The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1897, Page 1

- —- " VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 51, SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILD RUSH 10 FHE OF THE NORTH Thousands Passing Through Seattle on the Way to the Klondyke. | MECCA i i PASSAGE BY STEAMER IS NOW EAGERLY Men of All Classes to SOUGHT. | Join the Pilgrimage to| the Yukon in Quest of Gold—Large | Otrders Received for Outfits. l SEATTLE, Wasx., July 20.—Klondyke, | in the golden land of the midnight sun, | continues to be the Mecca to which count- | less thounsands are going. They are pass- | ing through Seattle, the great gateway which ever swiogs outward toward Alaska, one of the Nation’s mammoth | treasure-boxes. “Yukon and Klondyke” | is their crv. Gold, gold, precious gold is | the incentive. From the four quarters of | this broad land, all in quest of money, | easy money—that which millions seek and | but few find—they come. They are com- | gz in on gravel-trains, those who cannot | d better comforts of travel, and pass | over the northern waters as stovaways | and coal-heavers. Many, of course, are | able to secure—at least until they reach | Alaskan shores—better accommodations, ! the comforts, in fact of a thoroughly first- | class passage, until the Alaskan shoresare reached, where, in a sense, all fall to a | common level. | From Dyea to the golden district there | is no class distinction, though the horde | of gold-seekers comprises, in addition to | tbe meek and lowly, ex-Governors of States and men who have enjoyed social | and political distinction, of ‘wealth and! affluence. Seattle is caring for the eager | throng in passine as best she ean. Many | of her own citizens, fully 300, have de- | parted for the famed district since the | publication, a few days since, of the all | but 1ncredible news concerning the Kion- dyke richness. Ofhers are going, and many more want to go. Add to these those wno come here from afar to take | steamers, and the feverisn excitement consequent on their ming.ing together, | their discussion of the trip and their hur- ried preparations for the long journe the anxiety, the care and all, conglomer- ate though it may be, presentsa picture most interesting to behold. is one such as is seen but once in a lifetime. Bince the days of 49, if then, indeed, the like of it has not been known The veterans of those stirring times de- light in recalling the exciting incidents attendant upon the rush to California then in comparison with the experiences in a similar effort of the chief characters of to-day. The wholesale supply houses of Seattle are receiving orders from such cities as New York, Pniladelphia, Chicago, Cin- cinnati and Bt. Louis, asking if they can outfit for the Klondyke bodies of from 100 to 500 men. Louch, Augustine & Co. have received a number of such orders, | and in this connection some wildly exag- | gerated stories are being told. Yet there | connection | lamette, and the steamer Islander has al- is more or less foundation for them. One | current was to the effect that Schwabacher Brothers received a London cable to-day asking them to prepare outhts for 2000 | Englishmen who were about to start from | the metropolis of the world to what| promises to be the greatest goid-produc- | ing distriet. C. E, Neufelder, local manager of the | house, when asked for a confirmation of | the report, stated that no such cable had | been received by the Seattle house. An-| other rumor declared that Louch, Augus- tine & Co. had received anorder to prepare outtits for iwelve hundred New Yorkers. | Mr. Augustine, when questioned as to the truthfulness of the report, said that his firm was daily receiving such orders from | all over the conntry, but not to the extent | of twelve hundred men at a time. He added, however, that his advices in this convinced him that Seattle | wou!d, within a few days, be flooded with ! Eastern Klondykers. That there is an as- tounding stream of humanity passing through this city to the Klondyke dig- gings isshown from the fact that between now and August 2 the ateamships Queen, Mexico, Portiand, Al-Ki and City of | Popeka, and on which every available first-class passage has been engaged and with but a very few steerage berths re- maining will sail for Alaska, nine-tenths of their passengers being bound for the Yukon. For those vessels alone over 1500 tickets | have been engaged, and it is probable | that the Northern Pacific will place the steamers City of Kingston and City of Seattle on the-Alaska routs within a fort- night. The Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany likewise talks of adding the Wii- :eady been engaged to sail from Vic- OT! The steamer Portland, which was to have sailed to-day for St. Michaels to con- nect with the Yukon R ver boats of the | orth Anerican Transportation and Trad- ing Company, will not get away until Thursday. Sheislyingat the Schwabacher | dock, and & great zang of men is actively | engaged in getting the cargo aboard. The | steamer will have every pound of freight | she can carry. | Her capacity is about 1200 tons. The cargo consists principally of provisions, and of that the greater portion is bacon, | hams and different forms of packea pork. | There is quite a large amount of flcur,i beans and rice. Nearly 100 barrels of | whisky and 108 barrels of beer go through | to the Northwest Territory by special per- ’ mission of the Treasury Department. The | | the cause is unexplained. | serious doubt. | end for a guarantee. | make two trips and expects to get goods | can pay goodly sums should they choose. | nearest point. | Fischer Brothers sailed yesterday for St. | chinery, for Captain Frank Worth’s Yu- | he is ready and wi ) oo’ P R beer is furnished by the Seattle Brewing and Malt Company. Among other things going north is a Westinghouse electric light plant. A shipment of window-sash for St. Michaels, to be used by the company, also goes. At first the company gave a guarantee to al!l passenzers to furnish them outfits for specified prices, at the same time refusing to carry any freight and only 150 pounds of baggage limited to wearing apparel. This zuarantee 1s now wit' drawn and Whether it means a probable shortage of sipplies or a big advance in price remains a matterof But the explanation of the company is said to be that it has reached | the limit of the amount allowed at this | The Portland will | up to the river from both of them. She has no more room for first-class passen- gers and can accommodate only about ten more steerage. Some of the passengers are men who go north to buy gold claims rather than pro-pect for them, and a few The steamer Mexico, sailing Sunday for Dyea, already has every passenger booked | that she can carry. The Queen, going Friday, this morning bad room for a few second-class, but touches at Juneau as the The Topeka, for the 28th, is nearly sold, and already men have secured passage for the Al-Ki, August 2. The schootier Michaels. She has thirty-five tons of | freight, including merchandice and ma- kon River steamer and carries a number of passengers. John F. Miller,a lawyer and an ex- Prosecuting Attorney of this county, was one of the many gold-hunters Seattle sent to the Klondyke last spring. Writing to his wife from Dawson City under date of June 14 Miller says: “I have now written quite at length | regarding the trip and its featnures, and, | by the way, I may say that no one has any right or ought to underiake it unless ing to put up with anything or everything, at all times, and undergo any and all kinds of hnrdship.; privation and exposure. Now, as to the | country. Well, as far es the wealth is concerned, the half has not been told. But, like everything else, the few have it | and the many are looking, looking and hunting — the same o!d story. Many | claims have yielded $60,000, $80.000 and $100,000 from last winter's work. One Continued on Second Page. Width of Clacm 8Boffeet frem Rim Rock o Rtmn Rock Frontage on Creek Soofeet Ground avove Bed Rock ¢s always frozen A SECTION ACROSS THE GULCH ON CLAIM NO. 9, EL DORADO CREEK. This shows the surface and one of the four holes eight feet square sunk to “bedrock,” from which $40,000 in flaxseed: £nd nugget gold was taken, with depih, character and yield of the several strata worked through. the men did not waste time on panning out the 16-foot layer which only paid from 70 cents tc $2 per pan, but direc'ea all their efforts to taking out the dirt to get at what the richer strata below was holding tor them. of 500 others from the mouth to the head of the creck, which, though varying slightly in thickness of the upper layer and the depth to bedrock, were generally uniform as to the rich “pay sireak’ oa the bottom next to the bearock vertccal Scale Y Feet o One Inch HorizontalScale /OFeet U One lnck ELOORADO CREEN 9 Feet of Fine ana Coarse Paid from Defeth Unkrown net returns per superficial foot of area of the shaft. /6 Peet o7 Gravet Mired With Sand Peccd from 5o 10?290 Per Par #2¢0 t2 ¥5%¢ Per Pan /4 Feet of Pine Gravel veraging #/35 Per Pan Bed Rock. Sacd lo te Shate Cravel It may be said that ‘A'ois snaft is but a samole and n the trip without & murmur, notwithstanding | the Klondyke, and if they do as well as a walk of 700 miies over vast ice fields and great mountaing is one to try the courage of strong men. Bu Mrs. Berry never faltered, and not only reached Foriy-Mile safely, but went to keeping house for h-r the ome just returned the name of Berry bids fair to rank with those of Rockefeller and Gould. He also has a daughter who is the wife of a man named Smith, who recently came down from the same coun- Faced the Rigors of a Winter in the Frozen North. BARNATO THE ICH KLONDYE Arrival of Clarence J. Berry and Brave Wife. FORTUNE GAINED IN THE FAR NORTH. Success of a Venturesome Wedding Journey to the Great Yukon. ATTRIBUTES HIS LUCK TO HIS COURAGEOUS BRIDE. Brings More Gold Th:n Any Other Man and Has Prospects for Milllons. The Barnato of Klondyke, by name Clarence J. Berry, arrived in San Fran- cisco yesterday morning from Seattle ana is now one of the most talked of men in California. Berry is supposed to have brought out more gold than any other one man and is saia to own more mining prop- eriy than any one in the district. Berry | is a modest-appearicg young man of about | 30 years of age and i1ved most of his life in the San Joaquin Valley and until he went up to the Yukon in February, 1896 had ncver known very much of the good things of this world. But Mr. Berry isa gentleman of some business ability, as he has proven, and ex- pects to be a millionaire before he is very much older. And Mr. Berry does not take all the credit of having made more than $100,000 in less than a year, but mod- estly says that the responsibil.ty for h s good jortune may be attributed to his wife more than to bimself. Theirs is in- deed a strange story. Not many young people would chioose a trip to the wild and unexplored regions of Alaska for a honey- moon journey. Yet this is what thes two did. In Fresno County in February 1896, Mr. Berry married Miss Ethel Bush, tbe danghter of 8 well-known resident the little town of Selma,and immedi t-ly they started for the goldfields of # Jaska. However sanguine their dreams of found wealth may have been, they huv been more than realized. From Juncu ‘to Forty-Mile they journeyed, the brid. bearing the unavoidable hardships of 1 ¢ husband as soon as they arrived, At this place they did not meet with much suc- cess, and when the news came that George Cormack, or Carmike, as some of the men from Klondyke spell it, had struck gold on Bonanza Creek Mr. Berry, without a moment’s hesitation, started for the new discoverv, taking all the provisions he could carry in a little boat which he pur- chased. He was not destined, however, to reach the new district ahead of his wife, for svon after he started Mrs. Berry came to the conclusion she did not like life alone at Forty-Mile, and, woman like, acting upon the impulse, she packed all their house- hola goods and took the first steamer in the direction her husband had gone. She overtook him and they proceeded to the diggings together. Arriving there, they metayoung man named J. O. Clements, also a Californian, and Mr. Berry provided Clements and a man named Antone with agrubstake. In a short time all three had made their fortunes. Mr. Clements arrived here on Monday, and to-night he had the pleasure of seeing his wife for the | first time since he left for Alaska. She | came up on tne train from Los Angeles, and the reunited couple seemed as havpy | as two mortals couid well be. Berry furnished several men with grub- stakes and each outlay netted him a 1aar- velous re'urn, and it is said that he brought down $130,000, At the Grand, where he is stopping, he was besieced with visitors, and lust evening many peonle called at the hotel just togeta look at the richest man from Klondyke. Mr. Berry was very good-natured, how- ever, and did not seem to resent the con- stant intrusions upon his privacy. Neither his wife nor himse.fshowsany evidences oi their hazardous and exciting experiences. Referring to the extent of the discoveries on the Klondyke and tributaries Mr. Berry said: »It is impossible to place any estimate upon the country, other than to say that it is the richest in the world. I donot think that anything has ever been discov- | -ered ‘which cin be compared to it OF | course, I am enthusiastic about it. Who wouldn't be? The distriet has not begun to be explored yet; that is, there are thousands of acres of ground which no one has yet visited, and each report seems to promise more than its predecessor. There is room for a great number of men, out they should not start for the country until spring, because it will be almost im- possible to get provisions there this win- ter, and if the counfry fills up what are the people going to live on. Yes, there is plenty of moss there, but that won’t go much further than scenery toward keep- ing a man’s stomach full, “I think there is a good demand for abor there, but Iam not advising any one t0 go on tbat account because it would hardly pay a man to go all the way to that country to work by the day, although I have never paid less than $15 a day.”” Mr. Berry’'s father and Mrs. Berry’s sister came up from Fresno to meet the foriu- nate young people. Mr, Berry Sr. seems to be more elated, if possible, than hisson, anl when questioned last evening in re- & > his con’s newly acquired wealth said, “Yes, it’s true, all true, and there’s even more to it than people know about, und you ean bet I'm as giad over 1t as anyhody. No, I never thoucht Clarence would come back with as much as he has, but he's got it and there’s no mistake bout that.” : Mr. Berry has two other sonsnow ir | and last evening. try. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Berry evi- dently intend to make up for their long period of enforced privation, for packages addressed to the fair bride from local houses dealing in ladies’ wear kept arriv- ing at their hotel all yesterday afternoon Mr. Berry says the ex- act amount he brought down is $84,000, but that this sum represents only a amalil amount of his wealth and ‘he would be a rich man if he never retirned to Alaska, which he intends doing in the spring. It is not likely, however, that his wife will accompany him then, as the incentive to acquire wealth has now been removed. On the train with Mr. and Mrs. Berry came several mere of the party brought down by the Portland. One of them, a man named McKenzie, tells of the biggest pan yet washed. He says he got some- thing over $350 from one pan. He ex- plains the fact ‘that the Kiondyke dig- gings cac only be worked in the winter season by saying that there is so much surface water in t.e summer, when the ice thaws somewhat, that it filis the holes as fast as the miners can dig them, and Jor that reason they wait until the ground is thoroughiy frozen before beginning operations, It is then so hard that every foot of it hus to ve *‘burned” befors a pick can be driven into it. Great fires are made of the fir wood and when the ground bas been warmed suffi- ciently itis dug out and piled up for wasuing. He says the whole country is cov red with a iayer of moss and ice, the ice being between the moss and the earth. As bearing upon the question of the amount of money taken out by miners of which there is no record he tells of an incident which happened when the steamer Portland was at St. Michaels ready to start on her vovage to Seattie. The river steamer Ware was also lying at St. Michaels, naving just come down the Yukon. The passengers had mostly got on board the Portland and were scatiered about her decks awaiting the signal to ‘'cast . ff’’ when attention was atiracted to a miner coming up the gang- plank from the Ware. He carried on his back the usual roll of blankets ana stag- gered as though supporiing a great welght. As there was nothing but the blankets in sight the passengers began to wonder wkat caused the man's peculiar actions. As he reachied the deck of the Portland some one cailed to him, insinuating that he carried a larger load internally than upon his back. With a grunt the man threw the roll of blankets down, and un- strapping them exposed to the astonished crowd over forty poands of gold dust and nuggets tied up in a canvassack. ‘This great treasure he kept in his possession all the way down, and it is one of the con- signments of which the books of the Port- land make no mention. Last everinga party of miners went through Chinatown, while some of them went to the various theaters. They area much better looking lot of men since they have donned new clothes and seem to en- joy their return to civil:zation. The Berry family will remain in the City a few days before going to Fresno, and Papa Berry says he don’t care much what they do now since everything has turned out so well for them. 8ir John Char.es Bucknill Dead. LONDON, Exe, July 20.—S8ir John Charles Buckniil, ons of the founders of the volunteer movement in 1859, is dead. He was 1n his eightieth year. PLENTY GOLD 0N DR SIDE All the Precious Metal Not in British Ter- ritory. RICH FINDS ON UNCLE SAM’S SOIL. Discoveries in Alaska That May Soon Rival the Klondyke. NEWS OF GOOD PROSPECTS IN THE NORTH. But Better Transportation Faclll= tles Are Required to Develop the Country. News was brought down by the late arrivals from the Yukon of rich discoveries on the Alaskan side of the National boundary line that may rival those on the Cana- dian side. Though on the line of Yukon steamer travel, the boats ply se infrequently that as yet only meager returns are to be had, but the older Yukon men among the Excelsior’s passengers look for news by the next steamer that will make Minook and American as familiar to the ear as El Dorado and Victoria or Hunker. There is a growing demand for increased facilities for reaching our northern Ophir, In the broad glare of achieved results on the Klondyke two very late but important finds on the west side of the boundary have been overshadowed. Peop.e’s eyes have been so dazzled hy the great piles of the “single-standard” basis and their ears so tuned to everything that sounded of Klondyke, Bonanza, El Dorado, that such mild and new names as American and Minook have found no-lodement except with cooler heads, whose experience in the vast possibilities of the great Yukon besin has taugit them that nature’s re- sources were not exhausted in the north when the deposits were made on the British tide of the bonndary line, and that while Forty-mile and other earlier discoverias are among the lower rounds as far as comparative returns for work put in goes, Klondyke is not assuredly the cli- max of fabulous finds, or the hi h-water mark of the flood of fortune for all time to come. ‘While all steps are now directed to the British side of the national boundary line it is notonly among the possibilities, but well up and firmly fixed among the proba- bilities, and of the very near future, too— perhaps this current season —that our hitherto aimost despised—except by the fishers and fur-hunters—and still much- neglected Russian purchase will discover some of the unreckonable stores of wealth that all indications show she undoubiedly hoids near the surface and deeper down in her broad bosom. The steamer which brought down to St. Michaels the battalion of lucky Klondyke miners, with their tons of dust and nug- gets, also brought the news of two very recent aiscoveries below Forty-mile Post, in Alaskan territory. They were still too young to bear comparison with the sev- eral months’ work in the Canadian field, but enough had been uncovered to hold many of the old and experienced men who know a reai good thing when they see it, in spite of all they heard of Ei Dorudo and Bonanza and all they saw of their ready yieldings. This confidence in what they had un- der had aroused the attention of sev- eral of the treasure- en passen on the steamer, and close 1nvi gation leads them to believe that but tor the good start the Klondyke had already secured and the unwillingness of people to hear of going anywhere else, un- til they had seenm ‘‘bedr.ck” on some partof that ficld, the rush would have been to American and Minook creeks as well as to the Klondyke. As it is, many have gone there and others are stopping on the way up from 8t. Michgels, and the next steamer that comes down will doubtless have big news of rich returns in those quarters. There is, however, no telegraph to that country, not even a rail- road, though one a little over half as long as those which carry miners from the coast to the far Transvaal fields, or from Perth to Coolzardie, would take our peo- ple from Prince Wiliam Sound, on the Southern Ala<kan coast, and land In the Heat Of summer the blood must be kept pure and the stomach and digestive organs in a healthy condition. Otherwise there is great danger of sudden illness which may lead to proiracted suffering. Hood's Sar- saparilla is just the medicine for this sea- son, as it gently tones the stomach, puri- fies and enriches the blocd and gives vigor and vitality. It wards off malaria and protects the system from warm weather ailments. 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