The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1900, Page 2

THE INDAY CALL. o N NEW INVENTION WORKS WONDERS IN KLONDIKE MINING 2275 @xxx¥xx 5/ ,//_1% = The Klond by those who desire scoop-shovel e who were real who knew ke w so great that cl nditions—natur overcome. J srivate secretary of Alexan- the mining king T n, and h the conditions now present 1 what the coming sea- He is greatly inter- scess of thawing which ited and which enables to be carried on the king of things con- Doherty s awback enco was opened arising from the and this, lat lace, made iivery one knows that the her the dike is not Washing- weather in San Francisco T T M7 T g process of thawing takes place. \ | | 1 i HA | IS [ As soon as the pay dirt has thawed suf- 4 o ficiently it is loaded upon cars and taken to an elevator, where it is hoisted to tue surface, there to be run -throush the FY 2 sluice buzes. In these tunnels and shafts no_timbering is required. as the decayved vegetation Is frozen so solid that there WHERE BEFORE THERE WAS fiiisiim iners work baekward the falle al does off the exit. The A DEAD I oss is dug an 1, commencing at - below and at the ; e extreme end first ers work, emlarging me, the earth whi ting through this moss was no easy matter and requited two only made possible the year around. but men thirty days to make the excavation, which is generally the cost cf production is lessened and a falls In occupics a space already gone dug six feet long and two wide. The pay dirt is always great deal more may be accomplished over by the m With the attendant found in a frozen condition and has to be thawed before with the same amount of time, labor and heat of .. steam and the length of the the gravel can be slulced. The early method of thaws capital. _ . COnmAE 1 Al haciines toarst and foul ing. and one which is employed now to some extent, was _This new method is the invention of Mf. Tq avoid this air ie supmited through a a simple wood fire built at the tom of the excavation. Stiles, who ha$ been in the employ of Mr separate -kha'k 2 I'E‘\r‘v\ the S\;r It can be readily secn that even the matter of prospect- Alexander McDonald, the Klondike KN, down to the tunnel and ricing peroent ing would entail no little expense, as two men for thirty for a number of years. Mr. McDonald was | i ol awe e 2 3 o iag d{:\fi;.flgl'lhl(? per day each, would cost O Prelty sUm. the firsc, to use the new process. and A ten-horscpawer befler will run eight e Tt pay aftor profpecting there would B8 since jts” advent a great-- many mircrs or. ten points, or nozzics, and will thaw the problem of reducing the cost of r!rud:. n that ¥Dave' taken it up. The method is quite ten times as much as the ordinary wood ol simple and is easilys put into opération at fire. The process eap as wood, hers. a great deal of capital, time and labor has been | 4 3 s . spent. After considernble experimenting rocess @ comparatively small cost. A steant the fuel used is cl d. all that is has been developed and perfected’ by which the DPiler.is.placed upon the surface and 4 pecessary to ebtain it t itting cost of manipulation has been reduced to a m! shed built above it as a protection against Quicksilver i little In these imum and the poorest paying gravel may he. the ther. From the boiler, which m1v placer mines e boxes are mads worked at a profit % be of any size, according to the magni- lopg and narrow.. wi e dles placed tude of the operation pipes-radiate, and in the rttom of the boxes, rumning pa- great consideration, as no slulcing can be 1€ad down the main shaft, which is cut as railel. These ripples are made of two- done without it. The water supply in the the thawing progres until the gravel jnch scantling and to prevent the wear Klondike is cut off during eight months of bed Is reached, and then a tunnel is cit and tear of the water and gravel they the year, as all the streams are frozen, At Tight angles some 400 to 500 feet in are coyered with sheetiron. They are and in consequence sluicing is suspended length. Down the shaft and through the two inches apart and are blocked at each during this It has been the cus- tunnel a three-inch pipe fs run, which end to prevent the gold from running out tom heretafore to bring the pay gravel carries the steam from the boiler above on (onditions have changed at Dawson to the surface dur the winter, and the surface. To the end of this pipe ‘S within the past few months and thera in the summer, when the ice melts attached a rubber hose especlally mide has been a great reduction in prices, bot In all placer mining water is necessarily a away and water is plentiful, to oper- for the convevance of steam—this ose o0& G085 Faf0 el T reduction t phitin v . branches out into eight or ten small:r nly = pos ate ihe BSluices—taking in the pro- 0 each of which bas attached at the Ing brought about mainly through in o "'ds n(.m:hr months’ labor in four. end an iron screw, wedge or point. These creased transportation f.AFHI[‘.ew and By the introduction of the new pro- Jainis'are driven into the frozen gravel nr good effects of competition. And then cess, steam thawing, sluicing s not moss; the steam is turned on and the again, the newness of the Klondike has worn off. Tt is no longer a venture. It is a certainty. It has lost its excitement and has settled down Into a position of evenness and advancement. MINERS NEAR BOILER HOUSE AT A MSPONALYVS MINE —that it s cold there, and that for eight m of the year they are pretty well frozen up, even to the col- on of C: lties of 10 per As a conse- ce of there belng such a long frozen pe- riod very little could be done during the winter months. Gold was there, and men wanted it and were going to have it. Ne- cessity was there and In- vention soon followed. Min- ing for the most part in and 2bout Dawson is placer, but the conditions met with are vastly different from those foupd elsewhere. The pay gravel along the banks of the creeks is covered with a moss or decaying vegetation some forty to sixty feet in thickness, which is frozen solid the year round, a compact mass. The gravel varies in thickness from three to six feet. The work of get- vE- N 2 ';‘ AFTER MunTel ¢ IRE . JANIO, 1394 REMEMBER THE AAMO! ontinued Fre n Page One. first faken from the Alamo for burial. and that the priest said he was as fine a gentleman as ever came to Texas. He was sick in the Alamo befare the fight, and his face was thir and pinched in death, and his eves ke speechcs and constant secret declared war agains the war crazy, d 1 recall, al me at my home that Colonel Travis, inces ad of Ame the ans who grew thick and heavy and we could not see clearly down at the Alamo, while th ¢xultant Mexica exXt, the street with g quickly broug] pors, but se we could see, laid low the men at the timbers and stopped the battering for a_ s 1ia Anna and his were loaded after what seemed to ys very long delay. and were ed n y marched toward the pueblo placed directly in front of the main doors of the mission. They - s A did se ri';uls work. ‘.\l»i(n\“}hllv, bullets :;l‘f)l’l"; :it"a'l(»rnl thilmsand muskets Tt i » ith blood. The woodwork ¢ t ntly rained iike hail upon the building and went through ' was. The floor was literally crimson with blood. e v P rops b o aiting pertures that had heen made In the wood barricades at the all about us wae riadied and splintered by lcad balls, and what was left Tith’ (o ove; powerine, Mokiong Aamo. In setiing, Razé When were deep in théir sockets. sot upon whi Y whe 16 was killed e e were led by NEit o Wit Pea The cot upon which he lay whex K tle colonel It the old “We stayed witia the dying men until late that evening, and by that Alame 5o Chandage up the time all Ead expired but two yourg men, named Lyon and Randall, who I S el “§ine’ mes ¢ame from Loufsiana. They were carried out under an ymbrella tree, and herer e e ety when T was Cyervthing that could be done for their help was done. But they had been e e O LY ey hwia; Shot in the neck and chest and they died the next day in great agony alght oo i Sundeyin Mareh, Dut I never Nhen we came o get the bodies ready for burial we found The wills of 4 hr - b e dea X! eir ve) . Som Titte: ) could find sufficient language. There were only & jeaves of blank books. B ;lr::_":l‘yyrv‘z:k:;" . s f:‘(h!;‘l::-? few Mexicans n there when we came, and they Were sacks ‘It afl showed the Loccacntio his and ome inside of haver- all officers, who had ordered the common soldiers away from f0r Geath, and their derermehiio on the men b had mads the scene of death and—yes, slaughter, for that was what it e gaad thelr deterpination to ecli their Ii as porsinie or their battle < Randall, din of musketry and screams of the s increased every moment. inics of soldiers came running down heavy bridge timbers. These were r as battering rams on the mission /s from within the Alamo, as nearly several o voll rt_time. Three or four brass cannon o nt exico for several Windows and doors. The din was indescribable. It did not seem as of the old altar at the rear of the church was cut and slashed by cannon one of the voung e L R A " 3 Scd stone mis- H @ mouse could live in a building 0 shot &t and riddled as the bulls and builets. The air was dark with powder smoke and Was DOt {od how Coler] Bomv (o aved until the T . e T the ld r and his troop: Alamo was that morning. B and heavy. = mission a few days before March 6. It was this v o reported to be Next we saw that ladders were brought, and in a trice the low roof “The dead Texans lay singly and in heaps of three or four or in how Colonel Travis told the intrepid me i hope for relief from the of th church was crowded with the scr. armed with guns and sabers. Of course we knew then that it was all Up (nav had fallen when a ball reached a vital part or they had dropped to Were surrounded. numbered over 00 men, and that to had uming, maddened throng of men, jrregular rows here and there all about the floor of the Alamo, just as Outside must be abandoned, that the arm ta Anna. by which they rrender meant but the air s thick and heav That with the little band of men in the Alamo. I remember that the priest ; om loss of bicod. Of course we went to work as soon as’ SAvagery, and. perhaps. an fgnominious death. Young Randall. when RS : 3 drew us away from the windows and refused (o lct us look longer, not- ;f‘j‘;o‘,‘“{?)"{h?,'n",'sl;(fii O Didomg The blteding and moaning men Whol,ox dylng. related how Travis said coolly and calmly that ha himselt Haq me i We knew withstanding tion of the scene. 3 but a few hours at most of life. But in the few minutes that we looked Cided to stay by the fort as long as he could move, and that he meant to nstantly, “We could hear the shouts.and vells, ard several booms of the brass gapout the corpses all about us gave-a mind picture that has always been S€ll his life as dearly as possible to the Mexicans. Then how Travis with red thit canpon shook the priest’s bouse and ratfled the window panes. A ihet s one before my very eves. So thick were the bodies of the his sword drew a line across the church floor from ‘wall to wally and 8 heard from Along about 9 o'clock, I should judge, the shooting and swearing and dead that we had to step over some to get to a man in whom there was Stated that all who meant to stay by him in his determination might as returned With Blve poming dead Hhat B se to my feet was & young man who had been shot through COme over to that side of the line, while all who wished to surrender to 1 the morn! . men. Th 2 B 3 r htjindeed, T could never the gene as cléar s ith priest, o that v . i have food and com- The ¢ & to fmpe my! lows. Then the volleys “Such ke from within t 1 1d when_ we e knew the exans were dead and ; g of the 6th gmoke. A Mexican co; € matters to a crisis with the be- agked ihat we go down to th ds of soldiers bedding we could find, and in the midst of a dozen soldiers we went raise nimeelf to his feet after he had bcen wounded several ti r volley fired the old stone mission. o e N ainn phor old Colonel ErRss Crucketts s o By dong by the HENRY G. TINSLEY. muffied volleys, and saw soldiers, with smoke and ¢ 0, Mexican sane expression. The more volleys. It adobe house across the tely as firecrackers with blood, and the doc ¢ time. The smoke “But no one could ever tell you the horror of the scene that met our “Did 1 see Colonel Bowie dead? No, but I remember kis body was the parts of the world. ¢l came running to the priest's residence, and the forehead, and who had dropped dead with his eyes staring wildly open Sa&nta Anna might remain on the other side of the line and would be at Alamo to do what we could for the dying as he seemingly gazed up into my face. A yard away was a grizzied old Once released from the Alamo. It was this same young Randall from i1, semi-confidentially, that in spite of the efforts o Texan. whose beard and long, unkempt hair were clotted with bload that Loulsiana who told with pride. even in exeruciating pain from his wounds, officers the troops had given no quarter to the men trickled from his mouth and ears, Over there was a handsome young hOW every man in the Texan band moved by a common impulse to the side lonel and oth ! balmy. Bvery whom they had found still alive in the old church when the doors were man, whose determined resolution was shown in his corpse, for he dled Of the line with Colonel Travis. and ther’by gave a token of their wish he babies to the burst in, and that horrible scen: y 3 lonel a view of the Alamo from tl danger to any of u shooting began at § were never more badl s were instantly cnacted on every h g tight to a musket in one hand, while he held a Tamrod with !0 fight for their lives. with the tremendous odd he had o guard, &nd (hat there would bo s e ather. | Ho was in the act of loading when shot down. Next o him (his Same young man. Randall, who left for historis id that the services of the priest and of women was a man whom I had partially known. He had had business deals with €ver had of the silent and prayerful preparations of the 178 resolute men needed. We snatched up all the Jinen and cotton my husband, and death rmd evidently overtaken him as he was trying to in the old stone mission to meet death as patriots. and to fight for the es. Tre. independence of Texas as long as physical strength was given them. ured u a dreadful sight! The roadway was thronged with Mexican side of a dying man, whose bloody and powder-stained fucé 1 was wash- i B e rt-begrimed faces, haggard eves and wild, in- ing. Colonel Crockeit was about 50 years old at that time. His coat and Though the Mohammedans in London number no mora than 200, they ssion re were twelve or fifteen bodies of Mexicans lying rough woolen shirt were soaked with blood so that the original color was are bullding a mosque, at a cost of $0.000, to accommodate from 300 ceding nere and there, and others were being carried to an Fidden. for the eccantric hero must have died of some ball In the chest OF 400 worsnipore. 1 aaattion (0 the women. for whoe i 1 The stones in the church wall were spotted a buyonet thrust from the miserable, low-lived cutthroats who swarmed vided. Tt i cxpected (hat when once the mosdue. 1 omramiapi, b Pro- re splintered and battered in. into the Alamo and spared not cne of the Texans. metropolis Mohammedans, students in particalar, will flock there from L5 o Ly