The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1896, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. APRIL 13, 1396. GOLD AND COAL N FAR ALASKA, Wondrous Mineral Wealth of the Cooks Inlet Country RICH PLACER DIGGINGS. | Turnagain Bay the Mecca of the Fortune-Seekers This | Season. ! VAST COAL FIELDS LOCATED. Big Veins in Sight Over an Area of Twenty - Five Thousand Square Miles. Gold-seekers and coal-miners to the number of ninety or more left this City | direct for the newly heralded placer dig- gings and coal fields of Alaska Friday. They sailed on the bark Theobald, char- | tered by the North Pacific Mining and Transportation Com pany, and will be car- | ried almost direct to their ultimate destina- tion—Turnagain Bay anc Coal Bay, arms of Cooks Inlet. On the Theobald also went Freeman H. Curtis, the superintendent of the com- pany named and who was recently ap- pointed Postmaster at Seward, Coal Bay, Cooks Inlet, Alaska, the most remote post- office of the United States. Mr. Curtis is an expert mining engineer and was for | eighteen months continuously located at the coal mines of the company, which are | but 100 miles from the placer gold dig- | ngs on Turnagain Bay, recently brought | £o prominently to the attention of the | people of the coast and for which section numerous vessels are now fitting out at Puget Sound and other ports. While Mr. Curtis is more familiar with the coal fields and their prospects his re dence, so close to the gold mines, has ena- | blea him to secure much interesting and | valuable information relative to them. He | stated the course of an nterview that the placers were not as popularly be- lieved, located on Cook’s Inlet proper, but on an arm of that body of water, formerly | known as Resurrection Bay, but now called Turnagain Bay. Into this there run numerous creeks, and 1t _is near the mouths of these that the gold is found in quantities. on is glacial and_the gold, it is brougnt down with the detritus d by the slowly mo Ice in their course from the mountain tops, re known to be rich in gold-bea z. The innumerable a cinity and profitable work for the pros. All the creeks, according to Mr. Curtis, carry both coarse and fine gold in large quantit t season, he said, there were about 200 men there, who took out from $500 to $15,000 per man. Of this | number eighty-four wintered there and sent repres ives down to Puget Sound and San Francisco for additional supplies. It is expected that there will be not less than 2000 there this year. Many who con- | templated going to the Yukon country | have changed their plans and will head | for Turnagain Bay. It is not asserted thatthe Turnagain Bay placers are any richer than those of the Yukon, but the greater attraction to Turnagain Bay lies in the fact that it is | pessible to carry on overations there for | about five months in the year, whilein | the Yukon country the open period ranges | from six weeks to two months only. In Turnagain Bay the ice begins to move about the 1st of May or shortly thereafter, | Danicl Defoe Jr., a Remote Descendant of the Famous Novelist, Who *“ Robinson Crusoe.” Says He Does Not Care Much for variety, being suitable for all domestic pur- | poses and also for all kinds of stationary engines, including marine. “There is sure to be increasing develop- ment in the coalfields on Katchemak Bay from now on. There are about 2500 square miles of them and all extremely r As an example. there are at least 100 veins i sight within fifteen miles. “‘Our company has about eight miles frontage on Coal B and an_area com- prising 4000 acres. We have taken out but little coal up to the present time, as most | of our work has been confined to develop- ing the mines. We have been at work now for about two years, have expended about | $60,000, and have had an average of fiity | men employed. The operations being car- | ried on mo: underground, we have been able to keep the men at work through- out the year. “Now in the matter of climate. This1s | aregion that is influenced by the Japan current. The average temperature during December, January, February and n last was 30 degrees above zero. The min mum during the winter was 18 below zero, | while the average during the summer was | 55 above. | *We have brought two cargoes of coal down here and found no difficulty in dis- posing of them. The product was found hignly satisfactory and we anticipate no trouble in marketing all that we get out. No attempt has beep made to create a mar- ket for our coal, as we will not take it ont Map Showing the Gold and Coal Mines on Cooks lulet. The Biackened Portion at | €Onsists of a curbing 10 inches high, which the Point Between Cooks Inlet and Kachemak Bay Shows the Location of the | ©Xtends from a few feet forward nearly | Vast Coal Beds. Copper. /(”""g S UGt A i and the Theobald will therefore land her passengers there just about when the | season opens, as the voyage is expected to | take about twenty-five days. The gold- | seekers will be carried to Coal Bay, the | site of the North Pacific Mining and Trans- | sortation Company’s works, by the Theo- | {,uld, and thence taken by the company’s | steam launch up Cooks Inlet to the en- | trance to Turnagain Bay. Mr. Curtis is most enthusiastic regard- | ing the climate ana natural resources of | this whole section of Alaska. Speaking | thereof he said: “That section of territory a field for investment as any in this little- | known possession of the United States. It is a aisappointing place so far as climate is concerned, for it is in what is known as the warm belt of Alaska, and the charac- teristics of its seasons are very similar to those of places in 40 aegrees north latitude in this country. “‘Both goid and coal have been known to | be there for some time, but it is only with- 1 isas promising in the past two or three years that any particular attention has been paid to de- | veloping those interests. The coal pros- | pects give great promise, because of both | the quality and quantity of the veins. The supply is virtually inexhaustible. It is of the Scotch splint and English cnnne)] £ | in large quantities nntil our planc is thor- | oughly in shape and the work of develop- | ment well under. way. This will soon be | the case. In Alaska alone there are about | 40,000 tons of ecoal consumed annually. | The Government uses about 15,000 tons, | the canneries about 20,000, and about an- | other 5000 tons are needed for domestic | and other minor purposes. This coal now goes there from here and from the Sound | ports. That we will be able to control the market fer the kind of coal we will have to | offer I am sure, for this coal is now selling | for $8 a ton, and we can afford to sell our | product for $4 a ton and make a fair | profit.” i According to the opinion of George R. | Tuttle, as the result of investigations made in this region as an expert mining engineer, it is the poor man’s land. It abounds in all kinds of game and the waters are filled with fish of all kinds, i cluding mussels and gther edible shellfi The climate, he declared with enthusiasm, was one of the most remarkable he had ever enjoyed. The amount of hard work he was able to perform without serious fa- | tigue was simply wonderful. There was a bracing quality to the atmosphere that made existence a joy. Snakes are believed not to hear well. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Rl Baking [ Powder ABSOLUTELY. PURE | San | atter a series of perilou | chanic, he built the present craft at Morro 6 feet beam, 3feet deep and is fitted with a | boat about like a feather in the wind, but TWO IN AN OPEN BOAT, Perilous Trip of the Sloop Mack All the Way From San Luis Obispo. | them SOME VERY NARROW ESCAPES. | An Encounter With the Gale That Wrecked the Elairmore Off Pigeon Point, R. S. Eaton and C. Church, two young | men from Morro, a little town a few miles north of San Luis Obispo, have just fin- ished a noteworthy and very perilous feat in navigation. In a twenty-foot sloop, only three feet deep, but illy fitted up for even small cruises in the bay, these adventurous voung men sailed fro Francisco, San Luis Obispo to | arriving here vesterday | and exciting ad- ventures. The purpose of this 200 miles voyage by sea, in what is practically an open boat, | was to gain neither notoriety nora T. Church, the older of the two, is a married man with three children. He had met | with reverses at home; work and money | alike were scarce, so he set out to seek—if not his fortune, at least a living—in the new gold fields of Alaska. He exvects to do boating for hire in the northern waters, and perhaps some prospecting on the side. Lacking the necessary funds with which to purchase a boat, and being a good me- and sailed her to this port, where she will be shipped to Alaska on the steamer Al- bion, which sails Tbursday. His companion came along simply to | help him out on the trip, and will return home by the next steamer. The boat, which is named the Mack, is 20 feet overall, 18 feet on the water line, | steel centerboard 4 feet high and 5 feet long. She is stanchly built, her entire frame | being of oak, and her only upper works | | aft, making her practically an open boat. | For ballast she carries pigiron placed be- | neath the floor. Her spread of canvas is as follows: Boom 1934 feet, hoist 12 feet, gaff 8 feet and a small working jib. What makes the trip a'l the more re- markable is the fact that the boat_had no sooner taken her initial dip into the water | from the stocks than the mast was | stepped, sails beat, provisions stored and | the men were off on their risky trip. | They rowed a mile out from land, when | sail was hoisted for the first time. Theyi had yet to learn how she would act under | her spread of canvas and whether she | was tight or leaky, but they adjusted their | compass, got the charts out and were ready to meet the worst—which was not long in coming. The first dav out they encountered a stiff northwester that tossed the little she managed to maintain her equilibrum, and, as the storm became more boister- ous, they squared away and made for port San Simeon, which they reached in safety. They made no more stops after leaving San Simeon until they reached Monterey Bay, where they put in and replenished their stock of provisions. After leaving Monterey Bay their trou- bles began afresh and were enough to quail the nerve of the bravest. While scudding along under fuil sail, to astiff breeze, the throw halyard carried away and the mainsail became useless. To remedy this it was necessary to climb the slender mast and reef a new rope through the block. While one of the men was aloft fixing the tackle a heavy swell struck the side of the boat, and the man’s weight on the mast caused the craft to careen over until she became almost filled with water. The sun was sinking in the horizon and | in the distance were the outlines of a | s | ceived the warrant of an apprentice in the steamer bearing down on them. They had no lanterns aboard to signal | to the vessel, and their sail was out of order. Darkness was rapidly approaching and the lights of the steamer kept getting nearer and nearer. They whipped out their oars and com- menced rowing for dear life to get out of the course of the steamer, but they were badly handicapped by their boat being full of water, and when the steamer passed she was not more than 200 feet away. “It wus a close shave,” smd Eaton, in speaking of the trip yesterday, “but we were placed in a still more perilous posi- tion later on. “When off Pigeon Point e ran into the storm that sunk the Blairmore in the bay. We had only the jib set, and a 200-pound rock attached to a long rope was payed out to keep the boat up to the wind. It was very squally and the waves were as big as mountains and seemed to be com- ng in three or four different directions. “They kept continually breaking over the boat, and our bedding and ourselves were soaking wet. The boat was rapidly filling. Then all of a sudden three huge waves, | each coming in a different direction, met underneath the boat and fairly raised it out of the water. She dropped with a thud down between two waves, but owing to the centerboard she still maintained her upright position. “It was a trying ordeal, but we both kept our heads, and by careful maneuvering we came through in safety. “No, neither of us ever sailed along the coast before. We steered by our compass, and got our bearings by charts with places on land in the daytime, and at night we could tell where we were by the lighthouses along the coast. It was my first trip to sea, but Church is quite a navigator, having sailed on the lakes and around San Lunis Obispo. We cooked on an oil-stove, and one handled the boat while the other slept. *We were five days in making the trip, ‘and in the daytime kept close inshore and at night we steered well off to be out of reach of any snags. ‘“Ali the way up it was exceedingly cold, and at times we became so benumbed that we conldn’t pull on a rope.” The little boat is now lying in the placid waters of Mission Bay, and resembles very much a small fishing-boat. Company C Holds a Wake. Compeny C, League of the Cross Cadets, held & wake last night in the armery at 155 New Montgomery street, over a dummy corpse, bearing the inscription, “Company C, died April 10, 11 ». ., of Judgé’s decision on the brain.” This company had held the champion- ship for the competitive drill since 1895, and feels disappointed over losing it to Company G at lmo Mechanies’ Pavilion last Wednesday night. omparing our | | has become perso i | | seeds is hardly to my taste. THE ARRIVAL OF DANIEL. DEFOE JR, He Is the Great Great Great Grandson of the Novelist. A SAILOR APPRENTICE. The Last of Four Brothers, All of Whom Were Given the Same Name. DOESN'T LIKE ROBINSON CRUSOE Has Read the Famous Bock Once, but Prefers Those of Captain Marryatt. Those who have threaded the delightful pages of ‘‘Robinson Crusoe’” and read the despairing lines of Alexander Selkirk, the monarch of his sea-girt isie, will hear with interest that a great-great-great-grandson of Daniel Defoe is here. His rame is Daniel Defoe. He is an apprentice-boy on board the British ship Bass Rock, which arrived in this port last Tuesday. The young sailor is 20 years of age and the last scion of the family whose name was made illustrious by the great political writer and novelist. So anxious was his father, who was also christened Daniel, to perpetuate the name that the oldest son was given it. Nor did the effort stop at that, for the second boy was called Daniel Defoe Defoe. And still the name went on, for the third son was christened Daniel Defoe. The spectacle of three living brothers bearing almoest the same name was a re- markable one. However, they died in their early childhood and the family title was again in jeopardy, as the remaining three children were girls. In their old age a fourth son was born to the Defoes, and he was given the name of his great-great- grandfather, of his father and of his dead brothers. Daniel Defoe—many times—Jr., being left an orphan at sn early age, was ed- ucated at the celebrated *‘Bluecoat School” at Christ’s Hospital, London. He re- merchant service and visited this port in the British ship Prior Hiil in 1890. During bis five or six years of sea life young Defoe has been in many parts of the world and lly known to the read- ers of his celebrated ancestor wherever the English language is spoken. “The press both in England ard abroad have written me up pretty thoroughly,” said he in an interview yesterday. ‘A year or two ago, when I came home, I saw that Daniel Defoe, the grandson of the great novelist, like Robinson Crusoe, had returned from foreign lands and would appear in some enfertainment. Some shrewd fellow was evidently faking my name for his show. “f once visited San Juan Fernandez island and while ashore on that aimost barren place tried to understand what my great-great-great-grand-dad found in Alex- ander Selkirk’s adventures to inspire the Robinson Crusoe yarn. I read the book once and I can’t say that [ admireq it much. No, that novel didn’t send me to sea.” Captain Marryatt did that for me. | His characters are much more to.my taste than ‘Man Friday’ and the goats and par- rots of my relative. *Chopping out canoes from tree-trunks and raising fields of barley from a few 1 would rather read ‘Peter Simple.’ ‘Midshipman Easy’ and ‘Jacob Faithful.” However it isn’t quite in good taste and is rather a family disloyalty for Defoe Jr.to speak of Defoe Sr. in this style.” Young Defoe intends to leave the Bass Rock and abandon the sea iife, as his eye- sight is slightly defective. He has served his apprenticeghip and is eligible for examination for an officer's billet in the British mercantile marine, bat is quite sure the Board of Trade be- fore which he must pass will reject him on the ground of color-blindness. “I like this country,” said he, “and would like to make my home in the United States. Possibly I will be able to do so sometime.”” The young fellow is intelligent and shows unmistakable evidences of good birth and breeding. His honesty and sim- plicity is evinced in his naive confession that he hasonly read ‘‘Robinson Cruso’ once and doesn’t much admire the book. Ladies’ Southern ties, $1 49, toe. Ryan &R e Miss Bowes’ Debut. Miss Carrie Bowes’ will make her first ap- pearance in concert since her return from Europe at the Auditorium next Thursday evening. She will be accompanied with an enlarged orchestra. all shades, every 10 Mongomery avenue, * The Sloop Mack, Which Reached This Port Yesterday Aftcr a Perilous Trip From San Luis Obispo, and the Men Who Manned Her. [Sketched from life by a “Call’* artist.] | on London Bridge a big handbiil stating | NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. LINENS! S - LINENS! 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