James Rosenburg, a well-known Dawson merchant who has just reached this place from a visit to Iron creek in the Teslin country, brings the most intelligent report yet made of the most recently discovered gold-bearing creek in Yukon, and the news brought by him is of the most encouraging nature and is based, not on what he heard, but on what he saw.
Mr. Rosenburg brought out with him the result of two pans washed out on
discovery claim, one of which he panned himself, and the other he saw panned by Brewer, one of the discoverers. The two pans yielded between 20 and 30 cents, the gold mostly being coarse.
From 15 to 18 men are now at work on the creek where Rosenburg says only a free expenditure of muscle is all that is necessary to prove its value. He says Iron is one of the most promising appearing mining creeks he has ever seen; that fully one half the boulders in it are highly mineralized, but that it will require work to show its veal worth.
A trail is now being cut from the mouth of Sidney creek, where it empties into the Nisultin river to discovery on Iron, a distance of 20 miles, and it is over this trail that provisions for next winter's operations will be packed.
On discovery claim Brewer, Thompson, Andersen and Mee are doing much work. They have made a big dam and changed the channel of the creek and will operate in the former creek bed. Thompson is now at Livingstone creek to size up the machinery and methods employed by the N. C. company there and will probably pattern after them in
working discovery.
Capt. Tom Smith, owner of the steamer Quick, left here today with ten tons of freight on a scow which he will float down to Hootaliaqua and from there the Quick will tow the scow up the Hootalingua and to the mouth of Sydney creek by way of Lake Teslin and the Nisultin river.
Rosenberg reports game very plentiful on Iron creek, one man having kiilled four caribou in one day. Moose are also very plentiful.
The Yukon government will be asked to assist in constructing a trail to the new camp as at presentit is very hard to get supplies into the place where operations are being conducted.
Mr. Rosenberg will leave for Dawson on the next steamer.
