Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-27

SEATTLE, Whsu., July Eo.- rms
SesrcDllght publishes a letter from
VIM. Moore ut Thirteen Mile Camp,
Eksgwa, ALASKA, stating that the
White Pass pack trail to tho tummit ~
the psss was opened for travel July l6
o. rec ching toe summit the traveller
8 eps uion an almost Itvel country
tho grade to the lakes being 1Itee II
feet to he mile. The distance from
Salt Water TO the It o.Chi Lake lie
twenty miles and from salt Water to
the head I LaRe Lsnnet the distance
is forty five miles.
Both roules from the summit are
through rolling country Tor the most
part open, with plenty OF RIRie Tor
feeding stock, wa.er and utiiciens
timber for oil purposes. FL IN Sat
Water to the Fummit rack horses eau
be driven through easily.
THE CROWDS IN THE srEAMsHiP
OFFICES.
San FRANCISCO. July "a -rhe
thtougs abUn. every shIpping ofilce
that nas even tue remOtest Alaekan
relations have by no means dimin.
ijned. Ii would seem that the only
clrcumstan ces which pfeveit 1.-The
wbo.easle ueponulation VI San Fan.
cisco Is the limit ia the transportation
facilities.
Not only strong men whose broli
backs auu oronzea faces tell of previ.
| Gus experience with the labor thai
iiietaIIy sweGts the brow, but clerks
and pI occasional men ana women II
hundTeds are eeeking some Of hem fof
Information bat most OF them 100
| transportation to the land where mug.
gete are to be had, they think, Tor tue
pick ny ". Every dEr sues some way
Of Ovs rrOmiug the sifii culties IA reach.
Ing the Klondyke, and the feet oil
steamers anu scheonels pressed into
the service 10 growing steadily.
The latest Of the Klondyke trans.
portstion schemes is being engineered
by Captain HERMAN ana Mills. He
has been approached by lumber OF
persons anxious to g. to klon1yke,
and la response to numerous requests
has mapped out u p an lor regcning
the uiRglngs by the niiuule of Ssptem-
Der. He viii charter a large sailing
vestel anu the party will consist OF
sixiy men, each OF whom viii take
one ION Uf provisions. No Une VIII
DC permitted TO 20 unless us takes this
quantity.
Eacn one will bs charged 1925 for
ihat for this su m he oau hand them IN
Dawson CITY before September 90.
The chip will carry large lighter ana
q steam launch which will be- used to
tow the lighter from tue vessels to the
Kiono yse. After reaching ST. MI
chaele, cargo and passengers viii be
transferred to The lighter. Captain
HERMAN Will return TO San Francis
co In the vessel and the parry vii b.
conducted to thsir ] urDey's end by
an agent OF the firm who IL thorough.
iy acquainted with the river.
the Alaska Commercial company's
steamer Excelsitr, whiun leaves here
today, Will not make another trip to
Alaska before June OF mex, year. All
The accommodation 10 De ui,p3seu OF
lor this trip have been sJld aud the
TACT vel ADVERTISED, but W ulI.bb
passengers continue to throng the
c5mpany's tflice. The commercial
company not only declines to se,ia Ay
more tickets but ,is representatives DO
all ~ their power to dissuaue q pill
can from attempting the Trip until
mex. yeRr.
Sume twenty or thirty have epGeav-
ored to secure accom- mu ustions for tho
Hrst trip next June. The company
declines to bInu itself 81 lar uheao
although a number VI applicants
would be willing 10 put up 'orieit
and agree 10 abide by any to IN the
company might make for the mex.
yeaI'e TRIP.
STORY OF GRAVES DENIED.
SAN FRANCISCO, JuIy II --KeturBed
fuksnites ueny Tue story told by
Fiank Mosi OF Great Fails, Mont., b.
the effect that 1000 graves at Forty
Mile Post tell OF the terrible sutierings
Of tho gold seekers. +. u. Bowler
esys that so far from being over 1000
deaths on the Kiondyke during the
past three years, there was nobody
there to DIE until something less than
n year ago anu aimee then there have
been three desths in tGat whole die
ricI, go lar as known. In the grave
yara al Forty Mile Post, which has
served for all that section Tor come
yeats past, there are only between
thirty and iorty gravss.
EXPERIENCE OF MINERS.
BAN tRANCIsCo, July .7-rwo
more minets rom the north cams 10
n the Clty OF Pueblo yesterday anu
regieiered at tue COMMERCIAL hotel.
They are Henry DJre aud j. 10.
Boucher ana both tell tales OF the
hardest kind OF OK neriences.
Thirty DAYS on -four and water aud
$50 taken from the grtund In eight
months Is hut u portion IL D0re's .x-
perience. OF nil those VINO have
reached the city Ills tale is one that
ought TO make those without expert
ence think twice before pluugiDg into
unknown dangtrs.
j. +. BOuneher leil his home In
Washington three years ago and went
IN by Juneau anu the Chiicoot to
Forty Mile ana had the usual run OF
poor LUCK. he went to work for $l2 So
day, but that soon gave out and ne
then went prospecting.
II had no better SUCCESS at thia than
at other work anu was pretty well
disgusted when | heard OF a strike at
klOndyke. l Htruct good claim ana
cleaned up abuut $4,000. am going
back home to enjoy myself Till next
spring when viii so back again, II
do not sell out 10 tue meantime.
D5re ana d uchefe brought out
nearly $50, 600, cut they decline to give
The exart n'nount.
RICH QuARqz DISCOVERED.
sAoRAMENro, Gal, July 27.-The
latest rumur from Alaska 10 OF "a dis.
covefy OF wonderfully rich quartz Ia
large quantities. on tho Stewart river.
Particulars are vague aud beyond the
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