Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-27
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Portland Ven ideniiiied With Parry Organized
at Bath.

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In few weeks another expedition for
the Klondike will sail from Portland.
This one will be made up of about Is or
Is Portland men of we'll known standing
in the business world, as we'll as few
gentlemen from Bath and others from
other parts of the State. A few days ago
Captain Hatch of Bath. closed the deal
schooner which will be brought to this
city shortly to fit out for the long voyage
around Cape Horn to the mouth of the
Yukon. When the vessel reaches Port
land she will be thoroughly oyerhauled
and will load three or four hundred tons
of coal as ballast Her quarters will be
fixed up so as to accommodate many
more men than the vessel usually carries
and many articles of use to miners in the
Alaska country will also be purchased
here.
Among, other things to be taken on
this vessel are six or seven large sized
dories for navigating the smaller rivers
which flow into the Yukon and big
steam launch 60 feet long, capable OF
steaming ten knots an hour. This launch
will be used to carry the party up the
Yukon and for operations on the other
streams when it is found practicable to
use it. The schooner which will be COM
manded by Captain Hatch will take part
of the company around the Horn and on
arriving at San Francisco part of the
coal will be sold and a load of provisions,
clothing and other articles of this kind
will be purchased and taken to the Yu-
kon. Those members of the company
who do not take the long voyage around
the Horn will join the schooner at San
Francisco and proceed to the Yukon in
her. The schooner will be sold at San
Francisco if possible in order to get her
off the hands of those who intend to put
in several years in the region of the
klondike in gold hunting.
tlA al vstyr tI,N bon,
the provisions will be landed and taken
up to the river to Dawson City by the
launch and scows which will be built for
the purpose. AT Dawson City the COM
pany propose to divide, but its interests
will be combined. Some of the men are
to go prospecting, Others will run the
launch and do a towing business on the
Yukon while others will run the store
which is to be established at Dawson
City. If a good mine is located all of the
company will work it and the profits in
all of these enterprises will be divided at
the end of the year.
Each member of the company has put
into the general fund about $500 Each
one owns an equal share in the venture.
Captain Hatch will command the schoon-
er and is now engaged in fitting her out
at Bath.
The entire party numbers about TWEEN
ty-five. Among them are many well
known Portland men who are engaged in
business here.
E. O. Stephenson who owns and runs
the grocery store at the corner of Park
and Congress streets where he is doing Il
magnificent business and has all the
trade he can handle is one of the men
who will go overland in the spring TO join
Captain Hatch's expedition at San Fran
cisco. Mr. Stephenson has built up fine
business in a little while and is leaving
behind him a comfortable income to try
his luck in the gold mines of the klon-
dixie. His brother. J, l.. F. Stephenson,
is also another member of the party.
George l.. Hatch. formerly member Of
the Portland Beef Company is also reck-
oned as one of those who will join the
schooner at San Francisco. Mr.. Stewart
Of the Nelson Morris Company is also spo-
ken of and there are fifteen or more other
men who have been identified for many
years with some of the most prosperous
business houses in this city. This party
is well organized and mean business. If
they don't make Il fortune at the klon-
dixie they will give the people at Dawson
City an idea of what Yankee enterprise
can accomplish at any rate.--Portland
Press.