The San Francisco call., 1897-07-24
STARVATION AND MURDER MAY
BE THE RESULT.
Nevertheless the Stream of Gold-Seekers to the
KIondyke Continues and Steamers
Bound for Alaska Are
Crowded.

met. Heavy stocks have been ordered by
wire to be prepared for any possible rush.
Twenty employees of the Seattle and In
iernational Railway have formed a syndi-
cate for mining and trading expedition
to the Yukon. The twenty have COM
bined, each depositing $500 in a common
fund. Robert Moran has agreed to build
foi $1,000 in ninety days a steel compart-
ment boat sixty feet in length by twelve
feet beam. to be launched in six feet of
water. He has guaranteed that the boat
will be in such shape that the twenty
men in the company can easily put the
parts together on Lake Linderman. The
boi er will have pressure OF $50 pounds
to the square inch and the engines will
be forty horsepower. A speed of ten
miles an hour is guaranteed. The cargo
capacity will be twenty tons. The twenty
railroad men will pack the steamer across
the summit and will set it up on the
Upper Yukon. Ten Een will stay by the
steamer, doing a transportation business,
and ten will go prospecting. A sawmill
will also be carried in and the boat is so
arranged that it can be beached and will
furnish power to operate the sawmill.
The company viii go prepared to 10 ten
years business.
This plan was original with c. ]. Doo-
little, an engineer on the Seattle and In
ternational Overland on the run to Sumas.
Among others interested are: Samuel Nc
Gaffey, conductor; Joseph Clark, con-
ductor; George Peak, engineer; Jack Ed
gerton, conductor; Harry Phillips, the
general superintendent's stenographer:
! I'll
fireman; George Berry, brakesman, and
Nick Younger, engineer. All are employees
of the Seattle and International
The steamer Monte Cristo, built for the
Skagit River trade and owned in Skagit
County, is to be sent to St. Michaels with
in the next two weeks to ply on the Yukon
from The mouth to Dawson City.
a question much discussed is whether
it be possible to get the 1900 to 1000 tons of
provisions which have been or are being
shipped TO Dyea across the pass and down
the Yukon before the river closes The
goods will have to be packed across the
trail 200 miles on ponies. One hundred
and sixty-fve horses have already been
shipped up to Dyea and there are forty or
| ffty up there already. 1t is considered
as impossible for this number of horses to
handle his freight in the limited time
left.
Very few persons from outside of the
! State have yet appeared on the ground to
take part in the rush to the gold fields.
! So far, with the exception of the exCur-
.sionists, nearly all the passengers north
| bound to st. Michaels and to Dyea are
! citizens of Washington.
The Arctic Sawmill Company was in
corporated here yesterday to build two
sawmills, one at Lake Linderman, across
the pass from Dyea, and one at some
point on the Yukon. Part of the ma
chinery was shipped north on the Queen
this morning. The rest is being con-
slructed by Moran Brothers. w. II. Wei
bon, superintendent of the Seattle Cedar
Lumber Company, is manager of the new
com pany and goes north Sunday on the
! Mexico with a force of men to carry the
machinery over the pass and set it up.
c. J. Smith of the Oregon Railway Navl-
CATION Company and II. G. Henry the
railroad contractor who built the western
division OF the Great Northern, are the
financial hackers of the scheme. Each
mill Will have a capacity of 10000 eet.
| The mill at Linderman will cut lum Der
for building boats in which TO tran port
supplies down the river. The other mill
will be located where good timber can be
found, in proximity to the KlondyKe, for
the purpose of cutting lumber Tor sluice-
boxes, as well as house lum ber. Nine men
Will be taken in as a crew for each of the
mills.
side issue to the Klondye excitement
has been the tenn porary eclipse of num-
ber OF promising mining propositions III
Western Washington. This State has
been enjoying a miniature mining boom
of its own. Good copper, lead and gold
IedgeS had been struck during the sum-
mer in large numbers. Fully 5000 claims
have been located in the Cascade Noun
tains within tne past TWO wears. Capital
has been enlisted in quite n numbe OF
these mines and development WORK was
proceeding rapidly. Hundreds of others
were attempting TO secure the needed cap
ital by the SAFE OF treasury stock and were
meeting with fair degree of success The
prospects were good for quite an extended
development. But there is no sale for
any treasury stock in quartz mines in
this section of the country at present
whether the mines be located on Trail
Creek or in some of the local districts. In
fact many of the holders of such stock are
ready TO drop it at considerably less than
it's quoted value to get stake for the
Klondye. The placers of the Yukon have