The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-26
NOVEL KLONDIKE SCHEME
TOSEND 4 VESSEL ROUND THE HORN
 TO THE NEW COLD COUNTRY.

Dr. Linquist's Plan to Form Stock Com
 pany-Capitalists Greatly Interested
 Volunteers May Make Money Without
 Risls-To Start January First.
 Most everybody in this city knows Dr.. M. L. Linquist of 122 Olive street, For many years he has had a large and successful practice here. But few, how ever, know, or even surmised, that the doctor is an expert gold miner. Never theless, it is a fact. He was one of the first to go to California in 1S49, remain ing there several years and reaping quite a harvest as result of his labors. In 1852 and 1853 he was in the mines in | New South Wales, Australia, and met with much success, bringing back with | him a goodly quantity of the precious metal.
 During the years which he devoted to mining the doctor acquired great skill and among those who were conversant with his experiences in the mines and the result of his judgment and labors he was looked upon and rated as an ex. pert and possessed of all the requisites to achieve most satisfactory and abun- l dant success.
 pr. Linquist is considerably interest ed In the late discoveries of gold in the Klondike region, and he has plan ] which, in his opinion, would result in much gain to those who would engage in it. The project is as follows: There should be number of gentlemen In the east to start a company with one l hundred shares of stock, making the price of the stock thousand dollars a share After the stock Is disposed Of, the next step would be to purchase or 1 charter steamboat to leave New York about January l. as that time would be the most propitious, for as you sail around the Horn 1t would be summer there, as the summer months in that latitude are January, February and March. The steamer should be manned by crew of reliable seamen, and it is i thought that volunteers could probably be obtained who would be glad to go. The boat should carry, besides provi- sions and clothing, mining implements, lumber and a good supply of medicine. On the voyage carpenters. which should be included among the crew, should make necessary mining appara- tus and one or two corrugated iron houses, the pieces for the latter being easily obtainable. The boat should go partly under steam and partly under sail in order to save coal The steam ,xJl r. v,1, raiso and other ports, and should reach San Francisco early in March. After getting necessary supplies the boat should proceed to Tacoma or se- attle and be ready whenthe ice breaks up about May l. to sail for Klondike. Passengers could be taken from Taco ma and Seattle if so desired. After landing supplies at Klondike the vessel could be utilized for carrying passen- gers and freight, running between Seattle and Klondike. The steamer should be able to make at least three trips during the summer, and should in this way net a sufficient amount to pay for herself.
 The above is but meagre sketch of Dr. Linquist's plan. More definite ar- engagements could of course be made when the company associated together and marked out it's mode of procedure. The doctor thoroughly believes in its feasibility and Is sanguine as to its results. Aside from what might be netted from the mines, the steamer would pay handsomely in carrying pas sengers and freight. The men working on her would be exempt from hardships and would be reasonably certain of do ing well and earning quite a sum. Ii can be stated that a number of gentle men think so well of the doctors sug- geetions that they have signified theil willingness to invest in an enterprise such as designated by him.