New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15

happen with the arrival OF the thousands now on
their way or who will so in tho spring Is diiiicu''
TO pronhesy.
THE TRAVELLING SEASON ENDING.
Last Monday the steamer South Coast LETT san
Francisco so heavily laden that she had hard list
to port and water ran into her scuppers. The
Government inspectors contemplated stopping her.
but they finally allowed her to go .o,. ~,
Twenty-oDe steamers. three sailing Vessois ana
two scoWs will be poughng the waters Of the North
Pacific ocean bound for Alaskan points from Puget
are made almost daily. and new vessels are being .
constantly pressed into the service of Transporting
hundreds Of eold-hunters Every hotel in town IL
full and the lodginc-house keepers have not done
The lates, expedition from San Francisco left that
Gny From sea tie few more viii start and then
the long winter will swallow up Alaska ana her
adventures for nine Icy months
PLANS FOR SPRING TRAFFIC.
But. although Alaskan travel for this year must
soon cease. great preparations are now making for
the travel OF next year and many years thereafter
\ number of tugs and small steamers are soon to
be sent to the Yukon for river service next spring
Several Tacoma capitalists have organized a
steamship company, and will soon enter the
Steamship Company and other lines now running
The COMPANY has hed up the C 6c Gf viii ave
Tacoma August Is on its first trip Inc steamer
Soms T Of g6t U She formerly piled on Hudson
River between New-York and Albany. but , has
other steamers will soon be added to the line.
The North American Transportation and Trading
COMPANY of Seattle last week let another contract
for Building four more river steamers or the same
size and power as the first OF The line belonging TO
tracts With the company include eight separate
steamers. all let to them within two weeks.
A WARNING TO THE RECKLESS
While hundreds left San Francisco and Seattle
for the goli fields last week. the steamship COM
panies do not expect much more travel this year,
L Is
Of the Pacific Coast steamship Company said at
Tacoma last week: - 49,
The Pacific Coast company is warning every one
not 10 go to the Yukon country prior TO next
spring We operate what has been for some time
therefore. do not want 10 nave nunbGr OF ine9
and advertise the land in BAD light We feel that
ii thousands Of men start for ne interior this
viii not help deve op Alaska but cOnspire toward
reiarding its growth. The Pacific Coast Steam m
pS Sany T not 'f no 90 TO- Aioasa hcfore spring
pelI-mcl over one another ior Alaska and the thir
teen steamers. or IN ahouts, hound for skagua
and Dyea. will land enough people IL those points
70 start a respectable tity. fear a congestion Of
lie winter on the trails True it IS about ono
thousand horses have gone north. hut they VIII
n 6e pass ef in time for Inc miners to GHd 6oa
. rnnr a" and heieve all WHO desire to go north
within the next few days can find ample accom-
mOddtiO!IS.
TWO VIEWS OF THE KLONDIKE.
There are two sides In the klondike mining fever.
One side the bright one H. portrayed in the last
issue of The Alaska Mining Record" in a letter
from James Kite. manufacturing jewellcr. WIG
has settled at Dawson city. Mr.. Kite writes Col!
H. as common here as iron In Juneau. Everybody
has money. There seems to br no limit to this dis
trict, they are striking rev creeks every other
day tnr n hundred mites around Stdmpedng IL ali
tie rage Men with packs on their backs can lie
seen running IN all directions. am getting all the
work DO. get IS for making half-ounce
,ing This Is the greatest camp on record"
The other side Of the picture Is presented by II.
Juneau who founded the town Of Juneau. Alaska
He does not think miners should travel by the 81.
Nichaels route /; is $500 niles .onger than the
JIrcau-Chiikooi Pass route. He also warns against
making the Journey TO C'ondyke without ! years
nrovisions Spending Of Alaska his early
ont the town In 1851 and have been there several
tines snce. We first named the place Harrisburg.
two | have found the country iuil OF d!sapponi-
ments and ! don't want 10 paint the picture too
iigh; Enough no; been said u the dark side. IL
is no pace for OF weak constitution. TIE hard
shlns 10 be encountered require the srongcs; hearts
and sinews as well | have seen nothing published
Of the fact that large portion OF the country Is
thoyus like porcupirc guile. With edges. These
will penetrate leather boots and when once In the
flesh nothing but knife Will remove them. These
are worse than he mosquito pest
Another thing that must not be overlooked H. the
total HEX of law IN the Interior. When on.y Ind
iaEs and few prospcrio1s were In the country
there Vas little need o. courts. but with the great
influx OF mixed humanity lawlessness Is amos, sure
TO breais out When / was there the laws aad cx-
and NJ, them IN force. Alaska I'm about the
same condition as No Mans Land before i was put
into Oklahoma Territory The nc, people had to agree agree
one feature Of the law that the Chinese
10 be excluded. and that law holds good in Juneau
to-day"