The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-22
MAKES ITS OWN TALK.
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Of white men TO be encountered on the
river is a. Fort Selkirk, opposite the
mouth OF Pelly river. Thence it is little
more tnan a days run down TO Sixty
Mile. and il takes less than day 10 90
from Sixty Mile 20 Dawson City.
There is another suggestion 70 cons.d-
err before arriving AT Sixty Mile. All
along that part OF the river are timber
ed islands, covered with tall, straight
spruce. With such an influx OF prospect
ors as are expected al Dawson City be-
fore winter begins building logs will be
in great demand. Cabin logs ten inches
in diameter and twenty feet long sold ct
Circle City last year, in the raft, al So
each. With an increased demand, and
with better mines, the prices at Dawson
City may De much higher. Four men can
easily handle raft of 500 or coo sucn
logs. Getting them out would only De a
matter OF a week or two.
The July steamer eft Seattle yesterday
and there will be none until August 20,
on the North American Transportation
and Trading connpany's route from Sc
attic TO ST. Michaels and up the Yokon
OF the company, who is in Chicago. was
considering yesterday the possibility OF
sending out special steamer from Seat
tie in about ten days. so that the pros
pectOrs may reach the fields before the
winter sets in
The ST. Paul road is making a feat
ure OF the overland transporta ton, and
City Agent Souther was busy man yes
terday answering queries. The morning
mail brought him in a bunch of letters
from the following points: Springfield.
Utica. Elgin, La Grange, Cham
paisn, Paw Paw, Green Bay, and Ke-
nosha, Wis: Goshen, Ind. J. y. Everett.
lo3 Fitty-third street were among those
sending inquiries from about the city
George j. Miiigan, Of the firm of NIL
iigan d Atkins, 1403 Great Northern
building, which has extensive mining in
terests in British Columbia, returned
from Washington and Oregon Sunday
ard talked yesterday of the craze on the
Pacific coast. He said:
There is no doubt that the Pacific coast
is nit nard with the fever. Seattle is
nearly wild with ii, and people are pour
ing ont as fast as the steamers can take
them. 1 understand thai few classes are
spared the epidemic.
Il don't like to injure anybody's bust |
mes. but l think many people are liskely |
10 make serious mistakes by selling out |
this summer. No one will deny that |
Alaska contains great quantities Of god |
and that some people are getting rich. !
But If gold is as plenty as this steamer |
load recently landed from the Yukon dis |
trict pretends, why are they coming away |
in the midst Of the mining season? The |
fortunes seem to run from 81. 900 up 10 |
$4,000. Many Of these miners have been |
ous three or four years and 81 900 is lit
tie to show for the labor they have I'M
dergone.
Then people who are burning 10 catch
the next boat should stop and think a min
ute. They may sail August 20. It takes
over month to reach the Klondyke
The Alaskan winter comes on in Septem-
Der, and il is very severe and lasts for
nearly eigh, months. What will the
stranded miner do during the winter?
He cannot dig in snow and wash out his
1irt is bitter, freezing temperature.
There are four months in which the or
L
binary miner. without capita, can mine
and they make the Alaskan summer. He
should start in the spring. The suffering
md privation Of a destitute mining camp
n that country in the winter can hard
y be imagined here.
Mining is good business If it is gone
about properly and scientifically. A man
,annot dig gold in Alaska with nothing
out fever to support him
AL Hankins, the well-knOwn ex-Chica-
20 sport" who moved to Valparaiso,
nd, several years ago, is organizing a
company 10 go to the gold fields in
\ aska. The party will be composed OF
ibout thirty people from that section Of
Llama, and will go by boat from San
Francisco the latter part OF next month.