Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-09-04
FROM THE KL0NDIKE.
Steamer Portland Arrives, Bring
ing Much News.
Lucky Miners Among Her Passengers
They Say AIRsI<n'S Fields Are
Rich in Gold, But Awful Hard
ships Threaten ProspectOrs.

Seattle, Wash. Aug. 30.-The steamer
Portland arrived here at three o'clock
Sunday morning. 1t was IA hours after
the Portland was sighted off Cape Flat
terry before she arrived here. The Port
land carried 10 miners, each of whom
brought only small part of his stake.
The total amount of dust on the vessel
is perhaps $575OO0. The Portland was
delayed by the failure of the p. b.
Weare to arrive at st. Michaels and by
n, storm on the North Pacific ocean.
The miners on board, with the amount
of their total mining profits, parts of
which were brought with them, are as
follows: j. Rowan, $4,000; Jim Bell,
$4,000; Joe Goldsmith, $35, 900; N. w.
Powers, $4,000; w. w. CALDWELL $685.,
600; w. Oler, 100000; c. r. lilly, $685.
900; f. w. Cobb, 900; w. Zahn, $15,-
600; A. Buckley, SIC, 900; NJ. S. lansing,
$4,000; b. w. Farnham, 10000, NJ. r.
Camler, $4,000.
The Portland made the trip from st.
Mchaels without n convoy of revenue
cutters. But she will be guarded by
Unc!e Sans armed ships on her next
trip. She brings news from Dawson
City that provisions are very scarce
CoffeeSs worth so cents a pound.
Country Fabulously Rich.
While the small amount of gold
brought from the Yukon by the Port
land was disappointment to many the
miners who returned unite in saying
that the country is fabulously rich. The
claims which have been worked promise
well, and, in fact, many of them give
assurance of proving very rich. All es-
timates of the amount of gold which
will be taken out of the Yukon next
year must necessarily be very rough,
as there is no means of determining how
much work will be done. If men could
he secured to work the claims already
located :here would undoubtedly be
many millions of dollars taken out, but
The majority of men who go there prefer
to prospect on their own account, not
Withstanding the fact that high wages
can be had wherever claims have been
located and have proved rich State
ments have been made that the steamer
Portland on her next trip will bring
fully S2,000,000 in gold, but the most
reliable men from Dawson City say that
no such amount of money will come, as
il has not been taken out of the ground.
One miner who came down places the
outside figure at $1,000,000.
VIII Produce $7O,0OO,OOO.
One of the returni. g miners says that
the remarkably rich claims on Eldorado
creek will number 140. He estimates
that at the rate these 14O claims are now
producing, and considering the ground
l,.n
they ywillaggregatc aboutS70,0 100000. To
this must be added the favorable posi-
bilities of new gulches and the develop
ment of claims already found, but not
opened so as to permit of the greatest
production. There have been other rich
strikes on Stewart river, Hunker, Hen
derson and Indian creeks, but none oil
these are as rich as claims on EldoradC
and Bonanza creeks.
Until the wonderful discoveries or
the Klondike were made, ground wortl
ten cents to pan, with two or thre,
feet of puy dirt, was considered very
good for the Yukon, and miners mad
fair money with rockers and sluices
This year miners are passing entirel,
over ground of this richness in the
search for sand and gravel that will pa,
like that of the Klondike discoveries
Up to date none of the claims SHOW
any sign of exhaustion, and scarcely
dozen are more than well opened
Every one has large area of ground t
be worked.
Mr.. Ogilvie, dominion land surveyor
panned out dirt which ran $500 pc
pan. He says that bedrock of Klondik
and tributaries lies in great broke
slabs like pieces of rock imbeddcd i
cement. He does not credit the stor
that the dominion government will lev
tribute in form of royalty on claims.
Last Trip Up the Yukon.
The most important news from s.
Alichaels is that Yukon river steamer
left there two weeks ago for their las
trip up the Yukon. 1t was not certai
they would reach Dawson this fall, i
which event passengers who left tn
sound on the steamer Portland as earl
as July 25 would only reach Circle Cit
before navigation closed. This makes
certain that hundreds of miners VIII
have left the sound and California sine
August 1 for st. Michaels will have
winter there. AT least they can scare,
ly get started up the Yukon before til
river freezes over solid.
should Wait Until Spring.
Seattle, WASH, Aug. 30.-H. N. Stal
ley, who went to st. Michaels for ii
Associated Press, returned to this cit
or the steamer Portland. He says
81 have been seven weeks at the mou
of the Yukon, at st. Michaels, where
saw all the miners coming out and inte
viewed them. AS result feel 1t my du
TO advise everybody to stay out until ne
spring. Wild, and in many cases exagge
ated, reports have been circulated sin
the first discoveries were made. The strik
however, was and is one of the create!
II not greatest. in the worlds histor
Probably $2.O00,OO00 was cleaned up ii
spring, and next spring 1 look for fro
$5.OO0,OOO to N,0OO,OOO. The fields have har
ly been opened up yet, but those goi
in now must bear In mind that everythi
In that region was staked long before a
reports reached the outer world. and tn
t,x RET fort ttnnt