The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-09-03
no MoRE KLoNplKE CLAIMS.
People who 90 In Sow Must Work for
Wages.

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Seattle, Wash, Aug. SOL. A. Stan
ley, who went TO St. Michacls for the
Associated Press, returned TO this city
on the steamer Portland. lie says;
81 have been seven weeks at the
mouth Of the Yukon, at st. Michaels,
where saw nearly all OF the miners
coming out, and interviewed them. As
a result, feel II my duty TO advise
every one TO stay out until next spring.
Wild, in many cases, exaggerated re-
ports, have been circulated since the
| first discoveries were made The
strike. however, was, and Is. one Of the
greatest. II not the greatest In the
worlds history Probably s?,OO0,OOO
was cleaned up this spring, and next
spring look for from 5000, 900 to ST.
| 600 600.
"The field Is hardly opened up "a
yet, but those going in now mast bear
In mind that everything In that region
was staked long before any reports
reached the outer world, and that they
must prospect for themselves, buy
claims from the present owners or
work for the owners.
"No new strike had been reported up
20 the time Of my leaving, and another
may not be made for five years. nj.
though Alaska Is an enormous country
and will yet, believe, produce more
gold than we dream Of But Il Is also
In many ways bleak, barren. desc
late country-a country incapable Of
supporting any great amount OF AMI.
NAL life and country Of such rigor.
ons climate, both winter and summer,
that none but the most hardy can pos
sibly live In II. Even they must have
an abundance OF food and warm cloth
ing.
81 am aware that there Is popular
impression that supplies can be bought
In the vicinity Of the mines. They may
at present buy at six times Seattle
prices, but they are taken at even
those prices faster than they can DO
got In, and before winter il half over,
II even the present population stays in,
there will be actual starvation.
"Ihc average man requires about one
ton OF carefully selected food aud
clothing for years supplies. In tho
summer OF 1890 about J, 800 tons OF sup
plies went up the river and the popu-
lation OF 1900 10 1000 suffered from
want OF the $500 tons probably / 500
tons were rum, tools, furniture and
supplies'othcr than provisions. This
season, allowing for most favorable
circumstances, not more than 1900
tons OF supplies can be got up the river,
fully hulf OF which Il rum and tools as
well rs supplies other than food. There
are more than three times rs many
people In there than last winter
Figure II for yourself
Grub was completely cleaned out
this spring, and II last winter there
was such n scarcity that moose hams
sold for $50 each, flour $50 per hundred
bacon 81 n pound. what will not hap
pen this coming winter? Why will
not people actually starve TO death?
"As 20 shelter, 90 per cent OF Daw-
son was living in tents In July; timber
Is scarce and houses cannot be built.
How are several thousand people TO
Withstand the rigors OF n nine months
winter OF semi-darlsness, when tho
mercury goes to seventy degrees below
zero?
As 10 labor-it IL true that last win.
ter, the winter succeeding the great
strike, when men were scarce, wages
were SIS per day, but II no new strike
Is made, what is TO keep wages up this
winter There are but $40 claims on
Bonanza, Eldorado and bunker creeks
that will probably be worked this win
ter; an average OF eight men 10 each,
Is, think liberal. II but e,700 men
are employed, and there are 5000 or
more seeking work, what must be tho
result9 Wages must go down. am
told that much grub has gone over the
divide, yet from what know would
wager my last dollar that not TO ex.
coed 500 tons OF surplus over and above
what the carriers ate, will reach the
diggings. No man going In can arrive
with more than four months supply
"The KlondilSe is land OF ice and
snow. as well Ms n land OF gold
Let II not be made land Of gaunt
hunger, Indebtedness and death.
There will be as good chances for min
ing In the future as now. Let tho
people wait. This is not Cripple
Creek or Deadwood proposition. II
caught, they cannot walk out"