The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-31
800 MORE FOR THE YUKON.
THEY START I II LITTLE CHANCE
OF GETTING THROUGH.

william Osiivie's Graphic Picture or tie HARD
Lite Miners sIust Live There-He ADVISES
All who Are Not Young, strong, ana
Patient to Keep Away from the Country.
SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 3O.-During the past
twenty four hours $50 men have left Seattle
for Alaska, going by way OF Skagway ana
Dyea, with not as good prospects OF getting
through as those Of the thousands who arc now
foundering In the mud and water along tho
trails. The Detroit was the last boat to SAIL
leaving this afternoon with sixty passengers
She Is fitted exclusively for passenger trafiic.
All tho letters received here from tho overland
routes tell tho same tales OF WOO as far as
travel Is concerned. But food and money are
abundant, and those wishing employment can
obtain II at good wages. A party oil now horh-
era arrived this evening intending to go through
to the Klondike overland. Their names are l.
and NJ. Opponheimer, w. Sharp, and George
Hartman, and now that they realize the situa-
ton on closer Investigation, they arc hesitat
ing about going at all this fall.
In a talk with Mr.. William ogilyte. tho IA
nous Canadian surveyor, who has spent sew
eral years on tho Yukon. and who was at st.
Michael when the Portland left for Seattle, no
said: IL am not avaricious, but 1 will select
thirty claims on Eldorado Creek, and will allow
the owners 81, OOO.o 900 each and take what 10
over for myself, and consider l have got an
A No. / homestake.
..sidehill claims are being located on these
creeks, and when l left there on juno - some
OF them were prospecting very well. as high as
GO to SO to tho pan being found in some In
stances. Now a pan Of dirt is two shovelfuls,
and as tho merit of oil claims Is given In pans,
lot us SEQ how 1t applies. All the miners con-
cede that lO-cent dirt that is, dirt with 8 cents
In every shovclful. when 1t is three feet and up
ward deep is rich, but on Bonanza and Edo
RADIO when a.man found only cents he was some
what indignant. Unless he found 81 In every
pan at least he was dissatisfied, and small won
der, for his neighbors were banning from IS,
R1O, $l5, to $50 and $40 to the pan and often
into the hundreds"
Relating instances of rich strikes that came
under his personal observations. he said: ION
April ~ last George Cormack, acting for Tag
40. S :. below Bonanza 10 for $4,000 $500 down o. and
the balance to BIO paid on July !, or forfeit the
!, i called to SEQ him and found the purchaser
paying tho balance OF "a, 300. When the bust
pess was finished l asked tho purchaser how he
oh, no said. pretty we'll I asked him 4
he had any objections eft q to a,i telling n ne what ion he t did
long by fourteen feet wide and cleared up
$4,000 j said to him; Now; know the ls, area i.
all equally rich, wo will see how much you Will
'aS sTS Se' p ), was very simple. Given tho
length and width, these multiplied together
gives us tho area in square feet. Divide this
BY result Of multiplying "a by Il, multiply the
Is the sum of 81, 4oO, 900. He said: My God,
what will l do with all that money Don't
worry" ! said, you will not be troubled to that
extent. 1t Is hardly possible that your claim
Assuming il viii average one-quarter OF that,
you will still have 5000. 00O.'"
Ugilvie also draws the following picture for
tho benefit Of intending, gold seekers:
"If you are young, healthy, and endowed
with unlimited patience and %fortitude and can
NINA enough means to land you at Daw-
son with twelve months supplies and the nee.
essary implements, l would say that you could
But IL you are not healthy and have not the
necessary patience and fortitude to go through
the .arduous labors required of a man, l would
say stay away from 1t.
the product Of physical pain and misery. In sum-
mer there are mosquitoes innumerable, swamps
too, to he travesed, and mountains to climb.
Now. while these Internal flies and mosquitoes
be a curse. This l know from actual personal
experience. l have seen strong men shed tears
of impotent rage at these innumerable and
almost invisible enemies.
Now, suppose you are with q miners gum
boots on reaching to your thighs. which are al
most. Indispensable for travelling in that coun-
try during the summer season, each weighing
blankets. provisions for ten. fifteen. twenty, or
thirty days. often more; axe. pick. shovel, and
other necessary articles, aRgregating In all
30. so, go, and often over 100 pounds, all on
your back, wading through swamps, scramblins
through underbrush, climbing steep %hillsides,
often in the blistering sun, which really and
truly, blisters. all the time the Precipitation
pouring. Off you in streams, and all the time the
too ubiquitous mosquito, barassing you at
every Vulnerable point, giving closest atten.
ton to eyes, ears. and hands. Such are tho
conditions the gold hunters Of the Yukon must