The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-13
! THE PASSING THRONG.


and OF the Berner's Bay Mining and Mill
ing Company, arrived on the Topeka. ac-
companied by Mrs NOVEL; and their two
children. and IS at the Butler. They VIII
remain here about a month and then re-
turn to Juneau. OF his mining enterprises.
Mr.. Noweu said:
AT Sheep creek we have from four 10
twenty feet Of ore il three parallel veins.
developed by about a mile Of tunnels. and
are running thirty-stamp mill. We don't
care to tell the value OF the ore, but L is
not low-grade proposition. The prop
erty is doing very well and making salts
factory returns. On Silver Bow basin we
run two hydraulic giants with 800 miners
inches OF water during the summer. The
gold is fine, but We save il in fiume with
quicksilver. At Berner's bay we have
over fifty claims. with ore bodies ranging
from 100 feet wide downward. and have
been running a for,y-stasup sriu for three
years.
Lots OF new discoveries have been made
all through Southeastern Alaska, both of
free-milling and suiphide ore. A great
many people have been up there this year,
examining and bonding claims. Some
sales have gone through and a large num-
Der OF claims are being developed. Next
summer a new stamp mill viii probably
so in at Windfall creek, twenty-five miles
northwest OF Juneau: one on Sheep creek.
three or four on Berners bay. and one at
Funter bay. Altogether between 500 and
600 new stamps will be put in Southeastern
Alaska. in addition to those already run
ming
THE Klondike fever prevails In South
eastern Alaska, and a good many people
have interests In the Klondike. We have
had difficulty at our mines through men
leaving to go TO the Yukon. We lost IS
per cent. of our men at Berner's bay and
quite number at Sheep creek; In fact. We
had to put on nearly new crews throughout
and We look for an exodus next spring.
Berner's bay is only thirty-fve miles from
Skaguay, and men went, not only IN the
local steamers. but in boats it would scare
you to look at.
1.-The advantages OF Southeastern Alaska
are superior to those Of any mining coun-
try know. We have plenty of water and
timber and the cheapest transportation in
the world. The country Is becoming quite
habitable, for we can get all the necessaries
and quite few luxuries,
Seattle is certainly the headquarters
for the Alaska trade and expect TO see
this city become larger than San Fran
cisco before many years. We can send
10 Seattle for anything in four days from
Juneau. while 1t takes three weeks to or
der anything in San Francisco and set
IL back. San Francisco is the headquar-
ters OF the Alaska Commercial company
and the cannery companies, which have
tried to prevent the development Of the
country and have kept people in ignor-
ance of it, while Seattle is the center
OF those who have been pushing develop
mentS."
The Post-Intelligencer has received a
letter which is not very easy to interpret.
because the writer does not make ii clear
whether his aim is to be humorous. satir-
zeal or In earnest. The letter is signed
Hobo Joe" and Is dated from Poverty
Gulch. The writer claims to be an old
broken-down hobo. He sings the praises
of Seattle in no uncertain strain. but the
doubtful part OF his letter begins with his
offer Of advice to the city to take good
care of all the hobos who may drift In
this winter, fatten them up and send
them out to the world to advertise Sc
attic. He says:
IF all the business men. or in fact all
the residents Of Seattle, are so anxious
10 advertise their city as the gateway TO
the Alaska gold fields, 1 think I have a
plan that would solve the problem 1t is
this: Let all the citizens Of Seattle see
that the hobos sojourning in their city
are well cared for and provided with all
they can eat. I would advise the city
council to appoint a committee of six to
Of the weary knights OF the road SO that
none should miss meal. Feed them up
until they have a nice oily complexion
and when they go down In the orange or
banana belts and the other four corners
of the globe they will advertise Seattle
and do it thoroughly, too. Why, they
would advertise Seattle more than all the
printers ink you could daub on the side
Of the White Navy. Don't do like sleepy
old Portland. have rock pile prepared
aud make every hobo that PASSES through
there stop and crack rock for 10 or 10
days. Let me tell you right here that the
hobos viii advertise Portland to their
hearts content and when you get the
weary Wiuies down on a city they can
say more real mean, harmful things
about 1t than Butcher Weyler could say
about the men that freed Angelina Cis-
neros from the Cuban prison. Seattle
you're a lucky sebben,' you are the dis
covery claim. and all other cities on the
coast are either above or below discovery.
You are the real bonanza and you viii be
hot number when the Ice melts on the
Chilkoot pass. even II you can't pick or
ange blossoms from the top of Mount Raj
nier. Yes, feed the hobos we'll and they
Will see that very little grass grows in
the streets Of your city"
Joe" also advises Seattle TO clean her
streets. and implores the landlords not 10
faiSc rents TOO tdSuiy. Ills iettsr Is VIII
ten in rounder aid more clerkly hand
than one would expect from hobo.
Among the old Seattleftes who have
been attracted back here by the fame OF
the Alaska gold discoveries Is James H.
Boughead. who left here six years ago
this month and has since wandered
through the West. AS he sat az the Dilier
last night, he told how he had engaged
In business IN Denver, Salt Lake and Los
Angeles and finally took to mining near
Kingman, Mojave county. Ariz.
we had rich chloride ore said he.
'the last shipment running liz ounces Of
silver. but IL was p0ckety and we had to
haul IS miles 70 a railroad and then ship
10 Pueblo. When silver went down we
shut down. and now / am going to Alas
ka, for I have got 10 go with the rush.
Down in the southwest everybody is talk
ing of going 80 Alaska, and most OF the
Arizona people are coming to Seattle. II
IS pretty well demonstrated that Seattle
Is the starting point, in fact they DO not
seem 20 know Of any other place TO start
from. At los Angeles everybody is talk
ing OF Alaska.
IT met c. c. Calzins on the street I'm
Los Angeles the other day. He Is deal
Ira tn he ,Hzfs lit