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Mother Lode Found

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
January
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Seattle, Wash., Jan. 18. - The news brought by the treasure-laden miners who arrived from the Klondike on thïï steamer Corona is important chiefiy in that it is conñrmatory of the discovery of the great mother lode. W. H. Welch, H. T. Coffln and H. L. Burt are authority for the statement that the original strike was made at the upper end of claim No. 30, El Dorado, while two stringers, one at No. 27 and another yet lower down, were subsequently located. Throughout the district the discovery is accepted as assurance of the permanency of the district as a rich gold mining field. Placer IMgrgiugs Continue Kieli. As to the placer diggings, they continue rich. Fowder creek, an affluent of Quartz creek, has been having a boom, pans of $3.75 and $4 being a common thing. Of course the stream was located as soon as the flrst important discovery was made. All Gold creek shows pans of .$10 to $100, while the miners on Hunker creek, Henderson, Dominion, the B1g Salmón and the Stewart all declare themselves satisfled with the prospect. One of the first men to stake ground on El Dorado and the very last man out of the Klondike country is Andrew Olsen, known as "The Big Swede." He is notable as being the owner of tha claim on which the biggest Klondike nugget has yet been found. The lump of gold was valued at $586. Will Take Out $15,000,000. Replying to a request for an estímate of this winter's gold dust of the camp, Joe Campbell, one of the returning miners, sajd: "We have done a great deal of figuring on that and it now appears that the output, notwithstanding the scarcity of food and light, will be from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000." D. H. H. Littlefield of Skaguay came in on the Corona. He has just closed a contract with the Canadian government to pack provisions to Lake Bennett for 25 cents a pound. L. L. Grady, formerly a banker of Fairfax, Minn., paid $600 for the privilege of walking from Dawson behind a brisk dog team. Muret Anderson, an elderly gentleman of St. Louis, made the trip after the same fashion.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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