The evening times., 1897-08-10
BUT EXPEDITIONS CONTINUE
Vessels Leaving Port LOADED Al
most TO the Waters Edge with
Freight, Provisions and Passen-
gers Mule Express Between Dyea
and Dawson City.

ton to the United States from Alaskan
ports
''There will probably be hundreds of
men who either could not get into the
mines. or who spent all the money they
bad before striking it rich,'' said .Presi
dent Louis schless today, land they will
be IN a bad way. Without money to
buy provisions, they must starve. We
intend TO extend a helping hand to all
whom we can Accommodate, and will get
them back TO the United states as Lest we
can"
The ALASKA Commercial Company has
chartered the schooner Novelty and the
barkentine James A. Garfield, and will
hurry them to st, Michaels, laden 10 their
fullest capacity with provisions. They will
carry no passengers. The officials OF the
Company realize apparently that far
greater number have rushed to the Yukon
than can be fed with the supplies sent,
and that heroic measures must be adopted
at once To prevent a famine In the Klondike
country.
The steamship South Coast sailed at $3.50
p. IN. yesterday. with an expedition num-
herring sixty-five gold-seekers. She is des-
tined for st. Michaels. As she lay at the
Mission street wharf this morning she pre-
sented an alarming picture TO those who
were to sail on her.
she was loaded down to such an extent
that swells fruin passing vessels entered
through her scuppers and washed her decks
Several huudreu tons of coal W ere piled on
her deck, in addition to what she carried
in her buukers The tug Gov Stoneman
and the launch Esperanza were lashed on
her forward deck. There was a great
quantity of lumber on board, to be used
In building barges and rafts, and when
all her freight had been slowed away there
was not an available inch of space on the
vessel Inspector of Hulls and Boilers
BGlgeI made an examination OF the South
Coast yesterday, and at first expressed
doubts about permitting her 10 proceed TO
sea. but the promoters of the enterprise
continued to pile on freight.
All night and even to the hour Of sailing
supplies were being passed over the railing.
Those who took Passage On the steamer
were rather uneasy at the outlook. Ii
good weather is experienced on 5he way
up the coast there will not be so much
danger. bat should gale spring up the
vessel would lie in a perilous position with
her top-heayy deck load. On the way to
St. Michae.s a barge viii be built on the
deck OF the South Coast, and when she ar
rives at that place the passengers viii be
transferred and be towed UP the Yukon
by the Gov. Stoneman.
The Esperafza will act as tender to
the expedition.
There is to be a mue express between
Dyea and Da wson during the coming win
ter an it will be the famous old pony ex-
press OF early California ia Us, ada pied to
the conditions prevailing just below the
arctic circle
Fifteen Of the mules are here now, I'M
SUSPICIOUS of their new job and they will
go north on the passenger steamer Farral-
Ion tomorrow. Thirty more mules VIII fol
low within thirty weeks and when winter
closes in with its effort to place the klon-
dixie incommunieado, the mules will begin
wading through the snow from post IL
post, carrying letters and such light mer-
shandise as the hemmed-in people of the
Yukon win be willing TO pay for at high
rates during the long winter.
This is the scheme which c. II. Dewitt,
of Woodland, and John Roberts, master
and part owner of the steamer Farrallon,
are starting To carry through. Mr.. Dewitt
owns q large stock ranch in Farney Valley,
Ore
I'VE propose" said Mr.. Dewitt, Ito at
once establish stations, fifteen or twenty
miles apart, along the road, having man
and sufficient supplies at each station
While tire winters are cold, tb c SHOWS are
not veryuee and lIaveilad years of ex-
perienee where the SHOWS are mHcnaeeper
s.Fifteer or twenty miles will be all one
mule and rider will want to make in
day. and there VIII be a change ut each
station.
II cxpect that We will use dogs for
twenty five miles of the way, but that
will he determined when get there"
The most pretsntious Alaska expedition
to leave this pert up to date Is that of the
seattle Yukon Company, headed by Mayor
Wood, of Seattle. The company has char
tered the steamer Humboldt, which will
sell today for st. MichaeIs, via Seattle.
The steamer will take good many sup
plies from here, including potatoes, onions,
gasoline, cast-iron stoves, cases or cut
iary. casks OF crockery, several thousand
fire brick, barr els of cement, ten cases or
Iapau tea, four gasoline tanks, large
quantity of beans, bacon, biscuit, dried
applcs, chocolate, glassware, medicines,
Yeast, flour and matches.
She is also taking up quantity OF
secondhand machinery from the old pad
die steamer Empire City. 1t will be util-
lied on the Yukon. The gasoline launch
Nereida will be taken to st. MiciTaels ON
the Hu,nhel at and will be used to tow sew
eraI barges, ntaining supplies, which
barres are now ia the hold of the Humboldt,
hacked in sections, ready to be put to-
gether.
On board there will Also be d steam
schoouer and a small steamer in sections.
These will be put together when the
Humboldt reaches st. Miehaels. The Hum
bolat will carry eighteen ship carpenters
and a force of men from the Unien Iron
Works. About fifty passengers have been
boeked from this port, and large number
are awaiting passage at Seattle.
George r Warren, assistant manager OF
the Palace Hotel, this city, was one of the
men who caught the Stioken River gold
fever several years ago, and rushed TO that
GoIcoEtia of the north In consequence he
is now one of those who are try ying to stay
the rush to the Klondike with wholesome
advice.
II am reminded OF my experiences
them" remarked Warren today, "by state
nents In the papers in regard to the Sticken
River route to the Klondike, which some
people are booming as being Ear preferable
to that over Chilkat Pass. Perhaps 1t
is. but II so, the unfortalnates wbo follow
the Chilkat route have my sympathy.