The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-28

fields on the last steamers this fall and
many speak of going in the spring.
A NEW ROUTE
VICTORIA, b c.. July Ell. H.
Eacolme, of the British Yukon company,
made a trip over the White pass to fresh
water on July 16, returning to Skagway
bay on the following day, thus demon
strating the practicability of this route
to the Yukon gold fields. The trail is
now open and horses can go through
from salt water to fresh.
GREAT FIND ON STEWART RIVER
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27-The latest
rumor from Alaska and the Clondyke
is of the discovery of wonderfully rich
quartz in large quantities on the Stew
art river. Particulars are vague and be-
yond the fact that the ledge Is large
one and the rock assays $500 nothing
can be learned. The discovery was made
some time ago. but nothing was said
until the ledge had been prospected and
an assay made.
This, If true, will mean much for the
Clondyke region The Stewart river runs
into the Yukon not far from Dawson
and it Is reasonable to suppose that the
placer gold now being found in such
quantities below may have it's origin in
the mountains at the head of the Stew
art and neighboring rivers and creeks.
A MONTH ON FLOUR AND WATER.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27.-Two
more miners from the north came in on
the City of Puebla yesterday and reg
istered at the Commercial Hotel. They
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both tell tales of the hardest kind of ex-
perience before they got enough to per-
nit them to leave that land with any
thing like enough to remain in idleness
! for year or more.
Thirty days on flour and water and
$4,000 taken from the ground in eight
months is but portion of Dore's expert
ence. OF AID those who have reached the
city, his tale is one that ought to make
those without experience think twice
before plunging into unknown dangers.
j. E. Boucher is another who knows
the difficulty attending the wrestling of
the gold from the icy gravel beds. He
left his home in Wisconsin three years
ago, went in by the Juneau and Chilcoot
route to Forty Mile and had the usual
run of poor luck. He went to work for
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and then he went prospecting.
II had no better success at this than
at work and was pretty well Disguised
when I heard of the strike at Clondyke.
l struck pretty good claim and cleaned
up about $4,000. ! am going back home
to enjoy myself until next spring, when I
will go back again if 1 do not sell out in
the meantime"
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them nearly $4,000, but they decline to
give the exact figures.
A GRAVEYARD STORY.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27.-Return-
ing Yukoners deny the story told by
Frank Moss of Great Falls, Mont, to the
effect that 1000 graves at Forty Mile poet
tell of the terrible sufferings of the gold
seekers.
F. G. Bowker says that SO far from
being over 1000 deaths on the Clondyke
during the last three years there was
nobody there to die until something less
than a year ago, and since then there
have been three deaths in that whole
district, so far as known. In the grave
yard at Forty Mile post, which has serv-
ed for all that section for some years
past, there are only between thirty and
forty graves.
REASONABLE REGULATION
VANCOUVER, B. c., July 27.-Hon.
Clifford Sifton, Dominion minister Of the
interior, has wired here that it is not the
intention of the Dominion government
to make the mining laws of British Col
umbia applicable to the Yukon. Special
regulations applying to that district,
which have been carefully revised by
Surveyor Ogilvie, will be administered
by the staff on the ground. Further
amendments to the regulations will be
made and will be promoted as soon as
possible. Miners will have to deal with
the Dominion officials stationed on the
Yukon.
THE CLONDYKE KING
FRESNO, July 27-Clarence Berry,
the "Clondyke King" passed through
Fresno this morning enroute to his home
at Selma, this county. He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Berry and other members
of the family. He found awaiting him
here and at Selma about 600 letters from
all parts of the country. Mr.. Berry finds
that notorety has it's drawbacks as we'll
as it's pleasures. He may be compelled
his voluminous correspondence.
DUST BAG MAKING
MIDDLETOWN,N N. Y, July PA To-
cal firm engaged in manufacturing gold
dust bags of sheepskin for California
customers are working with double
forces on account of telegraphic orders
received since the Clondyke discovery.
CANADA,C pOvATTv
OTTAWA, Ont, July 27.-At the close
of the second sitting of the cabinet this
evening it was announced that the gov
eminent had decided to impose a roy
atty on all placer diggings on the Yukon,
in addition to SIS registration fee and
500 annual assessment. The royalty
will be 10 per cent each on claims with
an output of $500 or less monthly, and
20 per cent ON every claim yielding above
that amount yearly, Besides this roy
atty, it has been decided in regard to ali
future claims staked out on other
streams or rivers, that every alternate
claim should be the property of the
government and should be reserved for
public purposes and, sold, or worked. by
the government for the revenue of the
dominion.