Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-11-26
NORTHERN NUGGETS.
Review,

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Fort Yukon has been burned.
Dawson City prices are 80 cents for
a shave and - cents Tor a hair cut.
Mechanics are paid an ounce OF gold
for nine hours, work at Dawson City.
Paying lodges of free milling quartz
have been located on kcani Peninsula,
Alaska.
There will he no more cOmmunica-
ton with ST. Michael until next
spring.
Fifty miners arrived at Victoria
from Australia last week, bound for
the klondikc.
During the last summer the Polly
Mining Company OF Cooks Inlet took
out $50 day to the man.
Potatoes, onions, radishes, lettuce,
cabbage, barley, wheat and oats are
successfully raised at Cooks inlet.
1t costs from $1,000 to $4,000 to
build the commonest kind of log
cabin, Is "a feet, at Dawson City.
A mountain of iron ore has been
discovered on Alaska Peninsula which
contains fair values in gold and copper.
OF the 5000 horses shipped to
Skaguay from Seattle this season over
1000 have succumbcd to the hard
ships of the trail.
The steamers Thrasher and Wolcott
will hereafter make regular trips be-
tween San Francisco, Seattle and
Copper River, Alaska.
Notwithstanding the fact that
Dawson City is pretty we'll up towards
the Arctic. Circle, ice sold in that city
last summer for $1.5O a pound.
Ottawa capitalists will petition the
Dominion parliament at its next ses-
sion for charter to build railway
from East Kootenai, B. c., to the
Yukon.
The Yukon river froze over at its
mouth the latter part of October, and
on the 22d of that month snow had
fallen there to a depth OF twelve
inches.
Land ON the Dawson City TOWNSHIP,
that originally cost $1.25 per acre,
now sells at fabulous prices, ordinary
building lots of 50x1OO feet selling
from $1,000 to $4,000, according to
location.
C. H. league, q prominent whole
sale business man of Boston, Mass,
will head party of 200 from that
city to the Klondike in the spring.
They will embark at Seattle for the
far north.
1t is reported that the steamers
Puebla and Umatilla, now on the San
Francisco-Puget Sound run, will be
put on the Alaska route in the spring,
and their places filled by boats now
building.
It seems to be the general opinion
among miners and prospectors who
have been in the Copper river country
that gold in paying quantities does
not exist there, and their advice is to
keep away from there.
The Manhattan Alaska Trading
Company will startan expedition from
New York City next Monday to Klon-
dixie in this brig Henrietta Colt
There are forty-nine people in the
party, several of whom are women.
Capt. Fred G. Andrews and party,
who tried to locate new route to
Circle City, via Cooks Inlet, have re-
turned from their exploring expedi-
ton after an absence of over year,
and report the attempt failure.
California prospectors are turning
their attention to Kotzebue Sound,
Alaska, and 200 of them are preparing
to sail for there. Two miners recently
arrived from there brought out $751;
600, the result OF six months work.
A party of sixteen prospectors left
Seattle last week on the schooner
Bering Sea for Copper river, Alaska
The expedition is under command of
G. NJ. Hale, of California. This party
spent $4,000 in Seattle for supplies,
and are QUILTED for two years trip
A party of thirty-five women will
leave Boston, Mass, the first of the
year for the Klondike. They have
formed club, each contributing $3.50
to a general fund to be expended in
outfits and transportation.
Capt. c. P. Dyer, an old Puget
Sound steamboat man residing on
WILDLY Island, arrived in Seattle last
week from Alaska, bringing with him
specimens of free milling gold ore
which assays $21, 1858 to the ton
He located his find on Cleveland PEN
Ursula, Alaska, where he has seventeen
claims.
Most of the cabins in Dawson City
are built of logs squared on three
sides and solidly chinked with moss.
The roofs are made of poles, covered
to a depth of ten inches with moss, on
the top of which soil is piled to q
depth of twelve inches. AS an extra
precaution against cold, earth is some
times banked up against the walls.
r. V. Schmidt arrived in Seattle a
few days ago on the steamer City of