The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-19

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ers to come and dig it out The men from
the Klondyke are not The men to exag-
| gerate, for ! have talked With people whom
l know to be truthful"
! Inspector Strickland of the Canadian
| mounted police, was one of the passengers
| on the Portland. He is bound TO Ottawa
on official business. His statements were
guarded and conservative. He sad there
| are only two mining districts in the Klon-
| dyke section. the Hunker and the Bonanza
| districts He added:
when I left Dawson City a month ago
( there were about 500 claims staked out and
there were between 1000 and 5000 people.
1t can be safely said that there was about
$5oO,o00 in gold mined last winter. The
wages in the mines We're SIS a day Cnd the
saw mill paid laborers $40 day. The
claims now staked out will afford employ
ment for about 5000 more. l believe if
man is strong. healthy and wants to work
he can find employment at good wages.
Several men worked on an interest or W nat
is termed fly, and during ihe winter real-
lied from 5000 to $4,000 piece. The mines
are from thirty-hve TO one hundred miles
from the Alaska boundary"
William Stanter is among the passengers.
He left his son in charge of MS interests
in a couple of claims. lie Went 10 klOndyke
last year and is now returning with hearty
$50 600 in gold.
Henry Anderson. a Swede well-lnown on
Puget sound sold out half interest IN lis
clam on EldOrado creek and is coming back
to Seattle with $4,000 spot cash, ne pro-
ceeds of the sale.
Northwest Territory which passed through
Seattle two years ago struck 1t rich. Five
OF the twenty guards returned on Ine EOII-
land with gold amounting to $500 300. The
other fifteen remained in Alaska to engage
in mining.
Klondyke last year and made $4,000. The
son is in charge of the claim, and the father
is among the passengers on the Portland.
Richard Rlake of Dungeness had been sue
cessful, and is coming back to the place
where he was born with sack full of mug
OTHER FORTUNES MADE.
William Sloan, formerly a dry goods mer-
chant of Nanaimo, British Columbia, sold
his claim for 600 and with that and the
gold he took from the mine has come back
to civilization A man by the name of
Wilkinson sold his claim for $4,000 and is
back to stay. Jack Horne, of Tacoma, for
merly a well-knoWn lightweight pugtlist of
Puget sound, went to the Klondyke last
fall and worked on a lay" He is return
ing with something over $4,000, which is
probably more than he could have made In
Frank Keller, of Los Angeles, is on board
the Portland with $4,000. He went north
last year, mined during the winter ana
last month sold his claim for the sum that
is in his buckskin bag.
miner on board. All have gold, and 1t is
piled about the stateroms. They attribute
their success to lucky strikes" and aver
that thousands of people will rush to the
Yukon valley in the next year or two ana,
after undergoing hardships and prlVatlons,
All of the miners lay great stress on the
necessity of taking plenty OF supplies.
There can be no doubt that the late
strikes in the Yukon valley are the richest
ever known. Instances are common Where
pans of gold have yielded over $l0O, and oc-
casionally much more. The miners say
that all the territory where the rich strikes
were made have been Staked, and that so
far as those districts are concerned II Is
cations But then there are other streams,
all of which are known TO have goid Dear-
ing bars, though it is extremely doubtful II
their richness Will equal the lalnGu E.luo-
RADIO and Bonanza creeks OF the klondyke
A letter received from Dawson city under
Date of June 49, contains many interesting
facts The writer Arthur Perry, Well
known citizen of Seattle says: The hrst
discovery Of gold In the hiondyKe was S III
mack on creek emptying into the klon-
dyke on the south, called by the Indlans
Bonanza. He found S1.69 to the pan on q
high rim known as Forty Miles. lie went
back with two Indians and took out %1,4VO
in three weeks with three slulce boxes
The creek was soon staked from one enu 10
the other and all the small gulches We're
Ia keti~Staad RECORDED ABOUT sept: ~
man bv the name Of Whpple prospected
creelr erntvinP into the Bonanza and
named it Whipple creek. lie shorty alIef-
wards sold out and the miners remained 1t
Eldorado. -
when I first reached the, new camp |
was invited by two butcher boys eMurPny
Thorpe of Juneau, ana George 5o dogn doGwait II,
their shaft and pick a pan OF dirt as they
had Just struck rich streak. To my sur
dirt they took out 81, sos right in the bottom
Of the shaft, which was four by eight feet.
BERRY'S BIG STRIKE.
On March 20 Clarence Berry took out $500
to the pan Jimmy McLain took out over
5000 to the pan; Frank Physcator took out
$135 to the pan; four boys from Naniamo
took as high as $125 to the pan. They We're
the first men to get a hole down TO pea
rock and get any pay. They had NOS. ii
and Is. In fact, big pans were being taken
out on nearly every claim on the creek
and one and two hundred pans were COM
mon On April 13 Clarence Berry took IN
one pan thirty-nine ounces, or $49o, ana IN
two days panned out over $1,000. April IA
we heard that some boys on NO. 81, EluO0o7 e0o
rado had struck it rich and taken out $500
in one pan This was the banner pan OF
the creek and Charles Meyers, VINO had
the ground told me that If he had waited 10
nick the dirt he could have taken one nun
dred ounces just as easy. 49,. ooo z.
Jimmy McLain took out $1l, ,oVg during
the winter Just in prospecting the art.
Clarence Berry and his partner, anton
SIander banned out about the same IN the
same manner. Mrs. Berry used 70 go gp ooMd ond
carry to the shanty and pan it herself. She
has over Sc 900 taken out in that manner.
Mr. Lippin, from Seattle, mas a ,nta rlch
claim and his wife has a sack of nuggets
worth Sc 0O0 that she has picked up on lile
dumps When tie dumps were Washed IN
the snring the dirt paid better than was
eXpected etlT -Four boys on a lay in Edo
roda took out $40 900 in four months. FraIlR
5hWscafor who owned the ground and had
some IN g men hired, cleaned up $94,o 600 for the. the
winter Mr.. Lippin, SO ! ! - am am toIdsf Nas Mn
* SteSt R0nanZa has cleared up $4,000. Clar-
ence Berry and Anton Slander have cleared
up $3.50 600 for the winter. 49,.
b..rSbis is probably the richest placer ever
known lr'1 in the World. They took it out SO
fast and so much Of It that they, dld not no.
They took steelyards and all the syrup