New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-27
FRESH FROM THE KLONDlkE
RETURNING MINERS BRING sTohiT'
OF RICH STRIKES


OF RICH STRIKES
4 STEAMER AND TWO SAILING VESSELS FROM
THE NORTH WITH PAssLAGERs AND GOLD
prsr-prsMAL OUTLOOK FOR MANY
on THE sKAGUAY TRAIL.
v,c,oria u c. Aug 26.-More good news mas
come from the Klondike. The steamer |'' u
! Toneka which has just arrived here. ieit Juneau
ms, after the arrival there OF Joe bo'ch' '"'.'
/ Mckay and Archie Shep. who made the TRIP
from Dawson City 10 Dyea In twenty DAYS i"eS
did not come any further than Juneau OUT '"'en'
! IN ca hack to the mines They had a rough Trip
having 70 paddle and tow their boat up the river
| Shclp In conversation with one or the paSSsnse'S
who came down the Topeka. spoke very h'sh'S
Of tbe Stewart and Indian rivers. although there
have been nc sensational finds. from sio"' ~
sIs 900 being taken out of these rivers close upo"
., 900 600 I'm dust had gone down on river Steamers
others intending to take the steamer foF'iahu AZ
! q, Mlchaers. Gold passed at sl' an ounce d.
| Dawson city. Shelp gives list OF juneau men
who struck II rich. They are DICK Law 'i-V"'V'
! ] Smith 5000; Oscar Ashby and W. Leak re'"se"
s,oc 900 for their claim; joe Brant. $1,000; Cor
ro,Ius Edwards $1,000: A. Whpple. $1,000 Harry
Ash who left on the last boat for San Francisco
500 COO and an old man who few months ago
WAS cutting wood around juneau, S6Ooo
Abou, a dozen men who went North within
the last few weeks. intending TO 50 10 the Hil'S'
| came back on the Topeka, and say that many
will follow them The trail from Skaguay Is no"
| e,tirely blocked on the Dyca trail packers are
cbarrinr 20 cents a pound. This Ia Of course pro-
hbi,ory as far poor man Is conctrheu All
are unanimous In saying that men cannot re.
| their outfits before winter closes H. ana
thar snow l. already beginning to fall on the
summit the first furry having come down iiSt
week Men are selling their outfits for whht theS
can ect for them There are now 5000 men at
/
out Of of these men VIII get the'r ou'ts 10 ' ~,
lake Two surveys have been sent out 10 ry, 10 10
find better route. for the Skaguay trail; ana II
they succeed men promise to go TO wTIN p pac H.
| horses are unable TO pack more than one hundred
pounds over it, In some places men nav 20 o ,1
both hands and feet to &c, over the rocks ana n
can carry very little Some work was done OF
old trail but men were too eager 10 ot ger w Gn
have thrown up the sponge ana come PACK and
Pert" Miles. attorney. OF Los Angeles.
| port Townsend WASH Aug 26.-The schooner
J. NJ CONAN which left St MichaeF'. al 'he
mouth of the Yukon July g. was spoken las.
night off Race Rocks at $50 by the Associated
Press tug Vigant. which was in the straits
watching for the arrival Of the steamer Fort
land The Colman brings four passengers VINO
have been OH the K.ondike and who left Dawson
CITY July Il They are Charles H. Metcai' Oh
Detroit; b. f. Jones. Of Berkeley. CAL an hss"se'
for the Alaska Commercial Company at Dawson
and C. T. and Il. H. Patrick. brothers. from Hum
/ "a
Thorn party. which arrived at Seattle last week
on the steamer George T.. Starr. from Dyea. They
all told stories OF the richness Of me hIohu'he
and Bonanza and E.dorado creeks but all say
that few "clean-ups' have been made since the
early summer. Metcalf has been engaged In the
merchandise business at Dawson city. Circle city
and other points for three years past ana has
been out every year. He goes In each year over
the Dyca trail. and last spring he TOOK TWENTY
tons Of freight. II took Him from March to MAY
20 ge, his freight over the pass. with one man
two horses and eight dogs. From Lake L'h'''
man 10 Dawson city he was fourteen days.
When the CoIman lcf, 81. Michaers there were
about twelve mon waiting to come out on the
steamer Portland. and another steamer Win pas
senqers WIS expected down the river before the
time So, for the sailing Of the Portland me
men waiting nj ST Michae,'s all had from e""o
10 sl5c0) but no phenomenal strikes were reporter
by them. with regard TO ascending the YUKON
Mr. Metcaf said IT takes from twenty TO twenty
five days to go from 81. Mchaeis 10 b'"so"
City. and passengers leaving Seattle .a'sr ina"
August % will have no chance or reaching p@"-
son civ this fail Tie Lippy claim. on Bonanza
Cr,.k from which gold amounting 20 SLICED was
taken he said was one Of the best-developed
claims IN the group. Others will doubtless prove
iust a. rich when fully deve.oped ,, ,s
The first claim located on BOnanZa 'treh VIZ
named Discovery and is recognized by miners as
The cenirg OF the rom ,r' sxty cIamS are now
;oroted aboy" ind ninety below Discovery. in ali
h ,G'" rmn,ies into Bonanza sixty claims To-
Gated twenty nearest the junction OF the creeks
on Shotgun G,i.f tributary 10 Bonanza creek. \
W Portcrs. of Denver. ard Joseph Ho.ds SIM , or
Juneau took 5000 in nuggets. ignoring nm" Soi1'
The aftcrward sold the claim for $3.50 cash
They worked ony four weeHSi bsa, ar rlhlr
small tributary to the No"u'"'' i "'o
~ = Zones. Of Berkeley. Cal. said: Il should
say here are about 200 people in Dawson ana
on the creeks around about there. Tnis summer
only about twenty claims have been worked ana
tbIis far not "A iarge sum of mone5 has been taken
out Most everybody Is getting ready for the WIN
iers work which YIN be puTh "s a. the
great wealth the Klondlke is holding Out stu,
The amount of gold that Will come down TINS tniI
sil not u" large ~ estimated in sore quar-,
tors should say thnt 'n"rS G T De by thr port g
land and the Excelsior. and vrry ar a,Nerast 10
bring down practically nothing. would not care ar,
TO say what the Alaska Commercial COMPANY has
AT Dawson people did not know what to do With
it, The trading companies safes were hled ara
pace the miners could nnd. Blu, most of the gold
taken out when the hcrl b, net BEEN
s lnrh arge anount OF gold coming out as the
coming winter there will he about SIX hundred
claims IN active operation IheY, VIII ntnIN az
NO Wi winters OUTPUT viii be Proporronatey as
large last although there VIII DO, nr pre- 80 ry
out we'll much better in fact, than was , ex,
pected The upper ends OF some OF me ereeTS ena
AS supplies. believe there VIII De ,lu!!y
forty five hundred tons taken up on me RIVER g9ats
owned by the trading companies. ABOUT mar ,oe OF
this however. represents provisions Last year
Ice began TO run in the Yukon as early as sep
,emler - and II the ice begins to run as early
this year many of the boats now going up and
intended for the N,ondike VIII not get through
mil next year | believe the Indian River and
it, tribu, aries will prove valuable diggings next
winter 80 l,,. !, .,.,, !,
serted the people having all gone 10 Dawson
made their second trips down the river for the
season They VIII be down again In time, to meet
| Tho Portland and the Excelsior. and most OF the
Miners who will come out this fall Will be aboard
on the final trip.
The schooner Fred f.. Sanders arrived here early
| .,,. ,,ornIr., thirty daNs from MichacIs,