The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
TRYING TO CARRY ALL
WHO APPLY.
Some Novel Outfits to Be
Taken by Gold-OiggerS
to the klondyke.
ON GOES THE RUSH TO THE
NEW Ell DORADO.
From Many Sections of the Coun-
try Come Reports Of Parties
Be ng Organized.

SEATTLE. WASH, July 24-The Kon-
dyke excitement. so far as this town is
concerned, is just one week old to-day,
and already en- ough trans portation lines
are in the field, with those in existence be-
fore to insure the dispatch of Il steamship
from here TO Dyea every other day. The
Mex co sails July %. The Topeka July %.
the Rosalie Ju'y 81. the AK August =.
the Willamette August and the Queen
August 6. BY the time the Queen departs
the Mexico will be back to load again.
The Rosalie is a large steamer, owned
by the Northwestern Transportation Com
pany, which has been on the run between
here and Victoria for some months past.
She has been chartered by Frank E.
Burns, for many years coal agent OF the.
Oregon I'm proyement Company at thi,
point, and has accommodations for 200
first-class passengers. Mr.. Burns has also
chartered tbs steamer Edith, owned by
Tacoma parties. The Edith will leave on
July 81 but will take no passengers. Her
entire cargo will consist of horses, seventy
five being taken up. The Willamette is
the latest addition TO the feet.
This is the big collier belonging to the
Oregon improvement Company, but
which has been under charter to the
Black Diamond Coal Company, carrying
coal from this port to San Francisco. The
Pacific Coast Steamship Company has
succeeded in chartering her and she will
GO north as soon as she returns from her
present voyage TO San Francisco. She is
billed to sail from here August 3. but Will
have to iurn live!ier wheel than she has
done in the past to get back here to make
the trip on time, as she does not Ieay. for
San Francisco until tomorrow. The
other steamers are regular line boats
which have been running for some
months.
While by ca is spoken OF as the point for
which these boats are heading the ma
jority of The passengers vii get off al
Skagawa, few miles from Dyea, up an
other inlet. The pass from Skagawa,
called Whites Pass, is now considered
better tnan the Chilcoot, back of Dyea.
Whites Pass is lower. much work has
been done on the trail and there is wool
all along the route, while on the Chilcoot
Pass route WOOD has be carried if packers
desire fire during the night necessarily
spent on the trails.
Moran Bros, proprietors OF shipbuild-
ing plant and mactine-shop here closed
contract with n British Colum bia syndi-
cate yesterday 10 build three boats for the
Stickeen River. These boats are for
new route 10 the Yukon which the Cana
dians are exploiting. The Stickeen River
heads in the Cassiar mining d strict.
From the head OF navigation on the
Stickeen there is now a trail into Dease
Lake, nj one time q famous mining camp,
TO which twenty years ago there was
rush similar TO that On al present to klon-
dyke.
From Dease Creek the Canadian Gov
ernment is building a trail to the Yukon.
When completed this will be the Cana
dian route TO the mines. although the
Stickeen's mouth is in Alaska. One of
these boats will be Stern wheeler 1870
feet long, with b-am of 90 Ieet; another
vii be stern wheeler 12U feet long, and
the third a tar-e of about 500 tons capa-
city. The Morans are to get out all the
material here and have it ready to put
together and build the engines and
boilers as well. Then the material will
be taken TO the Stickeen and the boats
built and launched there.
Work commenced on the drafts within
an hour after the contract was accepted,
and The toats will be built as rapidly as il
can be done.
The Mexico sails tomorrow with the
heaviest passen nger-list and most hetero-
genous cargo oi freight that has ever been
on her decks since she was launched.
Sixty-ei1ht horses and one solitary burro
are slowed in the forward hold. Tempo
rary hunks have been put in between
decks to accommodate 100 additional
steerage passengers, while her cargo con-
sists OF the outfits of those going up on
her, averaging about 1900 pounds 10 the
man.
Dozens Of boats are among this freight
knocked down and ready to be put to-
gether when the mountain pass is
crossed, which leads over into the Yukon.
She Will take $50 passengers, very largely
from Seattle, although many other places
in Washington and all the other Pacific
Coast States are represented aboard.
Among the novelties in the way OF out
hts are nu m ber Of handcarts in which
acventurers expect to transpor. their
supplies over the pass. Two men have q
com mDination cart and sled, with two
wheels at The center, a pair OF runners and
handles at each end. The wheels are to
be unshipped when snow is reached.
The scattering OF the ciiy's police force
by the klondyke rush has resulted in ex-
hausting the list of eligible under the civil
service rules.
The Civil Service Commissioners will
call an examination as soon as possible.
i'll order to keep up the force. IN the
meantime Chief Reed has notified them
tnat he will have fifteen further vacancies
on his force within week. Unless pro-
vlded with men by the Civil Service Com
mission ne will make TEN porary appoin +
ment4 at his own discretion.
j. L. Ivy, the newly appointed COL
lector OF Customs for Alaska, arrived
here from Portland tonight, and viii
lake passage to his post of duty on the
Mexico tomorrow. Half dozen other
Oregonians came in on the same train
bound for the gold fields of the Klon-
dyke.