The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-22
THIS SOUNDS TRUE
The Richness of the ClOn-
dyke is Confirmed.
THE RICH GROUNDS ALL LOCATED
One Who is There Writes That He Can
not Get a Rich Claim, But Hopes
For a Paying One.

SEATTLE, July 20.-There are promises
that the steamer service between this
city and St. Michael's, contemplating an
all-water route between Puget sound and
the Upper Yukon mining districts by an
additional line of river steamers, will be
made by company that is being organ
lied by local and Eastern capitalists.
The scheme is to buy or build sea.go-
ing steamship and to buy light-draught
river steamer for the business between
st. Michael's and Dawson City, the
heart of the new diggings. The COM
pany is organizing on a 5000, 900 paid-in
capital basis. The Eastern subscribers
to the stock are taking $3.50, 900, and the
balance is being aised here.
Correspondence between parties in the
Clondyke and this city relative to the,
wonderful finds in what has been be-
lleved until recently to be a barren waste
of arid land and ice is becoming public
property. B. R. Shaw, formerly we'll.
known insurance man of Seattle, has
written letter to a business man in
this city, in which he states frankly that
he does not expect to be believed. The
letter, however, is only in line with 9TH
ers that the gold brought down from the
Clondyke endorses. Among other things
Shaw says:
"There is no night here now. It is
light as midday for the "a hours. and
neither too warm nor too cold. Not too
many flies to bother US as yet. This is
great mining strike, probably the great
est on the American continent or in the
world. 1 know you will not believe me
if 1 tell you about 1t. tits not as extern
sive as l wish it was, or, at least, gold
has not been found in great paying
quantities except on two creeks, about
200 claims, but some OF them are very
rich; in fact, some of the pay streaks
are nearly all gold. One thousand dol
lars to the pan is not an uncommon
thing, and as high as 100 ounces have
been taken out at single pan. 1t is no
uncommon thing to see men coming in
with all the gold they can carry.
"You will not believe me when tell
you that I went into one cabin and
counted five five-gallon oilcans full of
SOlO OuSJS OuI IL Is d ldCG. Ii rs Lu0 re-
suit of the work of two men during the
winter, and the dump is not much more
than half worked out.
About 81, 100000 in dust has been
taken out so far in the district. At a
low estimate there will be 10000, 900
taken out during the next year. Of
course, 1 am in too late to get in on any
of the rich ground, but hope to get hold
of some that can make miners wages
at, or better. / am working for the
Alaska Commercial company, helping to
put up big store building. I went to
work as soon as got settled at $40 day
for 10 hours. Carpenters get SIS day,
and 80 do all of the men who work in
the mines. think 1 shall work for
while. Some of the saloons take in $1,000
to $4,000 a day. All pay IN gold dust land
nothing less than 80 cents. A glass of
beer costs so cents. There are plenty of
provisions here. Flour is $12 per 100
pounds, sugar 30 cents per pound. oat.
meal 25 cents, bacon so cents, and other
things in proportion
"Logs are worth $50 thousand at the
mill, and lumber $3.50 a thousand.
There is small sawmill here, running