The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-17
GOLD LIES NEARER.
WHAT PROSPECTING on THE W.
K0N'S HEADwATERH SHOWS
ProspsctoF shaw Thinks Fort Wrangle VIII
BE the Point Of Departure For the Gold.
Bearing Region Which II to Be De.
veioped BY Railroads Now Being Sur.
veyed-Canadlan Police PEacsicing With
Maxim Guns-Alasks Commercial Com
psny'S WashinGton Attorney Tells Some
Things About Dawson City.


Things About Dawson City.
Seattle, Wash, Sept. 1.-THE steame,
Farallone arrived this morning from
Skaguay and Dyea with thirty passen-
gers who have given up the attempt tc
reah the Yukon gold fields this winer
c. F. Shaw, representing an English
syndicate, accompanied by party OF
seven, took passage on the Farallone
from Fort Wrangle and is in Seattle.
Mr.. Shaw has been prospecting the
divide between Cassiar and the head
waters of the Yukon empting into Tes-
lin Lake. He reports the existence o!
large quartz lodges Of the same grads
as the Treadwell, but they cannot be
worked with profit, on account Of moi
being able to get machinery. Mr.. Shaw
says that the difficulties will be over
come by the construction Of the Cassiar
and Teslin Lake railroad. which is now
being surveyed by the aCnadian govern
ment on the Stickeen river.
Mr.. Shaw believes that Fort Wrangle
goods and machinery that will be sent
into that part Of the country. He in
tends sending in an outfit Of twenty men
via Wrangle, the Stickeen river and Tes-
lin Lake next spring, with instructions
to prospect the more remote districts Of
the headwa tiers Of the Yukon immediate
ly adjacent to the old Cassiar gold dig
gings. The placers on this divile have
undoubtedly derived their gold quartz
from quartz reefs in the immediate vi
cinity. as Shaw has in his possession a
unworn, and full Of quartz.
The purser Of the Farallone says there
Il scarcity Of boats at Lake Bennett,
and that they are bringing upwards of
$500 each.
None Of the returning miners had
heard anything OF the reported lynching
of alleged thieves on the Skaguay trail
by vigilantes.
MAXIM GUNS.
Victoria. B. c., Sept 1.-two mem
bers Of the mounted police arrived here
to learn how to use the Maxim guns at
the Notifications. They will command
the guns which have been sent to the
Klondike.
DAWSON'S BAD HEALTH.
San Francisco, Sept. 16.-John Sibley
Webb, attorney at Washington. D. c.,
for the Alaskan Commercial company.
has made a visit to Dawson and the
Klondike mining district for the sole pur-
pose of informing himself Of the condi-
tons of living there and in Alaska gen.
orally, in order that he may speak and
act understandngiy when matters af-
fecting Alaska are discussed in congress
and questions as to the feasibility Of
postal arrangements, schools, etc, are on
the tapis.
81 have been all around the coast, as
it il called, and up to Dawson" he said.
81 have visited the mining camps of
Bonanza Creek and some Of those on
E. Dorado Creek. Dawson is low and
fiat, and even in the height OF summer
the ground is frozen half a foot below
the surface, and ice is encoun tered be-
meath the muck. The development of
the creeks was followed by the washing
down into the Klondike river and thence
into the Yukon above Dawson, Of large
quantities Of filth and refuse. Sweeping
by the very doors Of the inhabitants Of
Dawson, IL IS no wonder that there
should be sickenss and death. In the
little cemetery there, there lay no less
than twenty victims OF typhoid fever,
and now the number mas, no doubt,
been increas ed considerably. The drink
ing water al Dawson is very bad, and
this adds to the sickness"