The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25
TO ALASKES COLO FIELDS
VIII Go Joe BiddIe and Morris
and Joe Hofer.
BACKED BY A CORPORATION
Of Local Busi1ess Men-SeveraI Parties Are
Talking of Tempting fckle Fortune
in the Kondyke Regions

The Birmingham Gold Mining company
has been organized and the actual pa
pers of incorporation will be filed today.
Late Monday night after the regular
hours of business in the probate court,
the gentlemen interested sought ons of
the court clerks and filed their deelara-
tion of intentions and were granted
commission Of Incorporation. This meth
Cd was pursued in order that as little
time as possible would be lost. A meet
ing was held in the office of Basil NJ.
Allen, on Third avenue, after the pre-
liminary papers had been secured. The
election of officers resulted in the selec-
ton Of b. NJ. Allen as president, Ed War
rem. Jr., secretary, with the following
board of directors: Messrs. w. A. Moody,
Ed Warren, Jr., and B. M. Allen.
The declaration of their intentions to
form the company says that the capital
stock shall be $500, divided into fifty
shares at $50 each. All the stock has bsen
subscribed and paid in. The incorpora-
tors are given as the two officers and {.
L. Ledbetter. The general purposes OF
the corporation and the nature of the
business proposed is to buy, sell, own
operate, contract, manage enter and ac-
quire gold, silver, coal and other mining
property In Time, as The nature OF the
work may require, it is the intention of
the corporation TO build and operate rail-
roads and other methods of transporta-
ing or carrying persons, material and
other freight. Every detail in corpo-
ration's plan of procedure is embodied
in the articles. The principal place OF
business will be in Birmingham.
The company is formed for the pur-
pose of tempting tickle fortune in the
gold fields of the Klondyke region. The
men interested will back three. men,
Messrs. Joe Tsiddle, Morris and Joe Hofer
in a trip to the gold fields. If they strike
a rich find fifty per cent of their earn
ings will be turned over to the company,
and the other fifty per cent will be di-
vided among the workers.
One day this week. probably tomorrow,
Mr. Biddle win leave this city for Ssat-
| tie, where he will remain so as to be able
| to reach the rich gold fields early in the
spring. His two co-workers will follow.
later on. Mr.. Biddle has travelled e%-
tensively and is we'll aware of the hard
ships to be endured on the present trip.
For number of years ne was a member
of the British navy and encirclsd the
world. For some time past he has been
employed by the Sloss Iron and Steel
company as foreman of the carpenter
shop. His two companions on the trip
have also been employed at the furnace
in the repair department. All time are
muscular men who are used to rough
experience and do not anticipate any
severe Interruptions from the weather.
The fever for gold mining has not stop
| ped with the formation of this company,
| however, and several i.dividual prospec-
tors have decided to go to the fields in the
early spring. One of the parties now in
course of formation viii go by way of
C1nat1a. This company will be made up
of James B. sSmiley and DR.. A. Gibson.
DIR. Gibson has been within 200 miles of
the Klondyke regions several times and
is an enthusiastic promoter this new
| scheme. 1t is their intention to go by
rail as far as Edd,nson, Canada, and then
| overland on pack horses to the spot
| where they expect to strike gold in pay
| irg quantities. The distance from Ed
| dinson to the gold fields can be travsrsed
| in tlhirty-hve days by the route they in
! tend to take. They leave Birmingham
| about the middle of March. next without
| any equipments. All of the nesded sup
plies will be secured at Eddinson. They
| EXPECT to be gone about eight months.
Other young men have under consldera-
ton the advisablity of making the trip,
but they have not fully decided. In the
early spring it IDS thought that quite
| number OF them will pack UP and join one
| oftile numerous parties that are headed
| for the mines.