The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-30
KLONDIKE CLAIMS
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ger of a famine on the Klondike this
winter. According to all reports re-
ceived from the upper country, it will
be impossible to land sufficient. food at
Dawson City to support the poulation
| already dependent upon that base of
supplies. r. T. Lying, the California
| agent of the Alaska Commercial COM
pany at st. Michaels, declares that
| there are already over 1000 idle men
in Dawson, and new parties are arriv-
Ing every day at Chilkoot pass, while
the total amount of freight landed
there this year will not exceed 1000
tons, of which not more than three
fourths is provisions. Miners return
Ing from Klondike, who left there in
July, report that the food was run
ming low then, and it was disposed of
as fast as discharged from the steam
ers. Old timers realize the situation
and predict distress and death as
result of the T<londike craze.
William Ogilvie, Dominion land sur
Veyor, who has been making topo-
graphical surveys of British possess
slons along the Klondike, has been re-
called by the government for consulta-
ton as to important matters affecting
the new gold fields and is now en-
route to Ottawa. via San Francisco
He Will make report embodying sug-
gestions for new mining laws, govern
ing the sale of liquor and taking wood
for fuel etc. He made a census of
the production of the new fields and
finds that twenty-three claims pro-
duced 900, and says that $40, 900, 900
is no eXaggeration of the amount that
will be produced by 1870 claims on Bo-
nanZa, Punkers and Eldorado in three
years.
w. A. Ryan, in his letter, says:
There were twenty persons here when
E,YoalCinr a rriXy rhn Io1
| down the river from the diggings.
Fifteen of them were miners. They
are said to have all the way from $780,
600 to 100000 among them. Few care
| to say exactly how much they have
&c. e. and q. B. Patrick, father and
son, brought out $4,000. They took
passage on a sailing vessel which left
port two days after they arrived. F.
W. Cobb, of Boston, is credited with
$4,000, and c. K. lilly with a like
amount. Thomas Rowan, of Sitka, is
$4,000 better off w w, Caldwell. of
Denver, has $4,000. Timothy c. Bell,
of Vancouver, has $31 900 in Canadian
money. the result of the sale of his
holdings. M. S. Lansing, of Bozeman.
Mont, has $4,000. The others refuse
to say how much they have The re-
naming members of the party are
Wiler, of Baltimore, William Zahn, of
Minneapolis; B. H Furmen of Goodell.
To-; A. Buckley, of st. Joe, Mo-; w. H.
Cooler, of Winnipeg; Thomas B. Dun
kesley, of Tacoma, and w. H. Power,
of Tucson, AriZ. Each has won what
is called in this region home stake,
! namely the amount which he believes
sufficient to take him home to re-
main. Very few intend to come back"
Orrln Gray, of Grand Rapids, Mich
went into the country this spring to
try to save some OF the remnant of the
fortune his son Albert had won. The
boy had more than $4,000, and accord
inc to the reports that come to the
father, was spending thousands in
drink and gambling. So the old man
came in over the pass, but the boy was
gone, and he is coming out in hopes
thar the boy has not spent it all but
has taken some home to his mother
NJ H. McIndoo and F. A. Gervais went
into the country to prospect and were
discouraged and did not stop. c. c.
Perrins and F. A. Novak, two of the
miners, are the most interesting men Of
the party. Perrine is detective. In
February last he was given a photo
graph and told to find it's original Ac-
companying the photograph was an ac-
curate description. Omaha was the
starting point of the trail and he chas-
ed his man to Baltimore thence across
the continent to Seattle, and thence to
Juneau. Here he learned that his quar-
ry was bound for the Klondike with a
party of nine by way Of Dyea and
Chilkoot pass. Perrine went to Ottawa.
obtained eXtradition papers and return
ing, followed Novak, capturing him at
Dawson City. Pe1rine spent $4,000 in
the pursuit of his man.
No new discoveries are reported from
the upper country. The hillside abutting
on the richest claims on Bonanza and
Eldorado have been staked off and sew
eral quartz claims have been filed in
the same vicinity. The rock taken out
of the quartz claims is rich, but the
hillside claims are not showing up
much.
The common report among returning
miners is that there is nothing in the
country now worth having that has
| not been staked off and that the own
ers will refuse fabulous prices for their
claims.