The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-10-12
MINERS RETURN
FROM KL0NDIKE,
Repeat the Stories of a Scarcity of
Provisions.
Only Food Enough for One Third Of Those
Now There.
Prediction That Hunger and Pos
sib1e Starvation Will Come to
Many This Winter-Great Diff
culties Encountered in Crossing
Over the Dalton Trail.

| SKAGUAY (Alaska), Oct. 1.-Via
Victoria, B. c., Oct. 11.)-Several par
| ties who have arrived over the Dalton
trail from the Klondike repeat the sto-
ry of scarcity Of provisions and posi-
| bic hunger and starvation with many
there this winter.
| James Clark and c. A Brown, who
had been mining on Birch Creek, hav
ing left Dawson City September 10th.
at noon, poled up the river to fifteen
miles above Pelly River, and there
bought a horse and came in over the
supposed Dalton trail, making the trip
in twenty-six days to Panes Mission.
getting there on Sunday. They passed
the ThOrp party on the summit with
cattle, most of the party discouraged
and wanting to turn back. Brown and
Clark told them they had gone through
100 miles of snow, where no food could
| be got for their stock and it would be
utterly impossible to get their stock
through alive. Thorp had already lost
fifteen pack horses on the trail, and
part of his original party had turned
back two days before but he was
stubborn, and would not consent to
turn back himself.
About twenty-five persons came out
over the Dalton trail the past week
They say there are good many follow
ing. All bring the same report, that
there is no actual trail, and that it is
III miles long. Submits have to be
| crossed. innumerable streams forded,
and it is impossible to find ones way
without Indian guides, even Thorp hav-
ing to employ Indians.
The biggest party to come out togeth-
err was eleven persons-Pat Calvin and
Wife, George c. Bounds and wife. Chas.
Thebo, John F. Lony and Frank Beck
of Juneau and Harry Roman, Ed
Armstrong. "Mush'' Rosenstein and lit
tie Willie Misner of San Francisco.
This party brought out a little gold
dust, but they are reticent as to the
amount Little Willie Misner brought
out about fifteen pounds, Pat Calvin
as much or more, and George c.
Bounds fifty, but most Of the dust is
deposited with the twenty-six principal
companies and drafts take non Chica-
go and San Francisco
Bounds is the man who took in the
first beef cattle ever taken into the
sion with forty-five head in June. 1896.
had to make his own trail, built raft
below Five Fingers, on the Yukon. and
started, intending to take his cattle to
Circle City. But he got frozen in at
the mouth of the Klondike, and could
not move either way. Then came the
stampede to Bonanza and FL Dorado.
and he sold out every pound probably
saving the lives of many and saving
himself from financial ruin. He sold
out $4,000 worth of beef entirely on
credit TO miners, and did not lose dol
lar, they making a small cleanup, 50
as to allow him to leave February 22d
last. He came out a mile at a time
over the Chilcoot Pass to Dyea. His
wife went on the first trip of the Elk
celsior last June. Bounds was inter
ested with George Mccormack in the
Discovery claim" on the Bonanza.
and had interests in IA" as well as
three other claims, and has sold all
his interests outright, except his Dis
covery claim, and has bonded it. He
will make one more trip next May to
settle up.
FOOD FOR ONLY ONE-THIRD.
VICTORIA (B. c., Oct. 1.-THE City
of Topeka has arrived from Alaska.
bringing Captain Hackett and the crew
of the schooner Annie C. Moore. which
was burned in the Lynn canal She
left here for Skaguay with a load OF
hay and feed, but both steamer and
cargo were completely destroyed. The
Topeka brought down twenty-five
Cooks Inlet miners, who had a good
season and bring considerable gold.
Harry Romaine; who sold a claim ON
Hunter Greek for 1900, also came
down. He says there are 5000 people
in the Klondike, and only food for one
third Of them.
HUNTER CREEK RICH IN GOLD.
SEATTLE, Oct 1.-THE steamer
City of Topeka arrived here tonight
from Juneau. Alaska Among her pas
sengers was John F. Maloney of Juneau.
who came out from Dawson City with
the Calvin party. In an interview with
the correspondent of the Associated
Press, Mr.. Maloney said:
Hunter Creek and Gold Bottom
Creek it is conceded, will equal if not
rival the already famous Bonanza and
Ell Dorado Creeks. More especially is
this true of Hunter Creek Location No
SO on that creek is among the richest in
the Klondike district. Many of the
claims on this creek will run $1,000
to the box. On No. go FL Dorado. Alex
ander McDonald's claim, one man in
shift and a half (Which is about twelve
hours shoveled in $4,000. On Skoo-
KUN Guleh. which enters Bonanza at
No. 2. above Discovery, on location
Nos. and 2, saw $50, 900 weighed out
of two box lengths
Mr. Maloney saw a sixteen-quart
brass kettle filed with gold dust in the
cabin of T. Dinsmore. Harry Spenz, Bill
McFee and others. No. 81 Bonanza,
owned by Oscar Ashley and Billy
Leake. will produce 1.000.O 600
Ten DAYS after the boat left for down
the river taking the gold, the North
American Trading and Transportation
Company had quarter of a million in
its safe at Dawson. This shows how
RAPIDLY the gold accumulates.
Mr. Maloney says that over $1,000 900
will come out this fall. There are
stacks of gold" he said, leach with the |