The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-27
RICHNESS OF THE KLoND1KE.
Many Difficulties That Must be Over
come.

Fort townsend, Wash, Aug. 26.-The
schooner j. NJ. Coleman. which left ST
MlchaelS, at the mouth of the Y1,I-or
July q, was spoken last night off
race Rocks at $50 by the Associated
Press tug Vigilant. which was in the
straits watching for the arrival of the
Portland The Coleman brings four
passengers who have been on the KIon-
dlke and who left Dawson CITY. J11lv
II. Ihe PASSENGERS are Charles II. Met
cane OF Detroit, Mich; 3. E. Jones
Befkeley, Cal. an aSsayer for the
Alaska Commercial company at Daw-
son, and G. B. and Y. b. Patrick brnth
ers. from Humboldt, Cal They left
Dawson ten days after the Thorp party.
who arrived at Seattle last week on
the steamer George E. Starr FROM,
Dyea- They all tell stories of the rich
ness of the KIOndike. Bonanza and FL
dorado creeks, but say that very few
clean ups have been made since the
early summer. Mr.. Metcalfe has been
engaged in the merchandise business
at Dawson City, Circle City and other
points for three years past and has
been out every year. He goes in each
year over the Dyea trail. and last
spring took in 20 tons of freight. It
took him from March to May 1 to get
his freight over the pass with one man,
two horses and eight dogs.
LINDERNIANN TO DAWSON.
From Lake LinGermann to Dawson
City he was IA days When the Cole
man left st. MichaeIs there were about
II men waiting to come out on the
steamer Portland. and another steamer
with passengers was expected down the
river before the time set for the sail
ing of the Portland. The men waiting
at st. Michaels ali had from $1,000 to
$4,000, but no phenomenal strikes
were reported by them.
With regard to ascending the Yukon,
Mr.. Metcalfe said it takes from 20 to
% days to go from ST. Michae1s to
Dawson City, and passengers leaving
Seattle later than Aug. 20 will have no
chance of reaching Dawson City this
fall.
The Lippy claim on Bonanza creek,
from which gold amounting to SIP. 900
was taken, he said, was one of the best
developed claims in the group. Others
will doubtless prove just as rich when
fully developed.
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
The first claim located on Bonanza
creek was named Discovery, and is
recognized by miners as the center of
the field, other claims being numbered
each way from it.
Sixty claims are now located above
and 80 below Discovery, in all 10 miles
being taken. On Eldorado creek,
which empties into Bonanza, so claims
are located, the 20 nearest the conjunc-
ton of the creeks being fabuIously
rich.
From one claim located in Skookum
gulch, tributary to Bonanza creek, N.
w Porters of Denver and Joseph Gold
smith of Juneau took $1,000 in nuggets,
ignoring fine gold. They afterwards
sold the claim for $25, 900 cash They
worked only four weeks on Bear creek,
a small tributary to Klondike, is also
remarkably rich in gold.
B. E. Jones of Berkeley, Cal, said:
II should say there are about $500
people in Dawson City and on the
creeks around about there. This sum-
mer only about 20 claims have been
worked and thus far not a large sum
of money has been taken out.
GETTING READY FOR WINTER.
Most everybody is getting ready for
the winters work, which will be
pushed as vigorously this year as last
AS far as 1 can estimate, the great
wealth of the Klondike is holding out
( Still. the amount of gold that will come
down this fall Will not be as large as