The herald., 1897-10-12
.KLONDlKE
PLACERS
Are Not the Only Source
of Gold
MINERS FROM COOKS INLET
RETURN WITH THEIR POCKETS
WELL FILLED
Experts From Alaska Insist That the
Richness of the Mines Has
Been Understated
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Oct. IL
As an evidence that gold is found else
where than at Klondike, the steamer City
of Topeka, which arrived this evening
from Alaska, brought down an aggregate
of 5000, 900 in gold dust, all from Cooks
inlet, the result OF this summers work
This amount is distributed among So
men, who are coming out to spend the
winter in a place where climatic condi-
tions are more favorable than the coun-
try they have just left.
On the 22nd of September 116 men left
Cooks inlet on the steamer Perry for
Sitka. where they took the City of Tope-
ka for Puget sound. Thirty-one of the
party stopped at Juneau, where they
will spend the winter.
No rich strikes are reported at Cooks
inlet, but the average is IS in dust every
day they worked. On rare occasions p
man would pan out $40 per day and often
as low as SO. Among the pass was
Robert Michaelson, who has been in
Cooks inlet for ten years and who is
making his first visit to the outside world
in that time. He brought out several
thousand dollars, how much he would
not state. Michaelson will spend the
winter at his old home in South Dakota.
H. A. Schemser has upwards of $4,000
after stay of seven years. He is going
to San Fra rcisco for the winter and will
return in the spring He owns four of
the best claims in the entire group. T.
j. Riley of New York. who went to
Cooks inlet in March, 1896, and stayed
there all winter, for the reason that he
had not sufficient money to pay his way
down, was also a passenger ON the To-
peka today. He iS the owner of two
quartz claims on Bear creek, in one Of
which the ledge is two feet wide and
assays $3.50 per ton. The other Is eight
feet wide and assays $50 per tom Riley
has with him $4,000 in dust, which he
washed from placer claim during the
past summer. He will return in the
spring.
Provisions are reported as being
plen tiful. at reasona BILE prices, at Cook 8
inlet. There was little or no sickness
there during the season. About eighty
Of the 500 men who were at Cooks inlet
during the summer will winter there.
THE POSSIBLE OUTPUT
SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 11.-Pat Gal
win, who arrived here Saturday from
Dawson City, and, who is recognized as
one Of the bonarza kings of the Klon-
dixie, where he has been engaged in min
ing for the past three years, in az, inter-
view today reviewing the gold regions
of the north, and estimating their out
I MI o1o;, |, ,;o1,
have been in operation sufficiently to
prove their richness. There are $50
other claims staked out, but not develop
ed which, by reason of their location,
in connection with other claims shown
to be very rich, l have no doubt will
prove equal to the other 461.
Taking these 761 claims and figuring
out their cubic contents ard making a
conservative estimate, l do not see why
the output from these claims alone will
fall short of $5OO,0O0,OO0."
| Mr.. Calvin unhesitatingly declared
that nothing which had been published,
so far as he knew, even approximated
the truth Of what is really contained in
these great gold fields.
RUSHING A RAILROAD
TACOMA Wash, Oct. 11.-George B.
Dodwell, Of the two Pacific Asiatic
steamship lines. and Hugh S. Wallace,
vice president Of the Washington and
Alaska Steamship company, have or
ganized the Chilkoot Railway and
Transportation company, ard today the
contract was let to the Trenton Iron
works for seventeen miles of inch cable
for the tramway, which is to be in op-
GRAFTON by January l. Construction II has
been begun on the railroad, which will
| be eight miles loCg, and will connect
with an aerial transport of eight and,
one half miles In length. The line starts
at Dyea and rurs to Crater lake, and
will be broad gauge. The tramway has
capacity of 120 tons of freight daily,
and as the line will be completed by Jan
uary there will be no danger of a famine
at Dawson this wiv1ter. The saving in
the time to Klondike will be about thirty
days.
OVER THE DALTON TRAIL
SKAGUAY, Alaska, Oct. /. via Vic
toria, B. C.-Several parties who have
arrived on the Dalton trail from Klon-
dixie repeat the story of scarcity OF pro-
visions and possible burger and starva-
ton with many this winter. James
| Clark and. c. A. Brown, who have been
mining on Birch creek, having left Daw-
son City September 16 at noon. poled up
! the river fifteen miles above PellinX
river and there bought horse and came
in over the supposed Dalton trail, MAX
ing the trip in twenty-six days to
Haines Mission, getting there Sunday.
They passed the Thorp party on the
summit with cattle, most Of the party
discouraged and wanting to turn back
Brown and Clark told them they had
gone through 100 miles of snow, where
no food could be got for the stock, and
it would be utterly impossible to get the
stock through alive. Thorp had already
lost fifteen pack horses on the trail, and
part Of the original party turned back
two days before, but he was stubborn and
would not consent to turn back HIM
self.
About twenty-five persons came out
over the Dalton trail the past week.
All bring the same report. that there Is