The record-union., 1897-07-25

st-1ntelligencer," at its head The
syndicate is sending William J. Jones
to the Clondyke on the Mexico, sailing
Tomorrow. s. P. Weston, another cor
respondent, is now on the Portland en-
route to st. Michaels
PORTLANDERS GOING TO THE
MINES.
PORTLAND, July PA party of ten
Portlanders left to-day for Seattle,
where they will take the steamer Mex
leo for Juneau tomorrow. Among
them are j. w. 1vey, recently appointed
Collector of Customs for Alaska, who
goes to take charge of his office.
Captain Go0dall Superintendent of
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company,
arrived from San Francisco this after
noon, and will remain here until after
the steamer Elder sails for Juneau on
July Both. He is here to superintend
the manning and equipping of the yes
sells. The Elder will carry out a full
list of passengers and a full cargo of
freight. Among the freight will be a
number of cattle and about twenty five
burros which are being sent north to
be used as pack animals.
ANOTHER VESSEL CHARTERED.
SAN DIEGO, July 24 The Honolulu
schooner General Mcpherson, soon to
arrive here, has been chartered by j. P.
Cantlin and Harry Robbins of this city
for trip to Juneau, Alaska. The Nc
Pherson is now on the way from the
Gulf of California, and will arrive here
about August 1st Imediately upon her
arrival here she will be fitted up to
carry eighty passengers. The project
70 f4f sc Oa a
$37 80. Every passenger will be al
lowed to carry 700 pounds baggage,
which will enable each man to stock up
for a year in Alaska Beside the boat
will take provisions and a general cargo
for the owners. She is scheduled to sail
from this port on or about August 10th,
and this will bring her to Juneau by
not later than September 10th, in time
to make the overland route to the Clon-
dyke. The whole list of miners going
will be made up in this vicinity.
A NOTE OF WARNING.
TACOMA (Wash), July 24.-Captain
James McLaus lin, who has spent the
winter in the far north and who was a
member of the Inflated Excelsior ex-
petition to Crooks Inlet last year,
sounds a note of warning to intending
gold-seekers in the reported fabulously
wealthy fields of the Clondyke. Captain
Mclaughlin says:
Il spent about year in the Clondyke
district, and think, if the whole dis
trict was nearly as rich as it is claimed
to be, l would have seen something of
it. AS it was, / worked claim in con-
nection with two others, and my share
of a whole years hard work and priva-
ton was not $1,000.
This mad excitement which causes
people to drop everything in the wild
hope of suddenly becoming rich will be
the means of killing scores of men, as,
from present indications, the great ma
jority of the gold-seekers who are pre-
pairing to go to the north are neither
physically nor financially able to stand
the strain. I don't wish it to be I'M
dersteod that l say there is no gold
in the Clondyke district, but that 1
think the reports of such unprecedent-
ed finds are exaggerated, and that I
think the chances are that out of every
1000 who go there about ten will make
$1,000; the rest will either starve or
work their way back.
MY advice would be to all who have
such interests at home that make it
possible for them to make both ends
meet to guard them well; for, while
there is a possible chance that they
might make a stake, yet the chances
that they would go broke are 10 to l."
Miss NJ. z. Mellor, who came down
on the Portland in charge of six Indian
girls bound for the Government school
at Carlisle, Pa, says the Portlands
passengers talked of nothing, morning,
noon and night but gold, gold" and
that the crew was so worked up over
the finds of the passengers that on her
return to the north country they will
have to chain each man to his post if
they expect them to return with the
ship.
A FORTY MINER HAS THE FEVER.
CHICAGO, July 24.-Among the
many persons preparing to seek fortune
in the Alaskan gold fields, James E.
Booge of Sioux City, Ia, is an interest
ing figure. Mr.. Booge is an ex-pork
packer and wholesale grocer, and is
nearly 10 years of age. He was form
erly engaged in business with P. B.
Weare, Vice-President of the North
American Transportation and Trading
Company and was among those who
mined in California in 1S49 Mr.. Booge
will be in charge of the Weare inter-
ests at Circle City, in the Yukon
AN EXPERT TO GO TO THE MINES.
WASHINGTON, July 24-Recogniz-
ing the Importance Of the recent gold
iii arioC r.
ritory. and in obedience to the wide
spread demand for authentic informa-
ton in regard therto, the Commissioner
of Labor has detailed from his regular
force an expert, thoroughly familiar
with all the features of gold mining, to
proceed Immediately to the Clondyke
for the purpose of making careful and
exhaustive study of the conditions as
they exist there. 1t is the intention of
the Commissioner to embody the facts
in special report or bulletin of the
department, which will appear at as
early date as possible This is a sub
ject Of absorbing interest to all classes.
and in making this investigation the
Commissioner feels that he is working
in the interests of the unemployed.
Such a report as that contemplated,
S4NtHS lile uub1dScu IdClS DIS 10 the OPP
portunities for the investment of CAPT.
tai and employment of labor, wages,
cost of living, etc, would be of value
to the people of this country.
ARKELL'S CLAIM TO THE LANDS.
CHICAGO, July PA. B. Schanz,
one of the officers of the Frank Leslie
expedition of 1S90-91, organized by w.
j. Arkell. is now Secretary of the Ster-
ling Remedy Company of Chicago and
New York. In an interview on the