Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-22

| company with a civil engineer for Seattle
where he will be joined by survey party
| capitalization Of s3.000OOo. The road will
be completed in two years. Charles +.
Hutchins. superintendent Of the Whining
| ton City railway, is president of the COM
pany.
Dominion Police on the Ground.
Ottawa. Ont. July 2l.-Now that the Do
minion government Is in possession of au-
| thenuc reports corroborative of the first
accounts sent out of the marvellous rich
ness of the new placer diggings In the
Yukon and Klondyke regions the orCaniZa-
Joh OF tne olstrlGt Is oelns completed. Two
years ago, the department of the interior
dispatched a force of twenty Northwest
mounted policemen to Fort Cudahy, on the
Canadian side OF the Alaskan frontier.
The officer in command, Inspector Con-
stantne, established two posts. one at
CUdahy and the other at Forty-Mile Creek,
and proceeded to administer laws and col
| lect revenues for the customs department
He collected about $4,000 the first year.
the government. in iSs5. appointed D. W.
Davis. a former member of parliament for
Alberta, TO the position of customs officer
for the district. and his returns, recently
arrived. swelled the total collections in
Yukon to about $4,000.
This work of organization was first suC-
ge5ted to the government by the North
American Trading and Transportation
Company, which was anxious that the Brit
ish territory should be administered 50 as
10 guarantee the safety OF its interests;
Constantine stayed in the country all last
winter and busted himself stalking of claims
for the miners on the newly discovered
placer grounds. the latter being well in
Canadian territory. the creeks or rivers
flow into the Yukon from the east. namely.
Bonanza, Boulder EldOrado. CarmaCte.
Klondyke and Stewart. OF the mounted
police who formed COnStantine'S first de-
tachment not one re-enltSted upon the eX-
piration Of their terms this spring. SO that
an entirely new force had to he sent up
this SDriOE II not gEnCgtpQ that
would continue TO work for the government
for 81 a day when wages all around them
licemen are reported to have brought S200
600 the results of mining during their
spare hours.
Last Report From the KIondyke.
Constantine's last report. which has Just
teen received says that he is building
third post at the mouth of the I[londyke
river which flows into the Yukon on the
east side about fiftv-three miles southeast
of Forty-Mile. He asked for a larger force.
In this his suggestion has been anticiOdted.
as well as in the appointment of gold
commissioner while a Pacific coast firm is
being negotiated with for the supply Of a
steam launch to ply as policeboat between
Klondyke. Forty-Mile and Cudahy. ConsJan-
tine was ordered to return to Ottawa last
fall. but Instead. he determined TO rem ain in
the country and forward a fun report to
the government of his doings. from which
the following are extracts:
Starting from here. say December l. 1t
would be February before I reached Otta-
wa, and during the thirty-five or forty days
of this time. I would be exposed to much
cold and hardship. and some hazard from
storms. The journey has been made, and |
would not hesitate to undertake IT were
things more reasonable here and dog food
plentiful, but il would take at least $1,000
to equip us with transport and outfit. which
sum, | think, can eNpend more I'm the in
terest Of the country by remaining here
and making a survey of the klondvke-a
mispronunCiatiOn Of the Indian word or
words Throndak or Duck which
means plenty OF fish. from the fact that it
Is a famous salmon stream. II IS marked
.Tondak' on our maps. u joins the Yukon
from the east a few miles above the site
Of Fort Reliance. about fifty miles above
here. The discovery of gold I'm the branches
Of this stream. 7 believe, was due 10 the
reports of Indians.
The First Claim.
"A white man named J. W. Carmach. who
worked with me in 1857. was the first to
take advantage OF the rumor and locate
a claim in the first branch, which was
named by the miners Bonanza creek. Car
mach located his claim late in August but
had to cut some logs for the mill here to
get few pounds OF provisions to enable
him TO begin work on his claim. He re-
himself. wife and brother-in-law 0ndians) !
I'm the last of August and Immediately set
about working his claim.
The gravel itself he had to carry i'm a
box on his back from thirty TO 100 feet. |
Notwithstanding this, three men working
very irregularly washed out H,2o0 in eight |
DAYS, and CarTnaCh asserts with reason
that had he proper facilities II could have
been done in two days.
"A branch of Bonanza, named EldoradO. !
has prospered maEniticently, and another |
branch. named Til!y creek, has prOSpered |
well. There are about 110 claims staked in |
the main creek and the branches are good |
for many more, aggreSating. say so
claims, which will require over l,O0O men /
to work properly.
"A few miles further up Bear creek en- /
ters Klondyke. and it has been prospected |
and located on. About twelve miles above |
the mouth Of Rear creek. Gold Bottom |
creek Joins KIondyke. and on it and on a /
branch named Hunker creek very rlch /
ground has been found. ON Cold Bottom |
creek and branches there will probably be /
200 or 800 claims.
The Indians have reported another creek .
much further up. which they can 100 !
Much Gold Creek on which the gold IS 50 /
plentiful that as the miners say. in joke /
you have to mix gravel with It 10 sEuice IL
i'p to date nothing definite has been heard |
from this creek.
''From an this we may I think. infer that |
we have here a district which viii give l.uU0
claims of 500 feet in length. Now. Loo such |
claims will require at least aVV men 70 /
work them properly. ana as wages lor l
working in the mines are from ~ TO $40 per |
day without board. we have every reason
TO assume that this part Of our territory /
will in a year or two contain at least 1900 4
souls.
For the news has gone out TO the coast /
and an unprecedented influx Is expected 4
next spring. And this is not All. Tor a /
large creek called Indian creek IONS the
Yukon about midway between klondyke 4
and Stewart rivers, and all along TINS creek