The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
KLONDYKE
DIGGINGS
Good for Twenty Years of
Mining
RICH BEYOND COMPARE
Even the Women Are Making
Millions
BOYS GROW SUDDENLY RICH
TAKING OUT PANS OF PURE
METAL
BOYS GROW SUDDENLY RICH
TAKING OUT PANS OF PURE
METAL
Eager Prospectors Advised to Wait
Until Spring, When Provisions
Will Be More Plentiful and
Danger Much Less
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated ITeSS special WlTes
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.-Joseph
Ladue, the owner of the townsite of
Dawson City, Alaska, the nearest town
to the Klondyke region, started tonight
for his home in Plattsburg, N. Y. Be-
sides owning the townsite of Dawson,
where land is already selling for $4,000
lot, Mr.. Ladue brought with him
enough gold dust to keep him i'm comfort
for some time to come. Mr.. Ladue stated
to the Associated Press today that there
was no doubt of the richness Of the gold
diggings in the Klondyke regions. He
thinks there is enough gold in the
ground to keep all the miners who can
work busy for the next twenty years to
get 1t out.
Mr.. Ladue, however, issues timely
warning to the thousands who are pre-
pairing to rush to the gold fields this year.
He said: There are at present about
$500 people in the country and that num-
Der Is about all that can be accommo-
dated this winter. Provisions are high,
as it costs from ten to- fifteen cents a
pound to land goods at Dawson City, and
it is impossible to get more provisions
in this year than will supply the present
population. If miners rush up there this
summer, unless they take with them
their own supplies tney VIII suHer great
hardshAps. adVise everyone gong up
to take supplies surncient TO last at leas'
eighteen montns. Inc rare 10 lawson
CITY from san FRANCISCO IS $loo ana IL
Will COST at feast $oou more 10 urahsport
supplies for one man. Inc steamer h&-
july zS' ana alreaoy all her passenger
accommodations are eIigdseu' Ihis VIII
pc ner last TRIP thls year Inc hxce!sioT
goes TO 81. Micipael at the mouth ol tue
YUKON ana passengers ana ireasnt are
transferred 10 river steamer ana car
rled zooo miles 10 lawson olty' over
lano une route ls aoout ooo lilies ironi
Juneau anu tne maturity vi lile miners >
VINO are rushlns 10 the new Eiooiaoo
Will soeha way. iHe coio weathed coil-
mehces ABOUT the nlluuie vi oepleihoer
ana asts until May Inc passengers on
the EXCELSIOR VIII reaon lawson Clty
ABOUT september ISL ana VIII nave W 40
tHelr prospecting III ahe SHOW
Mr. Laoue ADVISES people TO walt un-
I'll next spring pe1ore going up as tine
iacliitleS LOT carrying rhe1n Will pe
greatly improved tneH.
MINERS LETTER
SEATTLE, WASH, July 1.-THE
steamer Portland which has just arrived
here today from St. Michael's Alaska,
brings the following letter written to- a
resident of Seattle. The writer is we'll
known here, etc.:
The first discovery Of gold on the
Klondyke was made the middle of Au-
gust, 1896, by George Cormack on a
creek emptying into the Klondyke from
the south, called by the Indians Bonan-
"a. He found 81. go to the pan on high
rim. and after making the find known
at Forty-mile went back with two In
dians and took out $14O0 in three weeks
with three sluice boxes. The creek was
soon staked from one end to the other
and all the small gulches were also
staked and recorded. About September
10 a man by the name of Whipple pros
pected a creek emptying into the Bo-
nanza on No. Z. above Discovery, and
named it Whipple creek. He shortly
afterwards sold out, and the miners re-
named it Ell Dorado. Prospects as high
as "a to the pan were found early in the
fall. Many of the old miners from For
ty-mile went there and would not stake,
saying the willows did not lean the
right way and the water did not taste
right; that it was moose pasture, be-
ing wide and fiat. Both creeks were
staked principally by Chez Chacos
(new men in the country, and as early