The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-29
Charles Weiss Arrived
Direct From The
Gold Fields.
Millions Of Sold In sight.
90 Undergo In THAT Country
other News

Broad, Jr. of Laurium, and who Wa
formerly employed at the Boston an
Albany and Franklin mines and also a
the Portage Lake and L. ;. canal is a
present staying with his daughter a
Ladrium having just returned from IN
kloudike where he has been for som
years--duriDg which he MADE two voy
ages Up the Yukon, and not withstand
ing his advanced years, he is 20, pro
poses il all goes well 10 return there next
spring, until which time he will probab y
remain in this neigbOrbood.
Mr. Weiss as soon as be reached Du-
luth was intervieV ed by the Evening
Herald OF that city and as Mr.. Weiss
says the account OF the interview was
very fairly given in the columns OF that
paper we reprint IT, as no doubt many
of our citizens would like TO know some.
thing OF the wonderful place from the
diDs Of one who has jIst come from there.
sfroE the following it would look as if
the climate could not be so cold a. is
generally imagined. The following is
thetnterTiew as published by the Duluth
Evening Herald.
&c old?" There is untold millions OF il
there, and thsre are great stretches of
Ogctrv that have never been prospected
rh &C will develop as great showing as
the Alondike, where the principal excite
rmcnt is now. Bat let no one forget that
there ere hardships enough for the sud-
Zen wealth that is 10 be found there.
MEG have to work and suffer TO become
wealthy, and 1t seems that where they
become wealthy in "A snort time, az men
have in the klondike, they have tocrowd
chetr work and suffering into the same
Snort time, and they get Just az much OF
lt- lett Dawson City July /, and at
tAat time it was az lively a settlement as |
there ever was on earth. Money was |
lying az rapid pace, aud the dance |
halls and saloons were going day and |
might and rakIng in the dust that the |
miners had just taken from the mines.
Night was just the same as day. and |
there was no lack OF excitement, People |
we're coming in all the time. but the rush
trom the United States had not vet
reached there. | came down the Yukon
iud none OF W had any idea of the i'm
Tnense crowds of people that were
streaming in over the other routes
When / reached st Michaes was afraid
rhat ! " as too late 70 get a boat, and |
as nstonished 10 fad a big tee in the
Narbor, At first l thought that il was n
teet OF men-Ofwar but ! soon learned Of
the Gro wds that were coming in.
81 left two claims on American creek
go cee american side about 100 miles
iCOm Dawson. Ny partner and were
tdrced TO leave because of the shortage O,
provisions, and we expect 10 90 back
nez Z spring We could get lots of money
nne 90 was OF no use to us so long "a we
caGld not get food with it. Lack OF food
"a Che only real hardship up there. We
coEid stand the cold weather and the yo.
rBcous mosquitoes If we had lots of food.
t1r men do not think much of such hard
salp5 when they are digging gold and
ggCting lots 81 lt. Last winter there wes
~ ortEge of provisions. This wear the
Sslna facilities existed on the Yukon for
hCluGing in food as last year, vet there
sill be Eve or six times az many neonIe
there as there were last year. Conse
qaently there is likely to be a good deal
a suffering because OF the lack OF grub.
except where the men have brought in
'the own provisions.
'Before rhe Klondike boom came Cir
re City and Forty Mile Creek we're az
lively az Dawson is now. The men were
making good money and seine of the
claims sold as high IA $4,000. But
~nen the story OF the klondike became
Known those fields about Circle City
mptied out 10 the twinkllng of an eve.
Now they are deserted though the gold IL
Sthl there. They are not so rich as the
htondIke, 40 every one left. When the
rush gets in and the Klondike is filled no
! expect TO see these claims taken nm
Bgain, as the Klondlke is not 40 large
that it will support the people who are
coming IN. There IL lots OF room for
everyone, though. All through the Brit
lsn Northwest territory and the Ameri-
car possessions there are gold fields. and
when one place il filled up there will he
new ones discovered. Millions of acres of
iaud are tiled with gold, and they will
support big population. But | want
70 see young men, not old men, going in.
Ine h&rdshlps are too great for cd men.
mo ugh they are not too much for Young
men II they have food. The travelling il
pretty hard in country where n man
can float down in fifteen hours distance
&c Will cake him two months to paddle
up again. 1t is pretty hard too, to have
70 go 1000 miles for sack OF flour. hut
it Is harder yet when there il no flour to
get.
about 800 miles or less northwest Of
Dawson IS a country where look to see
che biggest excitement yet when il is de-
vdoped IL is hard to get at now, and il
is too far from provisions, but the gold
- there and believe that it will prove to
be richer than the Klondike. IL il
around the Arctic circle, and there ia a
settlement that is known az Arctic Citv.
Ctssre is also little stream that runs
right near st. Michaels where no white !
nau'has ever looked for gold, and / be. ,
heve'that it will turn out upon in vestiga-
tio0 &c be as rich as anything up there.
The weather IL rot so bad as one
might expect. / never dressed anv
warmer than I would during the winters |.
a Michigan, and the only time suffered
With the cold was few days last March,
vtec 1t was cold enough to freeze any
hing. q had to keep my hands over nv
nov tn when l went out doors to keep /.
MT che cold air. felt the cold on nv
m ro fho n Ala rs, foax n..A Il