The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1897, Page 1

§ VOLUM E LXXXIL-—NO. 50, SAN FRAN CISCO, TUESDAY MOR NING, JULY 20, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. INEXHAUSTIBLE RICHES OF THE NORTHERN EL DORADO. SEATT ness eq richness of the recent Kiondyke strikes. | For forty-eight hours the telogravh offices | of this city have been thronged by people | sending messages to Kastern friends making a request for sufficient money to get into the new camp. The list of those who have arranged to goincludes not only | clerks and such as work for saiary, but | iness and professional men of recog- ed standing and ability. | “Send me $500. Stake me enough | money to go to Klondyke. News not in the least exaggerated,” is the tenor of the | peal flashed over the wires. Men are g grubstaked in tnis city to an extent | r before thought of and ncver before | ble. Some local houses who are | ¥ to lose trustworthy and well-known employes will be behind them in many cases, while individual men with money at their disposal who by reason of circum- stances cannot go are not slow to outfit | men in whom they can place unbounded | fidence. any amusing instances connected with | vstakes are transpiring. One which actually describe the situnation had its finale this morning early. A well known man, honest but poor, was one of | the first stricken with the desire to go. The information reached a friend Satur- day afternoon and skortly after the two et. “How much do you want?’ in- rea No. 2 of the Klondyke fever pa- be ne qu tient. *I think about §400,” was the re- sponse. ‘‘bee me in the morning; I think I can stake you.” Sunday the two did not meet, but early this morning they did, when No. 2 g e first man a chill ded down the vertebre to the to I guess that matter is No. 2 said. ‘I baveabout decided to go myself, and n man who is inter- ested with me is also g 1 1t must be said that meanwhile noth- occurring which in the least de- scredits the Monte Cristo-like irstsent out from the district. Sab- quent reports not only verify but tend 10 upon the fi accounts. Hon. facIntosh, Governor of the North- , comprising the districts of | atcliewan, Assinniboia and the unorganized districts of the Yukon, Atnabasca and the territory east to Labrador and Hudson Bay, arrived in Seattle' to-day, being en route to Regina, the capital of the Territory. He was seen | at the Rainier Clup,of which he is a gue: this afternoon. When asked for an ex n of his views regarding the great | ict Governor MacIntosh | t Te! we Alberta, all jed: We are only on’ the threshold of the greatest discovery ‘ever made. Gold has been piling up in all these innumerable streams for hundreds of years. Much of the territory tlre foot of man has never trod. It would har be possible for one (U ¢xaggesale the richness, not only of t Klondyke, but other districts in the Cana- dianYukon. At the same time the folly | of thousands rushing in there without | proper means of subsistence and in utter | ignorance of the geographical conditions | of the country should be kept ever in mind. There are fully 9000 miles of these } golden waterways in this section of the Yuxon. Rivers, creeks and streams of {.every size and description are all pos- | “sessed of more or lessgold. 1 derived this | knowledge from many old Hudson Bay explorers, who assured me that they con- sidered the gold-bearing district next to | inexhaustible. “In 1894 1 made a report to Sir John Thompson, then Premier of Canada, and who died the same year at Windsor Castle, ongly urging that the name Yukon should be given to that country by order i council and that a body of Canadian police be established on the r to maintain order. This was done in 1895 and the British outpost of Fort Cudaby was founded. I have known gold to exist there since 1539 consequent upon a report made me by W. Ogilvie, the | Government explorer. +Many of what will ro doubt prove to be as rich or richer streams than the Klon- | dyke have not been explored or pros- pected. Among these I might mention Dominion Creek, Hootalingua River, Stewart River, Liard River and a score ot other streams comparatively uoknown. It is my jud:ment and opinion that the 1897 yield of the Canadian Yukon will ex. | ceed $10,000,000 in gold. Of course asis| the case of the Cariboo and Cassiar dis- tricts years ago, it will be imposs'ble to accurately estimate the full amount taken | out. Thereis now far in excess of $1,000,- | 000 remaining already mined on the Klon. | dyke. It 1s in valises and tin cans and some of it is lying loose in saloors and | just as sacredly guarded there and appa- | rently as safe as though it wasin vaults, +Already this spring we have official knowledge of over $2,000,000 in gold having been taken out of the Klonfl)’k"l et .emptying into the Yukon. | route through Canada which | Basca, st Official Verdfication of the Wonderful Gold Discoveries in the Klondyke District — T'en Million Dollars a Conservative Estimate of What Will Be Taken Out This Year. camps. It was shipped out, as you lino.w', | on the steamers Excelsior ana Portland. Let me cite a little incident or an instance | hewing the gold yield of some of the | Klondyke claims. A iriend of mine went to a dump and was looking it over, and be told me that it bore the appearance of | some ones having taken and poured | bucketfuls of gold nuggets down over the dump. In truth, he said there appeared I to be more goid than dust. Incidentally’ I may say to you that we have data of an official nature which leads us to believe | that the gold output for the Rossland and | Kootenay districts for 1897 will be in excess | of $7,000,000, including the silver yield I‘ should have said, and I have no hesitancy | in asserting that within the course of five | years the gold yield of the three districts | named will exceed that of either Cclorado, California or Sonth Africa.” Governor Maclntosh announced that | the Government is seriously considering | the construction of a railroad into the | Yukon distriet. In fact, he said, it has| several corps of engineers now making | survevs. “One route,” the Governor said, “‘con- templates the operation of a line of steam- ers from Fort Wrangel up the Stickeem R ver, which is open to both countries, under the Washington treaty of some | twenty-five years ago, to Teiegraph Creek. | From Telegraph Creek surveyors are now | endeavoring to ascertain the ieasibility of the construction of a railway line from | 125 to 130 miles to Teslin Lake. The route | extends through scrubby timber, and has | only one or two serious obstacles. Begin- ning with Teslin Lake, boats will be oper- | ated along a series of lakes and rivers that | connect with the Stewart and Pelly rivers It is claimed that no serious difficulties, that is diffi- | culties such as cannot be reasonably over- come, are encountered anywhere along this route. | *1 may say in this connection that the | route I have just described to you would be more than 3000 miles shorter than the | present route by way of St. Michaels and | the Yukon and every foot of it would be | in British territory. There is anotneri has been | found possible. A rezilway extends from | Calgary, Northwest Territory, over 200 | miles. Then there is a trail, and a good | one, from Edmonton to Athabasca, land- | ing in the unorganized district of Atha- | Hudson Bay boats now run over ' Athabasea Luks down flie river of Atha- | basca to the vicinity of McKenzie River, | where it has been found possible with | very easy portages to reach the Porcupine River, and thence down that stream into the Yukon. The Government explorer, Mr. Ogilvie, made an inspection of this | ronte several times, once in 1887, once in 1888, and in 189 and 1891 with Mr. | Dawson, the director-general of geological | surveys. The White horse River route is also considered feasible.” The Governor leaves in the morning for | Victoris, going thence to his capital, Re- | gina. He comes here in reality to see one | of his sons, Who has the fever, safely off | to the Klondyke. Discussing the Stikeem River route the Alaska Mining Record of Juneau in the | 1ssue of July 14 says: | *G. W. Garside returned from Wrangei on the Queen and reports the Canada sur- veyors are and have been at work survey- | ing out the Stikeem rouie for the proposed | narrow-gauge railroad for the Yukon | country. ernment possessed with half the interest | for its northern subjects and the enter- | prise shown by the Canadians, the way to | the greatest gold fields ever known would | be an easy one. But it can bardly be ex- pected that the Government will ever spend a dollar toward ovpening a trail ! when a disposition to even carry the mail is not shown. Where else on this earth | are the citizens treatedeby their mother | country as those of Alaska? Mr. O'Brien. who claims to know the movements of | the Canadian Government anent the Yu- | kon country, says that immediate steps will be taken to establish telegraphic com- munication between Forty-mile ana the nead of Lynn canal via the Dalton trail. This by boat to Victoria will give them a weekly communication which'is so much desired by the people of that tar-away [ away.” r | The Mining Record also announces;that ' “Three distinguished persons in the sport- z world were passengers on the last irip the Queen for Juneau. They were of ¥rank P. Slavin, the champion heavy- | weight boxer of England, who once held the championship of the worl 1; Joe Boyle of Ontario, now chamvion heavy-weight of Canada, and Frank Rapnael of San Francisco, licht-weight champion of the Paafic Coast. 'They are on their wav to the gold fields of the Yukon. where they, like many others, are sanguine of making their little fortunes quietly then re- turning to other lands to enjoy it.” On the hurricane deck of the Al-Ki yes- terday stood a young man with straw hat and bright beardless fuil face, his elbows | planted on the edge of a life raft, his chin resting in his palms, and at his s‘de was a very pretty young woman. Everybody notjced them, but nobody knew that that young wan is the grandson of old John Brown who dicd at Harpers Ferry. Young John Brown is a dentist. He.came to Seattle some six years ago. Dr. Brown practiced dentistry in Seattle, Everett, Salem and several other places and went last year to Cooks Inlet, coming out with the same amount of ge!d as the others. Like his grandfathsr he has not given up, but gees marching on to the gold fields. When living in Everett Dr. Brown once’ made application to J. W. Gunn, then a | In the | midst of the questioning Agent Gunun | Infe insurance agent, for a policy. read from the blank form: “Is your father living 2"’ *“Yes, sir.”’ “Is vour grandfather living?’ o, sir. rom what cause did he die?” ‘‘Executed,” was the answer, without the slightest change of tone or look. Executed, how’s that?” said the ques- tioner, becoming interested, but not read- ing from tie insurance blank. “1 happen to be a grandson of John Opera-house, recently married Miss | Blanche Lamont, a San Francisco vaude- ville performer, and that the people pro- ceeded at once on a wediing tour involv- ing a trip to the Klonayke. While the Alaskan placers are all the talk, Captain Mein of the London Ex- stood that there is also a little quartz paper of that town as saying: “There are 7,000,000 tons of orein sight at the Paris or Treadwell mine on Dougluss lsland.” This would run a 500-stamp mill for cleven years.” i i PORTLAND’ Oregon’s Metropolls May Supply the 50,000 Who Will Rush to the North, PORTLAND, Or., July 19.—Hon. J. B. Montgomery, the millionaire land-owner, to-day handea TuE CALL corresponaent the appended excerpt from a letter from his son Russell on the Klondyke district: ‘‘Here is the golden opportunity for Portland. Our city is staid, steady and a | OPPORTUNITY. I have no doubt at all that 50,000 men will rush into Alaska in the next twelve months. It will not be alone from Ore- gon, California and Washington, but from | every State in the Union. Remember the rush to California in 1850, Why, this will beat it out of sizht. 'I'he argonauts bad to sail around the horn and across the | plains. It took six months. Now they can cross the continent in less than a| week and for a quarter of the sum. The zold placers of the Yukon appear to be tenfold richer than those on the American | River. “I have been examining a United States ploration Company would have it under- | around Juneau, and he is quoted by a | been found on Section 36, between Gig Harbor and Henderson Bay. George Barnaby struck a handful of small nuggets on Saturday afternoon while working on the road, and a dozen placer ciaims have been staked ovt. | mile from Gig Harbor and two miles from Purdy on the Gig Harbor and Springfield road. Several Tacoma and Gig Harbor men who are investigating believe there is paying geld on the section, and will com- mence sluicing at once. The find has diverted some of the excitement over the Klondyke. Others claim it is an attempt to secure valuable school lands through the medium of mineral filings. s Going From New York. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 19.—H. W. Lhmplugh to-day advertised for men to invest $1000 each in a company to go to Klondyke. Afterward he explained his idea was: “To get five or six young fellows to form themselves into an in- corporated company. . Then we will go there by way of Seattle, Sitka Island and St. Michaels and up the Yukon and straight up to Klonkyke. There each little slow, but we get there all the same. | man would work a claim, and make all the money he could.” He said thirty-two satisfactory replies had been received to the advertisementand that the party may start in a few days. 2 o S S RICHEST IN THE WORLD. Six Miners From the Klondyke Tell of the Wonderful Finds of Gold Already Made. A party of six miners direct from the Klondyke reached here yesterday at noon, hayving come down by rail from Seattle. They are C. E. Myers, B. F. Purcell, J. 0. Clements, Charles Leonard, C. Bran- Circle City at Midn’ght on June 20. Brown, who was hanged at Harpers Ferry,” was the quiet answer. “Great Scott!” exclaimed Gunn, ‘you a grandson of old John Brown?” The little insurance agent was speech- less. 0. J. Anderson, writing from Dawson ! City to his brother, G. A. Anderson, says: 1 left Circle City .in March and came up here. Itisa mistake that you are not Were the United States Gov- | hereas the times are good and there is: vlenty of gold. *Chere is going to be lots of work this summer and next winter. Iam making lots of money and will havea good | sack when I come out. Albert has cleaned uv $20,000 in the last two years and has an interest in a mine that he would not seil for $50,000. He will be cut soon and will take a trip to the old country. came up here 1 left a six months’ outfit at the Circle City mines, Iam now making $20 10 $30 a day so cannot afford to 2o back ior a littie thing like that. This is the richest country I ever saw. They are packing the gold dust around, not in their pockets, but on their backs. There are a good many that have made $50,000 apiece since last fall.” Joseph A. Costello, a well-known news- paper man, has resigned his position with the Sezttle Times and will leave Sunday for the Klondyke, accompanied by Mr. Branson and Samuel Archer, also of the same paper. The late Alaska papers announce that Robert Insley, proprietor of the Juneau THE YUKON ORDER OF PIONEERS—Jack McQuestin, the Father of the Camp, Sits in the Middle, With Frank Bowker, Who Has $90,00) in Gold Lust, on the Right, When I} Government map. Itshows a range of mountains from 4000 to 19,000 feet high. Out of these run the Pelly, Klondyke and other rivers. All of them will no doubt furnish rich placer diggings. And then think of the illimitable auriferous rock in these mountains. California has fur- | nished $1,000,000,000 of gold—more than | half from her quartz—and to-day, after fifty years of delving and mining, she produces more gold than any other region in the world. Where will these 50,000 Alaska argonauts be supplied from? Un- doubtedly Portland ought to do it, and she will. We are very deliberate, as I said, but we get there. What will they require? Well, at least 100,000 barrels of flour and an equal weight of meats and groceries. We have the transportation here to do it with. The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company has four steamers in the San Francisco trade. They have been running with a beggarly array of empty berths until the recent reduction to carry- ing people for next to nothing. They could put two of them on and puton the Yukon their river steamers, which I am | told vave been doing charity work for ten years.” e GOING FROM BERKELEY. Party of Ten Men Being Organized at the Coilege Town for Klondyke. BERKELEY, OAv., July 19.—A party of ten men is being organized in the uni- versity town to go into the Klondyke gold fields. Hansford Griffith, a graduate of the University of Virginia and at present a student at Berkeley, is at the head of the scheme. He proposes that each of the party of ten put up $500, to defray tae expense of reaching the gold fields and purchasinga year's provisions and outfitting. They will go by way of Junean and will leave as soon as the party is complete and transportation can be secured. It is proposed that the party remain in Alaska for at least two years. Those who | are strongly considering the provosition made by Griffith are J. C, Berry of the tailoring firm of Mikkelsen & Berry, Charles Graham and A. B. Quackenbush, all of whom are well known in business. Allof those mentioned are young men and are accustomed to roughing it. Two of them will leave wives and families. H. T. Gilbert, an account of whose pro- posed trip to the Yukon was published in a late issue of THE CALL, will leave to- morrow on the Walla Walla for the Tread- well mine, Football Captain Haskell of the Uni- versity of California eleven and Theodore Barnes, one of the university’s crack sprinters, are in Alaska at the present time. They went up early in the vacation for pleasure and to work if they found anything suitable. An intimate student friend of the young men remarked to-day that he believed Haskeil and Barnes would get the Klondyke fever and not re- turn to Berkeley. In 1hat event a new football captain will have to be elected. — . Gold in “(nsmn.ton. TACOMA, WasH, July 19.—Gold has nan and J. J. Halterman. The stories they tell of the fabulous wealth of the dis- trict they have recently left bear out the reports which have been coming in for the past week. They are of the party which came down on the steamer Portland and are the advance guard of twenty-five or thirty of their comrades who are expected here to-day. Myers, who seems to be the leader of the party, is a practical miner of long experi- ence, and says he left Prescott, Ariz., in the spring of 1896, and has been working claim 30 on El Dorado Creek, owned by McDonald & Chappie, for half the profiis. They started in late in the spring, after nearly every one had quit work, and were laughed at by the miners for so doing. The day after commencing work they struck bedrock, and in the next thirty- three days took out $41,000. Mr. Myers says he believes he took from this claim the biggest pan ever washed in the district. From a shovel half full of dirt he got $800. As illustrating the value of the claim and the richness of the dirt he also says that his partner and himself in six hours’ shoveling “cleaned up” three times, and in eack “clean up’’ got $8000. Myers owns claim 51 above Discovery, on Bonanza Creek, which he intends to work next season. Aunother member of the party, J. O. Ciements, is said to have disposed of a claim for $50,000, and has in the safe of the Golden West Hotel a nugget valued at $231. The nugget scems to be about half pure gold, and is a very rich specimen. Charles Leonard has been three years in Alaskn, one of which has been spentin the Klondyke country. In three and a half months’ actual work he says he took The school section is a | out $14,000, He is going back in the spring, and seems to be very well satisfied with the result of his work. 8. F. Purcell is a man about sixty years of age and left his home near St. Luuis in April, 1896, bound for the Yukon. Hedid not reach the Kionayke, however, urtil the 1st of January, 1897, and while he de- clines to state the amount of gold he has brought out with him, says that he sold a half interest in claim No. 28 above Dis- | covery on Bonanza Creek for §21,000, not including the dirt already on ihe dumps and says that he is very well satisfied. As he expresses it the El Dorado and Bo- nanza Creek districts are a golden wonder, but he is of the opinion that the Stewart River country which is about eighty miles above Dawson and which was being explored as he came out, will be found to exceed in richness anything yet discovered. He says there is room for 200,000 men in the mining districts of Alaska without any crowding, but that the suffering this winter will be terrible and characterizes any attempt to reach there this fall as foolhardy. Myers says_ the pay dirt on the claim he has been working is more than 150 feet wide and at least a foot in depth and that he has never taken outa pan which gave less than $1. On claim 27 in the same dis- trict he says thers was a streak eight feet wide and five feet deep which went from $17 to $82 a van. That claim sold for $50,000, and $200,000 would not buy it to- day. Itisowned by “Big’ Alex McDon- ald and James Doughtry. He tells ofa man named Andrew Nelson who made $40,000 for a partner who had given him a grwb stake and had never seen the claim. The largest amount brought down by any one member of the party is placed at between $70,000 and $80,000. Myers built the third house erected at Dawson City, and says the discovery of gold in’49isa mere bagatelle compared to that of the Alaska placers. The men tell harrowing tales of their sufferings and say that the hardships which must be endured in order to exist cannot be exaggerated. Several of the party have not yet recovered from the .scurvy, and all appear to be physically demoralized. Their lust for gold, how- ever, 1s not dimmed, and they areanxious to resume the search for hidden treasure. ‘While wages are very high, said‘one of the claim on shares, for hp hes got to make a great deal of monef to repay him for going to such a country. Lasv winter was a mild one, the thermometer only reach- ing about 70 degrees below zero. During a severe season ‘it frequently goes away down in the eighties. Referring to the amount of dust brought down on the Portland, they say -it is im- possible to make a correct estimate of the total value, as nearly every man. secreted all hecould in his personal effects and clothing. Said one: It would not sur- prise me to know tbat two million dol- lars’ worth of dust and nuggets came into Seattle on thessteamer. ‘With one or two exceptions the men in- tend vemaining in San Francisco until ready to start on their northern journey. Going to the mines the men say the route over the “divide” should always be taken, and in coming out the river route is preferable. One of the men claims to bave lost a satchel in which he had over $1000 worth of walrus ivory, and each of the men has brought down some of the stuff. One beautiful specimen of walrus tusk was shown for which the owner said he paid $5, and which must be worth at 1east $50 or $60. A member of the party tells of the ex- perience of a man who located the claim adjoining his. This man had been in the Alaska mines for more than five years and had been unable to make a ‘‘strike.” At last, becoming disgusted with his luck, he resolved to leave the country. On the day before he was to leave Circle City word reached that place of the Klondyke discovery. He decided to try his luck once more ana immediately started for the new diggings. In three months he had taken out more than $20,000 and is still pegging away, resolved to stay until he has $600,000. A man should not, how- ever, say these gold-seekers from the north, remain in the country more than one season without coming to the world of civilization. By coming out he acquires a new lease of life, as it were, and goes back petter qualified to cope with the hard- ships to which he must submit. “Our greatest privation,” said Mr. Par- cell, “'is the scarcity of fresh meat. A small band of cattle was driven in last fali, and if it had not been for these I think a great many of us would have diea. Any kind of beef brings 50 cents a .no one to take charge of matters, I pound, and at times it is impossible to get it at any price. At an eating-house (it coula hardly be digniiied by the name of restaurant) two fried eggs generally cost $5, and a equare meal would cost more than a day’s wages.”” Charles Brannan owns claim 38 on Bonanza Creek, said to be one of the best- paying properties in that particular dis- trict. The patriarch of the party, B. F. Purcell, who is also one of the most en- thusiastic, says that there is hardly a foot of ground in either the E! Dorado or Bonanza Creck districts which does not carry gold in paying quantities, and that for 300 miles which has been prospected it is the richest country in the worid. *1 do not believe it would be possible to ex- aggerate the wealth to be found there,’” said he, “and the future will add to rather than detract from the marvelous siories already brought from there.”” B g AN “OFFICIAL” REPORT. Dominion Surveyor Ogiivie Has Sent an Account of the Dis- coveries to Ottawa. “*Official’’ information about the Yukon diggings is scarcs and vaiuable, The off- hand stories of lucky prospectors have made up most of the tale to date. A Gov- ernment report of the Kiondyke diggings was published but a short time ago, and it will be read with faith in its reliability. It is by Surveyor William OQgilvie, located at Klondyke, for the Canadian Govern- ment, and it was given out by the Gov- ernment at Ottawa. From this report the following extracts are taken: The name “Klondyke" is a mispronuncia- tion of the Indian word or words Thron-dak or Duick, which means pleniy of fish, irom the fact that it is a famous salmon stream. 1i is marked Tondack on our maps. It joins (ne Yukon from the esst a few miles above the site of Fort Reliance, about fifty miles above Forty Mile. As I have slready intimated, thai | rich placer mines of gold were discovered in (he branches of this stream, 1 believe, was due to the reports of Indians. A white man named G. W. Carmach, who worked with me In 1887, was the first to take advantage of the rumors and locate a claim on the first branch, which was named by the miners Bonanza Creck. Carmach located here late in August, but had to cut some logs for the mill nere to get & few pounds of provisions to enable bim to begin work on his claim, the fishing at Klondyke having totally failed him. He returned with a few weeks’ provisions for himself, his wife and brother-in-law (Indians) and another Indian in the last days of August and immediately set about working his claim. As he was very short of appliances he could only put together a rather defective eppira- tus to wash the gravei with. The gravel itself he had to carry in a box on his back from 30 to 100 feet. Nowithstanding this the three men, work- ing very irregularly, washed out $1200 in eight days, and Carmach asserts with reason that had he proper facilities it could have been d in two days, besi havi eral party, a man bad much better work Pl s b0 s O Dadiida hundred dollars mote gold, which was lost on the-tailings through defective apparatus. When it was fairly established that Bonanga Creek was rich in gold, which took a few days, for Klondyke had been prospected seve eral times with no encouraging results, there was & great rush from all over the country adjacent to Forty Mile. The town was almast deserted; men who had been in a chronic state of drunkenness for weeks were vitched into boats as ballast and taken up to stake themselves a claim, and claims were stake 1 by men for their friends whe were not in the country at the time. All this gave rise to much confliction ana confusion, there being The agent peing umable to go up and attend to the thing, and myself not knowing wnart todo, the miners held a meeting and appointed one ol themselves to measure off and stake the claims and record the owners’ names, for which he got a fee of $2, it being of course understood that each claim-holder woula bave to record his ciaim with the Dominion agent and pay his fee of $15, Iam afraid astate of affairs will developin the Klondyke district that will worry some one. Naturally many squabbles will arise out of those transaciions. Many of the clairs are s8id to be only 300 and 400 feetlong, and of course the holders will insist on gettiug them the full 500, ana it is now probably impossic ble that they can without upsetting ail the claim-holders on the several creeks. So encouraging were the reports irom the Klondyke regions that all the creeks around are practically abandoned, especially those on the head of Forty-mile, in American territory. Miller and Glacier creeks, on the head ol Forty-mile River, which my survey of the 141st meridian determined to be in Canads, were thought to be very rich, but they are poor both in quality and quantity compared with Klondyke. The extent of the gold-bearing section here issuch as to warrant the asserifon that we have here a-district which will give 1000 claims of 500 feet in length esch. Now 1000 such claims will require at least 3000 men to work them properly, and as wages for working in the mines are from $8 to $10 per day, with. out board, we have every reason to assume that this part of our territory willi within a year or two coutain 10,000 souls at least, for the news has goue out 10 the coast and an une vrecedented influx 1s expected next spring. And this is not all, for a large creek called Indian Creek joins the Yukon about midway between Kiondyke and Stewart River, and all along this creek’good pay has been found. All that has stood in the way of working it here- tofore has beenthe scarcity of provisions and the difficulty ot getting them up there even when here. Inaian Creek is quite a large siream, and it is probable it will yield 500 or 600 clalms. Farther south yet lies the head [T} Z IR ol ol Warty 9 \ ] A L AL A O i Yukon Steamer Bella as She Appeared While Clearing in ‘the Spring From Crcle City.