The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-13
ARE FAST
DESERVING
SKAGUAY
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dust reaches San Francisco, the fever will
probably reach Its height.
yet the excitement Is all on the out
side. In the K!ondike country, even this
huge nugget. which is as large as your
hand. and almost a perfect hatchet-h head
shape, did not greatly excite the miners.
II am asked scores of times is the
Klondike country rs rich as reported2
was prepared to say, 1t can scarcely be
exaggerated, but since then I have seen
newspa pers and l. reply more cautiously.
In several apers / saw the statement that
somebody has seen five five-gallon coal
oil cans of gold in one cabin, the work of
two men for one winter No one in that
country ever heard of such cabin. The
truth is l lifted less than $13 coo of dust
in q granite bowl with difficulty. Gold is
heavy to bear in more senses than one.
'These figures are accurate. l have
been up the Yukon all summer From
April Is to June Is four men took out
from No. - Ell Dorado, from bat n small
part of the Claim, strip only 25x70 feet,
$40, 628, and have recently sold the claim
for $40, O0O This is so far the highest
amount got out of a Klondike mine, near
Iy 500 900.
"There's Alexander Woodland, tall,
brawny man, sober, industrious, hard
working. He went in not long ago
strapped Now he's more than a million
aire and may have as much as Barney
Barnato made, for what he takes out he
puts ito circulation. saw him paying
over something Ike $3.50, 900 TO the Alaska
Commercial Company. One granite bowl
contained over $1,000 Take some mug
gets" he said pleasantly to me. Take
handful of these larger ones Help your.
sell; they're nothing 10 me- No wonder
people lose their heads about Klondike.
"Bill Cottwell bought a claim for 500
and sold sixty feet of it for $4,000. This
was II Ell Dorado. On No. 8 Ell Dorado
there is a streak above bedrock three or
four inches thick, which is almost pure
geld. The owners can 90 out and sluice
$1,000 in few minutes any time they want
to, but they are taking out very little be-
cause they can't do anything with the
cumbrous go d just now. On another
claim there are two holes and from these
four men washed out SOL, 600 in one
month"
what is the most gold you know to
have been taken out in the shortest time
on Klondike2"
81 can answer with complete assurance,
for the principal owner of the claim,
Frank Denrmore, one OF the first pioneers
OF Alaska, told me of it himself, and he is
known as a truthful and conservative
man. 1t is an astounding amount-ninety
pounds of gold in one day. That's equal
to something like SOS, 600, and Densmore
says that he has heard since he left that
they have exceeded even that on the same
claim. 1t is No. 26 Bonanza.
1.-The stories of lucky failures are ex-
tremely interesting. Fritz Kloke tried to
sell his half in erest in No. 9, above Dis
covery on Bonanza, for $40 He could
not get it. He has just sold the same
half to John ]. Healy for $4,000. Charles
Engel of New York City bought half
claim at Victoria for SIS A man offered
him 5000 for it soon after. If he hal
offered $780,, said Engel 10 me, Il should
have taken it, but the larger sum told me
it was good to keep and l have a good
thing there There are dozens of jus.
such fortunate strikes made, but blind
folded. This is The lucky side of Yukon
mining"