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Indian showed them a place where there were nuggets of free gold and dirt, 
which, when panned, yielded a handsome return. Claims were immediately 
staked out, and the adventurers began their work in earnest. Later, the fact of 
the discovery became known, and other miners entered the valley, and the 
region gained no little celebrity, and became the scene of much animation. 
Four years the work progressed, and a town, which to-day is of respectable size 
and great expectations, was founded, and christened Juneau. 
“ The Douglas Island mine is located within fifty yards of the waters of 
Juneau Bay, and was discovered by a man named Treadwell, who sold his 
claim a year or two ago to a San Francisco company. The new owners set up 
a fine stamp-mill to begin with, and made thorough tests of the ore. It is a 120- 
stamp mill, the largest in the world, and the company has refused, it is said, 
$16,000,000 for the mine.” 
Since the above was written, and as late as last August, reports from 
there gave the astonishing showing of enough ore in sight to keep the 120- 
T'LINKET CARVED SPOONS. 
(Made from the Horns of Mountain Goats.) 
stamp mill “running for a life-time.” The uninitiated in mining mills, ledges 
and lodes, may grasp the value of the mine by saying its output for a twenty- 
days run of the stamp-mill was $100,000 in gold, or at the rate of $1,800,000 
per year ; which, estimating its value on an income of five per cent, annually, 
would make the mine worth $36,000,000, or just five times the amount we paid 
for the whole Territory. There is no doubt whatever in the minds of many 
experts, that there are a number of such places as the Treadwell mine yet to be 
found, the great difficulty of prospecting in the dense, deep mass of fallen tim¬ 
ber covered with wet moss and thick’ underbrush on the steepest mountain 
sides, coupled with the little probability of the Treadwell being an isolated case 
in such a uniformly Alpine country, amply justifying them in coming to such 
conclusions. A visit to the mines is one the tourists can readily make. At 
Juneau we find the Takoo band of T’linkits in a village near by, where nearly 
all that has been said regarding Alaskan Indians may be here repeated. The 
