The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1897, Page 2

2] = 'I\‘HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1897T. to one of the Supervisors individually for assistance and was given it. Purchasing an outfit he started for Trinity County and landed on the heaa- waters of Coffee Creek, on a small branch known ss Hickory Creck. He filed on a claim and bezan prospecting. Ina few days he bad discovered a lodge and last Monday struck a pay chute that carries fabulously rich ore. To say that Aikens was pleased does ot express it. Beaming all over with joy he went to Trinity Center with some of the ore, and out of this lot Wilson secured the piece brought here yesterday. After buying more supplies Aikens re- turnea to the claim and will continue to prospeci. There is in sight enough rich ore to insure him an independent fortune ior the remainder of his years. e ALL KINDS OF PROSPECTS. There Is Plenty of Gold to Be Se- cured by the Prospectors In Trinity. TRINI1TY CENTER, CaL, Aug. 13. This old and i eretofore sleepy metropylis of the out-of-the-way and littleeknown mining region, fifty-three miles from a railroad, 1s all a bustle to-night over the Coffee Creek el dorado, for the stage rolled in at 9 p. M. with seven more rushers, and Landlord Vollmers finds his big, old in- viting mountain road tavern so overflow- ing that the curly-headed barkeeper is ex- citedly erecting. extra cots. That is y one symptom of the beginning of the new Trinity County rush. Horses can’t be nad for love or money. A spavined mule is to Trinity Center to- nigut s an old steam schooner at San Francisco to the Klondike rush. The Trinity Valley for ten miles around affords fourteen horses and mules, and two of them are sick. Landiord Volimers has sent word 10 ranchers for twenty miles by stages and freighters to send up horses. About fiity rushers have arrived already. The mcjoritv are prospectors, but some are ready for investment ora chance to grubseake a good man, On the stage from Redding to-day was an old prospector, who read the story on the train while en route from Lake County to Puget Sound. He switched and came here. Others came with picks, pans and a few dollars for grub. Nine newspaper corre- spondents are here. To-morrow there will be quite a swarming to Coffee Creek. A large number will be here in a few days. The Graves strike is eclipsed now by the Hickory Gulch discovery of last Sun- day. It is six miles from Trinity Center, in the northern part of Trinity County, up the Trinity River to the mouth of Coffee Creek. From the mouth of the creek 1t is two miles to where Morrison Gulch opens in the creek from the south. The Gruves claim is a mile and a half up the creek. Mrs. R. B. Graves and five children flourish in the cabin at the mouth of the guich while the husband is away to the | mine. Carter guardsthe mine alone. He | has done no work and has not found | $40,000 more as reported. Seventeen miles up Coffee Creek lruml the mouth Hickory Gulch opens from the north at the Neck Hydraulic mine. The gulch is two mileslong, with high and | steep walls; wealth has been found half | way up one side near the head of the | gulch. Many conflicting reports explain the ! situation. William Vollmers, the leading | business man here, gives the following | statements: “The find is in a porphyry dike running | diagonally up the gulcu. Thedike is said | 10 have been traced for threedniles. Its | width is variously given at from 150 to 300 | feet wide. The first discovery of value in the dike was two week ago by Henry Carter, who located or sold a claim show- ing a quartz ledge fourteen inches wide, yielding §40 to the ton. The claim is 1500 feet. Two men, named Burgess and Mur- | phy, who had been vprospecting a few | weeks, made the big strike in the 1500 feet adjoining Carroll's. They found a quartz ledge and porphyry wails decomposed, and on Saturday got $25 from one van. Then they got seventeen ounces from twenty-two pans. “A foreman irom the Nash mine on Eunday tried a double handiul and got $6. No reliable reports have come in since, so no estimate of the value of the claim can be made. A man named Riley has located next to Burgess and Murphy, and Denis Donovan on the other side of Carroll, and both have found pay. The outlook for development of some good mines is bright. There are twenty prospecis in process of development on Coffee Creek, and no two are of ihe same nature. Thereisa belt oi country here twenty miles long as good for pros- pecting and investment as any in Califor- nia. The whole region has been but slightly. prospected. Next door to the hotel several hundred dollars are piled on a poker game to-night. The ride here is long, dusty and wanderfuily picturesque. A wild “new’’ old region feels the first thrill of new life. J. 0. DE GOLD ALL OVER TRINITY. onl Nevertheless, tz—(zraves Brothers Look for Things to Settle on the Basls of Legitimate Work. “I think things will quiet down a little in the Coffee Creek district and on sireams around there after a little,” =aid Jonn B. Graves Jast night. **I'he stages may be packed and all the availaole bus:s and private vehices brought inte requisition for a time, but I do not apprehend that it will continue that way. It will settle down and a lot of good work will be done. There is room up there for a lot of mining aud prospecting. Trinity is an immense mineral county. There is a great deal of gold there. Many of the streams were bprospected very burriedly in the old days. The miners passed along, and when they didn’t find anything they said there was nothing there. “Later investigation has shown there is. It is a good place 10 go for legitimate work, but I think the public gets an ex- aggerated idea of it from the accounts of the recent rich discoveries. “Yes, I call the finds made in the Blue Jay pockets, including the one of $42,000 and the other one made since our arrival here. I had a talk to-day with the owners of the Bonanza pocket mine of Sonora. They wanted to know of me how the goid lay and I explained it to them. “They said it was just the same in the Bonanza. They told of the rock there and of the other conditions and there seemed to be no difference of Importance. “Our gold pockets are found in ledge matter. The ledge itself will average $150 aton. It runs in size from three feet down to aseam. There is soft porphyry above and zjyesn porphry below. "I believe this is aboul the formation in Tuolumne, though there is some slate there. “We do not intend to put machinery on our ledge. Itisan easy mine to work, and until we get down we won’t need any machinery. We want to first sink any way till ve see what we have got. “About our placer proper we have de- cided to pat on a hydraulic this fall. I think a2 No. 1 Giant is as big as we will want. Our claim has ninety-six acres in it. We expect to get out & good deal of gold. There is an arastra there, and any time we wanted hitherto wa could grind up a rock."” GREENBACKS IN DEMAND. Klondikers Want Paper Money Be- cause It Can Be Carrled Easily. STOCKTON, Car., Aug. 13.—Twenty thousand dollars in currency was shipped from here Wednesday to supply the needs of the great rush to the Klondike. The amount was forwarded by H. H. Hewlett of the First National Bank of this city to the Bank «f California of San Francisco, on request of that institution, The fact is of considerable importance, in that it shows the financial effect of the Alaskan rush on the monetary situation of the coast. Hewleft said: “The Klondike excitement is draining the coast of all its small gold, change and paper money. Themen who go to Alaska do not want to carry any moie gold than enough to pay their expenses on the way up. They can stow away $1500 or $2000 in their pockets easily if they have currency. There has been a great rush on the San Francised banks for that kind of money. and the result is they are about out of it. T Klondlkers From Chico. CHICO, CaLn., Aug. 13.—Chico will con- tribute her portion to swell the tide of fortune-hunters in far-away Alaska. Dr. W. E. Mack, Harry Shannan and Gus Keifer left for San Francisco Wednes- day night, where they will take pas- sage on the North Fork, to sail for St. Michaels. Thence tanev will transfer to a steam launch on the Yukon for Dawson City. Dr. Mack is one of Chico’s foremost physicians and has always been favored with a splendid praciice. He is a man of large experience, having been in Colo- | rado, Mexico ahd Nevada during their prosperous mining periods, and is well versed in all kinds of mining. Shannan is a Chico boy, having been reared on his father’s ranch near this city. Koifer has been employed by George F. C. Peterson as a butcher. These gentiemen go well prepared, not only with equnipments, but with money enongh io see thm through the winter. DISTILLED ~S7IRITS IN BOAD. Rules and Regulations Issued by the Treasury Department Concern- ing Bottling. WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 13.—The following rules and regulations amenda- tory of and in addition to the regulations and instructions concerning bottling of distilled spirits in bond have been issued by the Treasury Department: In bottling distilled spirits in bond, when the process ot straining, settling or reducing spirits which the aistiller or owner desires to | follow requires so much time that the whole process, including the bottling and casing of the spirits, cannot be performed within the working ours of one day, such additional time as is actually necessary for the purpose will be allowed, but not to e¢xeeed six days in all, reckoned from and iscluding the day that the packages are removed to the bottling warehouse. When a period of more than one day and not to exceed six is required and actually employed, a single cisteru will be allowed of the size and constraction aiready provided by regulations for receiving, mingling and re- ducing spirits when witharawn jfrom the original packages; but there may be usedq, if desired, a number of bottling tanks or cis- terns equal to the number of days required by the distiller for the completion of his process of preparing spirits for bottling and casing the ing tanks must be ot the shape hereto- fore provided. They must be connected with the mixing or reducing cistern by close and securely connmected pipes, mensions as will enable each of them to re- ceive the entire contents of the mixing or re- ducing clstern, and to contain the iull quan- iity of spirits to be botiled during one day. They must be numbered serially and supplied wiik glass gauge tubes, with fastenings ar- ranged for locks. and the ccis in the pipes leading to the bottling tauks and faucets through which spirits are drawn must be so arranged as to be locked. When the process includes the straining of spirits a siraining sppuratus may be located, if so desired, between the mingling and re- ducing cistern and bottling tanks and to be connected with sultabie closed pipes. In no case must spirits removed to & botiling ware- house on one day be intermingled with spirits removed thereto on any previous day. On or before the last day of the period employed the process of bottling and curing spirits must ba comp eted and cases removed from distillery premises. When the spirits remaiving in the bottling tank are less than the quantity necessary to constitute a fuli case the spirits £o remaining should at once be drawn off and bottled. When the process of mingling and reducing the spirits has been completed in the cistern at or before the close of the day on which the spirits were withdrawn from original pack- ages, they may be drawn into one or more tanks or cisterns and may stand in such until bottled, but not to exceed the number of days employed by the disuller in his process and in no'case more than six days. After draining spirits from the recaiving cistern to the tank ihe tank must be securely locked, withall faucets connecied therewith, and so rematn until drawn off for bottling. All data required by law must appear on the botile stamp, nnd stamps will be printed or engrayed tnereon before -being issued by this flice. The data of bottling is so moditied as to allow the date of bottling tobe branded among the cases or 10 be expres-ed by giving the season in which the bottling is done. e THAYER AND BRYAN. Interesting Correspondence Between the Two Nebraskans. LINCOLN, NEBR., Aug. 13.—Some inter- esting correspondence between ex-Gov- ernor John M. Thayer and W. J. Bryan, growing out of the charge made last tall that Bryan in his speeches had advised his supporters to wear McKinley badges and participate in Republican parades with intent to deceive, was piven to the press to-day by the ex-Governor. Late in No- vember Thayer wrote Mr. Bryan, asking about the charge. He received no reply, and some months Jater repeated the in. quirr. Bryan replied, virtuaily admitting that he so advised voters, and justifying his action. In the course of his letter he said: In speaking of the attempts of railroads to coerce their employes, I said thatin these hard times, when employment is so difficult to find, I did not want to advise laboring men to do anything which would lose them their employment, and added that they should wear Republican badges if necessary, march in Republican purades 1f they were com- manded to do so, and even contribute to the R-publican campaign fund if that was re- quired by their cmployers, but they snould Yoie according to their convictions on election ay. The right to vote according to one’s con- science is a law-given right. Coercion is a violation of law, and when I advise employes tovote as they please I am taking higher | moral ground than those who countenance coercion. Thayer replied to this communication to-day. He denies that coercion was at- tempted during the campaign, and de- nounces Bryan for practicing what he terms hypocricy and deceit. —_— Weyler Ievigns., NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug, 13.—The Her- ald's Havana special says: I have learned on what seems the best of authority that Weyler has sent hisresignation to Madrid. The report is generally believed to be tru. No doubt the resignation of Weyler is aue to the sination of Senor Canovas, through whose personal wishes Weyler was retained in Cuba. A SRR An Oviental Incineration. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 13.—Pak Sung Bong of the Korean legation, to-day wired the widow of the late Korean Prince, So Kwang Pom, that he had requested that his remains be cremated. This will be done on the 14th, at 4 ». M. It is ex- pected that this incineration will be at- tended by a distinguished company of]ot thousands of old residents of Alaska, Orientals, end of such di- | Yl dulln The Gasoline Schooner Besse K, With the Yacht El Sueno Aboard, Was Brought Over From QOakland Creek Yesterday and Docked at Mission 2. The Yacht Has Been Fitted Out With a 25-Horsepower Engine, and Will Prove the Most Comfortable Boat That Has Yet Made the Trip Up the Yukon to Dawson City. KLONDIKE STILL BOOMS Many Will Start for Dawson on the Steamer North Fork. Weather . Records Show the General Climate of Alaska. Activity Along the Water Front Just Before the Last Craft Go Forth, There was considerable interest in Klon- dike matters all day yesterday, and the activity about the othces of the steamers that are yet to go was great. The prin~ cipal interest was in regard to the North Fork, which w1l sail Monday. During the period of waiting for the | ships to sail more or less discouraging re- | ports from the northland are coming in. | Many who have already arrived at Juneau | and other outposts are beginning to send | warnings that it is useless for prosvectors to come uniess they have large amounts of cash and goods for the spring. They all say there is nothing in sight savea | long and very tedious wait. | T. M. Ferguson received a card from Al | Robinson yesterday. Robinson was at | Juneau, and, among other things, he said: | “Any one you know that is talking of | coming bere before spring ought to be| warned in time to stop. It isalmost sui- cide without $500 or §600. Whatever they get at the other eund will be earned ten | Limes over. There is a great deal of error | about the advantage of rushing here. The old fellows here, who know the Alaska winters, all say that the thingtodoisto | remain away unti spring. Iam sorry I/ came 50 soon.” | The Weather Bureau at Washington bas | issued the following builetin with refer- ence to the weather of Alaska: In the Klondike region in midwinter the sun rises irom 9:30 t0 10 A. M. and sets from 2 t0 3 P. )., the iotal length oi davlight being about four hours. Remembering that the sun rises but a few degrees above the horizon, ana that it is wholly obscured on & great many days, the character of the winter months may easily be imagined. We are indebted to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for a series of six months’ observations on the Yukon, not far from the site of the present gold discoveries. The ob- servation® were made with standard instru- ments, and are wholly relisble. The menn temperatures oi October, 1889, to Avril, 1890, both inclusive, are as fullows: October, 33 degrees{above zero); November, 8 degrees’ (above zero); December, 11 degrees (below zero); January, 17 degrees (below zero); February, 15 degrees (below zero); March, 6 degrees (above zero); April, 20 de- grees (sbove zero). The daily mean tempera- ture tell and remained below the freezing point (32 decrees) from November 4, 1889, to April 21, 1890, thus giving 168 duvs as the length o1 the c.osed season of 1889-90, assum- ing that outdoor operations are cuntrolled by temperature, only being suspended when the daily mean falls to or below the ireczing point. The lowest temperatures registered during the winter were: 32 de:. below in November, 47 beiow in December, 59 below in January, 55 velow in February, 45 below in March, 26 below in April. The greatest continuous cold occurred in February, 1890, when the daily mean for five consecutive dnys was 47 degrees below zero. The weather moderated shightly about the Ist of March, but the temperature still remained below tue ireezing point. Gen- erally clondy weather prevaiied, there being but three consecutive days in any month with clear wentner during the whole winter. Snow fell o about one-third of the daysin winter, | and a less number in the early spring and late fall months. Greater cold than that here noted has been ex- perienced in the United States for a very short Ume, but never hias it continued so very coid 50 long a time. In the interior of Alaska the winter sets in as early as September, when snowstorins may be expected in the moun- tains and passes. Heedway during one of these storms is impossible, and the traveler who is overtaken by them {s indeed fortunate 1f he escapes with his life. Snowstorms. of greatseverily ma, occur inany month from September to May inclusive. he changes of lemperature from winter to summer rapid, owiug to the great ipcresse in the length of e day. In May the Sun rises at abour3 A. and sets about 9 P. M. 1In June it rises about 1:30 4. M. and sets et 10:30 P. M., giving about twenty hours of aeylight and diffuse twilight the remainder of the time. The mean sum- mer temperature of the interior doubtless ranges between 60 and 70 degrees, lwm'dlna 10 elevation, being highest in the middle an lower Yukon valleys. The president of the Alaska Packing Company ieels sure, he says, that there will be great fields of gold in all the Alaska country this year, but he believes there will be great hardships on the part of many thousands who have gone forth badly equipped for the disastrous voyacge. He thinks they ought 10 beed the advice who say that between now and spring nothing of importance can be accom- plished. D. J. McKinney, whom the stranded Dyea and Skoguay adventurers have elected chief of the camp police, writes tnat it is & piti- ful sight to see men, a few miles out on the trail, giving up in despair, their feet sore from tramping and their backs Taw from packing. Many try one trail, give it up. go back and start out on the othier and fiud it no better. Every move costs money sud lots of it, for packers charge what they please. A couple of men with (wo-horse wagons are making from 0 t0 $100 & day each. McKinney al:0 com- blains greatiy of the way passengers on the steamer Queen were treated on the way to Dyea, declaring that the steward levied black- mail on the passengers, compelling them to DAy him $5 each if they wished to obtain sufi- cient food. The excitement over the rush to Klon- i dike was resumed yesterday when the gasoline schocner Bessie K, with the vacht El Sueno on board, wus dropped at Mission 2, . Only about twenty passengers will be accommodated on thaschooner, and the run through to Dawson City will be made with only a slight stop at St Michael. The gasoline engines bave been re- moved and sieam engines which will gen- erate twenty-five horsepower have been but in their ace. On arriving at St Michael the yacht will be at once placed in commission. Part of her cargo will be | removed to three whaleboats and when | ready to start to Dawson City the El Sueno will not draw more than 3 leet 6 inches of water with ten tons of freight on board. The El Sueno is one of the best known yachts in the bay and on many occasions has carried off the honors for the Encinal Yacht Club. Sue was fitted with auxil- iary gas engines, which were very rarely u-ed, as the yacht made good time in ail kinds of weather. The expectations ofthe adventurers who will go out on the Bessie K are that they will be able to make the greater part of the distance to Dawson City under sail. Should adverse winds be encountered the crew will Jand and gather enough wood to keep the engines going for twenty-tour hours, when an- other s'op will be made if necessary. On arriving on the Klondike the adventurers will form themselves into a close corpora- tion und everything that they may dis- cover will be registered in the name of the company formed 1§ San Francisco. Nearly all of the berths Rave been engaged and the vessel will get away early next week, The steamer Queen takes the place of | the Jost Mexico, leaving Seaitle on the 22d for Dyea direct. She will connect with 1he Walla Walla,which leaves here on the 19th. A nuwber of complaints have been made in regard to the accommo- dations and provisions on the sieamer Queen. Gentlemen who have trav- el d by the vessel say that in the circumstances the accommodations were excellent and the services everything that could be desired. Itisa well-known fact that the bill of fare on all oi the Pacific Coast steamers, boih north and south, is away above the average and compares favorably with that of tue Atlantic liners. | Goodall, Perkins & Co. do not stint their men and Chief Steward Connell of the Queen is one of the best known ana most efficient stewards on the Pacific Coast. DAVIDSON ON KLONDIKE. Professor George Davidson gave an in- teresting and instructive lecture last night at Metropolitan Temple on Alaska and the Klondike. It wasillustrated by many stereopticon views of the coast line, towns, glaciers, the Yukon at various points end a number of the interior camps. The modes of packing, methods of caching supplies, dog teams and other things were also shown. The temple, large as it is, was almost completely filled with intelligent men and women who had come to hear the story of the new dig- Rings. Before the programme ended W. E. Goodman and Pnil Mannder illustrated in a practical way the method of panning the gold, and at the ciose imitation nug- geis were passed around. ‘‘The Humors of the Kiondike'* were set forth by pic- tures and comment by C. B. Newton,while “The Klondike Goldfields and the Routes Thereto” were shown by C. A. Adams. . “Alaska has ashore line of 2500 miles and an area cof 579,000 square'miles,” said Professor Davidson, ‘“‘or one-fifth of the area of the United States. Th- States of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho would require themselves and New York toequal it. Thirty years ago it was bougnt for $7,200,000. Jargely, as I beiieve, on my recommendation, and since then the money has been repaid | seven-fold, “Its gold, timber. furs, fish and other resources are as great as I predictea thirty years ago. This vear we will get 48,000,- 000 salmon from Alaska. Alreadv we nave derived certainly not less than $50,000,000 from that country, ana nearly all of it has come to California. ‘‘The whole Yukon, with its length of 1800 miles and with its brancues 2600 miles,was once under a glacier. Of the dis- tances and the vast differonce in climate, L undertake 1o say, the average man now going there has no conception. California is a greater mining country to-day than the Klondike, rich as the Kiondike mines may be. For thirteen yearsup to 1882 our product of gold wus $719,000,000. In 1852 the product was $81,300,000 of placer gold, or nearly $1,000,000 every four days. Can the Klondike ever reach that? “‘Apout the boundary there is really no question, except as concerns three narbors near Juneau, The English people want to gobble them, and they have not the slightest claim to them. But north, in the vicinity of the Klondike, the differ- ence in the suryeys is notas great as one of the streets of San Francisco is wide,” TIME 10 ST0P THE MAD R Continved from First Page. miners have been constructing permits of wagons hauling for about tweniy miles of the distance and the remaining seventeen devolves upon pack horses. None of the course prohibits the use of horses.” Hinkle says the reporis that attempts have been made to use the White Pass, which resulted in failure, and that traffic was still taking the Chilcoot are mistakes. The White Pass is being used right slone and from present indications will soon be the only one ot the two in use. Mr. Hin. kle says further: “When the rush started the Indians at the Chiicoot Pass were charging 17 cents a pound for packing to the sum- mii. This splendid . profit satisfied them then, but when eager gold-seekers, whose temperature was so high as to brook no delay began to arrive higher prices were offered by some to secure ear- lier service from the human pack animals. This competition soon raised the rates to such a figure that the men of moderate means were excluded, while those taking a grubstake and a syndicate’s exvense money were rushing on into the Yukon, Considerable feeling resulted, and several efforts have been made to mitigate the evil by restriciing the prices to be paid for packing.”’ . Hinkle says Skaguay will be the largest city in Alaska. It is beautifully located and from present indications is the sea- port for the interior. He believes the trail will be used all winter. Skaguay already has assumed the features of a boom town. Real estate dealers are plying their trade in corner lots, and a few eating establish- ments, sleeping apartments and stores of a permanent character are in sight. The unsieady wharf set in the rocky mountain side is being strengthened. Thers is now much more freight dumped in the little city thau can possibly be transferred over the pass this fall and winter and each steamer brings a substantial addition. Letters w.ich came down on the George W. Eider via Astoria were received here to-night. They state that 3000 people are pow. blockaded at Dyea and Skaguay, or engaged in a pellmell rush over the passes. Of these about one hundred are women who accompany their husbands. When horses now en route arrive there will be eleven hundred pack animals at Dyea and Skaguay, but it will take these animals four months at the very least to carry over the passes the several thousand tons of freight now blockaded. About one miner out of every ten becomes discouraged on reaching Dyea, and sees the irpossibility of getting his outfit over the pass this fall, These are selling outfits and returning to Puget Sound rather than spend the win- ter at Dyea consuming their provisions. The troubles of the miners begin when the steamers anchor at Dyea, a mile and a half from shore. There being no dock there all treight must then be lightered ashore on barges and small boats. The tide rises to a height of twenty-five feet and it is dangerous to leave goods on the beach more than a few hours at a time, consequently the outfits are placed on great shelves in rocky cliffs which line the bay on either side. The miner never finds any tws of his packagss in the same place, and the pulling, hauling and fizht- ing which results when two or three hun- dred miners areeach engaged in trying to get hold of the various parcels compris- ing their outfits is said to be indescrib- able. All horses landed at Dyea are pushed off the sangplank a mile and a half from shore and must swim to land. At Bkaguay they can be landed on the new wharf. F. E. Ames, who went to Skaguay with & pack train, has written asking that a big lumber wagon and a four-horse feam be sent to him oun the next steamer. He says that wagons can be used for half the dis- ‘tance on the White Pass trail. Another letter states that part of the trail beyond the summit of White Pass runs through very marshy ground. A week ago plans were being made for sev- erat hundred men to gzo ove- in a body COFFEES SOLD ILAOTS OF 10, 25, 50 LBS. At Wholesala Ratas. BON-TON Javh Ground.. gt No. 1 Roast Costa Kica. pe: EUR-KA COFFRE AND SPICE MILLS, 11% Comumercial Sireel, bel. Davis aud Lrumm. and corduroy this section. Itis certain that ularge numberof men already at the passes will not go through this fall. They will either winter there or return to the Sound and make a fresh start in March. . MEXICO A KLONDIKE. Mining Men Tell of the Rich Veins of Gold and Silver Found There. MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Aug. 13.—It the expressions of opinion from gold mine operators in this republic are any criterion Mexico is itself a Klondike. A representative of the American Mining Cowmpany at El Toro, owned by J. B. Hag- gin, said to-day: “The mine is turning out orein aban- dance—$3000 a month in gold—and the re- wreatment by the cyanide process yxelql 25 per c:nt additional. The company 1s preparing to putin a new mill for the treatment of ores by the cyanide process, which will probably be the biggest mill in Mexico. It will treat low-grade ores also, and $12 ore will be treated instead of the present average of $30 ore.” Dudley N. Norris is in cbarga_of the Anita Mining Company, of which the president is Joseph Macdonough of S{m Francisco. Norris bas a ten-stamp mill on the properties, which began to _bu operated on July 1. Since then the ship- raents of high-grade ores and concen- trates amounted to $16.000. On July_ 17 was shipped $5000 worth of ore showing five ounces of gold and twenty-two ounces of silver, and on August 3 another excep- tionslly fine shipment was made of con- centrates showing three ounces of gold and thirty-six of silver. At the rame time concentrates from the principal showed six and a haif ounces of gold and 141 of silver. Norris says Guanacevi bas big promise of an output in the way of gold, and Guanacevi is a good enough Klon- dike for him. He ciaims that Mexico has as much gold as can be taken care of in many years to come. s S EXCESSIVE ROYALTY. Citizans of Victoria Protest Agalnst Regulations of th= Dominlon Government. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug.13.—Word has been received here by Mr. Escolme, mana- ger of the English Trading and Transpor- tation Company, operating on the Yukon, that on August 5 three men rode on horse- back from Lake Bennett to Skaguay Bay, thirty-iour miles, in one day. ‘T'his shows that the White Pass is open and in fine condition so that miners and their outfits can now move as freely on it as loaded horses can walk. This news largely discounts the predictions that but | few of those now at Skaguay can get | through this winter. A mass-meeting of citizens was held here to-night to protest against the Yukon mining regulations proclaimed by the Dominion Government. Mayor Red- fern presided. A strong resolution was unanimously passed condemning the huge royaity sought to be levied, and especially pro- testing against the proposel reservation of every alternate claim to be disposed of by the Dominion Government, as from time to time it may see fit. This it was pointed out would be a fruit- ful source of irritation between the miners and the Government and of jealousy and iil-feeiing tetween the miners themselves. The meeting recommended that the regulations stand suspended until some members of the Dominion Government can come out on the coast and learn thie facts of the situation, and in this connec- tion it was staied that the Hon. Richard Sifton, who drafted the obnoxious regula- tions, should visit Victoria at an eariy day. A keenly interested onlooker at the meeting was Abraham E. Smitb, the new United States Consul at this port, who arrived only yesterday. Mr, Smith had the opportunity of hear- ing his countrymen 2bused in good round terms for their alleged ill-treatment of Canadians in the United States cities. A spirit of retaliation pervaded the meeting and when the subject of the pro- tests against the customs duties came up and one speaker after another declared that Americans of all peovole are entitled to no favors from Canada the sentiment was vigorously applauded. ot Eastern Canada to Compete. QUEBEC, Que, Aug. 13.—A novel scheme is proposed for a Canadian route to the Klondike country to enable people of Eastern Canada to compete with the Pacific Coast for the trade of the Yukon mining region. The proposal is simply for a railway to Mocz factory, at the foot of James Bay, and a line of steamboats thence to West- ern and Chesterfield inlets, a distance of 1300 miles. The balance of the journey would be mainly by the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers. It is estimated that in summer the trip would all be made in seven days from Toronto. A laie managing owner of a line of steamers on the great lakes has examined the reports as to waterways through Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers, and offers to undertake to equip the route with new-style steamers, Thousands Tell Of marvelous cures of scrofula, hip dis- ease, sores, humors, ulcers, dyspepsia, theumatism, catarrh and other diseases by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, This great medi- cine has done a world of good by making pure blood, restoring appetite and diges- tion, giving rosy cheeks, and clear, healthy complexions to old and young. Hood's 335 parilla 1s the Best—in fact, the One True Blood Purifier Sold by all druggists. $1; six for §5. 0 are purely vegetable, rell- Hood's Pills jifrareis resciaple. roli UNG MEN OU DUX': NEED TO GO AROUND WITH dark rings unier your eyes, no energs, no spap «bout you. [f you are troubled with semin i Weakness you can be cured. Dr. C00k’s Restora- tive Remedy will stop all i0sses ard make you a man once more. Cail or write for FREE irial bottie. ~dadress DR. COOK, Specialist f . 865 Market Stroec, San Foancisto. HO, FOR LAST CHANCE FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO - Sailing from here about AUGUST 22. to Dawson, AND YOU HAVE NO OT are inciuded and 150 Ibs of baggage which, while spacious and economical, would develop a speed of twenty miles an hour in slack-water navigation. e Berry at Pacific Grove. PACIFIC GROVE, Cav., Aug. 13.—The wealthy Klondiker, Clarence Berry, who with his wiie endured s0 many hariships of the northern gold fields, arrived here last night on the Del Monte flier. Mrs. Berry accompanied her husban i, and they are the guests of relatives wh A A ho are summering in Pacific Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Berry are desirous of having no pup. lcity during their sojourn at tnis place but aiready the news of their arrival hag spread like wildfire through the town and great curiosity is felt regarding them. Many persons are ezgor to see and talk with them, and should Mr. and Mr Berry consent to being interviewed by those who desire it, it seems very probable several of the Grovites will stary for the Yukon. From present indications Pacific Grove bids fair to pass through as bad an epidemic of gold lever as her sister towns of the State. - Klondikers in Stockton. STOCKTON, CaL., Aug. 12 afew thousand dolla sported in Stockion iiere were of Kiondike goid to-day by two men who recently came from the Yukon. N. M:ercler and Joe Caz s, French Cana- dians, were visiting J. B. Meloche, and he took them around to see his various | friends. Mercier and Cazelais ure well off. Cazelais has been in Alaska Ive years and recently sold a ciaim for $120.000, and { has another one. Mercier has a digging next to Clarence down $45 000. aftera v USSR should have the place of honor on your dining-room table, being a rich and most / delicious beverage, an appe- tizer par excellence and a sure health sustainer. |Is perfect as a Malt Extract and strictly a Non-Intoxicant. All Druggists. VAL BLATZ BREWIYG CO., . MILWAUKEE, WIS, U. S. A. LOUIS CAHEN & SON, Wholesale Dealers, 416-418 Sacramento St LAST CHANCE! DIRECT TO DAWSOR | AND THE 8OLD FIELDS! Via St, Michzels, all the way by sieamer | _FARE - - $300 INCLUDING ONE YEARS PROUVISIONS FURNISHED FREE ND 1to LBs. BAGGAGE. f Elegant Steamer NORTH FORK —SAILS F R— 'ST. MICHAELS SAILS POSITIVELY NONDAY, AUGEST 16, AT 2 P. M. WANTED—100 Tons of Freight for Dawsoa City. (OFFiCE OPEN TO-DAY). A to C. P. TROY & CO, Agent, my 630 Market st., rear office. 8. DUCAS & C)., Promoters, 11 Monigomery street. ALASKY, YUKOY AND KLOXDIKE GOLOFIELDS. The expedition surest Lo g New Al gas steame {,” Stannard comimander, (o St. Micha o yacht “KISutno,” equipped { with 30 h. p. engine, to Dawson 14 miles an hour arrive at Dawson 0 pas«engers will be taken. 150 pounds baggage fre . ranteed nncil Freight reasonable—to St. Michael §25 a y M. S TAYLOR, Agent, st Smithy re ¥1 Sueno de Oro Miulng a '1’".,7p—onnuon Co. (incorporatea). 10 KLONDIKE 1D DAWSON CITY! ~ ALL STE ] By the fas. 8ie: to ST MICHAELS, then ver direc! to Dawson au the g river steamer THOMAS barges and all ris Leave San Fru Michuels about Septemb temie The only exp-ditiun t o through. Fare (includ! 50 13 bay $300. kxtra freigat at reasonable raies. ¢ 3 avolding fields by the DWYER, arrive St PIOLET HAP OF KLONDIKE ROUTE. AIL MAP OF 3 ROUTE TG THE ondike from the Chllcoot P Shows on a large scaie ail the rapids, landings and portages and gives fuli instructions how 10 proceed. (om plete, by CAPTAIN MCLYON, who has had 19 | years' experienc: in that country as pilot and guide. r.very one in:erested in “Alaxa should bave one. Pulished and sold by GEORGE V K S8, 718 Third st, San Franc Trade supplied by H. M. & W.. 107 Montgomery st. KLONDYKE BOATS! . <D BURROS, READY F(R SHIR DS AN B toe Iong will carry 2 ons ol GOLD and 4 26 iightest ana strongest thad can be made; fasteaed with screws. G. W. KNEASS, 718 Third St KLONDIKE Boats and Sleds. :(T KLONDIKJE BOAT IN £ OXLY CORBECT KLONDIKE BOAT I TES Sarket: 20 to 24 t-et long: carries2 to 4 mmen; light and strong; Fu. toseiher wi DUl rom pers ial experience i 41k NC.5CO NCH BAN KRARC of Stock ton Stret 85 Take Green Kearny-stree. Cac. GOLD FIELDS OF PERU. ST T LENDO. IF A SUFFL L L o pasiensers can be obained the mail steame Z. ALANDIA will bedispatched on or about Ausust 1 are, $200 first-class; $300 sieerage. For pariiculars apply ¥. BACI G.ALUPL 948 Market s ALASKA! THIS SUMMER. DAWSON IV FIRVT-CLASS STYLE, VIA ST. MICEABEL, By the Fast and Stanch Steamer M0:0 and Our Fast River Steamer, Fare oniy $300 from San Francisco HER EXPENSE, as meals and berth allowed FREE. WE WILL BE IN DAWSON BEFORE THE YUKON RIVER CLOSES, or agree to furnish you meals and berth unatil you do get there. 250 por Ib freight will be tak:n at reasonable prices. GRAUMAN & D. J. GRAUMAN, General Manager, THi> WE GUARANTEE, Aoply or write quickly MACKINTOSH, 14 POST ST., San Francisco, Extra