The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-23
GOLD CRAZE STILL GROWING.
A RUSH FROM ENGLAND TO THH
FIELDS IMMINENT.

Canadian High Commissioner Try-
ing to Persuade Men without
Means Not to Abandon Their Posts
tionS 50 Chase the VIII o. the
Wisp Of FOrtune-Dlspute Between
This Nation aud Great Britain Ovcr
the boundary Line Among the
Possibilities.
London, July 22.--sir Donald Alexanden
Smith the Canadian high commissioner In
London, has been besieged for several
days past by inquiries from those who de-
sire to go to the Yukon mining district.
Most of the applicants for information ara
undermen, who are employed on farms and
in the factories. Would-be emigrants OF
this class are urged to remain at home.
but hardy men with a capital of f10O or
more are encouraged to leave for the gold
fields. Several solid capitalists are in~
teresting themselves in the mining terri.
tory and are making Investigations with
a view of organizing mining companies.
Experts have been dispatched TO inspecu
the region.
Regarding the suggested exclusion Of
American from the Yukon region, officials
here say there is nothing in the treaties
beween Great Britain and United States
that prevents action on the part oa
the government, but that as a matter Of
policy It is unlikely that this step will be
taken.
Various companies report that few pe-@
sons have left England for the new gold
far fc oTah
monetary considerations.
Ottowa, Ont, July 22.-The attention Of
the government has been called to the
claims advanced in the United States
press that the Yukon Colds are in Ameri>
can territory. The ministers are reticent.
II is learned, however, that the governs
ment regards the convention under which
the boundary commission was appointed
as being OF the nature Of a treaty and thas
any act in contravention of that conven-
ton would be regarded as equivalent to
the denuncation Of the treaty. The gov-
ernment regards the delimitatlon of the
boundary on the basis Of the mount st.
| tion, but admits that the owns
ership of some Of the islands
| on the coast may be subject for argument.
| This ownership depends upon the question
| whether the coast line Is to follow all in
dentations of the coast, or whether the
distance from headland TO headland Is six
miles, or the coast line Is to be taken as
the line drawn from headSand to headland
line. As regards future proceedings, this
statement Is made that for twenty-five
years Canada has been anxious to have
the boundary line clearly and finally set-
~.
osItion TO effect this Will be seriously con-
sidered.
Victoria, 3. c.. July "a special Ia
the Times from Nanaimo says: Many
coal miners left here to-day for Victoria,
on their way to the Yukon. Some thirty
of the best miners in the pits of the Vans
couver Coal Company have thrown down
their picks to prepare to leave for tho
promised land. On every corner, up
street and down street. common conver-
sation Is the Yukon. Many are trying to
raise money on property which cost them
over 1880 and have been unsuccessful to
the amount Of one-third of the original
cost. Among those who will go ara
Thomas Keith, ex-member OF parliamentI
Alderman Arthur Wilson and about ffty
others, who Will bid adieu 10 Nanaimo
within the next three weeks. Every ef-
fort IL being made in Victoria and other
provincial cities 10 have Canadian custom
officers sent up to collect duties on Ameri-
can goods IL Is expected that officers
Will go up on the next steamer"
Seattle, Wash, July 22.--At s:37 o'clocA
this afternoon the North American Trans
portation Company's steamer Portland
sailed from Seattle to ST. Michael. Alaska.
from which point her passengers will ba
transferred TO the Yukon river steamers
and carried TO the famous Klondike gold
fields. There we're i2s passengers, a few
Of whom wer0 women.
y. NJ. Culbertson, who went 10 the Kion-
dixie last spring, has written home say-
ing: I'VE heard stories about the mines
that will scarcely be believed. One claim
washed out over $4,000 IN one day and
others as high as 10000 and 800 900. some
have had 10 clean up the boxes as high
as three time a day, but this clean up
does not represent one days work, but
the wash for the whole winter.
Wages are SO per day at the diggings.
but they are trying TO cut them down to
So Most Of the men on claims that they
tried 10 cut quit and came back to camp,
as they claimed they could not AFFORD To
work for less than si5 and pack their grub
In over the trail, and some Of the worsE
trails you could imagine"
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