The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-13

was Invited By tire butcher Dovs-IurpnT.
TE1orn % JunsGa. ard George stewart
from Suck Valley Wash---to 20 eoTE =
shelr shaft ARD pick pan 81 Dirt. as iasy
had f1st ssruck tha rien strsak TO NJ
ssrurfse 4 was ~ - IN fourteen pans 81
dirt they took cut 81 - right in TIE bot
tom % Ire shaft. which was 4xs feet
a.sfzrrh % C.are1cs Berry took cut ever
tss 20 IRE pan JLnrais MaeLa-fe to2z
cat over 40 70 TIE par; Frank Ph.scaIsr
.sok ct SIS 90 the pan. The four Boys
.rSrn Nana4-no toek az high az SIS 90 1ns
ran. they were Ire FIRST men 20 get
heis co7~r % bse rock or Eidorzso ana
End rood Ray. They had Nos. "a ard 10.
an fact zig pzns were taken o1t 81
nearly every claim on the creek. unfA sAes
ard gre pans were Common. Apr1l u car
encs Berry teak Il ore pan thirty-nins
ounces-s4aS-ard n two days raunsd Ok
over Espo. April "a We heard some boys
en Ne. % had struck It rich and taken oat
sse9 IN one pan
'.Nr Lippy. from Seattle. has r1ca
clam. and lis wife hzs q sack % nuggets
alone ef ss.sve that she has picked UP on
the dumps. -Four boys or a lay, No. e.
dorado took cut $40 Go n two MOI tbs.
Frsnk Pniscstor. who owned the groEna
and bad some men hired, cleaned Up ss+.
90 for tire winter. Mr. Lippy. 50 ] sIa
kG48s lbs LAc1k4rl ~ a0T TIC Wine <N@s~N~@
Louis Rhodes. No. q BONANZA. has o4esis-
e6 up s49.es9. Clarence Berry and Anton
strander have cleaned UP sl3o,eoe for me
winter"
Capt Tuttis. Of the United States reve-
rue cutter Beer, wrote prophst icslly from
81. Michael July 1:
When the Portland gets back 10 Seat
tie and spreads the news Of the gold finds
on the Yukon. ever body that can raise
stake Will be pulling out for the river IL
Is simply wonderful In the eompsny's Of
fee the gold Is stacked up IL sacks as X
& were four. There Is over s.. ee9. 0t9 worth
Of dust and nuggets to so cut on the
steamers. II were twenty years younger
I should be tempted 10 80 TO the mines
myself"
.Ssrrhf Down 81 .25o, 900.
When the Portland. with rs treasure ot
81 go 90, was sighted in the Straits Of
Fuca Capt. Kidston said 20 a Post-Intelli-
gencer reporter who climbed on board:
There you see those boxes and that
safe; well. they contain in round figures
over SEQ eDa In gold, and that metal weighs
nearly ton and half.
"Out Of the sixty-eight passsng gers there
is hardly a man on board who has less
than 300. and one or two have over $780,
oe."
n n. SHAW WfoIs IRON DA@eoA lily
June Is:
You would not believe me when I tell
you that l went into one cabin and count
ed five hve-gallon oil cans full OF gold
dust, but IL is fact. II Is the result OF
the work Of two men during the winter.
and the dump Is not much more than half
worked out
There has been about g 900 300 in dust
taken out 50 far in the district At q low
estimate there viii be SO. coo 600 taken out
during the next year"
Excited the Union.
Naturally these reports evoked enthusi-
ssm. The people from Seattle TO New
York went wild. and thousands were snx-
ieus to rush north at once. Seattle was
ctsergsnized for some weeks. clerks. po-
hcsmen, firemsn, lawyers mechanics. doc
tors and bankers being among the crowds
that started. And IL would have been
worse. but for the cry Of caution. Thomas
Llppy. who came down with Sos, 900. said:
while there is q certain advantage In
starting now instead of waiting until
spring, people who go now ought to ba