The herald., 1897-09-15
FOOD SCARCE
But the Klondikers Will
Not Starve
THE QUESTION OF SHELTER
MORE SERIOUS THAN SUPPLY OF
FOOD
THE QUESTION OF SHELTER
An Alaskan Pioneer Talks on the
Cheerful Side Of the Gold Min
ing Question

| held out by FRANK Cryder, who came
down on the steamer Humboldt, after
having spent five years in the Yukon.
He does not believe there will be any
deaths from starvation, though he ad-
mits that food will be scarce.
| Cryder says that lack of shelter is
more serious condition confronting the
miners in the gold belt than starvation.
He states that the closing of the COM
pany stores at Dawson was temporary
expedient merely to prevent spectators
from cornering all the provisions in the
country, and thereafter holding supplies
at fabulous prices.
at is not proposed to allow this" con-
tinued Cryder. The miners have deter
mined that any man selling food must do
SO at the companys prices. These are
| fixed and will not be allowed to go high
er. Where so many people are together
and can interchange food goes a long
way. An outfit that could last one man
| a year can be made TO hold out eighteen
months by judicious trading. Do not
understand that l am advising anyone
to go there this winter. I am simply
stating these facts to encourage those
who have friends in the north.
Lack of shelter will, in my opinion,
be responsible for more suffering in the
Klondike than will famine. 1t costs
$1,000 for fair log cabin already built,
and the time and labor in constructing
new one would amount to the same.
There were not over 100 houses in Daw-
son when 1 left, while in the city were
5000 people. In the gulches are being
built huts to shelter those who labor in
the mines When the newcomers with
their light outfits and empty pockets ar
rive there will be no shelter for them"
AS to the mining outlook, Cryder de-
clares that $25 1000, 900 will be taken out
this winter from the claims on Bonanza
and Ell Dorado creeks, while from the
Birch, Miller and Munook districts will
be washed about 100000.
A WINTER TRIP
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 14.-John F.
Lancaster, representa- tive of the Chi
cago-Alaska Gold Mining company is
in the city making preparations for a
winter overland trip to Dawson City.
Mr.. Lancaster will leave Seattle October
10th with party of ten men and 10000
pounds Of provisions. He will have
team Of twenty dogs, and says he ex-
poets to enter Dawson with colors flying
in the heart of winter
TREASURE COMING
ANVIK, Alaska, August 49, via Seat
tie, September 1.-THE steamer Bella Of
the Alaska Commercial Company passed
the steamer Hamilton. this afternoon
There are ninety passengers on the Bel
la, seventy of whom are miners return
Ing with their stakes, said to aggregate
100000, and the remainder are pros.
pectors fleeing from the shadow of fam
inc to come.
Louis Sloss, Jr., of the Alaska Com
mercial Company, who was on board,
confirmed all the reports hitherto given
OF the shortage of food supplies. 1--WE
have been compelled to adopt meas
ures," said he, "to prevent single indi-
viduals from cornering the food supplies
For this reason we have limited the
quantity Of grub to be sold to each per-
son. One sack of flour each week is all
that any man is allowed to purchase
We closed our store for time after the
Bella arrived, declining to sell to any
one until we found out what we had ir
stock and how far it would go toward
supplying the orders we had already
We will not sell supplies to either ho-
tells or restaurants, and as far as posi-
bic to miners only"
Jack McQuestion, the Alaska Com
mercial Company's trader at Circle City,
who was one of the number on board the
Bella, says there are not enough pro-
visions in the Yukon country now to
supply the demand.
A RAILWAY ROUTE
VANCOUVER, Sept. 14.-Superin :
tendent Duchesnay Chief Engineer of
the Kootenai division of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, left on the Princess
Louise for the mouth of the Stickeen
river in order to locate a line of railway
| to Teslin Lake, which will tap the Yukon
| trade. On the same boat were about
| forty passengers from the Bristol and
Eugene, who will try to get into the
Klondike by the Stickeen route, an all
Canadian way of travel, having failed
to reach ST. Michaels.
ANOTHER ROAD
PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 14-The Alas
ka Central Railway company was in
corporated here today by the filing of
| al slCiCS with lHC tSIIltOIldl secretary.
The capital stock is IS, 900 900, and thefn-
| corporatorS named are John Under
wood, E. F. Greenlaw ard A. w. Lyon.
The road projected is from tidewater
on Prince William sound, up Copper
river and across the divide to point on
the Yukon near the International bour
dary, distance of 400 miles. Under
wood Is a San Francisco railroad con-
tractor and Greenlaw a northern Ari-
zona lumber man. OF the capital stock
$500,000 is subscribed, mainly by Under
wood. Behind the scheme are reported
to be Elijah Smith of the Oregon I'm
provement company, John w. Cudahy
and P. D. Armour, the Chicago packers
and several California capitalists.
A FAITHFUL PARTNER
SALT LAKE, Utah, Sept 14.-A spe-
cial to the Tribune from Boise City, Ida
no, says: Eight years ago ]. F. Taylor
was engaged in business in California
with j. C. New. Business was dull and
they were compelled to give up. Without
dissolving partnership, the men decide ed
to part, and made am agreement that
should fortune smile upon either, they
would divide.
Taylor bought a ranch near Cedar
Creek. where he now resides. New went
to Alaska and was one Of the drst tc