The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-23

Chas. Myers and Henry Anderson 5000
partner. 22,00O It. j. Kelly. 80. $1,000
Johnny Marks. 10000 NJ. Murcier''''. 1000
Alex. Orr. 10000 Thomas Moran 20,00l
Fred. Price. ..... 1900 Victor Lord. 90. l0,0C0
Fred. Latisceura 10000 Joseph Caslais. 1890
Tim Bell. ...... $1,000 j. +. Boucher. lZ,VU0
William Hayes. 5000 John Wilkerson. $4,000
Dick McNulty. 10000 Joe Bergeoin. l4,OOJ
Jake Halterman ll,cg0 W. Z. Ricotte.. $1,000
johnson g. Olson 10000 c. Worden 1900
Smaller amounts" adds The Rec
ord, deposited by IA men with the
purser of the Portland aggregated $l7S,-
600. Besides these there was hardly
passenger whose sack did not contain
from So, 900 to $500 to say nothing
Of specimen nuggets and expense sacks
brought by those who shipped their
dust in bulk. And this is the product
mostly of about five months drifting.
A letter written by resident of Seat
tie to a friend in Juneau is printed in
The Record. A portion of this letter
reads:
"The town is absolutely crazy. Every
thing in the way of transportation IS
spoken for weeks ahead. All business is
nearly paralyzed. The only topic to be
heard is the Klondike. Men are desert
ing and resigning all kinds of positions,
and the town is nearly depleted of pro-
visions Men and women of high and
low degree are going to the Yukon"
In describing the condition of things
in juneau and the immediate vicinity
The Record says:
10
by the time this is before our readers
the great army of gold seekers will
have fairly started northward. In our
own locality the news was not entirely
unexpected, and many. were ready to
start for the interior the day following
its receipt, having prepared for the trip
in anticipation Of the reports. Others
hustled their business affairs into shape
and started as soon as possible after
hearing the news, while there remains
scarcely man in Juneau or It's neigh
boring towns or mining camps who IS
not tied down by circumstances but will
start within the next month or III the
early spring.
mot only has the fever reached the
ambitious young men, but the sturdy
old timer who packed his blankets to
the Fraser and the Cassiar country, and
who long ago supposed himself COM
fortably settled in business for life on
the stake gathered there, is himself as
eager for the hardships and wealth OF
the Yukon. He who cannot for any
reason make the start bemoans his fate
and regards himself particularly luck
less mortal. There is nothing to won
| der Mt in all this when it is remembered
that the great bulk of this vast amount
of precious metal was dug out OF It's
native pay streak in less than six months
and that q far greater sum remains
upon the dumps to be washed out,
while the claims themselves are barely
touched.
Notwithstanding the fact, con-
Times The Record, "that the country
i'm the immediate vicinity OF the hioh-
dixie may be all taken up, with nc
chance to squeeze another claim into
that district, the fact that there are
many other rich placers awaiting only
discovery and development Is enough
to rouse the ambition and make the
average man forsake his business now
ever ordinarily profitable, for the more
Iurine attractions of the glistening mug
gets" 49, Goo
The paper calls attention to the rae
that among those who have already
come out Of the goldfields those WEI
have been the most successful are 'h'
tenderfeet-men who knew nothins
about mining when they started out
Only a very few of the pioneers OF tn'
Klondike valley have been heard from
An explanation of this somewhat re
markable fact is furnished by veteran
who has made no less than eight roun'
trips to the Yukon.
This man says that the first discoV
cries along the Klondike were MADE u
a time when the old miners were a
work burning and drifting on Inei
claims. far from the settlements. LIZ
tenderfoot, ON the other hand, was toast
inc his shins before the barroom stove
IN Circle City and Forty Mile. Thel
the first news came of tho great strike
mastering up sufficient courage 10 lac
the cold. they started out and were Tn
erst on the ground Further than TINS
the old miner, once he strikes pay dir'
isn't leaving it, SO long as it pays 10
the Measures of civilization. lie a,e
end washes while he may. 1t 10 Tor tn'
reason that few old miners have com
ant Of the mines this summer.
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