The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29

Seattle Wash, Dec. 2S.-There win
| be 20 starvation at Dawson City this
winter and the sending of a relief eX-
petition by the United States govern
ment is unnecessary. This is the unan-
! imCus expression of 80 persons who ~--
rived here today from Dawson on the
| steamer Al-k1 Inay came 70 JyO-,
where they took the steamer in diner
ent parties. The last party to leave
| Dawson EFT Nov. 70. All of them
came I'd the frozen Yukon and out
over the Chilkoot pass.
! They made the trip from Dawson to
| Dyea in the remarkably quick time or
! 2S1a days. j. j. Mckay and wife made
| the trip in 70 days. They passed about
| 200 people on the trail. who were head
| ed tor civilization.
OUTSIDE ALARM.
| About the food situation at Dawson,
| all say there is more alarm over the
| situation outside than is felt by the
people at Dawson, who while they
( have not a surplus, have sufficient sup
| plies to last them until late in the
! spring. Whatever danger of starvation
existed has been averted by the exodus
of large number of people from Daw-
son to Fort Yukon, and the departure
VI q . ~eSI AA4et4AJ PNSRAO N.R III 4Af - ~
The coast.
AS has been reported, the most SER
iCus shortage is in candles and oil. This
! viii reduce the output of the mines, as
] an absence of artificial light will pre-
vent them being worked to their full
capacity.
Edward Conrad, when asked if there
is danger of starvation at Dawson, re-
piled emphatically: No, sir; there is
no great surplus of food, but there will
! be no starvation.
When asked for an opinion upon the
governmental expedition. he said: Tt
IS a humbug, and 1 doubt if it can get
down to Dawson before the ice breaks"
HO41ESICK PEOPLE.
THE men who came out and say that
starvation turks there, are men who
were there only few weeks, got dis
! cOuraged and homesick, and cry star
walton as an excuse for. coming out"
COnrad's statements, so far as they
related to the improbability of starva-
! ton, were endorsed by all the other ar
| rivals seen, but they qualified their
statements by the assertion that the
present supply of provisions would be
exhausted by spring.
z. Darlington. said. There is no need
OF anyone worrying over their friends
starving. OF course, provisions are not
plenty. and supplies should be taken
in in the spring, at which time all the
provisions in the country will be ex
hausted"
Speaking Of the rush to file claims,
Mr.. Darlington said: For some time
before 1 left the commissioners Office
was unable to accommodate the snineTs.
The men stood in line Tor days, with
the mercury 10 below zero, in order to
f.e.
SENSATIONAL STRIKE.
THE biggest sensation in the way Of
a strike was No. 43 on Hunker. 1t paid
50 TO the pan. If it had not been for
the exodus TO Fort Yukon 100 claims
would have been worked on Bonanza,
EidoradO and bunker creeks this
winter"
S. W. Foote said a great many peo-
pie went past Dawson in boats with
the floating ice unable to make a
landing.
Many people are living in tents at
| Dawson, though the temperature is
away below zero.
Good strikes have been made on
Lucky creek, tributary of All Gold.
Sulphur creek is also turning out fine.
'On the way out we encountered
good weather nearly all the time. We
left Dawson Nov. q. Part of the way
We threw off our coats and went in
shirt sleeves and bare hands; it was
only Is below zero then.
AT the Chilkoot summit we en-
countered a fearful snowstorm and
were lost for a time. 1t lasted all the
way from the head of Lindermann to
the summit. One man went ahead
with q stick poking it into the snow
to find the hard patch to walk on.
2 SOME DAWSON PRICES.
Beef and mutton at Dawson is be-
ing sold at 81 to $3.50 per pound. Moth
ing in the food line can be obtained
from the companies without an order
Flour was selling from outfits at S1OO
l per sack. while bacon and beans
brought 81 to $1.25 per pound. There
: was plenty of sugar at so cents per
2 pound.
\ 1.-The claims are all taken to within
S a radius of A to so miles of Dawson. "
j: ID. Barnes states that the Alaska
; Commercial company and the North
l American Transportation & Trading
y company have declined to receive any
4 more gold for safe keeping for the
miners, as their safes are full.
T. H. Mallory believes the output
next season will be between SIS, 900, 900
and $4,000 600. j. j. Mckay estimates
it at So, 000,0 co.,
: On Nov. 20, the English church
e known as the "Klondike, was des
o troyed by fire. Two or three adjoinine
cabins were also burned.
TURN OUT WE'LL.
All the creeks in the Klondike dis
e trict are reported as turning out well
" About 500@men are camped at tn.
q mouth of Stewart river, which stream
h they will prospect this winter. N,
/ new gold discoveries are reported.
= The amount of gold brought out from
Dawson by those who arrived thi
morning is estimated all the way fron
$4,000 to $4,000. Nearly all of to
days arrivals will return early in tn
II spring after purchasing a new lot O
d supplies.