The record-union., 1897-07-23
A WARNING TO
"REMINISCENCES,
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NOUllUu6Q lIOIu lTSI
cross, an old resident of this city, who
| recently returned from the Alaska gold
fields, gave an account to-day of his eX-
perience in that country. Mr.. Norcross
said:
Il spent a year on Greek No. s, in the
Ell Dorado country, and it's mining pros
poets are not overrated. 1t is a good
place for poor man, if he goes we'll
provisioned, provisions being the great
necessity of the country. The country
where | was is fifteen miles inland from
the river, 600 miles from the coast, and
about thirty-five miles over the noun
tains. Owned two claims, and sold them
some time ago. The property is worth
thousands of dollars now, but I have
enough to do me in my latter days.
Contrary to general reports, the
winter is the best time for mining. The
pay dirt is covered with from four to ten
feet of SOIL called muck, and shafts are
run to the pay sand and gravel, which is
thawed out by wood fires thrown on the
ground, and washed out in the summer
season, when the creeks run.
mo man should start for the field
without from $500 to $500 This place
disappointed There is plenty of rich
territory yet to be secured
STRUCK IT RICH BY PROXY.
SAN DIEGO, July 22.-The Alaska
gold fever has reached this city, and
gold hunters are preparing to leave for
the Clondyke at the earliest possible
date. Among those who have wired
ahead for passage on the first steamer
going north from Seattle or Tacoma is
Police officer Dow, the Beven Brothers
and others. F. M. Green has struck it
rich in Alaska by proxy. He grub
staked prospector, and that prospector
has found a rich mine.
GREAT FALLS (Mont), July %
Frank Moss, an old-timer in this sec
ton. who four years ago was one of
the party of men to first visit the Clen-
dyke country, returned to-day and tells
a story of horrors and starvation. He
describes Clondyke as a placer camp,
seven miles long and thirteen miles
wide. located in a sink, walled in by
boulders of rock 5000 feet high. Gold,
he says. abounds, but no ordinary man
can stand the hardships of the unvis-
tied regions A large number are
dying from SldTNdllOIl. lie
companies bring in all the food, and
allow no private companies. Conse-
quently it is common to go for weeks
with but a scant supply, and for days
they were without food.
Gold brought in the last week to Sc
attic. Moss says, does not represent the
findings of individual shippers, but a
large portion of it was confiscated from
the effects of the 1000 miners who fell
a prey to the hardships. AT the death
of a man possessed of dust, his body
is buried without a coffin, and the dust
divided among those who cared for him.
With proper reliefs established by the
Government, Moss says, gold can be
taken out at the rate of 100000 a
month.
The richest section of Alaska, Moss
says, is as yet undeveloped. 1t is 100
miles from ClondyEe, and is known as
the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1t is in
habitated by ex-convicts of Bohemia
and murder and riots take the place of
law and order.
With the great crowds preparing to
go to the scene now, Moss says hunger
and suffering will be great when added
to the other hardships to be overcome
by those who survive. Moss returned
with $4,000 in dust, and leaves to-mor-
row for his old home at Dubuque, Ia
where he will spend the balance of his
days.