The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22
SOLID MOUNTAIN OF GOLD.
Miner Tells n Cheerful story of the
Reunited wealth Of Alaska.

Chicago. August 81 I'VE are building
four new steamers and well need them,
too Three hundred letters came In yes
terday, asking terms, etc. and many OF
them, as usual, making the oldest offers
for tickets to The Yukon said W. W.
weare today People want to pledge real
estate. jewelry, stocks and bonds, every
Imaginable security, for transportation. Too
bad we are doing business on only cash
basls--we have all We can attend to In
taking care OF the money which comes IN
| No madame, we don't give a guaranty
against lregzng,' and MIR. Wearc hid be-
| hind a map to escape tho angered gaze OF
woman in a black dress and green veil
| The lady rutrcated, aud Mr.. Wehre, with
great animation, exhibited a chunk Of Alas
! ka coal-black. yet sootless. and leaving
no mark upon the hand. and actually light
er than tho same size chunk OF coke would
be, On HIS desk lay magnificent piece
OF green Jade, OF which the Alaskan IN
dams make many odd things,
81 have been told" said Mr.. Weare. that
| IL wanted to gather In all the money OF
| the Chinese colony all would have 10 do
would be to spread the word In Chinatown
| that green fade could be found at Klondike.
| Green jade is a sacred medicinal stone in
| China and any chinaman would so further
for a chunk OF jade than for gold nugget
| Of twice the size"
Coming from the door Of Mr., Wearos Of
flee WAS a big man with long beard and
heavy boots--an Alaskan miner on his way
back 10 the liggirgs.
People don't know said this griGzied
| digger cheerfully that there Is more
gold In sight In Alaska than all the Klon-
dixie can supply and that you cant get az
| It, AT Metlakahtla island there Ia a solid
| mountain OF gold which can be seen blaz-
Ina. 10. tla Ntfn
don't people get it, Land on that island
and see what the Indians would say about
IT, Then on Copper river. there Is so much
gold that the Indians use nuggets IN their
intertribal commerce. They viii use scalps
for rugs IL anybody goes after the gold.
however. The Tanana river, branch OF
the Yukon Is said to be 1900 miles long
and Is as broad as the Missouri, Nobody
that ever went up after gold on the Tanana
has ever come back 10 tell about u,
There are tribes in Alaska which have
never seen white man. have never been
counted and never even mentioned by
name. The innuits. or EslSmos live en-
the north and northwest coasts and up the
lever Yukon. az very decent, peaceable
people and perfectly harmless. The Tin
neh live on the Yukon, Copper and Tanana
rivers. ARE Identical In race With the
| Klameths, Apaehes and Nsvajcs OF this
country. and are fierce and dangerous. Thu
Thilnkets live on the southern coasts and
! ars the merchants, traders and>~ack car
rlers. ON islands off the coast live the
Hydas who arc often practically white and
are suppoeedt o he Of some unknown race
possibly the samo rs the Japanese.
rYou hear stories now and then OF masto-
dcns and msmmoth~ roaming in Alaska.
have SEEN drawings mad< by the Tinnef
hunters. showing such creatures, perfect e
a dot. and have seen tracks as big as this
head OF a barrel, which the Indians SAID
were made by the wocllv monsters +"
Frank slavin Lost In Alaska.
San r,ancisco August 81 "A letter from
The head Of Lake Benne, states that rranl
slavin. the big pugilist, Is host In the wild'
OF the northwest territory.
II ON August slavin started bsek aion'
from the lake toward tho summit Of Chill
koot pass to find q number Of articles los
. from his pack, Up TO August >. the dat
! o. the letter nothing has been heard frou
. him, and tears for his safety are enter
! tanned,