jones have a lease on this claim from S. F. Bears for two years and will probably work it out in that time. They have five men at work and will clean up $50,000. ; 4 men working; $10,000. Johnson & Co.; 4 men working: $10,- four lays being No. 17. Richard Butler; two men at work for the past four months: will take out $15,000. No. 16. Fred Hutchison, John Smith; four not men working: clean up $25,000. No. 15, Fred Knocson, John Smith; four men working; best $13 50; average pan about 20c; clean up $20,000. No. 15 A (fraction). Willlam Robinson, J. L. Rankin: six holes sunk without finding pay; work stopped. No. 4. Harry Wilson; claim let out on lay; three men at work; dump will average 50c to 76c; bad luck with'early work, but will take out’ $20,000. No. 13. Charles Hilty, Fred Grand; streak of rich ground six to eight feet wide, aver- ag!ng $1 to the bucket: clean up $20,000. No. 12. Harry Baker; two men had lay, but relinquished it. No. 12 A (fraction 160 feet). Prospecting; high pan’ $7 50. No. 11. Willls McKinnis; prospecting; reached bedrock. No. 10. Sam Stanley and Charles Worden; prospecting; have not reached bedrock. No. 0. William Hawes: one hole to bedrock; four men working; clean up $10,000. No. 8. John Sheehy, Martin D. Young: pros- pect!ng; have not found pay streak; will clean up_$6000. No. 7. O. J. Ekre, P. A. Peterson, John A. Peterson; tweive men at work; pans from 21¢ to §21; one foot of the ground will average $3; clean ‘up $100,000. No. 6. Fred Bear, Frank Carroll; three men at work; bedrock is'thirty-four feet below sur- face: expect to put on more men; will clean up_$20,000. No. 5. Alec McDonald, Byrne and Gavin; let to C. J. Cunningham and Willlam Harral cently struck pay streak seven feet ning from 3c to $3 50: clean up $10,000. No. 4. J. B. Quigley and Thomas Cook; four men prospecting; clean up $10,00 No. 3. From this point to No. 6 above no other than prospecting work is being done. No. 5. owned by Fred Munner, has four men em- ployed and will clean up $20,000. Munner worked the claim plone until he struck a $40 pan and then employed others. HUNKER CREEK, Total output estimated, $2,138,000. Hunker Creek—No. 74, six miles from the mouth_of the creek, is the first claim being worked. They have struck no big pay as vet, but the dirt runs from 6c to 13c, and they are still locking for the =ov streak. No. 60. Stack & Robinson. Three men at work, three uoles down to bedrock, and will clean’ up $15,000. No. 55 "William Jensen. One hole sunk to bedrock and found five feet with 20c dirt; $10,000. No. 52. Butler. McCutcheon & Co., four men will clean’ up let out on lay; at work four holes dow) 1,000 0. 5. J. J. Mcha i men at work; six holes to bedrock; highest pan $9 50; 150 feet of pay streak from 2 to 4 teet deep in the gravel; will take out $20,000. No. 43. Hagan & Ash and Spencer, McPhee & Fuller; ten men at work on lay and four men under wages; 13 holes to bedrock; $30,000. No. 41A. David Evans; Thomas Dolan; six men working three holes to bedrock; getting 26c dirt across fraction, which is 212 reet wide $40,000. No. 41. R. P. Low, Robert Ash, J. J. Healy; | claim being worked on lays at 60 per cent! six men working; five holes to bedrock; S0 feet of drift; caught blg pay recently; 64 50; we cleared up $100,000. No. 40. Willium Hanke, Willlam Ash, Wil- liam' Emerson and Captain Wassam; seven men working four holes across the claiin, god pay in all; we cleared up $70,000. No. 3. James Morrison and Thomas foung; twelve men working on four lays, employing seven others on wages; sixteen holes to bed- rock; high pan §; largest nugget one vunce; cleared up 365,000, No. 37. Dick Eckert, J. F. Hopkins; seven men working; five holes to bedrock; high pun $17; creek runs in centep of pay streak and early work hindered by water; turned the creek across the hill and will work next sumi- pans mer; $70,000. No. 25. 'W. M. Cowley and W. L. Ayers; two men at work on lay; four holes to bed- rock; $20,000. No. 35C (fraction 100 feet wide). August Larson; two men working; $25,000. No. $B (fraction 400 .feet). Thomas Moore, Danlel McVicker; two men working for wag=s and two others on a lay; two holes to bed- rock; highest pan $13; $20,000. No. 35 A (fraction 430 feet). Skiff Mitcheil, Captain Hansen and Joslin; ten men working on lay; eight holes down; best pan $3; $1% 000, No. 8. Charles Levy; three men a: work on lays; four holes to bedrocic; high pan it ; 30,000. NBEN. Teonaca AL taaon,| Henry Dhbert and Peter Burgess; four men working; five holes to bedrock; high pan $1 25; thirty-eight feet of pay five feet deep: clean up $40,000. No. 32. John Smith; two lays let; seven holes sunk and lays given up, failing to strike pay. Nos. 31 and 2. Patrick Galvin, G. W. Byrne and W. E. Armstead; six men working; ten holes to bedrock; five others started. but flooded with water; high pan $19; clean up 350,- 0. No. 29 (300 feet). Curley Monros and Thomas_Kirkpatrick (recently purchased from Harry Wright for $i3,000). Lays then; was bought off and no work being done afs pres- ent; 8 holes to bedrock, and two good dumps; $20,000. No. 28. A. McDonald. Summer diggings; sluiced last year; in preparation this summer; prospected four holes down, covering width of 60 feet. No. 27. Willlam Chappel and Albert Gray. One man at work prospecting; three holes down; 38000 No.' 2A. (Fraction 176 feet). Belcher Bros. One man prospecting. Na, 2. Alex McDonald and Frank Bouchard. Two men working; 3 holes down; summer dig- gings; will clean Up this winter '$20,000. No. 24. Andrew Ness and Humboldt Gates. Six men working in three lays; 10 holes to bed- rock; $50,000. No. 23. Alex McDonald and Harper & Ladue. Work begun and hindered and finally stopped by water. No. 22A. (Fraction 75 feet). John William. Four men working; § holes’ to bedrock; high pan $0; clean up $30,000. No. 22. John Lynn and Joe Topalla, Spencer and McPhee and Skiff Mitchell. Three men at work on 75 feet; remainder worked out in 76 foot lays; high pan $3$; clean up $75,000. No. 21.'Fred H. Berry, Clarence Berry, Mo- Grath and O'Brien. Four lays let; 15 holes to bedrock: high pan $17 _45; $20,000. No. 20. C. Monroe, Tom Kirk. Three men working; 4 holes to bedrock; high pan $71; clear up '$76,000. No. 19. Harry Olsen. Nine men working; 11 holes to bedrock; high pan $8; $50.000. No. 18. Thomas Kirkpatrick, John Van Ider- steln; six men working; five holes down: dirt | running from $4 to $20 in a bucket; owners | bought out three men who held lays; $60,000. No. 17. Thomas Kirkpatrick; prospected ldst _spring; good pay found, but not being work No. 16. Thomas Kirkpatrick, H. Ladue; three men on lay; three holes to bedrock; high pan $7: nuseet $1280; bothered by glaciers; clean up $20,000. No. 15. Charles Sturgeon and Joseph Touchard. Two men working on lay; two holes down; clean up $20,000. No.' 4. Louls Smith, Joe Reno, Vie Lord; four men on wages; six men on lay; four holes to bedrock; high pan $10; largest §79 $5; clean up $100,000, No. 13. George Malligan: five men working; three holes to bedrock: -40,000. No. 12 Andrew Ness, Humboldt Gates: efght men working; high pan $23: efght holes to_bedrock; dirt averages 40c: clean up $75,000. No. 11. John Bartiett: four men working; four holes to bedrock: high pan $2 50 $40,000. No. 10. J. J. Brown and Harry Davis; five hol quished. No. 43. A. L. Spotts; four men at work; | nine holes sunk; best pan $3 30; will take out $30,000. No. 48. Butler & Lamrough; representing. No. 44. Angus, Keller & Thomas; three sfl. 18 and 15. Wilson & Co.; 6 men on lays: | working: five holes to bedrock; high pan 267 will have 22 in length, averaging lc clean up $45,000. | g & Blick; six men let on lays: $200,000. No. 8. George Johnson, John 5 No. 5. Judge' Mortord, Harper Ladue and | working; six holes to bedrock; high pan $60; Kirkpatrick: two men working on lay; $25,000. | $73,000. 2 T No. 3 king No. 8. B. Wash, John Whitney and Richar: tour I:; ’s?fl‘.‘n‘a{“"” e e b ele\-.x;’: nwn‘\s\in&))m\sgmoxwrteen holes to Nos. 14, 15 and 16. Waugh and McKay; four | bedrock; high pan 50 g men Working: 3600 takep. from potiom ot pros. | No. 7. James and Danel Robinson and ¥ pect hole in the pan; $15,000, | McLean; eleven men working; eight holes No. 17. Voss and ‘Dr. Will; small dump: high pan $86; SG0EL Frank Wadsworth oDon 1d; party summer diggings; two men work- 1";1:: ?\\'0 holes down; high pan $14; six box lengths of dirt of high average; §20,000. No. 5. Not working. | 4 Drain being dug for sluicing this sum- prospected last year, with good ground | developed | No. 3. Harry McDonald, Phillip Kenny and James McClarty; fifteen men at work; seven | holes to bedrock: high pan $33; nugget woith $104: pay located sixty feet Acroes and not yet prospected within; will clean up $120,000. No. 2. Warburton; six men working; holes down; high par S; will clean up B No. 1. James Kobinson; two men prospevt- ing. Discovery. Andrew Hunker; ging; took out $17,000 last year: pan: $700 to a box left. No. 3 above. Alex McDonald and Zeke Ogil- | vie; four men working on two lays; high pan $10,000; 820,000, No. b. Munson; three men threw up lay owner continued work and struck good pay will clean up $10,000. No. 6. James Sullivan; $10.000, No. 1. 10,000. P ion 8 and 9. Willlam Young et al.; §10,000, No. 9A (fraction 106 feet). D. C. Sager; four men on lay: $10,000. No. 10. C. Phillip; two men working; $10,000. No. 12. Fred Brutceth; $5000. summer dig- | 320 to one two men working; Albert Dalton; two men working lay; No. 13. James Sullivan; one man working: $5000. No. 17. J. J. McKay and Waugh: one hole to_bedrock; $5000. No. 22. Edward Smith, John Black, Charles Martin; three men working: two holes down: bigh pan $2 §0; five-foot pay dirt struck; $20,000. SKOOKUM GULCH. l | | | Big and Little Skookum Gulches, which come into Bonanza Creek a little below the mouth of El Dorado Creek, are extremely rich. The knoll or rounded hfll that separates the two is found to be rich to its very summit and the entire hill is located, there being thirteen tiers of bench claims. One hundred men are em- ployed on the hill and in the guiches a careful estimate of the output places the total at not less than $1,000,000. DOMINION CREEK. Total estimated output, $150,000. This creek | 1s in the Indian River division and s a branch | of Suiphur Creek. It heads up In the same hills where Bonanza and El Dorado have their source, though on the other gide of the divide. | The creek scarcely out of the prospecting period and has few large dumps, although shafts are being sunk at near intervals oves ten miles of its length. There are two Discov- ery iocations four and a half miles apart, and some confusion in locating between these has resulted. The following are the largest dumps | on the creek: No. 15. Below Upper Discovery; two men | working; five holes to bedrock; high pan $14; located pay streak 100 feet; took out $00 in four hours, from fifty-seven buckets: $20,000, No. 1 above Upper Discovery. Joe Beck. Two men workin: took $1000 out of prospect hole; located pay streak 100 feet wide: $15,000 No. 1 below Upper. Von der Heid and Bow- | man. Two men working; three holes to bed- rock; $5009. No. 6 below. C. W. Hall, F. E. O'Brien. | Three men working; two holes get $3 to $30; | clean up $10,000. No. 9 below. Thompson & Co. Two men working; $5000. No. 23. Joe Beck and John Hagerman. Two men workin; 000, No. 31. Alexander. Louis Pond. Four men working; high pan $35; serles of twelve pans $12 to the pan; another series of five pans, total $57 50: $20,000. 0. S1A (60-toot fraction). 3¢ (disputed claim). Olot Helgestad. to_bedrock; $5000. No. 35. John Brennan. Two men working; two holes down: $5000, ! No. 2 below Lower Discovery. Antone Bo- zatto, Fugene Vogel. Two men working: four holes’ to bedrock: high pan 1 ounce; $15,00. Other prospect holes and small dumps on the creek will yield about $15,000. | SULPHUR CREEK. i Total estimate of the yleld, $150,000. This creek !s the main creek of which Do- minion Creek s a branch. It empties into In- dian River. Hizh muck banks may cause creek to he backward in development: prospect- ing is being done over a large portion of the creek with most encouraging results. From Discovery to 101 below good pay has been A. Donnelly and Two men working; two shafts | e 4 2 | §50.000: other elntms found. There are on this creek one or two | large dumps. 0. 38, above Discovery. Charles Palmer, Dr. | George Smith. Several $30 pans; 10 feet of pay | dirt, averaging $9 to the bucket; $90,000, 4 McRride and Crowlev 0. 5 and “Beckett and Foote. No. 2%. King & Co. No. John King. No. 30. S. C. Parrington. All re making good pay, and will ¥leld a total of will yield $10800 more. GAY GULCH. Total estimated vield, $330.000. ¥ | °s sunk; did not strike pay and lay relin- | its estima | by Chapell, Gay Gulch comes into El Dorado Creek at No. 3. The claim at the month is\very rich, ted yield being £300,00. It is owned Gay, K K. Last Chance £100,000. | Creek is a tributary of Hunker Creek Total estimated output, four or four and a half miles; and Lettenan and Fontane Nos. 4, & s big dumps of good dirt that have panned from 50 cents to GOLD BOTTOM. Total estimated output, $60,000. Gold Bottom i8 also a tributary of Hunker Creek, coming in at and below Discovery on the latter creek. No. 1, Chism, Nelson & Monroe; No. 2, Louis Mevyer ‘and No. 11, John Duzel, are working thirteen men and have quite large dumps. UNJUST FREIGHT RATES. Manufacturers Protesf Against Dis- crimination Between East | end West. | The Manufacturers' and Producers’ As- soclation has decided to send to its mem- | bers a statement showing the unfair dis- crimination of the railroads in the matter of freight rates between this city and cities of the East. The matter was taken up a long time ago, but nothing was made public,on account of some of the directors fearing that the railroad men would take offense and make the conditions harder if the wrong should be presented to the puolic. However, a committee was set to work to compile data upon the subject, and the table produced is very interesting for the most of the community. It shows in a hundred places how the manufacturer of the West is obliged to compete with his brother of the East on decidedly un- equal conditions. The jobber and manu- facturer of Chicago and New York can send products and goods to this coast all the way from 10 cents to $6 per hundred pounds cheaper. For example, the rate on agricultural implements in carload lots from San Francisco to Chicago is $3 40 a hundred pounds, while from Chicago to San Francisco the charge is $2 40. Burlap bags from San Francisco to New York cost $1 50 a hundred pounds in less than carload lots; from New York to San Fran- cisco the cost is only $1. Pickled fish from San Francisco to New York is $2 10; from New York to San Francisco it is $1. Wine to Chicago from California is $2 In less than carload lots, while from Chicago to California it is only $1 35. ‘And so It runs through all the necusl-‘ | ties and luxuries that are moved from place to place in the ordinary commerce | of communities. In the hope of getting | some relief and changes on these rates, | the assoclation had one of its mem- bers go to Monterey to the last conven- tion of railroad men, but the facts and | figures and the request for more justice | and less rate were pigeonholed with a calmness that was very discouraging to | the petitioners. When this lack of action | was reported to the association some of the dlrectors expressed the fear that to | give the figures to the public and show | how hard the discrimination falls on all | would only excite the ill-will of the rail- | road people and cause the latter to make | the burden even harder. This sentiment | did not prevail, for the majority of the | directors thought that their fellow-mem- | bers should be made aware of the facts. Hence, the table was prepared, and yes- terday over 700 copies, togethér with a letter of explanation from the committee, were sent out. While some question the wisdom of this action, it is safe to say that all are of the opinion that the pub- licity of the discrimination will not be productive of any good, at least for some | time to come, It is generally understood among the directors of the association that if the Southern Pacific Company | were the only line to be petitfoned there would be some ground for hope, but this company is only a part of the great rail- | road combine, and the Eastern roads | seem to have no interest in the welfare | of this State as against that of the East- ern States. —_—————— Claim the Deed Is Forged. Clara Faithful, administratrix of the estate of Sarah Worrall, Annie Eiben, Albert Worrall and Ellen Worrall, com- menced suit yesterday against John Wor- rall to have a deed to a piece of property on the corner of Nineteenth and Coliing- ‘wood streets set aside on the ground of | | The fac-simile signature of is on every wrapper of CASTORIA, | and after the transaction of busine: | ritt, as | Those Two men work- | H 00. B {!raud. The plaintiffs allege that the deeq by which Worrall claims title to the prop. | erty is a forgery, and that he is only ¢ titled to a one-third interest in the land. ————————— |KOYAL AND SELECT MASTERS, | Grana Officers Elected and Installed ! for the Current Year. | | | The Grand Council of Royal and Select | Masters met yesterday in thirty-eighth | annual assembly in the Masonic Te ple con- nected with that body the following ofil- cers, having been elected, were installed for the current year by Most Hlustrious Past Grand Master James Bester Mar. ed by Most Illustrious Past Grand Master William Abraham Davies: Rober: Ash, most {llustrious grand master; August Wackerbarth, most illus- trious deputy grand master; Jacob H. Neff, grand principal conductor of the work; Franklin H. Day, grand treasu | Thomas H. Caswell, grand recorder Thomas Kyle, grand chaplain: William B. Scarborough, grand captain of the guard; John Gould Bisbee. grand conduc- tor of the council; Wililam Hewson Da- vis, grand lecturer; A. H. Merritt, grand stewar muel D. Mayer, grand organ- ist; and Samuel Warburton, grand senti- nel. e'l!‘he' Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons of California will meet in the Temple and remain in session two days. —_— ————— In the Divorce Court. Kittle Martel commenced suit yesterday against alfred C. Martel, to compel him to maintain her. She alleges that owing to the cruelty of her husband she was forced to leave him, and that he has since refused to contribute anything toward her support. Christopher Contreras has been granted a divorce from Juana Contreras on the ground of desertion. Judge Seawell yesterday refused to grant Samuel A. Wells a divorce from | Alma M. Wells, on the ground of intem- perance, the plaintiff having, for the sec- ond time, failed to make out his case. Charles Freeman Johnson has come | menced suit for divorce against Esther V. Johnson on the ground of cruelty. —_————————— Those Frenchy Busts— sudden hips—come in Royal Worcester Corsets at from $1, $1 50, $2 50, $350 to $10 per pair. The lower priced ones are fitted free just as carefully as the more expensive ones Bear in mind that ev cor: have the full name v_pair of these Royal Worces- ter, stamped on_the inside band at the walst, Chester F. Wrignt's Corset Par- lors, 10 Geary street, corner Kearny, first floor upsta —_—e———————— Election Booth Contract. At the meeting of the Election Commis- ston yesterday the contract for the erec- tion of election booths for the charter election was awarded to W. J. Hughes on his bid of $12 35 for each booth. ADVERTISEMENTS. eing for Boys. We've opened a depart- ment for children’s Have succeeded so well our other departments that wear. in we feel quite sure of another success. Here's the way we will go about it. Offer well made, neat fitting, long wear- ing suits at low prices, and every mother the amount of her purchase if she or her boy is dissatisfied. The following are at opening prices, which, however, will prevail the year round. refund = P P A S £ Boy' Reefer Sults—eges 4 to 12; selocted materlal in ind fancy checks, clay worsteds, and cheviots in_browns, blues blacks. . -$2.00 to $5.00 Boys' two-place suits—coat and pants—ages 9 to 15; plain and fancy chacks, clay worsteds and cheviots, in browns, biues and blacks ...$2.00 to $6.00 Boys' odd pants, all ages and sizes, different patterns and shades. . 50c to $1.00 Made-to-order youths. Men’s furnishings and hats. suits for men and S.N. WO0OD & CO., 718 Market St., S. F. B. H. PAUL’S NEWLY ARRIVED COLLECTION, ANTIQUE, RARE AND FINE RS PERSIAN With his last stock, before his departure to Alaska, | WILL BE CLOSED OUT AT UNRESERVED AUGTION COMMENCING DAILY AT 2 P. M., At 106-108 Grint ave., between Tost and Geary. As every rug will be sold out regardless of cost, a life-time chance to buy genuine goods at your own prices. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS, Thursday, May 26, 1898 (submitting the new charter to a vote of the qualified _electors), will commence at the office of the Registrar of Voters, in “The City Hall,”” en April 1838, and continue thence till M 0. inclusives The sersons are entitled to reg- ister First—Ail persons not registered at the last generai or special election, but who are en- titled thereto. Second—All persons who were registered, but by moving out of thelr “‘Special Election Pre- cinet” ‘or otherwise have lost their right to vote. Third—All native male citizens not registered and all male naturalized citizens (not regis- tered) who have become such prior to Febru- ary 26, 1898, and are otherwise qualified accord. ing to law. 11 qualified electors who were registered at the last general or special election, and who will have continued to reside_within thelr re- spective “‘Special Election Precincts” shall De entitled to vote without additional regis- tration. Office open from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. By order of the Board of Election Commie- sioners. W. J. BIGGY, Reglstrar of Voters.