New-York tribune., 1897-10-12
OFT By THE DALTON TRAIL.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM TIE FROZEN GOLD
OUSTRY-EXPERIENCE OF GEORGE


Skaguay. Oct. !. via Victoria. B. C.. Oct Ii
Several parties VINO have arrived the Dalton
trail from the KlOndike repeat the story Of scarcity
of provisions and possible hunger and starvation
for many persons there this winter. James Clark
and 6. A. Brown. who had been mining OH Birch
Creek. loft Dawson CITY on September g. poled up
the river fifteen miles above Pelly River. there
bought horse and came I'm over the supposed Dali
ton trail. making the trip in twenty-sx days 10
Hainss Mission. getting there on Sunday. They
passed tho Thorpe party the summit with cat
tie. most Of the party discouraged and wanting TO
turn back Brown and Clark told them that they
had gone through one hundred miles OF snow.
where no feed could he got for their stock and
i. would be utterly impossible 70 get their stock
/ through alive. Thorp had already lost fifteen pack
horses the trail. and part Of his original party
had turned back two days before but he was stub
born and would not consent to turn back himself.
About twenty-five persons came out over the
/ Dalton trail last week. They say there are good
many following them bearing the same report.
that there is no actual trail and that the route Is
~ miles long. SUBMITS have to be crossed, in
numerabe streams forded. and it Is impossible 10
find ones without Indian guides, even Thorp
The bixge-, party to come out together was com
posed OF eleven persons-'Pat' Calvin and VIE.
/ G"ors" { houncS ana VIE 'hores mono Jonu
,. Maloney ana Frank Beck. o. Juneau: Harry
Komain, Ea Armstrons Mnsh Rosenstein 1,bl en- !
party brought a httl" gold dust but they arg
{ T"firsnt 10 tho amount. MiSn"r brought out
about fifteen pounds Calvin as much or more and
Bounds ffiv. but most OF IN" dust T. deposited with
tho two principal companies and drafts taken on
Chicago and san Francisco.
Bounds H. tho who took In the first beef cat
- ever taken into the Yukon region. 10 started
iu A. Mission with forty-flve head IN jane, lN"i.
had ~ make his trail. built raj, below Five
Fingers. on the Yukon. and started intending -
take tn.m 10 circle city. But he got frozen In AZ
the mouth % the Klondk" and could not mOy"
either way. Then came the stampede 20 Bonanza
ani EllOrsdo and he sold out every pound probably Y
saving the lives of many ard saving himself from
financial ruin fle sold ont $1,000 worth of beet on
iirely credit 90 miners. and id not lose one dol
iar they making small cleanup. SO a. . allow
him 20 leave there February % last. He came out
AZ that time over the Chilkoot Trail 70 Dyoa. his
wife went ia on the first trip OF the Excelsior last
June Bounds is Interested with George McCor-
/ mack I'm fh. "DisroV.ry Claim on the Bonanza.
and had Interests ia % a" well three other
ola ms bat has sold all hs interests outright, eX-
+ ccpt discovery Claim and has bonded II. lie
viii make ono more "Trip next May 10 settle up
Seattle Wash. oct. 1.-THE steamship city o.
Seattle arrived here last night at 10 O'Clock from
Skaguay md Dyca- Among her passengers were
James Clark and G. \ Brown. of Chicago. They
confirm previous reports 20 the scarcity ot pro-
visions Tho steamship brings news that on sep
ienlner burglars broke into the CANADIAN Goa
/ Commisison cabin. at Dawson. ami stol" he-
tween $500 and 1850 worth OF dusk and nuggets