Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-09-03
MORE KLONDIKE WEALTH.
IL Miners Arrive in Seattle With
$575,OOO.

The High Prices for Food and the PrOs-
poets of SuHerlng---SOOO People VIII
BE at Dawson when the Mercury is
20 Degrees Below Zero.
The steamer Portland arrived at Seattle, WASH
Sunday from ST. Mchaes. The vessel brought
about S575, 900 Of gold dust. Thirteen returning
miners were on board representative Of the
Associated Press was on board, who was sent to
st. Michaes to report on the &C ual state of af
fairs. His advice to would be miners is not On
any account to start for Klondike this fall. The
gold find there is of the richest ever struck in
the orld's history, but it is more than folly for
any man to start for the fields now expecting to
reach there and winter there. 1t is simply ply
steal impossibility to carry in the supplies which
are needed.
The average man, y he says, requires about
one ton Of carefully selected food and clothing
for years supplies. In the summer of 1896
about $500 tons Of supplies went up the river, and
the new population of 1900 to 1000 suffered from
want. OF this $500 tons probably 1900 were rum,
tools, furniture and supplies other than provis.
| ions This season, allowing the most favorable
| circumstances not more than 1900 tons of sup
| plies can be got up the river, fully half Of which
| is rum and tools as well as supplies other than
| food There more than three times as many
! people there as there were last winter Figure it
| out for yourself.
and last winter there was such scarcity that
moose hams sold for $50 each, flour Slg0 hun
dred, bacon 81 pound. What will not happen
| this coming wintery why Will not people aCtu
ally starve TO death!
in tents in July labor Is scarce and houses cannot
| be built. How 1000 people to Withstand the
rgor of a nine months winter of semi darkness,
when Il mercury goes 20 degrees below zeroy
Il am told that there is plenty of food at st.
| Michaels So there may Oe, but after September
Is, when the river freezes, it might well be in
New York city, for to transport it by dog train or
sled over 1900 miles of icy river is absolutely Inn
possible. There is not, nor will there ever be- a
deg train that can take enough to feed itself over
| 1900 miles.
In the name Of humanity ask that a stop be
| put to this wholesale transportation of people
| without supplies. Let no man be allowed TO en-
| ter that region unless he carries with him enough
food and clothing to last hun year"
The most important news from st. Michaels is
that the Yukon river steamers left there two
weeks ago for their last trip up the Yukon. 1t
was not certain they would reach Dawson this
fall, in which event passengers who left the Sound
on the steamer Portland as early as July - would
only reach Circle City before navigation closes.
This makes 1t certain that hundreds of miners
who have left the Sound and California since Aug.
for st Michaels will have to winter there.
The special correspondent of the New York
/ Herald writes: starvation will stare the miners
in the face during the ming winter If all signs
do not fail, As little more food has been sent up
the river by the two tran sportatOn companies
this year than last and there will be at least three
or four times as many persons to feed Those
who are now there viii exhaust every pound OF
brought down by reliable men are to be believed
Many Of them know well py last years hard eX
perences with hunger and scuryy what is in store
Tor others. Larg" numbers 20 in over the Chill
koot Pass as poorly prepared as we're those who
went last year, with short supplies, needless of al
warnings. They Will find themselves battling fol
life against hunger and cold and cut off from al
chances Of relief from the outside world. Wits
key there viii be plenty, such it is and othei
, things out Of which profits are made.
, The schooner Sanders arrived in Seattle las
, week from ~. Mlchaels, at the mouth Of tn,
Yukon river. James McNamee, one of the pas
sengers had a sack Of gold dust valued at $40, OOO
He has been In the Yukon country for four years
and during the past lew months has taken GU
shining metal worth S37 900. He is half owner il
IS rich claims on kdorado and Bonanza creeks
ard each claim is estimated to be worth S25 W
. to S50,UUO. Henry Ash, king OF the gamblers
- was also aboard. He was formerly gambler Il
California, but adverse legislation drove him I
Circle City. Alaska. He followed the crowd I
a Dawson. He opened a gambling house there
Z stood IN with the mounted police secured "A
gambling rights and gold poured into his Golfer
as II never poured into those OF another gambler
II ASH made fortune go' tired Of life in that III
=, house in June.
j. 5 Dinsmore of Eureka Calf, who brougt
, back several thousand dollars, went over ChilkOC
o Pass last season with four men and four tons
d provisions. Ii took them three weeks to get ovt
r. the Pass and three more to reat h klondike. II
It sold ms supplies at the rate of 81 for 81 baco
r. bringing ~ - pound, eggs s. dozen, potato,
II ~ pound and lemons 80 cents each
e The ricuest man in Dawson City today, so fs
a as / know. IL ChlI MllCneI OF Eureka, Calf.
says Dinsmore. He has been there IL wear
Down in Eureka he was a lumberman, but new,
a made any money, and poverty drove hun mort
- He has made one trip on the Yukon, FIVE yea
ago, when he had only $4,000, Last winter
n struck the Klondike. Today his claims on +
" dorado and Bonanza creeks are as good as Il
United States mint. One claim in particular (N
e 26, on the Bonanza creek, above Discovery yie,
5 $1,000 a box. He owns it with Frank Dinsmore
n Maine To show that ii is all right will say tn
r last spring the cleanup was $1,000, Mitchell
l.: worth 81 ,00JO0U. He will have an immense 10
"a | tune when he comes OUT
A. letter from Juneau says 1000 to 5000 peop
n are camped along the trail above Skaguay. wi
ia no chance of getting over White Pass Maj
20 have sold out and abandoned the trip some glad
10 taking 10 per cent of the original cost of their OF
w fits and leaving that part Of the country. Mo
> of those who started VIA Dyea and the Chilko
Pass are getting on well and will probably rea,
Klondike. Advices from the interior reports Ri
r finds on the Stewart river. High prices preva
a Flour sells at 500 for 80 pound sack and 9th
in staples equally high. AT St Michaels ~
TX tons of freight piled up, and IS per cent
ee it will reach Dawson this fall the ice will 500
Ill cover the rivers.