The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
e. j. Baldwin Has the KlOn.
dixie Gold Fever.
He Will Make the Journey to
Dawson Next Spring.
is II YEARS OF AGE
But Says He Feels Strong
Enough For Prospecting.
Will Go Further Back in the
Mountains.

Chicago, Aug. 4.-K1ondike gold fields
were uppermost in the thoughts of
more than one person in Chicago yes
terday E. J. Gucky) Baldwin whisk-
ed into town from the Pacific coast
early in the morning, headed for Sara
toga in the interest of his racing stable,
but his heart was not with his horses.
He was full of the plans which will
take him to the Yukon later on. He
will not risk it this autumn, but when
he returns to the coast he will put his
business into shape to enable him to
start for the diggings. just as he did in
the earlier days, when he was one of
California's successful miners.
A young Englishman, DR.. WeStwood,
who recently came into a title and a
fortune of 81, 100000, is also going to
Alaska, and he will be started from
Chicago within two days. He will be
accompanied by Franklin B. Anderson
of this city.
Baldwin. at the Wellington, talked
about gold mines and little else. And
he found listeners One was as young
a gold seeker as one will find in many
a day. He was G. M. Van Note of
New York, son of merchant. He is
only % years of age and a sculptor by
profession, having been one of the COM
petitors for the Grant monument prize
designs. Young Van Note was taken
with the gold fever early in July, ar
rived in Chicago on Sunday and spent
much of the day in consultation with
P. B. Weare and other ChicagOans in
terested in the mining regions. That
was when he was not under the spell
| of ''Lucky's" inspiring gold talk.
Van Notes father was a school chum
of Baldwin's, and while the race horse
man patted the young sculptors back
and admired his nerve, he said it was
foolish to go to Alaska at this time of
the year, for the reason that it is i'm
possible to do anything up there during
the fall and winter months
Il am going next spring., continued
Mr.. Baldwin, land expect to take TWEEN
ty-fve or thirty husky young men with
me who can work and endure the hard
ships. l am II years old, but still feel
young enough to do little prospect
ing. 1t is also my intention to take a
lot of machinery along for lode mining.
My notion of the situation there is that
the placer mining they are carrying on
now is an indication that there is gold
in large quantities back in the noun
tains. I shall hunt for these deposits,
and, equipped with modern machinery,
will do a regular mining business. I
am convinced the gold is there; conse-
quently 1 will be taking no long risk
chances.
Mr. Baldwin also gave his ideas of
the provisions a man starting to the
Klondike should provide himself with.
He excludes coffee and ham from the
supplies, would fill a box with articles
I
months use:
Chocolate, ~ pounds, or tea, 3a4
pounds.
Rolled oats, ~ pounds.
Navy beans, 221z pounds, or bacon,
371a pounds.
Flour, 80 pounds.
Salt 3A pounds.
Pickles, so cents worth.
Cayenne pepper,A pound for eighteen
months.
Four cakes dry yeast
Every passenger is entitled to $50
pounds of baggage free, and beyond
that amount the rate for 1,200 pounds
from Seattle to Dawson City is 10 cents
a pound.
PLANS OF YOUNG VAN NOTE.
Mr.. Van Note himself bought his
ticket from New York to Dawson City,
and the cost of it was s21S. He expects
to- arrive at Dawson City about Sep
TENDER 6, or twenty days before the
cold weather sets in. a camping out
fit of aluminium, a medicine case and
stores of bareback and bacon, together
with some fur clothing, which he will
purchase in Seattle, will constitute his
outfit. Van Note prefers the longer
route by water to the shorter one over
land from Juneau, as cheaper and less
dangerous. He expects to spend the
winter in the KlOndike regions, and
says he may stay there four or five
years, as he is determined to make a
strike before he returns.