New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-28
MORE SEEKERS FOR GOLD.
THE NUMBER LIMITED ONLY BY THE
CARRYING FACILITIES

SAILING VESSEL TO TAKE SIXTY TO THE
YuKoN-soME PERSONS ANXIOUS TO BOOK
PASSAGES FOR NEXT SUMMER.
San Francisco July 27.-The throngs about
every shipping office that has even the remotest
Alaskan relations have by means diminished
1t would seem that the only thing which prevents
the wholesale depopulaton of San Francisco is
the limit to the transportation facilities. Not
only strong men. whose broad backs, bronzed
faces and workworn hands tell OF previous ex-
perience at hard labor. but clerks and profes-
sonal men and women in hundreds are seeking
for information about or transportation TO the
land where gold nuggets are to be had, as they
think, for the picking up.
The Spear Street Pier was the scene OF more
excitement this morning, when the steamer
State Of California sailed for the North. than
has occurred there for many years ruby
twelve hundred people gathered to Witness the
starting of the steamer. The wharf was piled
high with freight, although the vessel was
loaded to her utmost capacity even the hurri-
cane deck being utilized for the storage OF
canned goods and other supplies. Three nun
dred and forty people embarked In the
vessel two hundred and forty-three OF whom
were cabin passengers
Every day sees some new sCnciTe loF ONeicoiii-
ing the difficulties in the way Of reaching the
Clondyke. and the fleet Of steamers and schoon-
ers pressed into the service is growing steadily.
The latest Of the Clondyke transportation
schemes is being engineered by Captain Henri
man. of the firm Of HERMAN & Mills, who has
manned out a plan for reaching the dggings by
the middle of September. He will charter
large sailing vessel. and the party will consist
will Ike. %
provisions No one will be permitted to go UNI
less he takes this quantity. Each will pay S-2'
for the trip, and Captain Herman thinks that
he can land them in Dawson City before sep
tember ~. The ship will carry large lighter
and a steam launch will be used TO TOW the
lighter from ST. Michael's to the Ciondyke After
reaching ST Michael's the cargo and passengers
will no transferred to the lighter Captain Her.
riman will return to san Francisco in the vessei
and the party will be conducted to their jour-
ney's end by an agent OF the firm, VINO Is 'hor-
oughy acquainted with the river.
The Alaska Commercial Companys steamer
Excelsior which left here to-day, VIII not make
another trip to Alaska before June next year
All the accommodation to be disposed oil Tor
this trip had been sold, and the fact Wen au-
yertised but would-be passengers continued ~
throng the companys Office. Inc ooh'i'e''''
tickets but its representatives. are DONG an III
their power to dssuade applicants from making
the TRIP until next year. Some twenty OF 'h',t!
have already erdeavored to secure accomHoua-
tions for the first trip next June Inc com
many declines to bind itself so far aheau, NJ
though number of the applicants were WiIiihs
to put up a forfeit and agree to ablde ny an.
te ms the company might make for next year
trip. . =, . ..,,,1or
The latest rumor from Alaska IL OF wonder
fully rich quartz in large quantities on INV
stewart River Particulars are vague, ana ne,
yond the fact that the ledge Is a large one, a'u
tbat the rock assays $500, nothing can ne
learned This If true will mean much ior tne
Condvke district. The Stewart hlNer runs i'',o
tho Yukon not far above Dawson, ana IL Is
oasonable to suppose that the placer god now
hoing found below may have Its origin i'll uhs
mountains az the head of stewart River anu
Re,urnad yukonites DENY the story told by
Frank Moss of Great Falls. Mont, to the eItect
that two thousand graves at Forty-MIe fos'
tell OF the terrible sufferings OF the goio- seeh
ers F. c. Bowker says tEat. so Tar from IneIe
hains over two thousand deaths on the Cioh-
dyke during the last three years. there was no,
body there TO die until less than a year ago anu
since then there have been three deaths III 'he
whole district so far known. In the eraEe-
| vard at Forty Mile Post, which has served loI
all that section for several years. there are ON!
thirty forty graves