The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-09

years and mining tools and tramped off
lowell, we didn't know where.
1t is impossible to describe all we suf-
Tered when We got into the heart of that
frozen region. The snow was a shroud
that enveloped everything and fell in folds,
through which it was impossible to see.
I'VE got to Crater lake, cheated death
a dozen times, and at Bennett lake
built a boat and dared things as far as
Lake Tagus. AT the Lewis river we saw
a party drown and freeze in the rush.
ing water 1t was after fifty-six days like
this that we reached the Yukon. Circle
Wy was the next place, and then we
went on to Bonanza and a camping place
near the mouth of the Ell Dorado. AT the
creek, mile and a half away, the picks
were brought out, and we began the tire
some search. The first pan yielded %
cents, and we danced with joy. Next day
we mapped out the claims
I'VE went up the Ell Dorado and my
second pan brought 81 nugget. We did
not doubt then that we had made our pile.
We almost cried for joy that night Thirty
claims were mapped out. l took No. /,
and there is not one of the thirty but is
worth at least $1OO0000.
During the summer we worked over
a space eighty-siX feet long by thirty-five
feet wide, and four feet deep and took
out $49,0S4. The biggest pan was $52, but a
man named Berry picked his dirt and got
$5S5. Nuggets ran from SIS to $40. We
were almost delirious.
80, after all our suffering and toll, we
dcd strike it-and struck it rich. But God
help those who have started this fall. Not
one-quarter of them will get out alive"
Miss Clara Wilson, who was educated
at Scranton Pa, where her parents for
merly resided, but whose home Is now in
Denver, Col, went to a little mining camp
south of Circle City, Alaska, a year and
q half q 90 tn carve cook for a Ouu1 10
of miners. She passed through Chicago
yesterday en- route to her old home,
where she expects to settle down and en-
joy her fortune.
When her father died Miss Wilson went
TO Seattle and found employment as a do
nestle on a steamer bound for Alaska.
She found her way to Circle City, and be-
came the cook and general housemaid for
a number of miners.
Miss Wilson was not satified with this
kind of life, and so began to prospect on
her own account in Alaska. The result
was that she located a copper mine which
is now being worked and which is said
to be pannlng out as prolifically as any of
the gold mines that are making the Klon-
dixie fields famous. Her possession, she
says, is worth not less than 100000.
/ Backed by a wealthy broker in st.
Louis Mo, and with 100000 of capital al
ready in sight, Rev. Frank B. Vrooman,
associate pastor Oh lne ldSnlOtlaDle REQ
pies Presbyterian church in this city, is
forming a $1OO00,OO0 company and going to
the Klondike.
81 have been frozen out of the Presby-
| terrain church and starved out of the Peo-
pies church all in one year, and 1 am
! through with preaching" he says, in ex-
| PLANTATION of his abandoning further work
| as Rev. DR.. H. w. Thomas assistant,
! land now l am going to the Klondike."
His company will build it's own boats and
/ operate on a large scale.
Mary Ellen Lease of Kansas, who is
| now in this city, says she is going next
spring to the Klondike, as she says, ito
regulate politics and dig gold"
Under the auspices of the North Ameri-
! can Trading and Transportation Company
seven skilled carpenters have departed
! from Chicago, with Capt Barber as their
4 leader, to build a hotel at ST Michael for
! the shelter of miners during the coming
/ winter,