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3Eilder-ofed,:mforivctosh-?rsrlilof,vehere-iC-m-iesngsrshear-latngchBoth these matches gave Roller a whole loPthe best of it. Some now believe Gotch held back in the other meetings simply to get Roller sufficient rating to make a big drawingcard.DONE SLUICE-BOXES ARE ROBBEDDome miners are somewhat wrought up over a robbery that occurred ou Maddocks Monkman’s claim. So 2 above, Dome, last night. The amount of gold taken Is not known, as it had not been cleaned from the lif Oes, the robber or robbers having made a cleanup on his own account. The operators are working with a “hopper, into which dirt is dumped during the wait for sluice-water. Afterthe run of sluicing that cleared the hopper” last night it evidently was used as a place of concealment by those who later committed the robbery. until there was the least chance of being caughtBut one riffle, *he first from the hopper, was removed and its contents stolen- The robbers likely ended their work there either tecause of disliking lhe risk of going out into open sightor because of betQg frightened off by some passerby.Mr. Monkman stated this afternoon that the loss could not hare been rery heavy, as only the one riffle had been cleaned and the length of the run and character of the pay were guch as to make it certain there was no very great fortune in the. one length.The robbery occurred about 12 o'clock.BIG FIND ON LITTLE ELDORADOPay averaging better than $7 to to the square foot, containing nugget that run as high as $40 each was found yesterday on bench claim 4 below, first tier. Little Eldorado. It isthe richest ever struck ou that creek, aa shown by the fact that a total of more than $700 was cleaned up from he bottom of the new shaft, with- ,which the streak waa pierced.Tony Zuber Co. is the lucky operating concern to reap the rich reward The company is operating under a lease from L. C. Hess, the we;l known Fairbanks attorney, to whom the claim belongs.The operators had prospects previously sufficient to justify sinking the shaft, but of no such character as the• remarkable day.run uncovered yester-When the pay was struck Zuber began washing the gravel as it came from the bole. The results of the clean up of a block about 10x11 feet, covering little more than 100 sqtiare-feet ol bedrock, was represented by a poke of 43 ounces, more than enough to pay the entire cost of sinking the shaft.iirui tinni/ nriT ******* * ** ***** lIliHTP Tfl PllllflT
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Fairbanks Daily News
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Thu, Jul 02, 1908
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