The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-31
- e@GOOD PLACE TO AVOID
Anti-kloDdyke Warnings are Almost Tear.
full In Their EarnestneSs

seattle, w ASH, Aug Z9.-Ihe Stedme
Portland arrived here at o'clock th
| morning. Il was fourteen hours afte
she was sighted off Cape Flattery befor,
she arrived here.
The Portland carried thirteen miners
| each of whom brought only a small par
| OF his stake. The Portland was delay
| ed by the failure Of the p. B. Weare x
arrive at St. Michaels. and by storm
on the North Pacific ocean. The min.
ers on board, with the amount OF theil
total mining profits. parts Of which were
brought with them,, are as follows:
j. Rowan, $4,000; Jim Bell, s45, 900
Joe Goldsmith, $4,000; n. W. Powers
$4,000; w. W. Caldwell, $35, 900; w. Oh
er. $4,000; Z. X. lilly, $4,000; T. w.
Cobb. $4,000; w. Zahn, S15 900; A Buck
ley $4,000; @. S. Lansing, $4,000; B.
Farnham, $4,000; ". r. Camler, 81, 600
H. n. Stanley, who went TO ST. Mich
aels for the Associated Press, returned
on the Portland. He says:
II have been seven weeks at the mouth
of the Yukon. at St. Michaels, wher I
saw ali TIT miners coming out and inter-
viewed them. As a result, feel II my
duty 10 advise everybody to stay out
Until next spring. Wild. and in many
cases exaggerated reports. have been cir
culated since the first discoveries were
made. The strike. howver. was. and is.
one of the grea test, If not the greatest,
in the worlds history. Probably $1,000
was cleaned up tais spring, and next
spring l look for from s., 900, 900 10 ST.
600. 900. The fields have hardly been
opened up as yet, but those going in now
must bear in mind that everything in
mat region was staked long before any
iepOrts reached the outer world, and
that those going in now must prospect
for themselves. buy claims from the
present owners or work for the owners
NO new strike had been reported up
TO the time OF my leaving. and another
may not be made for five years, although
Alaska is an enormous country. and will
yer. believe. produce NOR gold ;han we
dream Of. But il is also, in many ways.
a bleak, barren, desola:e country-a coun-
Try incapable OF supporting any grea-
amount % animal life. and a country OF
such rigorous climate. bith winter and
spring. that none but the mast hardy
can possibly live in il. Even they must
have abundance Of food and warm cloth
ill.,.
II am aware that there is popular
impression that supplies can be bought
in nc vicinity OF tire mines They may
a; present buy at SIX times Seattle prices
hIt ;Aey are taken az even those prices
faster than they can be got in. and be-
fore winter is half over. Il even the pres
cnt population stays in, there will be
actual starvation.
The average man requires about one
ION % carefully selected food and cloth
ing for a years supplies. In the sum
ner OF 1886. aooul $500 tons OF supplies
went up the river. ana the new popu,a-
ton OF 1900 70 1900 suffered from want.
OF this $500 tons. probably ! 800 tons
vas rum. tools, furniture and supplies
ether than provisions. This season, al
owing the mos tavorao Die circumstances
not more than 400 tons Of supplies can
be got up the river. fully half % which is
run ana tools. as wei as supplies other
than food. There are more than three
times as many people there as las, win
Ter. Figure il out FOR yourself.
Grub vas completely cleaned oui
this spring. and il las, winter there Vas
such scarcity that moose hams sold a:
$50 each. -four al Sl2o a hundred. oacon
a, 81 a pound. waa; wiu not happen this
coming winter?
As - shelter. 50 per cent o Dawson
was living in ,enss n July. labor Is
sceare ani houses cannot De bulk: How
are 1000 people - withstand the rgi-s