The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-08-13
GOLD IN ABUNDANCE.
BUT ALL WHO DIG ARE NOT
SURE OF REWARD.
Many Hardships Are to BE Surmounted
and Fortunes Not Sure After ALI
More People Leave for the North
Steamship Industry Boom
ing-Klondyke Trade.
Conditions Not Dazzling.

Conditions Not Dazzling.
MADISON, Wis, Aug. 6.-J. c. Will.
stead, since 1891 superintendent of the
government reindeer farm in Alaska,
now here on vacation, said yestcr-
day that while the gold reports were
not exaggerated in the least, the hard
ships were terrible and few of those
who were rushing to the new fields
had any idea OF the endurance re-
quired. A person having a good posi-
tion would be wise to keep it. in pref
erence to going fortune hunting in
Alaska. Many of them forget that
they will be thousands of miles from
civilization and entirely upon their
own resources, and, even though they
successfully weather the trip, there is
no certainty that they will return
loaded down with gold dust. Of trad
ing business Wilstead wakes enthusi-
astic, and he thinks in this line for
tunes rivaling the wealth of the Hud-
son Bay trading companies will be
made.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 d. Crois-
SAINT of this city, now in Alaska, in a
letter written in July, dwelt upon the
great rush for the Klondyke, declared
that many of the stories of fortunes
were overdrawn by those interested
in the region in various ways and pre-
dicted intense disappointment and
suffering for thousands He said that
claims along the Klondyke had all
been taken and the only hope for new
corners would be along other streams
which had been partially prospected
with poor success. He said that when
he wrote there were hundreds bound
for the gold fields with neither money
nor provisions and proper clothing and
he believed scores would die during
the coming long winter
STILL MORE BRAVE THE COLD.
SEATTLE, Wash. Aug. 1.-THE steam
ship Cleveland sailed for st. Michael's
to-day with 200 passengers and 1000
tons of freight for the new gold re-
gions. Among the passengers are
Captain P. NJ Ray and Lieutenant
Richardson, U. S. A., who will lnves-
tigate the military necessities of
Alaska, select a site for q fort and
make preparations for troops from
Fort Russell, Wyo., who will probably
be sent to Alaska in the spring.
The North American Transporta-
ton and Trading company has let a
contract for the building of four more
river steamers, making eight contracts
let by the company in two weeks. All
of the boats are of large capacity.
Deck hands for Yukon bound vessels
are in great demand and wages have
been increased from S25 to $40 q
month.
CUDAHY ON HIS BIG CLAIMS.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6. John Cudahy,
head of the proposed S25,0OO,Oo0
Alaska mining company, said that the
company owned thirty placer claims,
each as rich as the Klondyae, but
would say nothing of the quartz
claims. The Clover Leaf, south Of
Fort Cudahy and four miles from nav
igable water, is the only quartz claim
that will be worked in the near fu-
tura
The organization of the new COM
pany was completed at the Auditor
ium annex to-day, the title to be the
Cudahy Healy Yukon and Klondyke
Mining company. The following are
the incorporators: John Cudahy,
Michael Cudahy, c. L. Hutchinson,
e. A. Hamill, Ely E. Weare, P. Il.
Weare, C. A. Weare, John j. Healy
c. II. Hamilton and Eli A. Gage. In
corporation will be under West Vir-
ginia statutes.
INSURANCE SCHEMES BLOCKED.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 6.-The
determin alton of the leading life il
surance companies to carry no risks
on Klondyke explorers has fallen with
dampening effect on the cooperative
companies which were forming in this
city and upon a number of men who
were preparing to start for Alaska
during the coming winter. One of
these companies intended to send ten
represen atives, each insured for So
900, giving each man $1,000 besides
mOuey lol CSh G4hSChe CApcHStS, Oil III
them to cooperate in the search for
gold, dividing equally with the com
pany, and in case of death the insur-
ance money to be paid to the company.
BY each death the company stood to
win Ss, 500, on the oasis that not more
than 81 500 would be spent on each
representative. Another company
simply designed carrying sufficient in
surance to REIN burse it for actual out
lays. 1t is not thought that any of
these companies will proceed further
with the organization.
Farm on the Yukon.
CHICAGO. Aug. 6.-Uncle Sam soon
will have an experimental farm in the
Yukon valley, if Secretary Wilson's
pledge to P. B. Weare of the North
~ tinr, nd fT,.aI