The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1897. pold, and considerable has not yet been marketed. There Las been a good deal of discussion aboul the value of the Klondyke gold, and report has been made that more was paid forit in Seattle than here. What was bought there was bought without as- saying, the quantity was smail and such transactions settie no values. The miners Who have returned are generally disap- pointed at not getting uniformly at least $17 an ounce, and some are waiting jor the Mint to reopen August 1. Secretary Underhill of the Selby Smelting Com- pavy states what is not generally krown bat they pay just as much for unre- fined gold as does the Mint, although they are running a business enterprise, and ex- plains how thisis. Mr. Underhill made the following interesting report on the Klondyke gold in an interview vesterday: *‘We have received about $750,000 worth of the gold. It has come mainly from Bonanza and El Dorado creek Bonanza Creek gold is and that seems to have governed the price up there in trading. The gold from El Doraao Creek varies from $1475 to sbout §$16, the most valuable cowing, it seems, from the upper portions of the creek, three miles above the mouth. reported to come from the lower part is about 750 fine, carrying about one-fourth silver. | “Bonanza Creek dust is better and is about hke some of the lower grade Cali- fornia dust. The bulk of the California gold coming from the regions of the mother lode and the northern part of the State runs from $17 50 to $19 an ounce, bearing from on nth to one-eighth sil- Any quant of it runs $18 and 0 anounce. n Kern and Fresno counties and some other s State the silver brin:s or $13 an ounce. The best Bona k dust brought in . Here orth as it is §17 an ous to usis w d: Net value, $15 50 per ounce; weight before melting, 2015.70 ounces; weight sfter melting, 1960.70 cunces; fine- | ; value alue of gold 2 75; nel , $311 3 charges, $12 value, $31,240 15. “Its the povular idea that we buy gold L We b We the actual vaiues the regular charges of 6 cents an ounce for ref and the cent, or $1 on These are the same as the Mint on unrefined gold. W hen gold is d with us we receive it, melti a bar, chip from the bar and assay. s determine the aciual value of the lent is made within twenty- alloy chargeof.0L of 1 per $10,000. “When gold is taken to the Mint it is melted, assayed and paid for that way. The gold is sent to the refiner and the Mint charge of 6 c 10 pay for the refining pays for the copper alioy for coinage. Tefine the gold and our gold goes dirsct to the coiner, with only the alloy charge n ounce is made @ 5] S o B ® =5 2R oo against it. Our profit is what we save out of the refining charge of 6 cents an ounce. “The idea that the gold could bring more elsewhere than in San Francisco is absurd. I understand that 3 e houses bought some goid without ne at a little higher pric paid, but uniess they got irom Bonanza Creek they wi Those who can’t get 10 Dorado Creek may console themselves with the knowl- edge that it is low-grade stuff anyway. STUDENTS AR ANXIOUS. Uneasiness Concerning Football | Captain Haskell and Sprinter | Barnes. | BERKELEY, Caw, Jul ~The stu | Centsat the State University, especially | the football men, have begun to display some considerable uneasiness over the continued silence of Captain Robert Has- kell of the varsity eleven and Track Man- ager Barnes, who leit Berkeiey early in May for the Alaskan_gold fields. Not a = word has been heard frcm either of them by Coach Charles Nott and Manager Brown. When tbe two young athletes left they said they would return in plenty of time for the ovening of the fall term. worth about $17 an ounce, | That | ement of a deposit of Klon- | one or two | Coilege be gins in a little over two weeks, | and the services of Haskell are much needed to organize both the football and the track teams. While it is believed tkat they wiil either Teturn very soon, or that tbey will send | some message telling of their plans, yet | No. | foot the fact that they have not written and | that thev are in such close proximity to the Kiondyko go!d fields leads many to believe they have caught the fever and pone up the Yukon. As stated in the original announcement in THE CALL the young athletes are supposed 1o have first gone to the bie Treadwell mine for work and studv. Word from them is awaited with fervent anticipation. Hunsford Griffith, the university stu- dent, lawyer and miner, who is at the head of a scheme to raise $10,000 by tax- ng twenty men $500 each and sailing for the Kiondyke region next spring, has eucceeded in interesting quile a number of local as well as S8an Francisco business men. Those who have signified their willigness to join the expedition are: Ed Asquith, J. McGzukhn, C. 0. Burbank, Taylor Frank, Ju W. H. Gentry, J. R. Summer, F. C. Reynolds. L. M. Bank- entsky, Henry Ohmseit, R. A. Curry, John E. Boyd, A. B. Quackenbush, J. C. Hutton, F. P. Pauli, F. C. Jones, J. C. Berry, A. H. Bauerle and Herman Lucken. In the party will be a lawyer, a sea cap- 1ain, a tailor, a watchmaker, a black- smith, a cook, an engineer, two sailors, two farmers and a pilot. They will meet next Tuesaay evening to elect officers and make formal plans for the expedition. EECSGas A GRADUATE’S LETTER. Assayer Janes Describss Things and Tells of the Low-Grade Gold. The Mining and Scientific Press pub- Jishes a second letter from B. K. Janes, & graduate of the College of Mines of the University of California, who is now as- saying and mining in the Klondyke. Ha has caused a good deal of *“kicking’’ among ininers on account of low values hie placed on the gold. What he writes on this point agrees with the statement of Secretary Underhill of the Selby Smejting Works, published elsewhere. The letter, dated June 22, is as follows: Bonanza and El Dorado creeks have turned | and the out. WHATS HE DREA COrMPOSITE PHUTO OF THE TRANSPORTATION CO& o) puz2LE PRTURE MING OF.? ANOTHER DRAW BACK CONFOUND IT FOR THoSE A#rAip OF HARDSHIPS ONE MAY GET THE MAN WHO NEEDS AFORTUNE MoST “CANT. GO, \ COLD FEET" HERE Tust A WEL-AS ONTHE KLONDYKE P X g [N BETTER TaAe THIS 17 poy VANT 11 T RETURNED 1p You. P A DAZZLED HOTELCLERK o out very much better than any one expected. | $800,000 has elready been taken y W turn out many millione. ful aud common now. niy Daw.on is a very camp. About 1000 men (che-cka-kers) come in so far. Most of the rich me: here now were new meu last yea of whom I have written befo about the best. Last fall he hadn’t money enough to pav hisstore bill. He came down lust uight and is going out to-morrow. He has with him over 200 pounds in placer dust. Be- rides, he has left sufficient for running his laim for the n nd paid the expenses of the past yea 50 per hour—which makes the exp His claim is 5, El Dorado. Th are about thirty or thirtv-five 500- claims on El Dorado which will_aver about the same as his. From No:. 4, 5 and 6, E1 Dorado. a man named Berry has taken out over $100,000. On Bananza there are lo- cated 180 claims. Helf or :wo-thirds of them have an average market value of $15,000 to $30,000. A shorttime ago a man bought a claim for $4500. He set some men to rocking took out several hundred to $1000 a day each, and he was able to make his pay- mentall Tight. A clnim four numbers beiow mine rold for §10,200 to a man who hadn’t anv money. When the payment became due, which was not in very many days, he sold a half interest for $10,000 cash and met his pay- ment, keeping the dump which had been taken out auring the winter containing about £5000 net. A man on El Dorado has a claim from which he has taken $20,000. He is now ready to sluice and expects 1t to yieid $1000 per day to each man he employs, which will mean several hundred thousand dollars this season. The other boys who worked in the store have done very well. Etauf quit in February aud has property worth tens of thousands. and has more mouey to handie than any other mgn here. Baker, whols stillin the employ of the company, sold his interests for $7000 or $8000. Oue man has been buy very heavy. He owes over 100,000, (0 be paid verv soon, but his originai claim on El Dorado is ex. pected to pay £30,000 to a box length—12 1eet. I could noi beiieve it till I came up here and saw the amount of gold and handled it. The company 10st & steamer this spring. The Arctic, which 1 came up on last year, wintered near Forty Mile. The water feil very fast in the river after the ice wentout and left the steamer high and bry on big b:ocks of ice in a slough, where the ice had pushed her. In trying 1o get her out powder was used to break the ice underneath her ana one charge blew her up—that is, ioosened the ice suddenly and subjected her to severe strains, $0 that the bottom leaked very badly. The water began 1o rise and ra'sed very tast. Finally it got <o high ana the current so strong through the slough toat it carried the boatout into the river and she stranded ona baramile and a half farther down. Tney have left the hull there, but taken out the machinery and sent it down to be pulinto a barge. The Bella, a boat built iast summer, arrived at Forty Mile June 1, having wintered at Fort Yukon, about eighty miles below Circle City. Sne had a fair cargo of provisions, which were tzken to Dawson, arriving here the 2d, since which time the receipts have been over $40,000. On June 16 the steamer Alice arrived st Forty Mile, having wintered at Androsky near the mouth cf the river, about 300 miles this side of St. Michaels, She brought & good many provisions and other articles. I came up on her to Dawson with my outfit. Labor is 1 per hour here, and scarce. Building material The Little Gasoline Launch Hettie B That Is to Be Turned Into a Steamezr and Will Start With a Party of Miners for Dawson City the First Week in Augusts progressing siowly. Tam working in the store at present, re- celving the dust for the sales. It keeps me very busy sometimes. Yesterday the sales were $4500. To-night I weighed up a ship- ment of over 2000 ounces to go bv the Alice to-morrow. Our safe is aimost as full as it can be and contains about $150,000 to £200,000, deposited in small and lerge lots for safe- keeping. Heretofore all gold has been taken at $17 per ounce. With the dirt snd all in it it wou d not average quite that. I have made twenty-three assays ot the placer gold so far. The go!d in this district is much lower than in the others, some not going $14, dirtand all. For draits or currency we pay only $15 25 ior it. The miners don’t like it and think I must be wrong. The other day a man who went out in the winter took out dustwhich con- tained El Dorado gold. He got $17 10 per ounce aifter it was melted. As soon as the miners heard it they were tickled todeath and knew I was wrong. When I met the man 1 found out the gold included a good deal of Forty Mile gold, and $17 10 after meiting is only equnl to about $16 50 before, so 1 think the assays I made will stand, though made on small samples. Every day there is a stampede for a new creek. Every little stream for miles around will be located. This country will pay to tie to for money-making. It has been but little prospected. EXPERT IDEAS. Louls Janin, the Mining Engineer, Talks Off-Hand of the Yu- kon Region. Intelligent, expert accountsof the Yu- kon gold deposits, from the standpoints of geology, mineralogy and mining en- gineering, are sadly lacking. Tbe un- tutored prospectors who went in poor have found gold and proved the surpass- ing richness of the fields. That is what the prospector is for. He 18 the hardy pioneer, and eciencs and capital do and must wait on his wander- ingsand hissacrifices. Itis nicethatonthe Yukon the prospector is getting a share of the rewards of discoveryv—which is what he doesa’t very often get. The experi isn’t worth a continental to find where the gold is, but the mining engineeris the man that must step in when the simple miner with his shovel and pan has got through with his excitement and skimmed off the placer cream. The mining engineer will not have much to ao with the Klondyke diggings for a while, uniess capitalists should buy a 1 15 hard to get, and so the store buildings are ALBERT R. SHIPPEY, Onc of the Yukon Miners. bunch of claims, until the 50-cents-a-pan dirt is_all that is left to be easily got out, Then he will be hired, and will show the difference beiween miners’ pans and large engineering overations. He will, however, attend to the early development of any quartz ledges that are revealed by the host of prospectors that have broken loose on the country. This is the field reserved for the mining operator and the mining engineer in Alaska. g One of the most successful and widely known mining engineers of California talked off-hand about the Yukon a little He is Louis Janin, who con- mportant operations in South Africa for London capitalists. *No mining engineer could tell you anyvthing of much value about the Kion- dyke region from the newspaper reports and the tales of unobservant prospectors,” said Mr. Janin. I don’t know anything about any of the problems involved. I bave never found anything described cor- rectly in times of excitement. That bed- rock which is so broken up in places, and in the crevices of which the gold is said to be mainly found, is probably a siate. When it was nearer the surface it was soaked with water in summer and frozen in winter, and the repeated freezing and thawing broke it up, allowing the gold washed down to settle througn 1t. **As to the existence of quartz veins we can only reason by analogy here. The ranges have probably been eroded several hunared or a thousaud feet below what they cnce were. Those gulches were probably worn aown along nalural fauits. The gold has come from veins and pockets In what has been worn away. The pres- ent contour of the mountains may pos- sibly be a thousand feet lower than they once were, hence it does not necessarily follow that any remaining veins are rich. ‘Take Carson {!HI, Nevada. There seven or eight millions were taken out of the placers, but the veins found above were never particularly rich. There was one pocket that was supposed to bave yielded $1,500,C00, though. ‘‘Sometimes there are many small veins and disintegration brings down the gold. Idon’t know the country and it may be that these deposits are largely due to glacial action and may bs small termiral moraines. Iam teid by 2 gentleman who has received aleiter from there that a quartz ledge eight feet wide and running $100 to the ton has been found, but I have | no opinion about it “Without doubt there will be 2 large de- velopment of quartz mining through the Yukon rezion. The ratural expectation is to hear oi the discovery of good quartz veins. They have wood and wate”, with freezing as the great obstacle. But in the Black Hills they mine with the thermom- eter at 40 below. These difficulties of cold weather, costly transportation, dif- ficulty of prospecting, and so on, have been 1ackled over and over again. “Freight is high, but on the Comstock freighting cost 16 cents a poand ana there were many problems to solve. The moss and tne frozen ground will not stop pros- pectors. it was thought that the Black Hills could never be prospected, they were 50 covered with dead wood and 8o on, and in British Columbia there is a thick growth of tangled underbrush that would appall anybody but an indefatigable pro-- pector. “It is hard {o guess what they have up there. As to stories of strange formations we always hear them from new fields. They come from imperfect observation and miners don’t observe. Henry Bratnober, who hasgone in,will understand the situa- tion at a glance and so will others who will go there. “Idon’t know what problems will con- front competent mining men when the time comes, but one occurs to me—where are they going to put all this material they wash out without great sacrifice? I understand that now they scout anything going less than 10 cents to the pan and often even 50 cents to the pan. Ten cents a pan is $100 to the ton, and down here we gladly work gravel yielding 10 cents to the ton. But the question will always be, Is there gold enough to pay the cost of getting it out? At the Alaska-Treadwell mine, on the coast, the cost of miningand milling the ore is less than $1 50 a ton and is expected to become $1. Tne average cost in California is $5 io the ton. The problem will be the same up there as pros- pectors find the gold.”” TAKE THESE ALONG. The Holland Outfitfor the Overland Gold Crusade. FEdward Holland, proprietor of the Com- mercial Hotel, who has been interested in Yukon affairs for many years, has pre- pared, afier consultation with returned miners, the following schedule of an out- fit for the trip by way of Junean: PROVISIONS FOR ONE MONTL 20 tbs flour, with baking 3 Ds vegeiables (evap- when prepared for eating by means of cooking wiil double in weight by the ad- dition of water. The Iruit will ireble in weight. This will give a man nearly four pounds of solid food per day—plenty to eat for a year and in good variety, besides being very cheap. Roughly estimated the cost will be as follows: Sugar §3 60, bacon $40, beans $4, flour $3 50, sweet corn $3, cats $175, fruit $5, vegetables $1 50, peppers $L 25, tea or coffee $10 50, salt 25 cent matches 60 cents; total, $77 25. E.timat- ing the ireight at 15 cents per pound the total cost of buying the provisionsand getting them in there will be $157 59 plus $77 25, or $234 75. Clothing, hardware, etc., wilt swell this cost in proportion to 1ts price and weight., powder orated) 10 1bs bacon 5 s sugar 5 1bs cornmesl, 1D tea 5 Ibs rice 3 s coffee 5 Ihs oatmeal 4 1bs corn beef (cans) 6 bs beans. 4 1bs roast beef (cans) 5 Ibs dried fruit 4 Ibs mutton (cans) 4 Ibs butter & cans milk [Extract beet, salt, pepper, mustard, matches, soap. COOKING UTENSILS, 1 Yukon stove 1 teapot 1 trying-pan 1 large and 1 small 1 water-ketile cooking-pan 1 beanpot 1knife and fork. 2 plates 1 tent, 8x10 1 drinking cup TOOLS FOE BOAT EUILDING. 1ubipay 1 haichet 1 riv-s 1 pocket rule 1 hand-saw 6 Ibs assorted nails 1 jackplane 3 bsoakum 1 draw-knife 5 tbs pitcn lax bU feet 35 rope CLOTHING. 1 fur rug, or 2 pairs 1 mackinaw blankets 6 yards mosquito netting 1 pair crag-proof hip 1 pair snow g asses 600:3. 1 Winchester rifie Heavy woolen under- mediciue wear towels L ANOTHER MENU. A Varied Outfit for a Year for a Little More Than Two Hun- dred Dollars. A man who believes that too much dough is not good for the digestive organs even in Alaska, where hunger is so sharp that it can eat rawhides, has prepared the following schedule for an outfit of eata- bles sufficient or a twelvemonth supply for one man: Article. Sugar (white granulated). 60 Bacon (the 1aties: to be had: 400 Beavs (red, Mexican or brow! 150 Flour.. 100 Dried sweet corn 50 Rolled oats 50 Dried fruit .. 50 Dried soup vegetables. 20 Dried rea_chili peppers. Tea or coffee. Salt Matches (dozen) Total weignt SV ST O THE KLONDYKE FEVER. John W. Muther Is Going There. Dogs Much in Demand Now. ALAMEDA, Car., July 23.—John W. Muther, the auctioneer, is the latest man to announce his intention of going to Klondyke to mine. “If I can get away by the 1st of Aug- ust,” said he this meraing, **I shall most certainly go. I .pelieve it is too good a chance to miss. There will be thousands of people there next spring and the man who will have the chances is tie man who goes upnow and spends the winter there.” _The Klondyke fever is the cause of a singular demarnd, which exceeds the market supply. The men going up there want dogs for sledge use and there are few to be had. As a result the pound- masters of San Francisco. Oakiand and Alameda have been importuned for dogs. The dogs in demand are tbose over eighteen incies in height, and the men who want them are scouring the country for those which answer their demands. = LIFE AT DAWSON. How It Is Describ>d by a Paper at Juneau. The following description of life at Daw- son was clippped from the Alaska Miner, published in Juneau, July 10, 1897: Dawson 1s not bui'aing as repid! would think. The difficulty is in obtaining tumber. The poorest kind of rough lumber sells ut $130 » thousand. Slabs are 50 cents each aud suwdust 10 cents a sack. Harry Ash moved bis dancing establisiment trcm Circle City to Dawson. He has plenty of wet goods. The fisst night he opened he tok in 3 3 The programme cousists ot dancing and drinking. A miner dances with one of the fair ones, and after the dan e he escorts her to the bar and buys hera drink and takes one himself. For this luxury he pays 50 cents a drink. Miners are generous, and one drink with them means many more, so that money being very free, flows freely. It {s said of McCormack, the di:coverer o the Klondyke, that he spends §50 at a treat. Being quite a comspicuous churacter, he attracts attention, and as he is very susceptibie to flattery, it takes very little to induce him to buy drinks for every one who bappens to be in the house at the time. EOURCE OF ALL GOLD. as one Noval Theory Expounded by Dr. Willitam O’Neill, the Peralta Postmaster. BERKELEY, CaAv, July 23.—Dr. Wil- liam O’Neill, the Peralta Postmaster, who is widely known in Alameda Coun a novel theory regarding the source of the gold being fonnd in Alaskan fields. He says tbat the natural homeof all metals is at the poles, and that they were drawn thence ages ago by magnetic attrac- tion. “The California and Siberian mines are simply the tailings from the north pole filtered in past centuries through the stratn of the earth to the places where they were discovered, while the gold of South | America, South Africa and Australia has filtered from within tbe Antartic circle.” In support of his theory he states that zoid becomes more plentiful as the poles are approached. g Relief From Corns. They are not troubled with tight shoes and corns on the Yukon—in winter at least. If one is up there and is fasb- ionable he will have a pair of moosehide moccasins *'a mile too big.’’ When he “puts on his shoes” be will first swathe his feet in pieces of blanket toa thick- ness of from one to two inches and then put on his moccasins. Your moosehide mittens will be lined with blanket cloth or else puton over a pair of thick woolen ones, and when he goes out he will put on his “‘parkie,” very fikely. That is a big loose overcoat with a huge enveloping bood, and it is best made of furry moose hid Ho, for Alaska! Klondyke District, A special steamer will start August 1. Fare $200, including one year’s provisions. D.J. Grannan, general manager, 19 Mont- - gomery st. S THE OARSMEN. The South Ends Will Begin Building a Handball Court To-morrow Morning. Hor the past week boating has been very quiet at the South Ends’ quarters, as most of tne oarsmen are out of town. Last Sunday morninz very few boats left the ciubhouse, as most of the boys assisted Ed Scully and Captain Thoras in laying the foundation for the new hand- ball court. Captain Thomas has completed the platiorm for the punching-bag and will now devote all his attention to the erec- tion of the handball court, Last week Mr. Thomas gave an order for $200 worth of lumber, and ail the members who are able to use a hammer and saw are expected at the boathouse to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock to lend their assistance in the con- struction of the court. Mat Breen, captain of tlie new senior crew, sprained his ankle some weeks ago, but 1s now rapidly recovering and will soon be able to resume his old position in the boat. John Mahoney and a party of friends made several moonlight excursions dur- ing the past week to the battle-ship Oregon. To-morrow morning the junior and se- nior crews will visit the Dolphins. On next Tuesday evening the newly elected cfficers will be installed and prepa- rations will be made for the next regatia. B PR | Bicyel st Injured. Late last evening ¥rank Cuneo, residing at 511 Seventh street, while riding his bicycle on Folsom street, between Nineteenth and Twentieth, was run iuto by a westbound elec- tric car. He suffered a severe contusion of the left hip and shoulder. Cuneo was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where his wonnds, which are not dangerous, were treated by Dr, Rodgers. .o Secratary - heyman’s Facation, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23.—Sec- retary Sherman left this afternoon for Amagansett, L. I., where he will spena a month at the cottage of his daughier, Mrs. McCullum. F. J. Babcock, his contidential clerk. Mrs. 8herman will remain in Washing- ton. The Secrotary’s health is improv- ing, Adee, second Aseistant Secretary, will be Acting Becretary of State during Sherman’s absence. ADVICE OF FRIENDS. In This Case It Proved to Be Very Beneficlal—The Result. OAKLAND, Cal.—"My mother was troubled with eruptions on her face caused by impure blood; friends recom- mended Hood's Sarsaparilla. She began taking it and in a short time was entirely cured. We have found from our ex- perience with Hood’s Sarsaparilla that it is the best medicine that can be obtained.” MATILDA TAESSLER, 1827 Adeline Add for weight of boxes, ropes, etc Grand tot The beans, corn, oats and street. vegetables | Hooa’s Pills cure indigestion. 2oc. FIRE ON BOTH LAND AND SEA Cargo in the Hold of the Ship Falls of Dee Dam- aged $20,000. Flames Cause a Loss of $5000 in Hobart’s Sutter-Street Building, No Explanation or Theory as to How Either Started Can Be Given, Last night about 9:30 o’clock the sailors of the British ship Falls of Dee, which has been discharging ter cargo for several atseawall No. 3, were startled from their bunks by a cloud of smoke that seemed to pour through the vessel from a raging in- ferno in the hold. The men of the sea made haste to de- sert the ship and sound the alarm by voice as well as through box 355. Thelat- ter proved the more fruitiul course and in a short time four engines had answered the call. The work of the firemen was rendered extremely difficul: by the volumes of smoke that rolled from the hatches, and for some time they were unable to locate the Finally it was discovered to be in the forward portion of the lower hold. The suction pipes from the engines were dropped into the bay and four streams of briny water were soon sent splashing down below. The fire was eatinz its way through hundreds of sacks of rice and cther mer- chandise, and the water for a long time seemed to have but little effect. The streams were kept on the flames, how- ever, but not until most of the cargo was ruined were t hey extinguished. Owing to the fact that the ship is built ofiron it was damaged but little, but it 1s estimated that the loss on the cargo will amount to zlmost $20,000. The vessel arrived on the 15th inst. from Hon -kong with a cargo valued at about $100,000. o The upper bold was filled with merchan- dige consigned to many downtown busi- ness houses, while the lower hold was loaded with merchandise belonging to Chinese merchants. The vessel began to discharge her cargo on the 20th of the month and the upper hold had been cleared of freight. The lower hold was to have been cleared to-day, but unfortuuately the fire left nothing but the charred aebris of the val- uable merchandise. The loss is entirely covered by insurance. Captain Lock, commander of the vessel, is at a loss to understand the cause of the fire, but is gratified that he succeeded in removing most of the cargo befors the fire started. Shortly after the fire in the nold of the¢ Falis of Dee had been extinguished fire broke out in the Hobart building, 31 to 33 Sutter street, which is occupied by Ed- ward S. Speer as an auction-house and the California Press Printing Company. The flimes originated from some un- kuown cause in the front portion of the printiug establishment, which is on the second floor, and soon ate their way through the floor asbove and the roof of the building. The flumes had made con- siderable headway before the alarm was sounded, and when the department ar- rived the entire roof was ablaze. Several streams were turned on the burning bumilding and in the course of hait an hour the flames were quenched. The damage on the buildine amounted to about $3000. Edward S. Spear’s loss was mosily through smoke and water and will exceed $500. The California Press Print- ing Company’s vlaot, which was valued at $1500, was completely destroyed. losses are all covered by insurance. The ARE YOU GOING TO ALASKA? OR ARE YOU GOING to remain at home and buy goods from the cheapest and best Cash Store in the world and save enough money durine ths next f:w months to go out with flying colors in the spring on your own earned capital? 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