Champaign County OhArchives News.....Activities in Alaskan Gold Mines Described November 2, 1916
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The Saint Paris News-Dispatch November 2, 1916
From Long, Alaska, Sept 11, 1916

Dr. C. Jones,
Dear Father;
I suppose you have given me up for dead, not having received a letter from me 
for a long time but I have been very busy this summer working day and night. 
Then I have been so undecided about next winter, whether to visit St Paris or 
take out a dump. We should have plenty of water in the spring to work up a big 
dump and if we block out the ground this winter and take it out next summer, we 
will be short of water as we are depending on a small creek here for water to 
sluice with. We have been short of water all summer. There has been only 8 days 
all summer that we have had a full sluice head. In about 10 days more, we will 
be through this block and it has not been very good. We have handled lots of 
bedrock this summer. We have 20 men on the pay roll and when we are through we 
will have taken out about 40,000 square feet of bedrock from one shaft. We lost 
one working shaft. It was 7 feet square and we were down 82 feet about 6 feet 
from bedrock, when we tapped a spring of water that was stronger than we could 
handle. We also tapped water in the shaft we worked from but not so strong and 
I had a pumping outfit in it before it got bad. Live water when you tap it in a 
shaft has a strong pressure back of it. In the one we lost, the water was 
running out of the top in 6 hours. 
I will know within the next two weeks whether I will be in St. Paris next 
winter or stay here and work.  Will write then.
With love,
C.F. Jones


Additional Comments:
Letter from Foster Jones, which was published in the Saint Paris News-Dispatch. 

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