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overlaid, and If the present indications
are determinate of anything they are con-
elusive OF the existence of the richest
placers ever discovered. And it is not
reasonable-not even proba bie-that these
placers are confined to the canyons OF any
single tributary Of the Yukon. Placer
California along q region embracing at
is no instance of confined and, limited
area in which gold is found. Wherever it
has been discovered the discovery has
extended over broad areas OF analogous
formation.
sit is one of the fallacies of the human
mind to assume that the sources of gold
are exhausted. There is a feeling that all
the gold in the world has been found /;
the surface of the earth; that there is no
Explored region in which gold may yet
bs discovered. Ali the gold tak-n out of
the earth by the human family from the
beginning TO the present time would not
make block OF metal equal IN size to an
ordinary two-story frame dwelling. 1t IS
utterly preposterous 20 suppose that this
small block of metal is all there is in the
world. Substances in the earth have an
introactive relation. 1t is lnconceiva bic
that so small quantity of any given sub
stance could form any part or have any
place in the construction OF world.
the Sierra Nevada Mountains extend
practically to the mouth OF the Yukon.
The general geological formation is the
same. The age of the unheaval is practi-
cally the same, and ii is becoming more
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ALASKA TELEGRAM.
A Local Company Organic to Put
Up Thousand Miles Of Wire
to the Yukon


Articles of incorporation of the Alaska
Telegraph and Telephone Company were
filed with the County Clerk yesterday
afternoon.
The company proposes to construct q
line of telegraph from Dyea to Dawson,
and two branch lines, one from Dyea to
Juneau and the other from Dawson to
Circle City. The estimated length of the
main line and branches is 1000 miles. In
connection with the telegraph line, cable
and telephone lines necessary for the
complete operation of the line will be built
later.
The com pany is incorporated for the
term of fifty years and its headquarters
are to be in this City. The apital stock
is $3.50, 900, divided into %, 900 shares of $40
each. There has been already subscribed
500, 600, making 500 subscribed for every
mile of the line. Ten per cent of this has
been paid in to the treasurer of the COM
pany, G. U. Wright.
TIE directors of the corporation, ap-
pointed for the first year are: Theodore
Reichert, C. w. Wright of Marin County,
ID. E. BohaunoD, ]. w. Wright and J, F.
Fassett of San Francisco. Each of these
hold stock to the amount OF $50. 0.0O0 Be-
sides these a number of other capitalists in
the City are interested in the venture and
as soon the certificate OF incorpora tion
is received stock Will be issued TO them
and the election of officers will be held.
The movers in the enterprise expect to
compiet" the organization of the company
the latter part OF this week.
Application for concessions from the
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and more apparent hat the Sierra Madre
OF Mexico the Sierra Nevadas of Caliior-
MIA, the Cascades OF Oregon, the coast
ranges of mountains from the lsthmus to
Bering Straits are referable TO the same
geological causes and had their upbeaval
in the same period of tie worlds his ory.
They were, therefore. subject to the s. me
changes, the same g ac al action. ana
with the mineral development of the
Yukon we have completed the discovery
of gold a short intervals throughout the
length of the entire range from the
isthmus to Bering Sea. There are vast
undiscovered placers in California overlaId
with subsequent deposits from erosion.
There are fabulous deposits OF gold,
aurlierous quartz yet to be made known
The stories therefore, of gold discoveries
on the headwaters of the Yukon find con-
trmation In natural probabilities as we'll
as IN the shipments of vast treasure
which are being received from that re-
gon."
Commenting on the future OF the coun-
try he said:
''The industries of a country are dis
covered only by inhabitlng it. Coal and
iron will no doubt be found in the Yukon
basin. II they are they can be worked
more advantageously than in hot cli-
mate; the a Dor will be less severe.
1.-The resources of a new country are al
ways discredited. In the early history OF
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peditions took various long sections of the
uninha5ited and almost unknown region
which intervened between the southern
most portion OF British Columbia and
the Bering Sea. One expedition explored
the Yukon from its beginning TO the sea.
Dali, who was member of this expedi-
ton, in after years wrote ''The Resources
of Alaska" which is perhaps the best
com prehensive description of the interior
which one can get hold OF now.
Another expedition worked in British
Colum bia and Mr.. Lamb was with this ex-
pedition.
I'VE started on the Fraser River" said
Mr.. Lamb yesterday, land went north
along the Fraser to its confluence with the
Hunproon. We followed that stream to
its junction with the main wagon road 10
mouth of the Quesnells four hundred
miles north OF The starting point. We
crossed tie Fraser and followed the old
Hudson Bay trail to Fort Fraser and
struck the Skeena about $50 miles from its
mouth. We built the line to a point
a bout 80 miles north OF the Skeena
About 400 miles of the line was abandoned.
The line is now operated to Williams
Creek in the district Of Caribou about
sixty miles beyond Canal on Canal Creek.
| suppose that most OF the 400 miles OF
abandoned wire has been taken by the
Indians and others long ago. The Indi-
ans use il especially to build suspension
bridges across the streams.
II don't believe that it is practicable to
maintain an overland telegraph line to
Alaska Our line could never have beer
maintained if it had been completed. The
line would run through a rough and
heavily wooded country and would be
su bject to constant interruption. The
only practicable way is to lay cable
along the inland passages inside the
islands from the sound 10 Sitka."
All sorts OF telegraphic enterprises will
quickly come TO the front without dou bt,
and it appears certain that telegraphic
communication with Sitka and Juneau, il
not with the Yukon Valley, will not be
very long delayed.
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YUKON PLACERS.
w. II. Mills Believes That they ukon
Basin Is a Vast Deposit of
GoId-Bearing Earth.

old-Bearing Earth.
w. q. Mills of the Southern Pacific
Company, who is familiar with the topo-
graphical and geological features OF
California through observation ana study,
had something interesting to say yester-
day in reference to the new gold fields of
Alaska. He based his views largely on
cond tions that prevail in this State.
cit is frequently subject of surprised
comment" he said, 'that the science of
geology has contributed so little to the
discovery of precious metals. The sue
cessful prospector entertains disdainful
contempt for the suggestions of the
science of geology taught in the schools.
s'Veins of silver, gold placers and aurif-
erous quartz" he continued, "have been
discover ed by those whose search for
them was not guided by the cosmogony OF
the schools. Notwithstanding this the
miners accept theories at the hands OF
the scientific geologists. They believe in
the glacial period OF the formation of the
earth's crust. They have seen the glacial
! pavement. They have observed the con-
| tour Of the surface referable only to glacial
action. Their observation has extended
to the production OF placers as referable
| to this glacial action.
| Ahe luosl commonly accepted tneOIy
OF the most successful prospectors and
miners relating to placer mines is that
they are the result of the erosion of aurif-
| erous quartz. Inferences derived from
many facts confirm this theory.
''There are many places in California
where the surface pacers are poor COM
pared with the richness of the placers
which lie two or three hundred ieet below.
An instance OF this relates to the placers
around Folsom in Sacramento County.
1t Is well known that the town of Folsom
is built upon fabulously rich pIacers.
which lie 200 feet below the surface. The
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this country the people who had lived on
the Atlantic seaboard declared that the
prairies would not maintain large popu-
lation. The absence of timbe and the
supposed absence of coal and the general
bleakbess of the country were believed to
be iusuperabIe barriers to its settlement.
1t was believed that the country would be
subject to destructive winds; it was
thoug ut it would not be possible to manu-
facture, as no coal was known to exist in
the great States of the West like Illinois
and Iowa, and similar things were said OF
California.
III is very likely that large areas OF gold
bearing quartz will eventually be btoug t
to light, and with the present develop
ment in quartz-mlning apparatus Alaska
will have a mucA better start than Cali
fornia had. as quartz z-mining originated in
this State, and the early quart-miners had
everything TO contend with"
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A DEPARTED HUNDRED.
The State OF California Carried
North All the Miners Who
Could Get Passage.

The State OF California Carried
North All the Miners Who
Could Get Passage.
The main k!ondyke excitement on the
water front yesterday attended the de-
parture of the steamer State OF California.
She will connect with the George w. Eld er
at Portland, but did not take more than
one hundred miners among the passe D.
gers.
These arc all the company would carry,
SIS the other accomm odationx on the Elder
for Dyea had been scld. The crack
steamer carried 233 cabin and ia second
ca bin passengers. Many OF these were
Christian Endeavorers, ana hundreds of
church people were down to see them off.
a party of young ladies from the Mission
were also on the wharf to see two Of their
friends away, and IS soon as the En-
deavorers had finished with the hymn,
"God be with you till we meet again, the
Mission girls would break out with
"There'll be hot times in Klondyke
tonight" They had very pretty voices,
and F'hot times in Klondyke tonight
the vessel moved away from the wharf
and Captain Green put her on her course
for the Columbia River.
Among those who went north on the
State were DR.. F. N. Rose and A Bell.
They take 5000 pounds OF supplies with
them and expect 10 be gone year. Hun
dreds of miners, merchants and traders
wanted to ship goods to juneau by the
steamer, but could not secure accommo 0.
dations. and in consequence over 500 tons
of Merchandise was left behind These
goods will now have to take chances on
the City Of Pueb and the special steamer
Willamette that is to be put on the route
direct to Juneau. The latter will carry at
least 500 miners and their outfits, while
the Pue bla will have accommodation for
about 100 mora. These latter will have to
await one of the Alaskan steamers at Port
Townsend.
There Is wild scramble to secure
passage on the Excelsior that sails direct
for Dawson City to-day. All kinds OF
bonuses are offered for the tickets. but ii
the Alaska Commercial Company finds
out that any transfer has been made the
holder ot the ticket will be left on the
wharf. Gabe Cohn, one of the passengers,
does not intend letting the grass grow
under his feet. He expects to make a
fortune in the spring, but, nevertheless,
hopes to rake in few shekels during the
winter. He has purchased phonograph,
ana has cylinders with all kinds of mes
sages from friends and relatives in this
City to friends in the frozen North. Mr..
Cohn thinks that so cents will be fair re-
muneration for the use of the instrument.
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glacial erosion that carves the canyon oi
the American River made rich de posits,
which were subsequently overlaid by the
slow decomposition of rocks, the natural
erosion OF the hills and the gradual for
nation of q vegetab! mold.
"lf the theory entertained by the most
practical MINER relating to the origin OF
gold placers is to be accepted it would
follow that the richest placers are to be
found where glacial action is most recent.
This theory has already found appica-
tion to the rich placers recently discov-
cred on the headwaters of the Yukon.
The glacial action which has gwen topog-
raphy to the Klondyke region is more re-
cent by from one to two hundred thou
sand years than the glaciers which carved
the canyons on the western flank of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains. The deposits
from auriferous quartz are, therefore, not
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Alameda and the Klondyke.

ALAMEDA, CAL, July 27.-The klon-
dyke fever appears to be spreading, and
many people are either talking about
going or preparing 10 so. J. G. Muther, a
well-known auctioneer, will leave in Jew
days, and he is advertising for mum ber
of abe-bodled men TO accompany him.
He puts the amount needed to procure
supplies at $500 each. DR.. Dio Tisdale has
been thinking of going. but will wait
until next spring. William Parker and
the Hofschneider brothers of Fruitvale
start To- m orrow. Others will Leave at the
first opportunity.
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ONE OLD MIN ER'S IDEAS.
He Would Concentrate His Sup
piles According to His Expert
enCe and Travel Light.

plies According to His Expert
ence and Travel Light.
"WeIe going north, now" said an ex-
perienced miner yesterday, II would pack
but very little II had no money to pay
my way. Here is what | would take. and
it will be found amply sufficient:
Twenty pounds OF British ships biscuit
which may be secured at any frst-class
grocery; six pounds of sugar in good
strong cotton bags of three pounds each,
for they can be better packed in bundle |;
two pounds OF coffee and two pounds of
tea; dozen tin boxes of wax matches; a
bar OF soap; linpail to boil tea or coffee
in and use the lid for drinking out of; one
tin of salt and pepper; one axe; two pairs
OF heavy blue WOODEN blankets; two pairs
OF heavy miners boots; two suits of
heavy underwear; a suit of strong oil
skin, such as sailors wear; strong heavy
socks and gloves; pair of smoked
glasses; a good heavy revolver; two
towels; tent 10xS; one pick and shovel.
and, if possibl', a heavy india bber
sleeping-bag. There's the whole Of my
kit, which l don't think would weigh
much more than an ordinary soldier s
marching OUTFIT
"The rope you would use in binding the
outfit would serve also for carrying it
over your shoulders, and on arrival at
your destination be used in erecting your
lent The idea of carrying, or rather
packing, -four, bacon, cornmeal, rice, oat-
meal and other such luxures, as well as
numerous culinary utensils, building
tools and superduous clothing, is all nom
sense.
"The journey to the frozen North is not
near so hard as some people imagine, but
for all that l would not advise an unprac-
tical man to go there until next spring. A
seasoned miner can go there at any time,
but the green hand will find it holy ter
ror before he has tramped the first fifty
miles. Stun ping the railroad ties IS
child's play to humping the 'bluey' over
miles OF trackless mountains and in the
face OF yital-cutting biizzards, driving
snow and sleet into your face. Young
man, take my advice and remain where
YOU are.h
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REGULARS
MAY GUARD
THE PASSES
Continued from First Page.

orderad tn shin YOU years supply OF cloth
ing including fur coats, caps, gauntlets,
arctics. also $50 wooden blankets, stationery,
axes and otner tools for hu.ting. All Tor a
company of infantry, leaving Seattle Angus
WEEKS, Quartermaster.
From this it appears that the vexeo
question as 70 whether United States
troops are to be stationed on the Yukon
has been settled.
The North American Trading ana
Tran sportation Company's steamer which
sails August is the Cleveland, now on
her way from San Francisco and due to
arrive tomorrow. That so much OF ner
passenger accomm odations will be taken
up by the troops may be gratifying TO
National pride, but it will be rough on
those here who hoped to secure transpor-
tation by the Cleveland on the easy and
comfortable all-sueamer route to Dawson
City.
The pressure on the transportation COM
panies for passage to Seattle for Alaska
has resulted In an overflow from this
place TO other points. The steamer
Islander, which leaves Victoria to-mor-
row for Dyea, will carry about 300 pas
sengers, of whom fully 100 are from Seat
lie and other sound ports. For the past
few days the Kingston, the regular
steamer between here and Victoria, has
been loaded with freight and passen gers
from this point for Victoria, being the
Klondyk ke immigrants and their outfits OF
supplies. The vexed question as to
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G. H. Umbsen G Co.. IA Montgomery st.,

in said City ard County of San francisco on
Thursday, the I'd day of september, A. D. 1897, at
II o'clock noon of that day, to the highest dder
for cash in lawful money of the United States.
and subject to confirmation by said court, all thar
certain lo; piece or parcel Of land situate, wing
and being in the City and County OF san Fran
CISCO State OF California, and bounded and par
tfcularly described as follows, TO VII:
Commencing at a point where the northerly line
of Bush street Is interseCted by the eastery line OF
Sansome stree running thence eas;erly along tn =
northerly line of Push street one hundred and
thfrty-seven Q37) feet and six (6) inches; thence
at right angles northerly and parallel with San
some sire 1t one hundred and thlrty-seven (l5p
fest and SIX 10 inches; thence At right angles
westerly and parallel with Bush street. one nun
dred and thrty-seven 137) feet and six (6) lncheS
and to the cas- cry side OF Sansome street; ana
thence southerly along the easteriy side OF san
some street one hundred aud thirty y-seven QSD
feet and six (6) inches to the point or mmence-
ment: together with the buildings and improve
Snents thereon -. ... D..
The right of John +. McCauley and Henry Thorn
ron TempIeton their heirs and assigns TO use tha
brick wall along the northery line of said lot here
in described party wall
Terms and conditions OF sRle-Casn In lawful
money OF the United states of America; ten per
rent OF the purchase price 10 be paid o the ref
cree on the day of sale, when the lot Is knocked
down to the purchaser, and the balan q on con-
firmaton CT said 5ale By said court
Dated San Francisco, Cal, July l, 1882.
GUSTAVE II. UMBSEN, Referee.
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Canadian Government has been made. As
there is no apprehension OF refusal to
grant permission to build the line reply
to the application will not be waited for,
but the construction of the line will be
begun at once, il is asserted, under the
supervision of D. E. Bohannon. II is
hoped to complete the main Ilne from
Dvea TO Dawson by the fl rst of October.
Even on the completion of this line
there would still be gap OF several hun
dred miles between it and telegraphic
communication with civilization.
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EAGLIsaMp INDIGNANT.
americans to ENrmtsh the Plant for
London Etec.ric Line.

Americans to ENrmtsh the Plant for q
london Etec.ric Line.
LONDON, ENG, July 27.-According to
the Daily Mall, the English firms are very
indignant that the contracts for the
traction plant of the London Central Rail-
way. which is to be an underground elec-
trio line, amounting in value to hundreds
of thousands OF pounds, have been given
to Americans.
The secretary of the company explains
that the contracts for carriages, locomo-
tives and machinery we're given to Amer-
can firms on the advice of electrical ex-
perts, who represent that the greater use
Of electrical traction in the United States
las brought its manufacture to a higher
degree of perfection and made it far less
expensive than in England.
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1T MUST BE A CABLE.
Assistant uperintendent Lamb OF
the Western Union on Tele-
graphic Communication.

F. H. Lamb, assistant superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph Company
here, does not believe 1t practicable to
maintain a telegraph line to Alaska and
says that the problem OF electrical COM
munication must be solved with cable
laid from the Sound along the inland
passages next to the coast from Vancouver
to Sitka and Juneau.
Mr.. Lamb is competent TO speak on the
subject, for he was with one OF the expe-
ditions of the Western Union Telegraph
Company which explored a route for line
to Asia by way OF Bering Sea late in the
sixties. THIS enterprise developed soon
after the success OF the Atlantic cable.
The Russian Government agreed to build
a line from Bering Straits south to the
Amoor River and the Western Union
Company proceeded to spend several hun
dred thousand dollars on The enterprise
on this side of the Pacific. Exploring ex-
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whether duty would be charged on outfits
shipped over by those going on the
Islander has been settled by shipping all
such supplies under a bond given by
Captain Irving OF the Island er that the
goods will be discharged in American ter.
ritory, to wit, Dyea.
The further question whether any at
te mpt will be made to collect duty on
such goods when they reach the interna.
tional boundary line, on Lake Idnder.
man, across the Chilcoot Pass. remains to
be determined. 1t is not really believed
that such action is contemplated.
The horse market is booming here. and
the price of cayuses is rapidly advancing.
Indian ponies were drug on the market
few weeks ago at from 81 apiece upward.
To-day almost any sound pony will COM
mand from $50 to $50. Enter prisinp in.
dividuas have imported quite number
from the plains of Eastern Washington.
where they have been worth rather less
than nothing, indeed where ponies have
been shot to keep the range for cattle.
Horse markets have been hel on va.
cant lots and IN side streets for the past
few days. 1t has become understood that
the facilities for packing across the Chill
coot and White Pass will be totally in
adequate to the demands which will be
made upon them, and at present the we'll
QUILTED parties insist on taking with
them one or more ponies, so as to Ue sure
that their goods can be got over before
the ice forms and closes the river.
The Edith, formerly Ralston's private
yacht, will leave here July 81, carryin g
sixty head of horses at $22 so each. These
are the property of the $50 Kiondykers
who go north on the Rosalie at the sam 9
date. The Rapid Transit, a steam barge,
has been chartered 10 take up 100 horses
to Dyea. leaving here August l, and Aims
worth and Dunn have secured space on
the collier Willamette, leaving here on
August 3. for sixty head more.
An IIi-AdVlSad Rush
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REFEREE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

DY VIRTUE OF TWO DEGREES OF THE
ID Superior Court In and for the City and County
of San Francisco, stale Of California Department
No. l0l, The first of which DEGREES was made and
is dated the 22d day of November 1895, and the
second of which DEGREES made and is da ed
Crees were MADE and entered IN an action pending
in said Superior Court wherein Adam Grant Is
plaintiff ana Daniel I. Murphy aud others are de-
PENDANTS, being case No 49,U33 in the said court,
the nderslgnt d, who was by said court appointed
referee in said action viii sell Al puolc auction,
at ha n
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PEOPLE, EITHER FROM THE
Tariff bill Many
doubled
hunting will
looking
ain mostu
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OFF TO THE GOLD FIELDS.

To-day the steamer Excelsior sails for Dawson City via ST.
Mehaels and the Yukon River She will leave
miners and supplies.
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