INRALD, FRIDAY, MAY:9, 1918

Goren esac w Writes: Teresting Létter- From: “ub ee One (2
- Tndian Brought in Gold=-Hundreds of (Clitms’ Already -
Staked,, Covering Nearly AI Creeks, ‘

lin, B.C. April 12, 1918

. New Hazelton, BC.

Dear Mr. Smith:- ~ Arrived f here
early yesterday morning and just
‘made it in time; to-day Atlin, lake

is pretty well covered with water,

which would have made very bad
travelling. I lost one dog on the

way in. and’ had to leave half my
load about 60 miles north of here
and -will have it brought in.by
freight; it should be ‘here. to-day

or tomorrow. I have rented a

shack here, and will store most

of the supplies in it until I return
from Silver creek, and will ‘then
try and make a trip up O’Donnel

ereek and do some locating there

also. J am taking a man in with |°
me, and. we. will leave here -on
Tuesday. Silver creek is about
150 miles s-e, of here, and,:as we
will just take enough supplies to
get us in there and out again,
we should be back shortly before
the first of May. It is impossible
to do any. prospecting just now,
as there;is from five to eight feet
of soft snow -east of here, but
from here to a point about thirty
or forty miles east of here there
is very little snow, and we will
probably wind up by having to
leave the sleigh and packing the
dogs, ;

Now, regarding this: strike: “In
the first place, it has been great-|
ly over rated, which is, of course,
not to be wondered. at,..as they
all are to a certain extent.

_An Indian came out of the. Sil-

ver creek’ country last fall with.

fm [forty dollars ; ‘in. course — gold,
| which évery. man. saw; this is KO

every. doliar. that: has. ome outof
there’so far—all that:dope about
Owen going to Skagway. for sup-

eS, "500 per group of. three claims. : ee |

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plies ‘with :$1,500 in coarse gold) x,

was bunk. : This: Indian. ‘put. Jim]

Magon (Skookum Jim) next to his

find, and: Mason. went.to Seattle |'

after Carmack. ° They returned,

and a bunch of their: friends from |
Dawson and Seattle’ got wise. in|
some way and ‘started to follow}.
Mason: and. Carmack |

them in.
got away from them, and neither
one has beei | seen. since.” “Mason

pawned his ring in a’ roadhouse >

up the lake a‘short time ago for

a meal and a bunk. I was talk-
ing to the’ man who has it and he] 3

was showing me the ring.

That Indian, with “his: ‘forty
dollars, started the. ‘Stampede;

likewise all the Feporta, of 3 an. El}

Dorado,

At this stage of the game, sik
ver creek j is staked.from one end
to the other; also Johnson, Trout,
Judson and ‘Moosehorn | creeks,
which are the’ main streams: in
the vicinity of Silver creek.

There was asmall stampede up
O'Donnell creek last fall, caused
by a prospector finding’ $500° in
coarse gold in about three days.
He: brought: it: here and ‘the: gold
commission took charge of it and
the property -has. been in. litiga-
tion.. ever -since... They say “he

‘| staked over another man’s claim,

ete. Just now O’Donnell creek

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