The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-13
TRAVELLING ON THE YUKON
Various Causes Which Subject
Steamers to Delay.
RUSHING ON TO DAWSON CITY
Too mauy People In the Tented
Camps for the Amount of Food.
Miners Coming Down From kion-
dixie Not FabuIously Wealthy.
Plenty Of Gold for Everyone.

August 20, says:
1.-The good people whose nerves are be-
ing worn to q frazzeI byrapid transit should
travel on the Yukon. We have been tn
Yukon steamer three days. two of then,
we had TO lay up, first waiting for the
tide to lift us off the mud, where a highly
intelligent Indian pilot left the steamer
guiding her through the mouth.
Last night we fnet the Healy coming
down with miners and gold dust and news
Some of the new relates to the steamers
One OF them, the Weare, is on sand
bank, where she sat fcI nineteen days be-
fore the iIeaiy Ga me along and carried off
hcr stranded passengers. Two others, the
Alice and Bella, spent good deal Of time
going up, and have just arrived at Dawson,
at time when they are daily expected at
st. Michaels. ALI Of which may not be in
teresting but is illustrative OF Yukon tray-
cling.
The miners coming down are not loaded
down with fabulous fortunes. The Healy
carnes $50 900 i'm dust for twenUy-eigbt
miners, four Of whom have an aggregate
wealth Of $50 900. with the balance di-
yfdcd among the rest In comparatively
suall sums.
These men are in the main healthy and
ruggediooking, and reasonably confident
that while there will be a very considerable
sliortageof provisions and considerable hard
ships iT Consequence, there VIII not be any
actual famine.
Mrs Barber. who has been running
restaurant in Dawson, while her husband
looked after their interest in couple of
claims, and who came down on the Heaiy,
said: tits great country for goid;no one
need worry about that. The gold is there
all right, and there rs lots OF it scattered
around TO give everybody who goes up there
q living, and more may tie had; but there
is only one Klondike So far, only one kion-
dixie.
"'one thing that looks bad to me is the
number of people going In. don't know
where they car pitch their tents. Dawson
City is in marshy land, and all the ava,ia 5le
places are taken. II IS only on the river
hanks that there are dry places The
further back one goes the more s%anpJ
it gets. and the tents will be sitting In
the water after the ground h as been walkel
over for day OF two. 1t will cause mtch
sickness I fear. There is good deal OF
humber of deaths from typhoid fever
This summer there were six OF seven
before we left
"'Slim jim OF Juneau. has brother,
who went back TO his Wisconsin hone aud
gave the boys the gold fever there about
"A .ear ago. About dozen of them went
to Alaska Among them W. A. Shear
man, who is coming out now with con-
Portable supply OF gold dust. cheerful
little rncget on his watch charm and claim
No. 81, below Discovery. on Bonanza.
Claims around his has beeh selling for
S20.OnO.
Fritz Kloke wentinto the country years
ago, and, after hardships and privatinns
that have broken down his health, lie rs ON
his way TO Germany with big sack Of
gold 90 make his sisters and mother happy,
and bring them back with him.
.Fo. four years of tie time l was In
AIasEa.' he said. Il had only ten pounds or
tea and thirt y two pounds OF sugar. / did
not have one pound of beans In all that
time, and had To live on flour, rye and what
-ariIoo meat could get. l was lucky in
having the cariboo coming my way those
years 1 have a claim in partnership with
the HeaIeys: No. So, on Eldorado mine, is n
one fourth interest in 1t. paid $4,000 for
my share. and was offered SIT 900 before
/ left, tut I'd rather keep it myself.
came cut over THE summit once to Juneau,
polling par of the way up the river, but
II is too hard TO come that way. III
never try IL again. 1t is nothing but a
picnic going in. and when l bring my sis
ters over viii take theH' in that way
s'Do YOU remember Davy Crockett. the
stage Davy Crockett, Frank Mayo's pavy
Crockett, who was the only one worth
while remembering, and is there O more
delightful hero to he remembered? His
double came down the Yukon on the
Healy. Frank Dinsrlore is the miner OF
fiction and fancy, or rather the kind that
gives foundation to fiction and rein to
fancy. For sixteen years he has been gold
hunting in Alaska, and is just in the splendid
prime OF life now with d fortune at hand.
Fifteen Of those Alaskan years were spent
In futile or almost futile search for gold,
and now that he has made his strike at IL ST
he Is going out Just as fast as he can to
see the old folks.
".Sheldon jackson, who is the United
States Government educational agent In
Alaska, and has been visiting 'Stewart's
Ice Bcx' off and on for the last twenty
years, spent only two days in Dawson, but
get vivid impression, nevertheless. He
says:
1T Is the red-hottest mining camp L We
ever seen, and have been in Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado and Montana. 1t Is
buzzing with excitement, but IL is not
especially wicked as mining eampsgo. None
of the them are Sunday schools, you know.
There Is no question about the gold being |
there. u is a marvelously rich country,
but ell the rich diggings so far discovered |
are taken. There are hundreds of menthe |
now who don't know where to get their |
next meaI-fellows who have come in with |
out money, expecting to pick up fortune |
as soon as they arrived. There are be- |
tween two and three thousand people living |
In tents in Dawson City now. From three |
hundred to four Lundre women are there, |
niliiners and dressmakers among them. |
About the amount of food, can say moth |
ing from my own knowledge, but the gen |
eraI belief is that there are too many peo |
ple there for the amount of provisions 1T is |
possiblp to get in.