Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-30

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single day, may be swallowed easier
when it is understood that the clean
up represented as we'll the work OF
a long winter, and there may have
been score or more Of men at work
on the "dump."
The Canadian government has sent
customs officers to the borders of the
klondyke district to levy tribute upon
supplies taken upon English soil. On
an average outfit OF from 5000 to $3.50,
this tariff duty will be from $50 to
$75. But then this tax means pros
perity, you know.
Mrs. Clarence Berry, who spent a
year and four months on the Yukon,
in reply to query, "What advice
would you give to a woman going to
Klondyke" said, "Why, stay away,
of course. 1t is no place for women.
I mean women who go alone; who so
to make a living or fortune"
A company has been formed in Port
land to furnish grub-stakes to i'm
pecunious gold-seekers, who have
more nerve and muscle than discre-
ton or gold. Those who furnish the
supplies of course share in the product
of muscle and Drawn, whatever it may
be. 1t is game of "Catch as catch
can"
Mrs. J. 7. Wills, who years ago kept
a restaurant in this city, is one of the
lucky gold-seekers at Klondyke. She
has 1874, 900, which she has made in
the laundry business at Circle City.
When the strike occurred, she went
at once to Dawson and staked off a
claim which she values at a quarter OF
million.
The steamers Olympian and the
Victorian, which have been lying idle
for years at Portland are ideal boats
for the Alaska trip, and, and it is
probable that they will be put on a
route from Portland to Wangle, Ju-
neau and Dyea, if the craze continues.
They have splendid and large pas
senger Accommodations.
Dawson City is growing just as fast
as the little sawmill can cut lumber,
or logs can be RATED. Common lum-
Der is worth $3.50 per thousand on the
"take it or let it alone" policy; town
lots the same. They are now being
sold by crowd Of men who located
them and are held from $4,000 down
to $3.50, with no title.
Already project is we'll under way
to make Jove's bolts play an import
ant part in aiding the search for gold
in the New Eldorado. A telegraph
wire is to be "laid" between Juneau
and Dawson. The wire is quarter of
an inch thick, covered with kerite
insulation, and it will be reeled out
over the frozen snow and rocky peaks.
Dawson is said to be the liveliest
mining town in the world. All sorts
of games are continually going, and
"revelry by night" is as persistent as
daylight is perpetual at this season of
the year. Nearly everybody has a
sack of dust as large as policeman's
club and seems intent on extracting
pleasure from it as the Dean did sum
beams from cucumbers.
Talk of swearing, "The Plains" in
1852 are not in it with the mountain
passes on the route to Klondyke. 1t
is said that the fearful oaths uttered
by the "dog-punchers" fairly makes
the hair stand as it reverberates from
crag to crag. But it is claimed in
justification that preachers would be
justified in thinking "damn it," even
if the words froze on their lips.
An enterprising genius conceived
the idea of hauling provisions to the
top of Chilcat pass, by cable and
donkey engine. The project was an
excellent one, for Indians charge a
big rate for the service. He got
his engine to the foot of the precipice,
but it seems he had made no calcula-
tfon for getting it on the summit, and
there he stuck. The engine lies en-
bedded in the snow, silent reminder
of the vanity OF earthly hopes.
Clarence Berry, the Fresno farmer,
who lately came down from Klondyke
with $4,000 he had mined in the new
diggings, in giving an account of his
hardships to the Examiner, closes
with the injunction: Nobody should
attempt the trip who is not in robust
health, and is accustomed to hard
manual labor. 1t is no country for
bank clerks and others unused to pri-
walton. 1t is a hard trip and only
strong men can stand it,"
J. G. Loveland, young man %
years of age, who lately arrived in
San Francisco from Klondyke with
$13, 800 in dust, tells the Examiner
that he thinks he earned every ounce
of the dust by hard work, since a
year ago last June, when he entered
the district. He says he is not
anxious to return; that his actions
will be determined by the reports his
friends send to him. Experience in
this instance teaches conservatism, in
one who has youth, and strength and
ample means to prosecute a search