The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-09-02


worked this winter an average of eight
men to eachsis liberal. II but 200 men are
employed and there are 5000 or more seek.
ing work, what must be the result !? Wages
must 90 down.
The Klondtke Is a land 81 ice and snow
as we'll as 80 land OF gold. Lett not be
made one OF gaunt hunger. wretchedness
and death. Let no one be allowed to wrest
from the foolish people q few hundred thou
sand saved, borrowed Of begged dollars
There will be ssgood chances for mining
N the future as now. Let the people wait
This Is not q Cripple Creek or Deadw WOOD
proposition. + aught. they cannot WALL
Food supply Very short.
W. "a. Ryan, one Of the special cor
respondents now en- route to the Klon-
dixie gold fields, writes from st. Michaels
island, Alaska, under date Of August is
MS follows: .5.t s. /! ISL .,.8'7
According to all reports from the upper
country, it will be impossible to land suf-
ficient food at Dawson to support the pop
Eulation already dependent on that base OF
supplies. Miners returning from the upper
country, who left the Klondike in the mid
ole OF July. say that provender was al
ready running. very low and that it went
OUT OF the warehouses just about as fast
as It was put in of the steamers They
say that ld-timers realize the situation
and that the down-river boats will be
crowded with men eager to get to some
safe place for the winter. Distress and
death are predicted by them as the result
or the Klondike craze.
NJ q
There were 20 persons here when the
Excelsior arrived who had come down the
river from the diggings, Is Of whom were
miners They are said to have all the way
from 100000 to 100000 among them. Few
care to say exactly how much they have,
but preferring to remain silent on that
point, giving as their reason the fact that
they have too little money compared to
what those who went out earlier took
away with them. c.. B. and T. B. Patrick.
father and son, brought out 100000 They
took passage on a sailing vessel which left
port two days after they arrived f.. w.
sCobb,&of Boston. is credited with $4,000,
as Rowan, Of sitka, is $4,000 better or
w. w. Caldwell. Of Denver, has $50, 00O;
Timothy G. Bell. of Vancouver, has $751;
600 in Canadian money, the result of the
sale of his holdings. NJ s. Lansing, of
Bozeman, Mont, has $4,000. The others
refuse to say how much they have. The
remaining members Of the party are Wiler.
Of Baltimore; William Zahn, Of Mime.
apolis; B. H. Farman, of Goodell, Ia. A.
Buckley. of St. Joseph, Mo-; H. N. Cooler,
Of Winnipeg; Thomas H. Dunkesley, OF
Tacoma, and N. w. Power, Of Tucson, A.
T. Each has won what is called in this re-
gion home stake" namely, the amount
which he believes sufficient to take home
to remain. Very few intend to come back
The hardships they have endured make
them dread the country in which they won
their stakes.
: What the Passengers Say.
There are two facts about the Klon-
dixie brought out clearly by interviews
with passengers on the Portland. They
are, first, that Alaska's fields are rich
with gold; second, that awful perils
threaten those who seek it. The Yukon
miners who. came back on the Portland
without exception estimate that not
less than $1O,0OO,00O will be taken out
of the Klondike district next winter.
Many of them think the amount will
reach fully $15,O0O,0oO. Following are
extracts of interviews with some of the
passengers:
"You can believe almost any statement
about the richness of the Klondike diggings
that you hear. They are rich beyond de-
scription." ...,-a- ssss - .s>sl%' !
TITS hardly fair to judge the Klondike
by the returns of this year, sensational as
they may seem. The work that has been
done is little more than 'gophering.' It
was impossible to do systematic and thor
ough prospecting OF claims. Next win
ter they will get down to solid work. Then
look out for results"
SNThnco fyKyA
dorado) are richer than anything that ha q
ever been found in the world so far. Larger
nuggets and richer pockets have been
found in many Places but history has no
record where the pay streak has been so
wide and the gold SO evenly divided as
on these two creeks. They will be enor-
nous producers for, the next ten years
at least" - esfA .-~, ..e.5
There are big chances for capital on the
Yukon. There are many miles of good
ground which. will yield handsomely when
worked on large scale, which the average
miner cannot afford Ito work. "A years
outfit costs from $3.50 to $1,000, and pros
make his board bill. - Consequently he
looks for the rich spots only. whereas cap
ital could work ground that the miner has
rejected and make it pay big u..
1T Is just as good and even better thu
the Canadian stde,' says a firm believer
in the American part of the Yukon. There
Is lots of rich gravel! on our side.l Cut
side of the Klondike strike nearly all the
gold diggings have been found on Ameri-
can territory. There are good chances
there for prospectors and for capital
Warn people to stay, out of the Yukon
this winter. Tell them it means starvs :
ton there. Telegraph to every paper in
the country that; miners will starve there
If more people go~in."s- go ~ >
I'm warning people to wait until spring
I simply act for the miners, who speak in
the name of humanity There is gold in the
Yukon country. plenty of it, but to seek it
this season under. these circumstances is
sheer madness, 1t is even worse, 1t is
criminal to those who already are in the
country. .>.. . 49,. - ~,
1T is almost impossible to take in enough
supplies, and to go without supplies means
starvation, as there is not near enough
food in there now for the people ALREADY
in the district. -, .-hsu.g.
Buildings cannot possibly be put up
in tents is out of the question" =
Anyone who has a good situation
would be foolish to throw it up and go
into the Yukon until more is known apout
the country. So far only glowing accounts
have; come out, There are plenty of hard
luck stories which are yet to be told. Nc
one will lose ANYTHING by not going to the
Yukon this fall
1.-The Yukon is the last place on earth
for man to look for a soft snap. The
very best will be hard living there @'~..
Il STRIKES HIS, SOVEREIGN
German Officer Blacks EmperOP,!yNtl.