Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-30
A Returned Miner Gives Warming,
Living Costs $50 IA bay.

Fred Price, a Seattle man, who has re-
turned from the Kondike with several
thousand dollars in gold dust, saws that
there is great fear of suffering on the part
of those who attempt to 90 into that coun-
try without an abundance OF supplies OF
provisions. He does not believe the trad
ing companies can begin to supply the de-
mand which will be made on them. Price
thinks the men who take up horses to cross
the pass from Dyea will do well. They
can get their provisions in easily that way,
and sell the horses for dog meat afterward.
He also advises newcomers to look for
claims on other creeks besides the trbuta-
ries of the klOndike, the latter being pref
" well staked out. Stewart river creeks
promise as well as the Klondike. He says
further that gambling dens and dance
halls have already opened in Dawson
Games of every description are running,
and some of the miners play very heavily.
They go into the mining town in sheer
desperation at the loneliness and gloom of
winter, and gamble in reckless manner
to break the mOnOtony. Price says it is
hard to get along in Dawson City on less
than $50 day, and many Of the men
spend ten times that much He asserts
that one saloon cleaned up $50 600 in three
weeks this summer.
Dr. {. +. Dickinson, who has lust come
to san Francisco from Alaska, says the
settlements and trading posts on the coast
are being deserte in the rush for Klondike.
Mines that have been paying handsomely
at Cooks Inlet have been deserted. Dr.
Dickinson is of the opinion that there is
as good prospect at Cooks Inlet as in the
Klondike region, and at Cooks Inlet there
is room for thousands of men. There is
not foot of the ground in all that coun-
try that does not contain gold in more or
less appreciate quantities.
In view of the rush to Klondike the
United States government has established
a SUPPORT OF entry at Dyea Alaska, The
steamer Queen, which left Seattle Friday,
carried 400 passengers the majority of
whom will seek Dawson City by the inland
trail. The steamer Portland left Seattle
Thursday with 12j passengers, and was
loaded to the danger limit with provisions.
Its destination is st. Michaels, at the head
of navigation on the Yukon river Among
the passengers who intend to seek gold are
ex-Gov McGraw, a prominent banker
Gen. NJ. Z. Carr, ex-brigadier general OF
the state militia, whose law practice is
the largest in the state; and Capt. A. j..
Bailiett, formerly Yale's greatest oarsman
and foot ball player, but of late a rising
lawyer.
W. j. Arkell publisher of Judge and
Frank Leslie's Weekly, says that the
Yukon river and its adjacent territory was
explored by an expedition which he sent
out in 1890. Traces of gold were discov-
cred and extensive claims were staked out
in the Klondike region and elsewhere
Arkell and some of the men who went on
the expedition say they will take legal steps
TO protect their claims.
Prof. Geo. F. Wright, the geologist, says
the gold may have been transported many
miles TO the Klondike placer mines, either
by rivers or glaciers, probably by glaciers.
He thinks the gold was brought to the
Klondike from the South. The "mother
lode'' has been looked for in vain in Cali
fornia, and perhaps will be so IN Alaska.
But it exists somewhere in the streams on
which the placer mines are found.
A steamer left Port Townshend Monday
with 400 People, all but 80 bound for the
gold fields. The gold fever is on the in
crease at Juneau, and nearly every able
bodied man has gone or is planning to GO
TO Klondike. News from Dyea says there
is now as much freight at the head of the
inlet as the Indians can pack over the di-
vide in Is months, and this amount viii
be doubled when the steamers Queen anc
Mexico arrive.
The President and the secretary of wal
have decided to detail an officer and a
company of soldiers of the regular army
for duty in Alaska.
The Canadian government will impose {
royalty on all precious metals taken out o.
the Yukon region.
Ten Haverhill, Mass, men are to go t.
Klondike, to work together, the party Il
divide equally any gold that they find.
News has come from Peru this week o
the discovery of very rich deposits of gold
1t is thought that the mines of the Incas
which were worked before the Spaniard