The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-31
BALDWIN TO SEEK GOLD.
TIE "JUOKY" ONE TO TRY QUARTs
MINING IN THE KLONDIkE.

wis Scheme OF Finding New Riches where the
Sold Hunter Have Not Pro,perteu-No
Cessation or the Rash NoFthwnrd-Tho
Mayor Of seattle and His Novel Plans.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3o.-The Klondike
foyer still RACES and nearly every day secs a
party OF gold seekers start for tho north. To-
day the steamer City Of Pueblo sailed for
Seattle, where the majority Of her passengers
for the north will DO taken on. Extra berths
had been constructed, as well as stalls In the
hold for burros, which are 30 badly needed to
pack supplies over Chilkoot Pass.
Tomorrow the steamer Willamette will sail
with 100 mon bound for the Klondiko, and tho
Alaska Company's steamer Bertha will sail for
st. Michael with q few passengers and a largo
amount Of freight. 1t is hoped this freight can
DO carried up to Dawson Ci'y before the river
freezes.
Five steamers arc scheduled for next month,
besides ave steamers and ono yacht which have
boon chartered but the sailing dates have not
been decided on. The last man who announces
he has caught the Klondike fever Is Millionaire
Lucky" Baldwin,, who proposes soon TO dem
~onstrate whether years have made his nick.
name a misnomer. He started for Saratoga
last night, but before going he confded to a
friend that he proposed next spring to go into
for quartz lodges.
II do not intend to look for placer diggings.
l ehall try TO locate another lode. ! will not
stop at Klondike but will push right into tho
mountains, where l am. sure there must be rich
shipped to Dawson or elsewhere II I succeed in
locating u paying. claim. l think big fortunes
will be made in the quartz districts and not in
the placers, which will be sure to. give out, II
so many thousands persist in rushing into the
sSSSssdd south. Of the present rich strikes on
Baldwin. although 65 years old, is tough and
vigorous. In the early days, Of California he
was renowned for his skill in finding gold mines
and his phenomenal luck In selling them at
w. A. Wood, Mayor Of Seattle, is here try
ing to charter O fast steamer that will carry
$50 passengers. His plan Is to 30 to ST. Michael
and then steam up the Yukon River to Dawson.
He said:
"0ur scheme includes the taking from here
on board a steamship the material and ma
chinery for q steam barge, framed and ready to
put together when we reach the mouth OF the
river: This barge will. tow another barge,
which will carry part Of the passengers and sup.
plies, We will start on Aug. z, touching at
Seattle for passengers. The passengers will
received a suggestion by wire from Seattle
to-day that l should take machinery for an cleo
tric plant and utilize the idle boilers on the
steam barge to run electric machines for light.
Ing Dawson City during the winter nights. j
have not had time to consider this, but 1t Is
certainly an ingenious suggestion.
Many OF the ventures proposed here are ab-
surd, as they assume that the Yukon River
will remain open for navigation until we'll into
October. In exceptional seasons the river has
not frozen over until November, but all steam.
ers usually are forced to haul up BY Sept. 20.