The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-23
THE GOLD LAND.
Charles w. Seymour Delivers an In
terestfng Lecture ON Alaska.

Charles w. Seymour Delivers an In
teresting Lecture ON Alaska.
Charles W. Seymour. of Tacoma, who
has at his tongues end everything that
goes toward making up interesting and
valuable information concerning Alaska,
and who possesses the charming gift OF
eloauently and in choice language telling
ell he knows appeared before small but
appreciative audience at the Seattle the
alter last evening and talked for more than
an hour on the subject which has been
and is now agitating. and will continue to
agitate the civilized world for years to
come. Before he appeared on the stage
Miss Amy Corey and Miss Annie Suffer-.
two pretty young girls. rendered a diff
ficult instrumental duet
Mr.. Seymour made the trip to Dawson
City by the overland route last fall. and
was able to place before his audience up
to-date information and incidents Of the
country.
His description of how the Indian pack
ers take to their work was one of the
best features of the lecture. He spoke of
how little French bride with her hus-
be nd had gone north with over 22oo pounds
of provisions and outfits. They were
bound for the Kiondike, and when they
Were landed near Dyea the little woman
climbed up on the pyramid of baggage"
while her husband went dickering with
about nineteen Indians about packing the
outfits and supplies over the summit. He
completed his work before the little French
woman knew what was going on. In less
than a minute the nineteen Indians had
dived into the pyramid and the little
woman was on her back on the ground,
with her dainty little French feet high in
the air, and the Indian packers were off
for the lakes.
The lecturers stories of life at Sheep
Camp and at Dawson City, where they
have a piano, game that has been going
for six weeks, and 70 churches were de-
cidediy entertaining and called forth we'll
deserved applause.
Mr.. Seymour toward the close OF his
lecture told what he believes to be the
vast richness OF the country and gave
much sound advice to the miner who con-
templates going to the gold fields. II 5oo-
600 miners were to work in the Alaska
country for 100 years the speaker said,
he did not believe they would take out
all of the gold.
The reports" said Mr.. Seymour 'have
rot been exaggerated / don't mean those
reports about vast stores OF gold at Daw-
son City. which interfere with ones trav-
els about the city, but l mean the reports
which have been sent out by men who
have been there for years and who are in
every way competent to size up the hon.
est resources OF the country.
There is no chance of the Alaska coun-
try filling up. II would take too many
men to fiji 1t. and there Is gold for all.
AS one man said, the golden gates of the
country have just begun to squeak on
their hinges. The miners up in that coun-
try are not bothering with the quartz
gold. They are leaving that for the next
generation
In closing. Mr.. Seymour said: And we
all want 10 work TO see that the United
States government does that which II
should have done long ago-namely, give
Alaska good government. Today il Is
like the baby in the cradle with only a rat
tie to play with We want in Alaska a body
empowered 20 make laws that Will NEE,
the demands. We want our land laws
extended So that they will include Alaska,
and We want other laws for the country