. Alaska and the Klondike. utput. Stops were made at various claims along the way, thenoon hour finding us at No. 26 above on Eldorado, theproperty of Stanley & Worden. Mr. Stanley, who hadbeen a fellow traveller on the way from Seattle to Skag-way, was the discoverer of this claim and with his part-ner owns one adjoining, which they were putting throughthe second handling w^th a steam hoist, with extremelysatisfactory results. There w^as no clean-up at this claim,but Mr. Brackett washed out a couple of pans of gravelfrom the bed rock and secured from one about $1 andfrom the other about $
. Alaska and the Klondike. utput. Stops were made at various claims along the way, thenoon hour finding us at No. 26 above on Eldorado, theproperty of Stanley & Worden. Mr. Stanley, who hadbeen a fellow traveller on the way from Seattle to Skag-way, was the discoverer of this claim and with his part-ner owns one adjoining, which they were putting throughthe second handling w^th a steam hoist, with extremelysatisfactory results. There w^as no clean-up at this claim,but Mr. Brackett washed out a couple of pans of gravelfrom the bed rock and secured from one about $1 andfrom the other about $ As there are 90 to 100pans in a cubic yard, this is rich dirt and afforded someidea of w^hat it is to dig for gold in the Klondike whenyou have struck it rich. A stretch of three and ahalf miles on this creek, Eldorado, is said to have pro-duced over $30,000,000. At another claim visited shortly afterward a pan,taken at random, turned out $3. The operation of a bigdredger furnished an illustration of placer mining by. c X u 64 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE machinery, and at another group of mines we were in-vited to witness a clean-up on property owned and man-aged by a man known as Skipper Norwood, at onetime the captain of a sailing vessel, and the first whalerto voluntarily winter in the Arctic Ocean. When one ofhis sluice boxes, which had been running about two days,was cleaned up there was taken from it a small pailfulof gold, the value of wliich was stated by the experts tobe about $4,000. 7 his was well up the side of the ravine,on what is called a hill claim. In the Klondike the gold is comparatively coarse; thatis, it is in the form of grains from the size of very coarsecornmeal to grains of rice, cracked hominy, peas and fullgrains of corn, with occasional larger pieces, as large some-times as twenty-dollar gold pieces. This gravel may eitherbe washed out by the use of a pan about the size and shapeof an old-fashioned milkpan, or in what are known asrockers or in sluice b
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