The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-11
The DALTON TRAIL.
Discouraged Gold Seekers
Abandon the Attempt to
Reach Klondike.
ONE HUNDRED NILES OF SNOW.
Horses Dying for Want Of Food
and Starvation Staring
Miners in the Face.

SKAGUAY, Oct. l, 1897, via Victoria, 3.
c., Oct. II, 1S97.-Several parties who awe
arrived on the Dalton Trail from the klon-
dixie repeat the story of scarcity or pro-
visions, and possible hunger and starva-
ton with many persons there this Win
ter. James Clark and c. A. Brown, who
had been mining on Birch Creek, having
left Dawson City, September 6 at noon,
poIed up the river to Is miles above Peliy
River and there bought a horse and came
in over the supposed Dalton trail, making
the trip in rs days to Haines' Mission,
getting there on 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 a
gone through 100 miles of snow, where no
feed could be got for their stock, and IT
would be utterly impossible to get their
stock through alive. Thorp already had
lost Is pack horses on the trail, and part
of his original party had turned back two
days before, but he was stubborn ana
would not consent to turn back himself.
About twenty-five persons came over the
Dalton Trail the past week. They say
there are a good many following them,
all bearing the same report, that there IS
no actual trail and that it is All miles
long. SUBMITS have to be crossed, IN
Vulnerable streams forded and II IS I'M
possible to find ones way without indian
guides, even Thorp having to employ
Indians.
The biggest party to come out together
was eleven persons, Pat Calvin and wire,
George c. Bounds and wife, Charles
Thebo, John f. Maloney and Frank Beck
of Juneau, Harry Roman, Ed. Armstrong,
.sMush'' Rosenstein and Little Willie
Misner of San Francisco. This party
brought out a little gold dust, but they
are reticent as to the amount. Little
Willie Misner brought out about hfteen
pounds, Pat Galvan as much or more.
and George C. Bounds fifty, but most OF
the dust IS deposited with the two prlnci-
pal companies and drafts taken on Chlc-
ago and San Francisco.
Bounds is the man who took the hrst
beef cattle ever taken INTO the 1ukou re
gion. He started in at Mission with 40
head in June, 1886, had to make his own
trail. built a raft below Five Fingers on
the Yukon, and started, intending to take
them to Circle City. But he got frozen
in at the mouh of the Klondike and couid
not move either way. Then came the
stampede to Bonanza and Eldorado, and
he sold out every pound, propaply SAVING
the lives of many, and saving hlIhSeH
from financial ruin.
He sold out $4,000 worth OF beet entirety
on credit to miners n did not lose one
dollar, they making a small clean up SO
as to allow him to leave February Y last.
He came out at that time over the chill
koot trail to Dyea. His wife went IN on
Bounds is interested with George McCor-
mack in the Discovery Claim, on the 30
nanza and had interests in "3A" as well as
three other claims. but has sold all ms IN,
ferests outright except Discovery Claim"
and has bonded 1t. He Will make one more
trip next May to settle up.