The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1897, Page 1

Gigantic -‘Sc'hé_vr'né of En- te‘rp’ri_sin_g Seattle . Capitalists. BOWERS' MACHINE TO BE APPLIED. If Sueesssful, Qlfiér Streams Will'Recein, Attention by the Company. GLOWING “RESULTS ALREADY i . PREDICTED. If Gold Lies'In tha Bed of the River It Will Be Scooped Up In ¢ Short Order. SEATTLE, Wasm, Aug. 3—The most stupendous undertaking in connection with the taking of the virgin gold from the icy- hilis and bleak water courses of Alaska and the Northwest Territory that has vet been proposed, and beside which all pther attempts appear. puerile and in- significent, is that whi¢h has within the past three days been_taken up by a group of well-known Seattle capitalists, at the head-of which is Edward F. Sweeny. The other members of what will be a powerful company do rot for the present wish to have their names made public. Anything in connection with operations to the North must now bear the stamp of originality of sz, and the matter which is now made public eclipses anything that has bgen ‘proposed regarding mining ot any. kind at any time or in any part of the world. 3 =i Saturday -there arrived in this city S8am-~ Uel H. Saleno of San Francisco, the for: eign representative of Alphonseo B. Bow- ers, inventor and ‘owner of the Bowers drédging patents and of the Biwers sys- tem of hydraulic dredging to which the patents are applied. Mr. SBaleno has recently returned from Japan and it was on the trip back from the Orient that he met Mr. Sweeny and to him communicated his plans for the ‘ap: plication of the dredger to hydraulic min- ing. . * When the Klondyke fever struck the country Mr. Sweeny wired Mr. Salens to come to Seattle. In thé meantime the interest of those who" will make up the bealance of the company had been aroused, but all suggestions of their :intentions . were kept a profound secret. Thé project has now taken definite shape, The intention of the company is “to build one of the great earth and mui eating macaines that are converiing the tide lands of the upper bay end into the blocks of redeemed land that have marked one.of t' e undertakings that will provide Seattle with manu'acturing sites, and send it to the mouth of the Yukon River, .where it will bé put together. One of the differences. that will make the proposed dredger so unique will be its power for gelf-propuision. and its extremely light draught. The power will be supplied to a stern-wheel, the sameé as to the light- draught river steamers. ‘After the completion of building of the dredger at-the mouth of the Yukon, she will start on her four of investigation up theriver, putting her long black beak into the sand and - gravel ‘of the bottom and doing some prospecting on. her cwn ac- count. When a rich streak is found, she ‘will churn away with ner centrifugai pump -and toss the: gravel and nuggets, as well as dnst and mud, up by When " it is ‘remembere1 that those who have comsé down say that a day’s work is 2000 pounds per man, the largeness of the enterprise. appears when these amounts are niultiplied four or five hundred rimes, as'is possible with the Bowers machine. ‘When asked what capucity the proposed dredger would have Mr. Saleno answered that it would depend on the wishes and intentions of the company. He urgesthat the gold deposits of the rivers and creeks are the results of the. washing.down by high waters and the carrying aown of ice floes. -Upon this assumption the argu- ment is made that 1n the deepest channel the gold .has ‘sunk lower, and as the dredger will work down to bedrock the belief is that the Tesult of pumping from the botlom will be proportionately richer. It 'has béen demonstiated that the RBowers dredger. can deliver at the end of their conveyor pipes seven!y and even a hizher percentage of solid matter, aud at ‘Mare Island, where work was at one time being done for the Government, the cen- trifugal pump brought up cannon balls, old tools ard old anchor chains. At Portland the dredger brought up loose mercury that was lost from a broken case. If it. will do this the specific gravity of gold dffers:né impediment to the action of the pump in bringing it to the surface and deliveripg it at tue dump. s Theré will’ be no encroachment upon theclaims of others, as the bottom of the rivers and creeks is believed to be the place where the-gold wiil' be found. Mr. Baleno also says that as the United Btates courts have established the ownership of ‘thé Bowers patents the company will be protected, and the application of the ideas will not be granted to others, The con- tract tor building the dreager will be let and its construction carried on under the siipervision of the- Bowers people and from tlseir plans’and specifications. To'show their entire confidence in the scheme, Mr.. Saleno says that his people would be willing to subscribe largely to the common stock of the Seatile com- Yany, the organization of which is not yet public property. - Besides the application of the dreager to theYukon, Mr. Saleno says that if suc- - esslul it wi ugdoubtedly be put into im- the bushels. | mediate use on the Frazer, Columbia and Rogue rivers,and in fact on any streams that have shown prolific placer mining possibilities. SR e, HEADING FOR THE NORTH. Among Tho<e Going From Seattle Are Two Re presentatives of the French Aristocracy. SEATTLE, WasH., Aug. 3.—Two repre- rentatives of the French aristocracy will go north on the Cleveland, sailing Thars- day for St. Michaels to investigate the new rold fields of the Klondyke, and incident- ally to pick up a iew thousand or hundred oi nuggets to dispiay to their friends in Paris as mementoes of their trip. These gentlemen are M. Louls de Poliniare and Vicomte Henri d’Hauteville. M. de Pol- iniere was in Chicago when the news of the Klondyke discoveries broke out, while the Vicomte was in San Francisco. Telegrams were exchanged, and as a re- snlt each of the gentlemen startea for Seattle and met here to-day. M. de Poli- niare brought with him a letier from Presiaent Weare to Mr. Hamiiton, man- ager of the North American Trading and Transportation Company, instructing l(lfln,v "-*"‘, A i 8 IN A QUANDARY. FRANCI CO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1897 awaiting an opportunity to have their supplies packea over the pass. The first pack train over White Pass was expected back at Skazaway on the day the Queen sailed from there. Rev. Alfred Kummer of Oakland, Cal., one of the ex him to extend all possible courtesies to the two, and as a result they will have the best quarters on the boat and are per- mitted to take rather a larger outfit than is allowed to the humble prospector. They really intend to prospecr, and if possible mine for gold. To a CaLL cor- respondent Vicomte de Polinaire saic this evening: *'Lf you send this news to Le Figaro or Le Temps in Paris it will creatly interest our friends. If we are successful you can expect to sce a very large number of French zentlemen take their departure for tae Klondyke next year.” The Al-Ki left for Dvea and Skagaway to-day. She carried 200 passengers and an equal number of horses, as well as a large number of cattle, the latter of which are to be driven over the trail to Dawson City. She was heavily laden with freight, consisting largely of the outfits of the Klondykers. The news of the jam at White Pass has had no deterring effect. Every man in the crowd thinks he will be able to get through even if nove of the others do so. The big fonr-masted schooner Novelty was hanled into Schwabacher’s dock this afternoon to load a cargo of 600 tons of seneral merchandise for the Klondvke. There is a slight probability of the Nov- elty reaching St. Michaels in time for the | goocds to go up the river before it is closed this fail, but the stock will be on hand to g0 in the first thing 1n the spring. An interesung mining story, not, how- ever, connected with the Klordyke, was brought down by an Oiympia gentieman returning from a visit north on the Queen. James Campbell was a resident . of Olympia, who went up into Southeastern Alaska some three years since. Not hear- ins from him in two years his wife be- came digusted and got a aivorce. A year ago she and her son, a young man of just 21, went north. When the Olympia gentleman was up on the Queen be found that Campbell had located a very rich ledge of free-milling quariz on a small Alaska island cailed Venina, The ledge extended clear across the island. Not only this, but he had located other claims in the names of his son and former wife, who were on the ground developing the property. Campbell himself had formed a new matrimonial alhance with a dusky maiden of the forest, and remains true to her. The ledge is enormous in size and assays an average of $40a ton clear across the face. It will make botn branches of the Campbell family rich. The Willamette, advertised to sail to- day, will not get away before Thursday if indeed she sails at that time. Passage has been secured on her for 800 men and 200 horses besides a very large quantity of freight. AR U MANY ARE TURNED BACK. Canadian Police Compel Fortune- Hunters to Have a Year’s Sup- piy of Provisions. TACOMA, Wasn., Aug. 3.—Four thou- sand people were at the ocean dock this evening to see the sieamer Al-Ki off for Alaska. As she carries fifty Tacomans among her 200 passengers there were many last cood-byes to be said. The crowd was entertained until a late hour watching the hoisting aboard of horses and cattle with a donkey-engine. The Al-Ki sailed at midnight, The old bark Shirley, which carried lumber for years between Tacoma and San Francisco for the Tacoma Mill Company, will go into the Alaska trade. She has been purchased from the mill company by the newly formed Tacoma and Dyea Transportation Company, which will send her north next week with passengers, irzightand livestock. She will accommo- date several hundred passengers. A tug will tow her to Dyea. The steamer Queen brings word down that the mounted police of the Northwest Territory are meeting al! people bound for the Yukon country at the British line, beyond White and Dyea passes, and com- pelling all who have not one year’s supply of provisions to return to the coast. But iew of the fortune-seekers who have leit Tacoma and tie sound within the last few weeks for Dyea ¢r Skagaway had crossed the passes into the interior when theQueen cursionists, went ashore at S8kazaway, and reports he was told by two men there that it woula cost $400 to have their supplies, weighing 2000 pounds, carried over the pass. Mr. Kummer and Captain Carroil WAarn ev ry one not to attempt to enter the Yukon country before next spring. The captain says not even those who are now at Skageway ana Dyea will be able to reach the interior this winter, principally becaunse supplies cannot be gotten over the passes. Indians are hara at work packing, and a!l the horses available are pressed into service. Men can pack, they say, but seventy- five pounds one way, and the round trip is seventy-two miles. The situation will be much relieved, however, when the Al-Ki and Willamette arrive there, for the Wiilamette alone will carry 300 horses. By August 11 it is estimated there will be at least 800 horses packing ireight over Chicoot and White pusses. Rev. Mr. Kummer, pastor of the First Meth- odist Church of ~ Oakland, says the Queen landed 200 passengers at Bkagaway, who, with the small party left there by the Al-Ki, comprised all the gold-seekers at the place. They found s good piace to camp, with water, wood and mosquitoes plentiful. A great many of the men went into camp to await their opportunity to hire men or horses to carry their provisions over the pass. A strong Indian can carry 100 pounds over the pass, but the average white mun does well to carry seventv-five pounds. Meu who have been accustomed to cleri- cal work find packing almost beyond en- durance. —_—— SIGNS OF TROUBLE. Gold - Seekers May Not Tamsly Submit to the Canailan Exactions. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn.,, Aug. 8.— According to information received by the Queen yesterday the crowd that has al- ready arrived from the south forms only a small proportion of the kicking, cursing mob that, itching under the unwarrant- one of the liveliest in the Northwest. The sure-thing gambler is there and it is said that in several instances ‘men who have got that far nave been fleeced out of possessions and will not be able to go any fartner., The advices say that there is going to be serious trouble at Dawson City this sum- mer over the effort that will be meade to collect not only custom -duties, licenses and taxes from the miners, but also roy- alties upon whatever they may succeed in taking out. News of this decision on the part of the Canadian Government had reached Dyea before the Queen. ieft and was metgn every hand with protests from “the gold- seekers. Although no definite arrange- ments had been made it is generall under- stood among miners that concerted refusal will be made against paying any of the Government’s demands, and for a time at least the bluff will succeed, for the miners cutnumber t e Canadian mounted patrol 100 to 1. When the first conflict is re- ported to Ottawa the force will be ma- terially increased, but the miners hope in the interim to take out a stake and leave the country. ek ALL ARRANGEMENTS MADE. Plans for Carrying Passengers From Portiand Direct to D wson City. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 3.—**We will in all probability have our arrangements perfected by to-morrow.” said W. S. Mason of the firm of Mason, Ebrman & Co. and director in the newly incorporated Portland and Ala-ka Trading and Trans- portation Company. “Then you fizure surely on securing the steamer Eugene for use on the Yukon River?” was asked. “AB !flul‘ as business negotintions can proceed without the papers being signed and sealed,” was the reply. “And you feel confident that the Eugene can be made readv for her long ocean voyage by August 152" *'I see no reaton why, with ample funds and facilities such as are at our disposal, left Dyea July 28. Two hundred or more:| miners were encamped at Skagaway then, | to be able to withstand any weather that . this boat cannot be put in such shape as able delay at Dyea, is making that place | she may encounter between the mouth of the Columboia River and thedelta of the Yukon,” replied Mr. Mason. “How sbout the ocean steamer which is to convoy the Eungene? Has the charter with the owners been closed ?"” “Not as yet. But, as I said, we will in all probability have everything arranged by to-morrow.” Thus this morning spoke one of the leaders in the Portiand and Alaska Trad- ing and Transportation Company, the in- corporators of which are H. P. McGuire, E. B. McFarland, J. A. Yeakam (agent of | the coasting steamers Homer and Alli- ance), W. F. McGuire, Caplain F. B. Jones and W. 8. Mason. The compauy proposes placing men tak- ing pussage on their line at Portland directiy on the river bink st Dawson. The hrrdsntps “and trisc of the passes over the Chilcoot range of mountains will be avoided, and if nature keeps up the tchedule she hasfollowed during the years past the company expects to land its pas- sengers on the Kiondyke by September 15. The passage money is to be placed at $300, which includes the transportation of 150 pounds of supplies for each passenger. Aside from the passenger traffic, the | idea of the new incorporators is to build up a trade between Poruand and the Yukon country. This, they believe, can only be done by placing a direct line of steamers on between this city and the camps adjacent to the diggings. RO i TWENTY FROM FRESNO. |A Party to Go Overiand to the Klondyke Country From Vancouver. FRESNO, Can, Aug. 3.—A party of twenty men from Fresno County will leave to-morrow for San Francisco, where they will embark in a few days for Van- couver, with the intention of making the trip overland from that place to the Klondyke, in far-away Alaska. 'L'he names of all the members of the party which will make the perilous trip could not be learned to-night, but among them | are J. B. McDonald, J. Wilbur Cate, J. F. | Moody, Alexander Holmes, F. R. Dunlap, | O. L. Ingels and Bert Stevens, Mr. Ingels ! is the constable at Sanger, and he leaves | an excellent grocerv business 1o try for | the fortunes of the frozen north. Mr. Cate is a well-known business man | in this city, and Mr. Moody bas been a deputy in the Tax Collector’s office. From British Columbia the miners will take a herd of horses, which will be driven to the goldfields, where it is expected to realize handsomely on them. The expe- dition will be in charge of J. 8. Mack, who will guide the fortune-seekers through the wilds of the great Northwest Territory, and those who will follow him place the greatest confidence in him. sHe was for- merly in the employ of the Dominion Government as surveyor, and knows thor- oughly the provinces of Athabasa, Al- berta and the Peace River country, which he traversed while engaged in making a tepographical survey for the Government. “This route is the easiest one of them all,” said Mr. Mack to THE CALL corre- spondent to-night. ‘‘The journey by way of the Northwest Territory does not really begin, you might say, until vou reach 4 e much richer that no doubt these old dig- gings have been deserted. While on the other routes it is necessary to have from $500 to $600 in order to make the trip in good shape, between $250 and $300 is suf- ficient on the route I propose to take. This will allow the purchase of a year’s supplies, too.” e A SR ON TH= TE:LIN TRAIL. Calbreath Says It Is the Best Route to Drive Ca‘tle Into the Klondyke. VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 2.—John C. Calbreatb, who has been commissioned by the British Columbian Government to make a passable trail from Telegzraph Creek to Teslin Lake, was in Victoria to- day receiving detailed instructions. He says: “If I had the money to-morrow 1 would run a steamer from Teslin Lake to the Klondyke diggings, and from Wrangel to Telegraph, providing the Government would complete the trail, to say nothing of a good wagon road. A good 12-foot road could, I think, be builtfor $150,000. 1 consider the Teslin trail the only route over which one can drive cattle or sheep into the Klondyke. It can be put into thorough repair at small expense, and re- quires only two bricges, each less than 100 feet long.” 1 At present, he says, it is passable for peck trains witn light loads. Thesireams have 10 be forded, but water at this time of yearis low. There are a few spots along the trail where gardens could be made for roadside houses. Grassin great ahundance grows all along and a com- paracively level country is found, and the hills met with are not a serious obstable for either a trail r wagon road. Over a good trail loaded animals weuid passto the head of the lake in twelve days, where- as it takes now fifteen days or over. A vroper light-draught steamer for the river could, Calbreath says, carry freight from Wrangel to Telegraph tor $20 per ton, pro- viding it bad a consideravle amount of freight to carry, The rates to Wrangel are high and the wharfage at Wrangel is also high, but there is not sufficient trade at present to warrant them being reduced. Wharfage now at Wrangel is $3 per ton. A stern-wheel siesmer of right build can ascend the Stikeen at any season, provid- ing the ice is out. When the ice is out of the river a steamer drawing 2} feet and having the freight capacity or 100 tons could go up to Telegraph. Navigation opens in the fore part of May, buta steamer has made the trip in the las: of April. On Muay 15 last year there was ice in the river, but it was all gone the next day. On Telezraph Creek oats and barley are grown successially either for hay or grain, but where these are grown the apots are Jike an oasis in the desert, the general face of the coun- try producing nothing but grass and bushes. Below Glenora and extending down as far as Grant Rapids there are many fine pieces of land suitable for growing almost anything. AT ST JOINING THE RUSH. Many Persons Leaving Stockton for the Goldflelds of the Far North. STOCKTON, Carn., Aug. 3.—Numbers of men, young aad o!d, are leaving this ana adjoining counties bound for the ice-cov- ered goldfields in the nerth. Yesterday Al Brown, secretarv of the Stockion Athletic Association and the present sin- gle-scull amateur champion of California, left for Seattls, en route for the Klondyke. To-day Robert L. Quisenbery, one of the Yardley exvedition that is fitting out a steamer to run to Dawson, left for San Francisco to leave on the steam schooner South Coast. Eugene A. Trefethen of Lathrop has engaged passage for two persons on this expedition, one of whom is his son, who is at present attending the University of California. A Modesto capitalist named Hation has secured passage for four per- sons whom he is backing. A Mr. Thomas, who has been in the employ of Matteson- Williamson Manufacturing Company, will be one of the passengers. The Yard- o Edmonton, which is at the end of a branch of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, that leaves the main line a: Calgarry, in Al- berta province. You can go to Edmonton either by way of Vancouver or Ogden. From Edmonton to the Kiondyke mines is about 700 miles, and the region to be traversed is level and presents no obsta- cles. On most maps you will find that the Rocky Mountains go almost to the Arctic throuch the Northwest Territory, when the fact is that they stop atabout the sixty-second or sixty-fourth parallel. I have surveyed around them at about this point. “The region through which one passes on this journey is for a great part an ex- cellent farming country. The trip to the Klondyke can be made by horses, which may be used both for riding and as pack animals. At the right time of the year there is plenty of feed tor the anima s and game for the travelers, and there are vractically no bardships to encounter. There are numerous Indian setiiements, though they thin out as you get farther north. I have spent some time in the Northwest Territory, and know there is plenty of gold ‘there. I was at the Cassiar mines near Dease Lake and also visited the Peace River diggings, all of which are very rich. But the Klondyke region is so ley expedition will go by the steamer as far as Bt. Michaels, and theuce by a boat of lighter draft to Dawson. Another party is being organized among the railroad smployes to go to the Klon- dyke. Several men on the road have agreed to go and have bound themselves by placing a forfeit in the hands of the projectors of the enterprise. A number of others in that part ol the county known as the West Side are interested in the en- terprise, and it is provosed to charter a steam schooner on which they now bave an option. AL An MILLIONS YET THERE. Clements Advises Gold-Hunters Not to Journey North Until Next Spring. STOCKTON, Carn., Aug. 3.—James Cle- ments, the wealthy Kiondyker and erst- whiie railway brakeman, arrived here yes- terday with his wife to pay a brief visit to relatives in this city. Mrs. Clements went direct to the residence of G. H. Clifford at 105 West Roase street. As the man who had taken a quarter of a million of dollara worth of yeliow dust and nuggets from the Yukon country in a year was tired out by his long traveling trip, and being bored Continued on Third Page, SPEEDING HOSTS TO THE NORTH The Walla Walla afid'~ Noyo Bear Crowds Away ToDay. -/~ -~ STEAMERS FROM SEATTLE ARE On still another trip are the berths of a big regular steamer inadequate to the Aiaskan rush. The Walla Walla will sail this morning at 9 o’clock for Seattle with all ber cabin accommodations sold two days in advance, ‘with many who vay cabin rates and who will eat cabin fare sleeping in steerage bunks, and with two connecting steamers for the north, the Queen and the Mexico, awaiting crowas and freight that will use every cubicyard of space in them. The Noyo will sail this forenoon with a finely outfitted party of over a hundred bound to Dvea, but the Caspar exve- dition has b2en abandoned. BSeveral other special expeditions are being rapidly arranged and fitted, so that this week will see the departure of some hundreds for the goidfields of the Yukon. The Walla Walla will leave both freight and passengers behind. The merchants of Juneau and Seattle are pouring in im- mense orders for merchandise which goes to supply the outfitting trade and there is a heavy tonnage of the indiviaual oui- fits taken along from here. The steamer has a large passenger list of those going on later summer excursions to Alaska and of those going to the Sound oniy and tak- ing advantage of the cheap rates. These demands which are filled early Jessen the room for the Yukoners and yesterday many of those who wanted cabin had to put up with second-class sleeping accom- modations. At the Pacific Coast Steamship ticket office here passengers for Alaska are being booked for the Queen and the Mexico, two of the connecting steamers which run north from Seattie. The Queen will de- part at once on the arrival of the Walla Walla, being booked to leave for Juneau and Dyea on the 7th inst. She can carry 300 cabin and 180 steerage passengers. 1he Mexico will depart two dags later with 300 cabin and 180 steerage passen- gers. The accommodations of the two steamers have been divided between Seat- te and San Francisco, tha latter office taking the starboard side. Those on the passenger list yesterday, who are bound lfm- the Yukon by the Queen, are as fol- ows: CABIN, E. D. Howe, Jonn D. Milligan, J. Finiay, Jobn Winsbip, A. Laumeister, Frank Winship, W. C Silvia, A. B. Cade, J. A. Sesbers, J. Wagoner, Ed Austin, J. A. Pearce. STEERAGE. C. M. King, H. 8. Davison, F. White, K. Jones, W. Lord, C. M. Prung, J. Hawsins, George narrack, Mrs. Hobos, 0. B. Lomax, A. Cave, Din_orill, H. M1ler, J. =mi B. Gu. th, an. ~imo-, I. U. Edgar, T B. Donan, J F. Rogers, H. J. Wilson, Z. Arthur, . D. Bennett, N. @, cox, F. Brodeil. Those who will board the Mexico with their outfits are the ollowing: , CABIN. A.G. Meyers L.C. Haas 0. Hoffman Mrs. v. Hoffman R. W. McNight A, S Hialp L. H Wensoa Dr. H. C. N. Kierulit A M. Kierulft €. b, Kossback T. \. Fisher W. B. Eilis J.J. Builock Aot Wil 1 uckley R. B May Danlel I opez John Kelly * W. K. Pierson Fred Smich T.'A. Brown C F. Mail ST, Rogers T, P. Maioney Jawes Grant W. C. Price J. Lennon H.E. ticiner k. T. hieacock 8.'F. Pond M. S, Latham Frank Austio William Jones W. H. Fairbanks Joh . de Bo.k Mrs. Chapland 3 H. Schuiton T. H. Matthews R.J. Young IR Kelly STEERAGE. F. P. Warneke M. L. Young A% 0. Hamilton A. Robel'e De F. Richl P. Tower Fred Riehl H.G. Blankman A Rithl T, Pelisonn ¥. Clough George Hoods AL H Pigott J. Feuniss ¥. A. Boyuton 3’ W. Aikens D. A, Ciowen J. B. Chase J.'C. Maulcher W. Hanson R. A McGinnis J. Darlingion C. Hirschey A. J. Monroe R. nogersandson P. Tower Abcut thirty of those in the above- given lists are booked for Juneau, where they intend to complete their outfits and to siart for the passes by the small local steamers which run between Juneau and Dyea. A numberof berths on the Queen and Mexico have bren reserved for the Canadian mouunted police that aré on their way to the Yukon region. The Queen and the Mexico will land passeu- gers at both Dyea and Skagaway, and it is likely that a major ty wiil debark at Skagaway to take the White Pass route. e BUILT THE ARCTIC. Wetherbee Goes Up Again and Two Friends Await Grub- stakes. The man who built the Yukon River steamer Arciic, now wrecked, is going back to St. Michaelsin the steam schooner North Fork, which 18 to start with a Daw- son-bound party on the 14th inst. Furthermore this boat-builder has two STILL OVERCROWDED. The Interesting Tale ;)f T wo 'V,Ch't.'istian Endeavor Miners on the - Yukon. Gossip of the Rush. : mining friends whom he wants some rich gentleman to grubstake for the exvedition. “If any gentleman will outfit two expert miners- for a year [ will- guarantee hima grand bonanza,” says Mr. 8. L. Wether- bee, who is the mechanic referred to, The North Fork will be back from Eureka on Friday, when she will be fitted out 1o take a party of 100 to St. Michaels. C. P. Troy & Co. advertise that they will give a man a year's supplies and get him to Dawson for $300, ahd they may possibly do it. Anyway Mr. Wetherbee is going as far as St. Michaels, where he went once to build a nver steamer for the Alaska Commercial Com pany. “That was in '91, I believe,”” said Mr. Wetherbee: yesterday. *“I went up in the steamer Bertha. at. the time McGrath and Turner went up to go up the river and lccate the boundary. The boat I had erected at Benicla, and she was shipped with her ma- chinery all ready 1o put together. I took but two ’prentice boys along and got her ready to launch_in thirty-one dayvs with the help of eight or ten natives. 1he chief engineer bad only three men witi him. She was built on St. Michaels Island on a Iittle point right alongside of the Alaska Commercial Comapany’s post. The place I used was acroquet-ground, and McGrath and Turner and the agent 1here told me that 1 haa located the ground and it was mine. I didn't think anything about it then, but I am going to claim it now. “We got there July. 4, and, as I said, I bad ber launched i1n a month. She was 152 feet long, 124 feet on her keel, drew 13)4 inches of water light and 3}4 feet with a i0ad of 300 tons.- Well, three ucurs after she left on-her first trip she was at Stew- arts Island, a few miles from St. Michaels, loading with wood for fuel to go into the river. Two barres were alongside with the wond. A heavy storm’ came up at 10 o’clock at night, and the tide sét 5o sirong she couldn’t hold her anchor. She.iried to steam up, but-the barge towlines gof tangle« up in her wheel and eccentric and she went ashore. Captain- Siiverson sent an Indian to 8t. Micnaels with word that she was a total wreck and to send ‘down everybody to save what they couid. Mr, Newman said to me: ‘Well, Wetherbee, there's $100,000. What can you do with it? 2 I “1 got her all right in just eight days. She ran on the river until last year, when she got stuck, and they blew a hole in fier trying to blow the ice around ber loose. They took her machinery out and put it in a parge that 1s running now. . “I dor’t know whether I'll getto Daw- son this year or not, but if not I can stay at St. Michaels all right. Putitin about those expert miners that will get anybody a bonanza that will siake ‘hem. They. can send word to me at 3435 Sixteenth CLL T A THE NOYO READY. Will Lead Away the Fleet of Special Craft Being Fitted Out." The Caspar Expedition Abandoned and New Ones Being Planned Daily.: The steam schooner Noyo, first of the fleet of special craft bound northward with gold-seekers, is to leave this fore- noon with over a hundred men, a-dczen women and a large and picturesquely .as- sorted cargo, which includes avout (wen- ty-five donkeys, horses and mules. On the Noyo go those who had engaged passage with the rival expedition of the Caspar, which was abandoned las!’ night and consolidated with that of trie Noyo. The Noyo lies at Mission-street -wharf and there was a crowd and a busy scene about her all day long. A .number of boats, all ready to put togetiier when the lakes beyond the pass are reached, are be- ing taken along by Iittle partieg of men who are traveling together.- Those who take along pack-animals and do.not have to stop to build boats will be the ‘sristoc- racy of the pass. Bags of beans, ca - after case of canned meats, bags of dried fruits - - and vegetables and oilsacks fillel with clothing, etc., are the most numerous features of the heterogeneous cargo. The Noyo will nave all the passengersand freight she can carry. Loadinc the mules is always the fyn of getting off for Alaska these days. . After. In medicine means most curative ‘power for your money. 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