The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-06
LETTERS FROM KL0NDIKE.
MORE FACTS ABOUT THE WAYS OF
LIE IN ~ NEW CAMPH.

"Moro WaJs az Making Money Hero Than In
Any Place = Ever snw --Prospectorn Travel
by Vessels Will Leave seat
tie Tor Alaskan Forts within = Month.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. "a letter from Hart
Humber, { Canadian miner, who went into tho
Klondike last spring. has been received. It
bears date of June 10. and gives a number Of In
tcresting facts which have not been printed and
which throw light on mining methods in tho
new camp. He writes:
After leaving Dyea we had n trip full OF
hairbreadth escapes, and arrived at Dawson on
Juno q. We wero about seventy days on the
trip. We should have started either a month
earlier or later. as we struck the worst time.
81 start work tomorrow at 81 so an hour, and
will soon have q job which has been promised TO
me at an ounce OF gold daily. On the boat which
leaves tomorrow for st. Michael are fifty people
who, nine months ago, were broke. and are now
taking out from 10000 to 800. 900 each.
Tonight q friend Of mine and his pard will
leave for n months prospecting. Night is the
best time for travel, as 1t Is cool and light as
day. The mercury stood So In the shade to-day
and the sun was out OF sight only one and q
quarter hours last night. The mosquitoes arc
something awful. Meals are $3.50 and drinks
no cents, but flour lie only 12io cents and bacon
rs cents a pound.
"One OF the heaviest items Of expense here
10 10 get supplies 10 tne mines. III COSTS 20 cenba
per pound to get the stuff packed out.
This ia the richest placer camp ever struck.
One Montana man took $4,000 out OF forty.Hve
square feet and another took $3.50. 600 out of
eighty.hvc square feet, and other strikes equal
lyrich are reported. Old timers expect to make
big strikes this winter. There are more ways Of
making money here than in any place I ever
cav"
SEATTLE. Aug. 5.-James Kite, a former resi-.
dent Of Juneau, where he was engaged as p
manufacturing jewellcr. in a letter to friends by
the last overland mail. by way of Dyea, says:
Gold is as common hero in Dawson as iron is
In Juneau. Everybody has money. There seems
to be no limit to this district, and they are
striking new diggings every fow days for a hun.
bred miles around. and stampcdes are the rage.
Men with packs on their backs. breaking for
some new creek or new discovery, arc met at
every turn. Some are leaving good pay ground
for something that promises better. and in this
way the country is being explored and pros.
pcctcd.
Il have built a shop 12 by 20 feet, consisting
of a tent drawn over a frame Of scantling, and
am doing well, working sixteen hours a day.
and with all the work I can do. For making a
half ounce ring ont Of Elondiko gold they pay
me $25. This Ia the greatest gold camp on
record"
It is estimated that there are 500 former Seat.
tie residents now on the Yukon and Klondike.
300 at Dyea and scattered along the trail. and
400 on the boats now stcaminG north.
There are at least 5000 mon in the city that
have the Klondikc fever in its most virulent
form, and they want to go, hut are kept hack by
business and other interests. The reason assigned
for this is the generally good reports of the
mines made by returning miners, and by letters
from friends Mt the mines whose every state
mont Gun DO implicitly relied upon.
Two women, Mrs. Keiser and Miss Osborne.
from Jacksonville, ILL.,. arrived in Seattle to.
day bound for the Klondike gold fields. They
will take the Dyea route. They will be the first
women u~naccompanied by relatives or friends
to go from here to the Klondike.'
The following vessels will sail for Dyea and
Skagway on the dates named
Aug. 6. steam collier Wiliomette: :. excursion
m Queen and the barge Ajax; g. ship
Cloadyke; 9, steamer Mexico; 10, steamer
Detroit; l2. steamers Topeka and Rosalie:
II, steamer lki; %. steamer Queen; %, steam.
erMexico; ~, steamer Topeka; Sept. I, steamer
AIki. ..r.