The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1897. sure yesterday-with the | live at Fruitvale, and from their ietters a ys, who firmly declined | very clear idea can be formed of what was 10 walk the narrow bridge f"m‘“““bby ‘}’e actually oing on at the Klondyke a few ganeplank, they solved the problem by |- "2 ¢ borrowing ibe.old decoy mule that flour- | Weeks ago when all the :"’;‘l‘; ‘g:;:‘"“’d ignes'on the front on accountof such occa- | by the news of the great g R 1 As soon as the two Endeavorers left the sions: - .When he readily showed how it | : was done the others' went aboard all | steamer at Juneau to go through the right:. White Pass they determined that they More new vessels were announced for | sonig not travel on Sunday. They were the Alaskan service y-sterday. The pleas- ure schooner R J. Long, owned by the late Alexander Frank, and a small stéam | true to their principle, and although they lett Juneau with others who traveled every dav, they arrived at Dawson exnclly at launch now at Redwood City, have been bought by an unknown local syndicate, | the same time. Their earlier letters tell which proposes to put engin in 1he | of their little praise ana prayer meetings en route and cof the increused efforts they | were able to muke because of their day of to ! rast. Their iriends who disregarded the ip, | Sabbath broke up the track and lefia good | trail for the Oaklanders to follow. An interestinz little incident happened eehogner and. go up the Yuson' with both schooner and launch,’ The yacht El Sueno of Alameda is be fitted for another now mysteriou 3 and the .schooner . Chileat, now up fthe coast, will be back to-day to make ready | for the- trip. The. gasoline schooner |the day before Dawson was renched The Chetco, whicli is to start forat pthe | men who rushed ahead seven days a Yucon with & party soon, rece its | week struck a wrong trail and they were two days getting back. They resained the right path just in time to meet Clark and Ward and all arrived together. The third captain in tvo week Fifty ‘doilars. premiu being offeréd for tickets on the National City b Herriman & Mills will start | Fruitvale boys claim the distinction of for 2koa on.. Sacurd Tnere, is | being the pioneer Endeavorers of the Yu- fuite.a rsh for tickets on tiie Hamboldt, | kon. 2 which the compdny headed bv Mayor Arthur Clark, Fred Collins and Ed Wood of Seattle has chartered. The crew | Sutherland, all employes of the Oakiand of the Humbold: surprised by being | Iron Works, left here in the spring of 95 paid off and'-discharged yesterday, but |and spent the summer in Alaska. They fe etier when ‘they were told that they | returned in the fal! ant! went back to would be ‘hired again on shipping before | work. On January 15, 1896, they started tue United St Shipping Commissioner, | out again, a!l fitted for a long expedition. A5 is necessary for a deep-sea voyage. The | Lawrence Wara and Will~ Clark, two Humboldt is 1o leave hereon the 9 h inst: | more of the employes, left at the same They took the steamner Umatilla to Junean and_then traveled overiand via White Pass. They each took sleds bu:lt here and two tons of provisions. It is not an easy matter to get letters Dawson to Jun There are fre- 2nt onportunities ing the summer, is often difficult to get mail from for. Seattle, and thence on the 13th, the | time. fare being $300 to Dawson. DEVOUT YUKONERS. | Christian Endeavorers Write 8 ny little settlements winers in of Joys and Perils of ouuding dis me of the 5 rried by Indians, and others e ¢ k as if they had been dropped into water or kept alongside a ham, and evident that it would be very tryiog to locate a missing letter. A great deal has teen said about the Gold-Seeking. kland ‘Young Men Who Ob-} serve the -Sabbath at rthern winter, but young Ward evident- Iy found some good times in summer, for Klondyke. n earlier letter he says: . ne some hard work, but We are havi T are enjoying ihe trip immensely. Alaska OaxraNp OF ~ Fraxcisco Catr.) a couutry, full of beautifal e away, Aug SRS ve We have in the fish . Arctic trout or grayling and there are grouse, foot hens, es= and plenty of big game. or 1wo ago there wers two bears and throw from It is not necessary to work el sev- en daysa week to get rich in the Klondvke ence A. Ward and Will Clark of | a nidose within a stor Prospect Hill Presbyterian Church Arthur's party awve killed one ave provea tEat it is possible to gather moose, LWO mountain goats, treasure and yet remember the Sabbath nx and one beaver. t yresent by work- by American Trading Company. work at $15 per day and ex- peunses, but added that he did not expect to keep it holy. Ward and Clark are two active members of the Christian Endeavorer Society. They have j written to their parents, who “THE WONDERFUL KLONDYKE.” Letter From a Pioneer Christian Endeavorer to His Parents at Fruitvale. N (R Rt “We.have reached the wonderful Klondyke, and it is really all and more than the reports have been. for every day it shows up botter. A man found a nugget that weighed ten pounds, and you see what that means at $17 an ounce. .~ “There are several men here that did not have enough money last fall to buy pro- visions for the winter, that are worth more than half a million now. Wages are §15 per day in the mines and $10 in the city. “The day I wrote to you last (May 17), I had the lack to shoot a caribou, or wild reindeer, that weighed about 400 pounds. We were floating down the river about 8P . (light all pight), and 1 saw him on the river bank. We let the boat float within about 150 yards from him, and then I shot, but only one out of four hit him, but that was all that was needed, for it went through his lungs, and as soon as he was hit he made a leap inlo the river to swim across, I suppose, but he did not swim his own length before zeeled over as dead as a door nail. We drifted onto him, put a rope on his neck and floated on down till we found a nice camp whe:e we pulled him outand dressed him. Wien we reached Klondyke we =old him at 50 cents a pound. “The reporis and prospects get better every day and there are stampedes in all ons nearly every hour. § :‘We did not reach 1the Hootalinqua River last wiriter as we wished to do, but only reached Shallow Luke before the ice troke up. There we found Arthur Ciark and Ed Sotherland staying with their provisions. When we reached them we built a boat and three of us were going to tuke scme more provisions to the other boys who had gone on ta the Hootalingua, and i we saw fit to stay and work. “‘After we bad our boat, built we started on our trip (June6). The first day we had a nice wind and made about eighteen miles in/five hours and a half and on our way stopped at a small island and got some sea gull eggs and seven goose eegs, but they did not all prove fresh. The next day being Sunday we laid off. On Monhday we started down the river between Shailow Lake and Taku Arm (Tagish Lake). *‘The stream was very fast, and the first day we tried to let the boat down with ropes, but nearly got swamped. The next day we got entirely swamped and every- thing turned over into the river—of course, we were not in the baat—but we were 300n in the river and scrapitg up the flour and, in fact, ali thai we had with us— about 809 pounds of food. We got our boat out and calked it up again, but we lost a frying-pan, bean pot, one of our 45.75 Winchester rifles ana some underwear. The next day we reacned a vret!y rough-looking place in ths river. We took our pro- visions out of the boat and tried to let the boat down empty, but the water washed it under the cliff and down she went, and the currenc being so strong it broke our rope and away weut the boat. ‘‘We made a short cut ac-oss the land to the mouth of ths river, but we could not find the boat. .We came back and dried our provisions, with the intent of walking back to camp, but a few days after Will Clark found the boat and we tried to get her off again. Again we lost her, and this time for good, for she driited across the river where we could not reach her. Then we cached our goods and walked back to camp. We hrd a three days’ walk, with sevenly pounds on our back. When we reached camp Ed Su‘her!and was not there, but he soon showed up with two wild goats and we had a fine feast. “A week later Will Arthurand Ed built another poat on Takoo Arm and suc- ceeded in getting there. In five weeks they returned with the rest of the boys, and we built a boat or scow 7 teet 6 inches by 22 feet. We took our provisions across coun- try to the windy arm of Tagish Lake. On our way down we met the young men who were going to Circle City and took letters. “Arthur's party could not do any mining, because the river was too high, but as soon as we get back we bope to be able to do a little mining this sea-on. “There are about thirty miners on Hootalinqua and we shall be able to send you word as to how we do get on. We do not know yet whether the river will pay or not. If it pays we may sell out our goods and come out 50 as to bring 1n more, instead of lying 1dle all winter.”” LAWRENCE WARD. dire 4 Lake . Daser lee 3shf—{ 60 /20 780 to the Mouth of Portland Miles Canal. Map Showing the Several Routes From Pacific Tidewater to the Yukon Fasin and the Boundari's Claimed Respectively by the United States and Canada, From Mount St. Eias South that to last only till the rush was over. Later developments have proven that the rush had not begun when he wrote. BOOMING TRADE. This City Largely Supplying Northern Outfitters for the Yukon. Hundreds of Thousands to Measure the Trade of Two Weeks. Hundreds of thousandsof dollars have been spent in San Francisco in the past two weeks as adirect result of2 the Kion- dyke rush, and the general! Alaska devel- opment which has taken & new and vig- orous start will be a very important ele- ment in 1he prosperity of this metropolis of the Pacific Coast from now on. Many San Francisco wholesale and re- | tail houses Lave done a large business in | the way of supplying individual outfiis to the hundreds who are going or about to go to the gold fields, but the largest voiume of the business that has come to this City has naturally come to the wholesale trade which hassupplied a large part of the retail trade at Junean and at Seattle and at other points on the Sound. Very large quanti- ties of goods, too, have been supplied to the two big trading and transportstion | compan ies—the Alaska Commercial and the Northwestern—who have gota prac- | tical monopoly of this Yukon trade and wno have crowded bundreds of thousands | of dollars’ worth of goods into their terri- tory. Local manufacturers, too, in some lines have quickly done a good deal in supply- ing this new trade. The market is bare of evaporated vegetables, especially pota- toes and onions, of which the supply was limited. At Seattie two vegetable-drying establishments have been running night and day and evaporated potatoes, the fa- | vorite vegetable supply, bav: been or- dered from the East by express by some firms. Here the demand has sent the prices of beans and bacon upward, the tormer costing a cent a pound more tHan a week ago. There is a fierce rivalry among the Sound cities and between Reattle and Juneau for the Yukon outfitting trade. Victoria, B. C., is grappling wildly for it in competition with Seattle and it is now feeling good over the rigid enforcement of the bigh protective iariff on every pound of a miner’s outfit that gets into British territory and which will divert a good deal of trade from Seaitle to Victoria. 1f the rush to Alaska kecps up next year, as it doubtless will do, San Fran- cisco will continue to do a large retail outfitting business, but its wholesale trade will afford the largest volume of business. Indirectly a large amount of money has been put into circulation here through the transportation compani hotels and so on, as a result of the fever. Some of the local business men told of the new activity yesterday. Jacob Goldberg, president of the grocery firm of Goldberg, Bowen & Co., said yes- terday : A great deal of money has been left here by the miners who are going to the Klondyke. We have =old an immense amount of goods, and are still selling. When the expeditions are fitted out to go up mnext spring San Fran- cisco dealers will reap another harvest. Dried fruits and vegelables, bacon and smoked meats, butter and beans have all been sold in wholesele lots and at good prices, and are much in demand. Beans are now 1 cent bigher-than they were two weeks ago. What the outcome of the goid strikes will bs from & commercial standpoint is hard to pre- dict. Ot course this City will get its sh the business, as will Seaitle and Spoka 3 in ail probabllity Victoria will become the outfitting station. A great many goods can be bought cheaper there tnan here. The duty proposed to be put on all American goods will work a hardship on our merchants and will give the most of the trade to British Colum- bia. If gold strikes are made on the American side our goous can supplied at reasonable prices and we will be able to compete with the Canadian merchants. There will no doubt be & number of provision establishments started in the country and competition will bring down the price so that.some of them will lose money. Prices are always high at first ina mining community, but as_ the country is settled up they always come down. Roth, Blum & Co. have put up from 80,000 to 100,000 pounds of meat to go north. Mr. Roth eaid: San Francisco will undoubtedly get a deal of the business which will result from the gold sirikes. Seattle and other cities on the coast will get their share, but we supply them to a large extent, and their gain is ulso ours. Nextspring there will be anotber rusk, and large quantities of provisions will be soid here. Wheaton, Breon & Co. have had an in- crease 1n ousiness. It began several months ago, when the large trading com- panies began to lay in their stocks for this fall. They supply a nuinber of retail houses, and their orders have been in- creased, as have their orders from Seattle. J. S." Russell, manager for Kingan & Co., said: There has been a marked 1crease in busi- ness in all lines not only here but all along the coast. Heretofors Seattle has been sup- piying all of tnat country, but this City is the natural center of all mining supplies and will now get the bulk of the Alaska trade. The entire country is feeling the boom in business irom these gold discoveries. The Chicago purk market has taken quite a jump. I bavere- ceived inquiries from Memphis, Nashville and New York in regard to the Klondyke. They come from legitimate business concerns which ar. contemplating investing capital. Of course there will be some speculating, but the majority are going (o go into it in a business way. Asyndicate has been formed in Chicagzo to buy up mining properties not only in Alaska but also bere in California. So & boom in mining interests here at home wiil be the result of the Klondyke discoveries. Money has been unlocked and put in circulation and confidence in business bas been greatly re- stored. Goods have been moved that there was 10 demand for before. We have disposed of about 100,000 pounds of meat. The Deming-Paimer Milling Company have had largely increased orders. There is a demand for goods that will keep for quite a while. The trading companies which have been buying by fifty-ton lots are now buying by 1500-ton lots. They put in their orders some months ago, which shows ihey had some idea as to what bad been done in the way of gold discoveries before the news became gen- eral. San Francisco will be the produce station for the northern country and busi- ness will be greatiy increased. The American Biscuit Company has noticed an advance in business. All the orders from the retail frms are larger. It is difficult to_teli just how much of this is due to the Klondyke strikes, but there haye been a number ot oraers direct from people going to Alaska, and they will run up 1nto the thousands of dollars. Mr. Feder of Rosenthal, Feder & Co. said: “The gold strikes have grestly in- creased business in all lines and from now on we may expect a steady growth.'’ THE AMERICAN'S GOLD. A Yukon Miner Who Stakes His Fortune on American Creek. The American side of the Yukon gold region flashes out briefly but promisingly in a letter written from Circle City, under date of May 10, to M. J. Lidston by a friend who bas been mining for two years in tbat country. The writer knew all about the Klondyde, but amid the rush- ing there from all the diggingson the American side he was planning to return to his own rich claim on American Creek, a tributary of Forty-mile Creek. The por- tion of the letter not dealing with personal affairs is the following: 1f he is not home tell him that anything he hears about the country he may beiieve, the Klondyke in particular. She is a world beater. You cannot hear 100 much about it. Tell him also that I'expect to make & homestake on the American Creek. I sm now waiting for the river 1o break up. Ishall go up the river on the first boat. Iam going to get my groung i shape 1o open up. We have $12 to the fan. Of course that was (he biggest prospect. The many fairly paying placers scat- tered for miles alonz the Yukon from the boundary to the Porcupine River had drawn to that region a population of nearly 3000 when the Klondyke discovery on the Canadian side was made and those miues were nearly ail abandonea in the excitement. All of the great army of prospectors rushing in this year will have to prospect elsewhere than in the Kion- dyke, which was staked out months ago. A great many will go on up the head- waters of the Yukon in British territory, to the Stewart, the Lewis, the Pelly, etc., and their tributaries, but a great many will turn their attention to the American side of the boundary, where untold mil- lions in placer and gravel deposits tnques- tionably await discovery and development. It was recertly learned, by the way, that the richest poid, ounce for ounce, yet found in the Yukon country came from American Creek. 8o little silver was in the gold that it was worth unrefined over $19 an ounce. R S Greatly Overestima‘ed. A Federal official, whose posilion makes bhim familiar with the output of the precious metals of this continent, says that the reports of gold taken from the placers of the Yukon are greatly exagger- ated. To judge from the reports, one might beiieve that several millions ia gold have been taken out, whereas in fact the entire amount taken outof Alaska and the British Northwest has not been over $1,400,000, and not over $500,000 more is due from that direction. Yo some extent this may be accounted for by the fact that much of the gold irom the norih is not as valuable as that of this State, some of the placer gold not being worth over $14 to $16 per ounce, whereas many supposed it was worth from $17 to $19 per ounce. Since the United btates Mint opered on Monday morning the Kiondyke miners have taken between $100,000 anc $125,000 to have Uncle Sam convert the same into the coin of the realm. How much more will be taken there is not known at pres- ent. EL SUENO, TOO. This Alameda Yacht Being Quietly | Fitted Up for the Alaskan Trip. ALAMEDA, CaL., Aug. 3.—The chances that El Sueno will go to the Kiondyke arc now very good. Joseph A. L:onard said this morning that work on the re- modeling of the yacht for the trip would probably be begun to-morrow. ‘Iam not at liberty,” sa’d Mr, Leonard this after- noon, “to give any details of our plans or who is Interested, but the matter is prac- tically settled. We expect to begin work to-morrow on El Sueno. This trip is not a joke, but a good business position. The men who are backing it are not in the habit of making jokes of that kind.” The Chetco, under command of Captain A. H. Ritcbie of this city, will leave for Alaska in a few days, probabiy the last of this week. ‘‘She has been detained beyond the time expected owing to some difficulty over the insurance of the vessel. That has been now all adjusted, however, and itisonly a matter of a day or so unti she can go to sea.” P. H. Spencer of this city will be among the Cheico's crew. -Mr. Spencer is a car- penter, and is wetl known in this City. = NOTES OF THE RUSH. A Fortune Won at Randsburg Seeks Investment in the Yukon. H. C. Anderson, till recently one of the owners of the noted Wedge mine at Randsburg, has been in this City and at Santa Cruz for the past day or two, and last night leit for Seattle on his way to Klondyke. Mr. Anderson believes the mines on the tributaries of the Yukon are very rich, and that this is an opportunity to secure wealth there. He will probably be gone for at least a year and possibly much longer. Mr. Anderson has lately sold bis interest in the Randsburg mine for $20000. Some of this money he ex- pec s td invest in the Klondyke mines, C. H. Rossback will leave for the Yukon on the Walla Walla this morning witha big outfit. He has along five cases of evaporated onions for which he paid 40 cents a pound, Yesterday he refused $1a pound for them, declaring that he would sell them at $5 an ounce this winter. Edward Holland, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, a few days ago sent the following telegram: AvGUST 2, 1897. Dominion_Secretary, Oltawa, Canada: Advise me if your Government is collecting duties at Klondyke on ordinary outfit for miner for one year. EDWARD HOLLAND. As yet no answer has been received, and there is doubt as ‘to whether there wiil be any. J. H. Mahoney, who two ago left tbe Yukon, is making arrangemenis to again go to the north, and will probably leave on the steamer Noyo to-day. “I snhall go to Dyea, and thence over the Chilcat Pass,’’ said Mr. Mahoney. “The worst thing about it is gefting an outtit together. This, however, I think I can do.” CALIFORNIA ' PANS. An OIld ‘Miner Writes of Some Yields That Beat the Yukon. Editor of The Call—Sir: On the ferry- boat yesterday I beard a man assert that the stories of discoveries of gold placers on the Klondyke were absolute lzbricn- tions got up in the interest of ship-owners and merchants of San Francisco and other coast cities. He was evidently of the calamity school, and possessed the talent peculiar 10 his class—volubility.’ He spoke of one report that was recently. published in the coast parpers in which tated that one pan of gravel yield. - ), and seid that gravel of such’ rick- ness had never been found in any pars of the world. ‘I'his reminded me of my own early experience in the placers of Caii- fornia, incidents of which I atiemipted to relate, but the individual aforesaid was a native of Nebraska. So with your permission, Mr. Editor, T will tell a few stories of our own placers as we found them in the days when our steps were lighter and our bair darker and. more abundant, Near the town of Yan- kee Jim’s, Placer County, I once saw 93 ounces and a fraction of gold washed from one pan of gravel. I helped clean out the crevice in the bedrock from which it was taken, saw it washed out and weighed the gold dust myself. The gold ddst of that =ection was, as I remember, worth about $18 per ounce, making a total of nesrly. iwice the value of Klondyke's best up to date. From a crevice in Indian Canyon, in the same county, I once washed. a vpanful of gravel that yielded over $700. .On the middle fork of the American River I saw $1200 washed from one pan, and on the same day a nugget of solid gold weighing twelve pounds was found in the adjoin- ing claim. Gravei and ‘*'pockets” in quartz ledges exceading in richness that #bove staicd have been fonnd in thousands of different localities in the mountains of California. Therefore there 13 nothing thos far in the reports from the norih that taxes the credulity of an old Califor- nia miner. A. W. PooLE, Grub Gulch, Madera County. G o Alaska Development Company.= Articles of incorporation of the Southern Alaska Mining and Development Com- pany were filed in the office of the County Clerk yesterday. The capital is fixed at $70,000, of which amount $1000 has been subscribed by each of the organizers: Henry T. Renton, Charles Greene, Frank T. Gerst, Charles Olaine, Richard B. Tripp, George L. Decotey and John Oiaine. il Newspapers on the Klondyke. Though it is not certainly known here that a newspaper has yet been established at Daw- son, one of the officia s of the Alaska Commer- cial Company said yesterday that he bad no doupt one had been issued there for some time now. A small newspaper outfit was iong 8go said (0 be in Dawson, $o that it is not im- Embublu that the next steamer from the Yu- on may bring out, along with another in- stallment of golden ireasure, copies of & joul nal issued in that ultima thule. A repres:nta- tive ofa house d aiing in printers’ supplies stated yesterday that he had also furnisced, some two weeks ago, & press, type and mate- rials for printing & newspaper at Dawson. Two outfits for pubhishing & small yaper have been shipped frum Seaitle—one for the pro- posed Yuken Nugget—and several newspaper men and others who have gone there have pianned to publish & paper if possible. There will pe & pa.ladium there soon if there is not already. A Committee of Fouwr Will * Carry an Tnvitation to . - Washington,: Tha»iewsplpeis Will: Be Askgéj Assist.in the Laborof Raising The McKinley invitation tominittee bss détermined that even .in the event of the A T profitless he will not be. forced to’that -conclusion - through lack of a cordial invitation... The committee met last evening in' Assembiy - Hall, Mills building, and passed. thie fol- lowing resolutions: e K . WHEREAS, It has been urged:that Califoraja, - and particularly San Francisco, should appre. - ciata the idea of a Presidential visit, and that the dalegation toconvey the inwjtation.to the -President should go to. Washington. ss delegations from other - cities . do, ‘in the interest ot “‘the entire’ community, and at its expense to the- end that :every citi’ zen can feel a personal interest in the mission .ot the deiégation whose efforis will' do" much 1o advertize this great State:east of the Rockies, Reso.jed, That the Board of Supervisors tie' requested to apPropriate such suim as. may b .within its power 'so to do, and to nominate an additionsl membar of - the “delega- tion, and that.the daily newspapers of this v be requested ta epén -their. golumns: for a fund to be.paid to.the treasurer of the committee, - 1. ,‘J:rendum of ‘the Columbian_ Bank, to be used to seid the dele- gation to Washington and to advertise in the East the giories and resources of California: rram | - Resolved. Thiat the chairman be aythorized - to appoint a committee o carry out thé object: of this resolution. i C During .the evening Charles :Alpers, Dawson Mayer, Mar:in ‘Murry and Gen- eral Barnes addréssed the meeting. Gén: eral Barnes, in his argumeant. iavored ain- appropriation on the part..t f. Congress 10 pay the expenses of -a tour for the Presi- dent. He said “be did not believe in & President who had only seen Boston, and hoped that Major McKinley ‘would sse the advantage ¢ hatorr. 5 ¢ At the co. on of General Barnes' re« marks committees were appointad to visit the railroad .management-and procure a special rate for the invitation committes from this City to Washington, d o visit the newspaper offices with-the object in view of procuring their assistance in the labor of raising furnds to send the invitation committee to Washingion. The | meeting then adjourned to await the call of the chair. 5 RIS S Divorce Suits Filed. : Suits for divorce were filed in the.office of the County C.erk yesterday as follows: - H. H. Clark against Mrs. B. M. Clark, for de: sertion. - ol Emma Belliag against Alfred Belling, for - tailare to provide. Minnie B. Johnson against Charles 8. John. 1%08- for desertion and neglect. . ¥ XEW ¥YO-DAY. A BOOK FOR MEN! A Valuable Book That Tells How All Weakness Cured Without Medicine. of Men May Be It tells the cause of mervons troubles. : It explains why some men are weak and others strong. It gives honest adviee to ever man. : - It shows proof that Eleetrieity restores lost manhood after all else has failed. e It Is for You. Write to Dr. Sanden, the inventor of the famous Dr. | Sanden Electric Belt, and he of charge, closely sealed from observation. 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