The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1897, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 189T7. a half miles. Part of the iron is now here. People of Juneau expect] the rush to be bigger than ever next spring. The next news from Dawson City by the ovi is not expected for at least two weeks, if then. six weeks to make the journey from Dawson City to Dyea. name is Barney Barnato,” shouted an enthusiastic gold- “My seeker oh the street last night. “He’s dead and you’ll be, too, before winter is over, another. The report has been brought to Juneau by Indians from Yakutal Bay that Prince Luigi of Italy and scale Mount St. Elias and will Kiondike. erland route this \vay‘ It takes on an average | | ” shouted party have abandoned their plan to | return to Juneau and go into the| | The excitement continues as great in all the settleménts of Alaska | as it is in the States, which are peouring from 300 to 500 people into the territory nearly every other da fessor Andree there with his balloon soon. G. B. Swinehart, proprietor of the Alaska Mining Record, has purchased two outfits and will publish the first newspaper at Dawson City and Circle City as soon as the plants can be set up. THE SKAGUAY BLOCKADE. Line of Supplies Four Miles Long In Slght on the Northern Trail. ALASEA, Aug. 5 (by steam- ship City of Topeka to Victoria).—A line of supplies four miles long is in sight here on the trail and the beach is crowded with merchandise. The crowd here num- bers about 700, The trail is not vet open beyond White Pass, but it soon wiil be. The miners must cut it or remain where they are. As predicted in my last advices 200 volunteers were called for to-day to g0 to work on the trail. They went. A few bicycles are seen Lere. Their owners propose to ride them into the in- | terior. This is an iliustration of the idea the average “tenderfoot’’ has of mountain | passes, trails and the d:fficulties ahead of him, Notices have beer posted that 25 cents will be charged each passenger landing on | the beach or wharf and §2 per 100 pounds is demanded for packing supplies over the trail by wagon or packhorse. About 200 horses and several wagons are now here. will be made with the Small fortunes wagons. Many refuse to pay the landing fee on | an open beach of a free ocean, and if the company attempts to enforce it thers may ! be trouble. The company has applied for a patent to the land, but it is said it has not yet been granted. ara here now. Itisimpo: le to see how they are going to be fed, as hay and grain are scarce. They will make food for dogs and Indian packe:s if the rush keeps vp. DYEA, Avssga, Aug. 5.—If the scenery hereabouts not mountainous the baggage on the beach would obscure the landscape. Every steamer from Juneau piles it hizher. A day’s work by packers and packtrains does notreduce it percept- Confusion increases. Many have lost their outfits. One hundred more In- dians have arrived and fifty more horses, but from the way the rush keepsup it will be Christmas before all the supplies could be moved if the open season in the Yukon country continued that long. Influenced by stories 2s to the Skaguay and Dyea trails the crowd tlocks back at great expense. The smallest canoe, or any old tub that will float, is worth from $10 to $40 a day to its navigator. Fisher- men are deserting the salmon canneries and taking the boats with them to make money here. Twenty-one cents a pound is now of- were ibly. fered by the excited, scrambling whites to | the silent redman for packing. It is ac- cepted if 22 cents is not offered. The Klondike is on this side of the mountains at present. No end to the in- creasing blockade is in sight. A city of tents is being built. Experienced pros- pectors are abandoning their trip and will not go in until next spring: but the ‘“‘ten- derfoot” wrangles with packers and stag- gers over the pass and down Lake Ben- nett, i The shores of the lake resemble a ship- yard,with dozens of men at work on boats. The sawmill there has got its price up to $20 per 100 feet for lumber. Timber close tothe lake is very scarce and is s8cured at a distance only at the greatest labor. IS Nearly 500 horses | Dawson City people expect Pro-| HAL HOFEMAN. About 600 people are now here and every boat brings more. | It has been given out that Canadian customs officials will change their station | to Lake Tagish, twenty miles beyond Lake | Bennett, where they are sure they are in | their own territory. They have collected duties here on American soil and broke the.packages of provisions in bond to get something to eat. The collector has dis- | cretionary powers, but he isreported to have said: - | “Froit, ice, prayerbooks and Bibles go in free; everytbing else pays or don’t go."" Many gold-seekers have not got money enouch left to pay the exactine and Righ duty, which runs from 10 to 100 per cent, and can neitber go on nor return. Piles of goods must consequently be left at the lakes if they decide to go in ‘“‘light.” There is no certainty that the season will be open for six weeks more. Tue | situation is very uncertain. | The exacting customs duties will drive | trade from American citiss to Victoria |and VancouveryB. C. No conflict with the Canadian collectors has occurred, but it is threatened and expected. Canadian officials attempled to collect duty on | goods on the steamship Isiander on the | way north. Some paid, but most of the passengers declined on the ground that | | the officers had no right to demand duties | in American waters. Hav HorFrMaN, i S RNING BACK. | Predicted That Not One-Fourth of the Gold-Seekers Wiil Rdach Dawson This Winter. SEATTLE, Wask., Aug. 11.—The steam. ship Rosalie reached here early this morn- ing from Alaska. Her passengers report that hundreds of miners are now en- camped at Dyea. They are compeiled to strike their tents and bide their time in | crossing tbe mountain to enter the| golden Yukon country. Many are be- coming disheartened over the prospect of hardships that must be endured ere the goal can be atiained. Men with money are on hand to purchase the outfits of those who may decide to return to the land of convenience and comfort. Men who are doing the purchasing expect to erect warehouses at Dyea in which they will store the outfits. When the rush has | subsided they will pack thé,gocds across | the divide and get them dow®, to Dawson | | City and other camps before the trading | companies get their goods up from the | mouth of the river. Tkey expect to make | an enormous profit on goods they pur- | chase in this way. | The Klondikers who are now at Dyea have organized to keep down packing | rates, and are doing everything pessible | to get over the pass. A rate of 21 cents a pound from Dyea to the. head of Lake | Lindeman has bean decided on by the miners’ organization, and no one isal- lowed to pay more. This step was made | | necessary owing to the fact that men with | money were on tbe ground and offering | as high at 30 cents a pound in some cases to get goods across. The poor man was left behind and something had to bedone. As is usual in such cases an organization was effected and committees appointed to | see that the rate for packing was kept | down. Passengers who landed at Skagaway | | found that while the trail to the summit | was open it was not practical to pack be- | yond that point and many have had theic | goods transferred to Dyea. | Captain Thomas of the ill-fated steamer | Mexico, when asked concerning the cou- ditions at Dyea, said that the paople there | SCORES TU | Me The Steamer Humboldt as She Passed Point Bonita Last Evening. are making the most of the situation. The opening of a trail through Whites seeking an entrance to the Yukon head- waters, Wharfage facilities at Dyea are poor, although the Mexico landed her cargo of both passengers and freight safely on the upland by means of boats. A new wharf is being built at Skagaway. It isdoubtful if all of the people now there get out this winter. J. Wesley Young, who resigned the po- ition of city ticket agent of the Great Northern Railroad to go to Klondike, sailed on the Islander, which teft Victoria on July 29, He reached Skagaway Bay on August 1, and in a Jetter to THE CALL cor- respondent, under date of August 3, says: We have decided to attempt the Skagaway Pass. Itis longer than the Dyea route, but about 0 to 1500 feet lower. We areata | great d ivantage in not having horses, but hoye to be among the few who will get in this winter.. You can form no adequate idea of the great hardships that are to be endured in going over the mountain, especially for those without horsss. It is a fact that many are backing out and will return home. Itis estimated that not more than one-fourth of those who come this fall will get over the Skagaway. It isnotquite completed and no one has yet made the trip thet way. Every one is reducing his stock of provisions, as no | one seems to think he will get over the moun- tain before winter sets in with his complete outfit. One thing is sure, we will have to pay her y duty on our provisions and clothing, for the collector came up with us. The duty will amount to from 20 to 35 per cent. As this pass is so much lower than Dyea this will in time be the general way into the Yukon, and I predict that Skagaway will be & very wideawaske town. At present there is quite a colony here occupying ténts. It has been raining for the two past days. Captain Roberts of the steamer Rosaiie, which will sail again to-morrow for Dyea and tkagaway, stopping at juneau, had the following to say: “We made a quick trip up—in three and a half days. Our passengers were ianded in good time at the dock at Bkagaway. There was considerable confusion along the trailand a great many of the miners are not having much success in getting their stuff in. They have pitcked their tents and piled up their outfits, waiting for packers and for the trail to be fixed up. I was informed that men were at work widening the trails and that they would soon be in a passable condition. The first pack train was expected back from the lake the evening we left. They expect to i Pass was under consideration by those | The Chilcoot Pass is full of pros- | | pectors as far as Sheep Camp. | make the trip in two days.”’ | agood many of her passengers at Skaguay, Captain Rober!s thinks that horses can | be used to adyantage and is advising that they be taken up. The people who are | coming home, says Captain Roberts, are | those who have no monev to pay 10r pack- ing. He saysthat miners had started in j to use the Skagaway trail, although some w back to Dyea, a distance of six milea. Laucelot P elly, one of the prominent young capitalists of Seattle, who went north on the Queen on July with At- | torney Josiah Collins, Marshal Bond of San Jose and others, writes from Dyea, under date of July 29, on difficulties ex- perienced as follows: | > The landing at Dyea is worse than you can possibly imagine. The Al-Ki landed all her passengers there, s they will go over the | Chilcoot Pass. The place is just on the road and g littie above high-water mark, witha mountain running straight up. Her passen- gers were not all off the rocks whean we ar- rived. Our ceptain agieed to run us into Skagaway,which he did. When we commenced 10 unloed the trouble experienced waswhere to put the goods. At first we got a skiff and ran goods & few hundred yards up shore and | landed them on the rocks, but this was much | too slow work with not enough boats, s0 he decided to land the goods on the wharf, which was not planked over. Considerable difficulty was then experienced in getting tle goods up the mile and a half to where the general camp is. All the work ex- ceptsome teaming was done by the passen- gers. The goods were handled eight or nine times. The Skaguay trail is not yet through, al- though the people say it will be in three or four days. Our party hired a small yacht and took our goods to Dyea. It was & long and bard jobto get them ashore, but we finally rucceeded with the aid of two Indian canoes. We arranged with the Indians to pack our goods over Chilcoot Pass for 17 cents a pound to the lakes. The general price has been raised to 18 cents, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see 1t go higher, The Dyes River is terribly swift, and it takes as many as six or eight men to get the canoes up, while many frequently capsize. Latest reports of Skaguay trail are that the pack train which went in six days ago re- turned last night and got through about twenty-eight miles, but landed the goodsata shallow lake, and probably another ten miles will have to be gone through before striking navigable water. The expenses here are aw- fuily high, and you can’t turn around for less than 5. The Mexico is justin and hss landed and the balauce she is landing here. Sam Archer, under date of August 6, writes from Skaguay to friends in Seattle as follows: Ata miners' meeting held last night it was \ Il AT L0 AL ALV The Scene on the Humboldt Just Befcre tfie Vessel Left the Wharf. NO SINIDKINC - FORWA RD THIS NUT 1L | l decided to put 200 men oa the trail and im- Pprove it by removing obstacles and shortening by three miles. Two pack trains have got over the trail to the lakes. There are about 400 people along the route from Skaguay (o the beginning of the trail proper, which makes some 800 in this vicinity to 2o over the pass. The great trouble is lack of horses. who bring borses along are all right, buta large number of those who got in first are | without them and cannot get packing dune for love or money, as pack trains are engaged three weeks ahead. Two pack trains are now at work, charging $20 per 100 pounds. Wages in all Yines is $7a day end board themselves for the present. It is satd that sur- veyors will be over in a day or two to plat the town of Skaguay, and already the laud has been staked off into lots and squatted upon. Asawmill s partly erected, being owned by an English eompany, which hes surveyors out and proposes to build & rajlroad from here to | some point on the lakes connected with ths Yukon—probaply Tagish Lake. A number of people who landed at Dyea have come to Skaguay, it being certiain thag the pass from this point to the lakes is much the better route. The British cusioms officers arrived on the Islander last Monday morning and are now statfoning a post at Tagish Lake, where all will be obliged to pay tax on du‘ia- ble goods. The officers say it will be & reason- | able rate, sa1d to average about 25 per cent. The great cry is for horses, aud those who | brought them along can dispose of them at high figures within the next few weeks, or un- til & larger supply arrives. I was offered $100 for a plug which cost $20. As to boats, the people here say that they cannot be taken over the trail to advantage, even when that is improved, it being es'imated that it would cost about $30 to zet & boat over to the lakes, while plenty of lumber may be had there'and time saved by building there. A very large number of boats are lying here that will be left and lumber purchased at the lakes to build others. Lumber there cost 15 cents a foot, or about §45 for enough for a boat, T T NOW FOR DAMAGE SUITS, Ticket-Holders Who Couid Not Go on the Willamette Demand Reparation. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasm., Aug. 11— The charterers of the steamship Wil- lamette on her present trip from Puget Bound to Dyea with Klondikters and their outfits have a damage suit in prospect in Port Townsend as a result of not being able to carry all the people to whom tickets were sold. Fourteen men here bought tickets for yesterday’s voyage, and also paid the freight charges on their out- fits, but on Sunday they were notified that they could not be accommodated on the vessel. Ex-Collector Wasson’s party, represent- ing California capitalists, was among the number, but terms were made with these by providing for them on a steamer to sail later in the week. Six of the fourteen could get no tickets on boats to sail scon and the Willamette people have refused to provide for them 1n any way. The resultis that two of the men are now having papers drawn up in a damage cass which they propose to in- stitute against the Willamette, in which they will demand sufficient money con- sideration to balance up their dreams of wealth in the Kiondike mines, oty e v FOOD FOR THE MINERS. There Will Be Sufficlent for All If the Stampede Is Stopped Now. CHICAGO. IrL, Aug. 11.—The warning sent out by Secretary of the Interior Bliss brought this response from P.B. Weare, head of the North American Trading and Transportation Company: *‘We congratulate and thank ydu for your official warning to the people rush- ing totbe Yukon-Klondike mining coun- try at this season of the year. We are making gigantic efforts to get food into the country, and shall have a large emount at Dawson, also at the mouth of Tanana River and at the mouth of the Yukon. We will have four sailing vessels and two steamers at the mouth of the Yukon as late as October 1. ““There need be no starvation if the stampede is stopped now. If more people £0 in than can be taken care of, they can £0 down :he river as late as September 20 and come out on our steamers or eailing vessels or winter at provision depots at lower river points. *'We are building_ five steamboats at Fort Get There, St. Michaels Island, this winter, and a heavy force of builders will be there.” s Ladue to Seli His HoldIngs. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Joseph Ladne, the owner of Dawson City, visited Wall street to-day and Lad a long confer- ence with the law firm of Brown & Wells. Theresult was the drawing of a prospectus tor a Klondike syndicate,10 which he is to turn over for an“immense consideration all or part of his rich boldings in the gold fields. It will take ten days to organize the company. Interested parties refused to ull' what the consideration wouid be. tash Loans Made On policies by the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. Statement pub- lished in to-day’s Chronicle and fuller de- 1ails on pages 1843 and 4 of San Francisco Direciory. Tuose | 10NG 4D WATERY [§ THER WAY The Humboldt Departs With -Reinforcements for the Invasion. STARTING OF BIG OPERATIONS. A Large Percentage of That Yukon Gold Will Be Forced Into Circulation. MORE CAPITAL FOR THE NORTH. A Company Organized With Plenty of of Money and Plenty of Plans. Early last evening the chief Klondike expedition by way of the Yukon River this season got fairly under way, amid many cheers and a few tears, when the big new steamer Hutaboldt backed out of the dock at the foot of Washington street and started on her way to Seattle and on to St. Michaels. She carried about sixty passengers, who bad gathered here from all over the land, and in her hold were many tous of freight as well as the big steam river barge, in pieces, and the wealth of other transpor- tation facilities anc suppliea which ac- company this well-fitted expedition. At Seattle a hundred or more additional pas- sengers and a large amount of freight will be taken aboard. It was nearing 6 o’clock when the gang- piank was hzuled ashore and several hun- dred people watched the steamer warp and back out into the stream. Itisalways when a departing steamer has ceased backing and with her prow squared for the Golden Gate begins to surge ahead that the impulse to cheer naturally ar- rives, and it was at this moment that th cheers and the waving of handkerchief: came yesterday evening., Mayor Wood of Seattle, the organizer of the Seattle and Yukon Commercial Com- pany and the originator and manager of the enterprise, sat cown in the cab.n of the”steamer a few minutes yesterday to briefly review the affair and the plans for it. To save time for himself he goes to Seattle by rail and will goon with the steamer from there. “The company has been organized whotly of Seattle men,’”’ he said. *‘The capital is at present $100,000, and it will be invested as fast as required, We have spent in S8an Francisco $22,000 besides the proceeds irom tickets sold here, and this expenditure includes $7500 paid on ac- count of the charter of the vessel. We have spent $16,000 for machinery, ship chandlery and other materials ior our steam barges and boats, und §6000 worth of groceries go with our stock of goods. We have $45,000 worth of marine insurance on our supplies and charter money. Be- sides the passengers and crew we are tak- mechanics at $100a month and found from the time they ieave until they return. The passengers themselves are taking fi.ty tons of supplies, bought here at a total cost of about $5000. “‘We have decided not to take along an extra barge to be towed, but have instead made the steam barge 150 feet long. We .have for it two boilers and engines of 150 horsepower. It will carry 200 tons through shatlow water and 400 tons when fuliy loaded. Its draught es we will load it will be about three and a half feet. The steamer is expecied to reach Seattle the 14th and leave the day after, reaching St. Michaels about the 22d 1nst. *‘We hope to start up the river by the first of the month and to reach Dawson by September 12. I have carefully in- vestigated our chances, and the uniform testimony is that we may safelv rely on open water during all the month of September. We have thus two weeks lee- way according to our calculations. ““We are taking along two experienced 1 ing to St. Michaels twenty-‘our skilied | § rivef pilots, and will have every facility jor making progress. I will take along from Seattle an agent of the company, | and he will have charge of a small ware- house, which will be established on St. Michaels Island as a headquarters for future operations. Either tnis fall or early in the spring we will send to that station cargoes of goods, a iuel supply and material for other miver sieamers. «] pelieve that the Yukon trade will be very extensive. Whether the large yold supply proves permanent or noi, it will last for a number of yearsand makea heavy (raffic. I believe that the output of gold next year will be much larger than this year, and that public interest will be sustained. The difficulty of hLving and operating in that country makes large ex- penditures necessary, and the Alaska gold industry will circulate more money than usual whera large quantities of gold are found. Some of the richest mines of the world are of little advantages to their localities, because they are operated so /| cheaply that little of the product is put into circulation there, but a large propor- tion of the Alaskan output iwill be ex- pendea on this coast, creating a special market that will influence all lines of busi« ness and production.” Those on the passenger list of the Hum« boldt fromi here, some of whom go to Seattle by rail to join the steamer there, are as follows: Warren Place or. J. . McLennan w. H. Armstrong Jr. Cha w. rles V. Gilmer 1. Evans s Peterman H. A. Currier C. B. Clark H. Lewls Kobert P.rvis Seth H. Hickcox Cap:tulu J. . Howland Mrs. J. C. bow.and J. H. Robinson W. Wifllams W. H. Young Hunt Mr. Busch M. Hathaway Louis E. Boukofsky J. @ Jones C. H. Jonss Clase )l Joseph Krecek Pickerts F. W. Graf R. E. Lee Géorge Bentley Pefer M. Anderson A. C. Filkin James Powell L ¥. Greenway L. k. Fulda C. F. Morgan Mrs. C. F. Morgan G. 1. Buxton George 5. Wood W. A, Paxton C. H. Paxton X C. H. Hull Fi H.N. P. Hansen Warren Treat Ho J. J. Stewart Mry Howiand Jonn Peters W. D. Wood Can that term be fairly ap- plied to you? Ifitcan you have reason to be happy and congratulate yourself. Look at thennmber of men that you see daily walk.ng the town with bowed heads and shaking knees eense of *‘all gloom."! ful sight? Yes! —ALIVE! Alive to the sense of it all vou know and you are told that it is all their fault. But don’t be too harsh, my friend. It may be that mental worry has caused much of that weak-kneed appearance. Early abuse of privileges causes the prem- ature loss of them, no mat« ter whether it be brain oy physical power. MAN Man is the most perfect creature on this earth, and to see him all weakened and unfit to do work or to fuifill the great functionsof man in every way is piti- able. And there is norea« son in his decay! —ALIVE! Alive to the fact that the Hudson Medical Inatitute has discovered a grand specific whic) makes ma liness — HUDYAN is ite name. You should tell your wesk brother to write for free circulars and testie monials, which will tell him all about it, and the remedy will cure him, too, HUDYAN has cured 10,000 people on this Continent. )t {s retarded as the greatest specific for debilitation thut There is in the world. It can behid only from its origina:ors. Itnever iails. if youare weak. why not ask for informa- lion about it? Kelief 18 certain; it 1s swift ; it is permanent, and the glory of boing'a whole mau caniiot be described. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Stockton, Market and Ellis Sts. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. KLONDIKE Boats and Sleds. HE ONLY CORRE KLONDIKE BOATIN the market: 20 to 24 f-et long: carrles 2 to men; light and strong: put together with screws; 4 built from persvual experience in Alaska rivers. SAN FRANCISCO LAUNCH CO., Foot of Stockton Strests 3 Take Green Kearny-street Cars. T0 KLONDIKE AND DATWNON CITY! ALL STEAM ROUTE NAVARRG By the fasi sieamer NA to 8T, MICHAELS, thence up the Yukon River direct 1o Dawson aud the golificlds by the light drats river stesmer THOMAS DWYER, avolding barges and all risks of failure. Toave van irancisco AUGUST 17. arrive St Michaels about September 1, arrive Dawson Sep- tembe- 20. The only exp-dition that can possibly vo through. Fare (inglodiug 100 Ibs baggage) $300. Exira freight at reasonable rates. Yukon Fxploitation and Tradin P15 Monsgomers Buserr 8 00 DETAIL MAP OF KLONDIKE ROUTE. ETAIL MAP OF THE ROU' Kiondike from the Chil€oot Pase oo o a large scaie all the rapids, landings and portages ai ves ful. instructions how 10 proceed. (om: . by CAPTALN MGLYON, who has had 19 | vears' experi-ncs in that country as pilot and uide. r.very e in“erested in Alaska shou have one. Pablish-d and soid by GEORGE KNEASY, 718 Third st., ~au Francisco. KLONDYKE BOATS! LEDS AND BURROS, READY FO Sl (o 23 feet lovg wlli carey ?'5‘::’:: GOLD and 4 men © the lightest ana st can be wade; fastened with sorews. b ¢ M @ W. KNEASS, 718 Thizd St GOLD F.ELDS OF PERU. IRECT TO MOLLENDO. IF A SUFFI- Dl number of passeners can be obiained the mil steamer Z< ALANDIA will bedlspatched Fl00 moout Auzus; 15. Fare, ¥200 firstclass: rage. For paricular Iy ¥. 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