The San Francisco call., 1897-08-13
THE YUKON
COLD STILL
ATTRACTS
The North Fork Will Start
for st. Michael To-
Morrow.
ODDS And ENDS OF KLONDlKE NEWS
Old Sailors Say the Yukon
Will Be Navigable for
Two Months.
THE LAST STEAMER TO DEPART.
Reports Afoat That Many Who Have
Tried the Chilooot Pass Have
Turned Back Discouraged.

There was not much excitement about
the goldfelds of the Yukon yesterday,
though there was considerable activity
about the offices of the companies that
are about to send new steamers to the
Yukon.
The Pitcairn IS trip has been abandoned
and her passengers have been transferred
to the North Fork, which Will start to-
morrow. Speaking of the trip of the
North Fork yesterday, G. P. Troy said:
I'VE have more than hundred passen-
gers and more are making application.
We still have little room. Our advices
are that the upper Yukon has never been
frozen before the middle of October in the
history of the country. That will give us
nearly a months leeway. We have agreed
to land our people at Dawson. and we
have not the slightest fear of failure. The
trip to st. Michael will be made in about
two weeks. We will be delayed not to ex-
ceed four days in making our barges, for
they are all ready to PIT together. From
there the trip TO Dawson will readily be
made in two weeks. so you see that places
US in the heart of the mining district
without any delav. The people we take
will be welI supplied with food, and there
is not any question in our minds that
many will do well in the goldfieIds and in
the work common in busy mining camps"
Letters and kilograms continue TO come
to those who have klondike expeditions
under way. All these show that there is
a great deal of interest in the gold discov-
cries and that it extends all over the
United States.
Two of the most prominent passengers
f,a Narth 1rI~ xr,,Il r.
Winningstad and Charles Rogers, both of
whom have been prominently identified
with mining and construction engineer
ing on the Pacific Coast for many years.
They are going for the purpose of making
thorough investigation of the iedges
and formations of the Yukon country and
will remain as long as there is any gold
excitement.
The steamer Navarro has been char
tered by the Yukon Exploring and Trad
ing Company. it will probably make the
last trip from this port for the Yukon,
and is booked TO start on the I7th. At
st. Michael her passengers will be trans
ferred to the light draft river boat,
Thomas Dwyer, for the trip up TO Dawson.
The fare to be charged each member of
the party is $500. A physician is to 60
along.
4 The Klondike and California Mining
Company of 40 Montgomery street is still
enrolling men for the ex xpedition which is
to leave on Saturday, every applicant be-
ing subjected to a medical examination to
determine his fitness for the experience
before him.
Passengers who came to Seattle yester-
day on the steamer Queen report that a
great congestion of freight for the Klon-
dixie exists at SSaguay and other places
along the road. They say there will be
many thousands unable TO cross the Chill
coot Pass, and that many grew discouT.
aged and offered 10 sell their outfits for a
song when they had taken one look at the
steep Chllcoot Pass.
There was rumor esterday that there
would be great scarcity of men in the
canneries of Alaska on account of the
rush tor the mines. Inquiry at the office
of the Alaska Packing Com pany disclosed
the fact that there was no truth in the
rumo-. The president of the company
said: "The rumor is ridiculous. Our
Bering Sea canneries are so far away that
the men have not heard of the mines of
Alaska. We are just now getting word of
things that occurred in the canneries in
April. 1t is over 1000 miles to the can
neries and there are no steamers running
10 the regions adjacent to the mines"
The president of the company says he
left Alaska lately and that there was no
great excitement about the goldields of
the Klondlke, most of the Afaskans hav-
ing decided to take no steps un til spring