The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-02
NOW! THE
SCHOONERS
81. +. WILL SCUD
This. Week Is Specially Re-:
served for Yukon Ex-
petitions.
SEVERAL WILL GET AWAY SOON.
With Steam. Gasoline and Sails
]. !. They Bring Up the Rear.
Of the Rush,
AID Sk.iGlWlY. RISES TO FAME.

QeNeiODlQbHG
: fhe: early disaster OF G big lot of special
expeditions to Alaska will be the chief
lGcal feature of the Klondyke doings here
this week: But one regular steamer the
:: Nalla Walla, will sail during the week,
and she will take $50 or 200 Yukoners to
: tHe North.:
81 . The bulk of the Pacific Coast rush has
started on.its way north now or Will be off
. early this week. Seattle will havA fur
ntshed bout 2CO0 departures, San Fran
cisco nearly a thousand and some hun
:: dreds altogether have gone from Portland,
Port Townsend and Victoria.
- BY: com mon report there were 5000 peo-
/; pie in the gold fields last winter, The
early spring rush, which was independent
of the present one, is generally estimated
at about 5000. These had got to Dawson
or were we'll on their way when the arrival
Of the Excelsior and the Portland about
three. weeks ago set the present craze
going. ::
=; There were thus about 5000 people on
the upper. Yukon when this later rush
: began. Three thousand or more are thus
pursuing The. spring influx and a winter
= population of 5000 seems thus already
assured,
T. 1t seems likely that a thousand more
viii have EN- barked from here and for the
!: sound two weeks hence, and the predic-
ton. OF a winter population of 10000 in
The goldfeIds is not unreasonable. What
: will happen to this population is another
story. Rumors-of new Tich finds on the
Stewart and elsewhere have vaguely
ttoated out as the news of the Klondyke
discovery. foated; out months ago, ana the
chances of the ingoing thousands are
largely as:the extent of the new fields and
the room for labor, investment and bust
ness they will early afford.
The next RIondyke sensation is prob
ably six weeks off. 1t Will come
Seattle and the Excelsior to San Fran
cisco with the. miners and the golddust
from the second and last trips down the
river from. the goldhelds. Both steamers
are likely to bring N ore men and more gold
than. on their last trips, and there will be
great stories abroad, as well as news from
and about many who have gone this sea-
son. These steamers will return early in
September.
Meanwhile the rush northward goes on.
Several hundred. will take the William etts
at Seattle, and all other regular and
special steamers running between the
Sound and Juneau will be crowded for
some little time yet. This week, too, will
come stories of how it fares at Juneau,
.Dyea and the passes with the vast army
of rushers that is massing there.
:; So far. the exodus has been com posed
almostexclusively of Pacific Coast people
The newspaper dispatches for several DAYS
have been telling of people and parties
that had decided to rush from all over
the East and these are due this week,
whatever there may be of them. A ma
jority will go to Seattle to seek passage
north, but many will come to San Fran :
3. cisco.
Several special craft will get away DUR
ing the week, some going to st. Mich aels
on FOOLS errand to meet the ice of the
Yukon and some going to Dyea. The
steam schooner Noyo, SO long On the run
., to Fort Bragg, will be one OF the earliest
: to leave. She Is now expected to sail on
Wednesday. The J. S. Kimball Com
pany. her owners, and ]. Grammar are
proprieters of the enterprise, and with
new Lighthouses for hunks. they expect
she will carry $50 passengers ana ton OF
: supplies per man to Dyea at SIS per ras-
senger. a. c. .Virgile will go along as a
guide during the overland trip.
According 10 Mr.. Grammar, 120 have
registered for passage, and among them
are twelve women, principally wives or
other relatives of men who are going or
who are already there. They will put on
boomers at Dyea and brave the hardships
of the long journey. Fifty burros and
horses for packing, belonging to various
parties aboard, will be taken along.
Mr.. Grammar says. that the Messrs.
Kimball and himself are organizing a
company to GO into the transportation
business on the Yukon next spring, Duy-
ing ocean steamers to run TO St. Mfchaels
and building steamers to run on the river.
Il suppose that 5000 men nearly have
been to see us about going" said Mr..
Grammar yesterday. IF all that get ex.
cited about going would go the City
would be depopulated, but when it com es
to the scratch most OF them haven't got
money enough, or they get homesck, or
will wait till spring. These new trans:
portation companies make me tired, MANY
OF them. For the last Two weeks every
man who could raise $40 has wanted to
charter steamer. l know. man who
hasn't had a square meal Tor month who
has been running around trying to charter
a vessel land get up an expedition
The Pitcairn. which gained fame as a
missionary schooner in the South Seas,
will leave for Dyea on the 9th inst, &C
cording to the blue dodgers, and is pre-
pared to take twenty men with 1885,
pounds of baggage apiece, to Dyea, and
transport the baggage to the lakes with
thirty mules, for $50 apiece. There is a
remarkably wide range of prices for the
special expeditions. The. Caspar, for
instance, is advertised to. provide men
with eighteen months" provisions and