Evening star., 1897-07-27
RICH QUARTZ FOUND
Reported Discovery Which Runs
$500 to the Ton.
LATEST ALASKAN SENSATION
Canada Will Demand Royalty From
Miners in Her Territory.
NEW ROUTE DISCOVERED

SAN FRANCISCO, July o7-The latest
rumor from Alaska is of the wonderfully
rich quartz in large quantities on the Stew
art river. Particulars are vague. and. beyond
the fact that the ledge is a large one and
that the rock assays $500. nothing can be
learned.
This, If true, will mean much for the
Klondyke district. The Stewart river runs
into the Yukon not far above Dawson. and
it is reasonable 10 suppose that the placer
gold now being found below may have its
origin in the mountains at the head of the
Stewart river and neighboring streams.
Canada Will Demand Royalty.
VANCOUVER, b. c.. July 27.-It is re-
|. ported here that the dominion government
has decided to place a royalty all gold
mined in Canadian territory in the Yukon
district, and tina; corps of officials will
leave here Immediately to enforce this de-
cision. 1t is probable that the Canadian
government will build telegraph line from
Lynn canal to the klondyke and that a
system of reserving alternate sections viii
be adopted.
New Route Opened.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 21.-The Alaska
Searchlight publishes a letter from William
Moore at Fourteen-Mile camp, Skagwa,
Alaska, stating that the White Pass pack
trail to the summit of the pass was opened
for travel July 1e.
On reaching the summit the traveller steps
upon an almost level country, the grade to
the lakes being twenty feet to the mile.
The distance from salt water TO the Too-chi
lake is thirty miles, and from salt wafer TO
the head of Lake Bennett the distance is
forty-live miles.
Both routes from the summit are through
rolling country, for the most part open,
v~:- n pale for =rga1tr
water and sufficient timber for all purposes.
From salt water to the summit stock and
pack horses can be driven Though easily.
ThronEs at Steamboat Offices.
SAN FRANCISCO Cal. July 21.-The
throngs about every shipping Office that
has even the remotest Alaskan relations
have by no means diminished. II would
seem that the only circumstance which
prevents the wholesale depopulation of San
Francisco is the limit in the transportation
facilities. Not only strong men. whose
broad backs. brorzed faces and wOrk-worn
hands tell of previous experience with the
labor that literally sweats the brow, but
clerks and professional men and women in
hundreds are seeking information. and most
of them for transportation to the land
where nuggets are to be had, as they think,
for the picking up.
Capt. Hcrriman's Plan.
Every day sees some new scheme for
overcoming the UilllcuitloS III the way or
reaching the Klondyke. and the fleet Of
steamers and schooners pressed into the
service is growing steadily The latest of
the Klondyke Transportation Company
schemes is being engineered by Captain
Herman of the firm Of HERMAN & Mills
He has been approached by a number of
persons anxious to go to klonGyke, and in
response to numerous requests has mapped
out plan for reaching the disgings 10y the
middle of September.
He will charter large sailing vessel, and
the party will consist of sixty men. each Of
whom will take one ton OF provisions.
No one will be permitted to 90 unless he
takes this quantity. Each one will be
charged s225 fer the trip. and capt. Herri-
man thinks that for this sum he can land
them in Dawson City before September 20
The ship will carry a large lighter and a
steam launch Will be used to tow the
lighter from St. AIichaels to the Klondyke
After reaching st. AIichaels the cargo and
passengers viii be transferred to the light
or, Capt HERMAN will return to San Fran
cisco in the vessel, and the party win he
conducted TO their journeys end by an
agent of the firm, who is thoroughly ac-
Gualnted with the river.
Excelsior Sails Tod-y.
The Alaska Commercial Company's
steamer Excelsior which leaves here to-
day, will not make another trip 10 Alaska
before June of next year. All the accom-
ncdations to be disposed OF for this trim
have been sold and the fact well aIvcr-
tised, but the wou:d-be Passengers continue
10 throng the "ompany's office. The Com
mercial Company not only declines to soil
any more tickets but its representatives do
all in their power to dissuade applicants
from attempting the trip until next year
Some twenty or thirty haze eBdeaVored 10
secure accommodations for the first trip
next June The company declines TO bind
itself so far ahead, although a number of
the applicants We're willing to put dp a
forfeit and agree to abide by any terms the
company might make for the next years
trip
RIVAL THE kLONDYKE MINES