The San Francisco call., 1897-07-26


rush displayed in San Francisco SO far
attended the sailing of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company's Umatila for the
Sound yesterday. She was crowded with
400 passengers, mainly of those Klondyke
bound, and more than that mum Der wanted
to get aboard.
When The passengers reach the Sound
they will transfer themselves to some of
the rapidly multiplying steamers running
from there to juneau, and then they will
join in the focking over ChiIkoot Pass.
The local hustling ior special steamers of
all kinds and sizes that can be put on the
way TO Alaska continues, and several
sternwheel river steamers have been the
object of biz offers by people who want to
rush river boat to the Yukon.
Gold is yellow, and the want of it is red
still mounting.
This Yukon delirium, this auriterous
swoop on the frigid zone, is quite interest
ing in the watching of it. Hundreds have
joined in the charge, and some thousands
here in San Francisco are wanting to
start. An army of them are saying that
they are going in the spring. Those who
are going now are in a great measure not
taking coun sci of their heads, but are af
fected by the contagion of Impulse, and
are moved by that exciting, thrilling emo
ton somewhere inside that loosens the
springs of haste and makes man. jams one
of the features of human life. 1t is with
the steamer lines as it is with the picnic
excursion trains so often. Boarding par
ties are ready for almost anything, little
or big, that can foat on the ocean sweils.
They are stalking much glinst tremend-
Gus odds with the spirit OF gam bier, and
they are not reckoning on the fearing and
the palng, the chilling and the weary
ing, that go with the "outtit."
Some who are going grubstaked will
need to be heart-staked before they get
back-but then there's gold on the Yu-
kon, somebody will get it, and the devil
may not take the foremost
II tell you I'd go it, you can hear
every hour as The stay-homers discuss the
KIonGyke every where. A vast mum Der
really would 60 elf" and the ifs call
attention TO how people get anchored to
little hills and spots like an abalone to its
rock. 1t really is distracting 10 know that
millions are waiting for ones scoopshove)
somewhere aud that one can't break camp
and go after them.
a few, however, are fairly tearing them
selves loose by the roots to get all that
GOLD. Some are making great sacrifices
10 go. Good, permanent jobs are the
simplest of these sacrifices.
Some who have their accumulations in
vested in business or property are selling
quick and for almost anything to raise
the money. The Klondyke discoveries
have made many bargains for people who
don't want to go. Some OF them are dis
played in the newspaper advertising col
umns. ALASKA or bust-all for sale"
"Going to Alaska-best paying saloon on
street for man VINO wants to
stay"; "Will deed my ranch for stake
for ALASKA; Poultry business for sale
on account of going to Alaska" are types
of them.
The universal rustlIng for grubstakes is
getting into the advertising columns, too
IA practical miner wants $500 to make
Two people rich with" and adds the un-
necessary pointer, "Wul 90 at once"
There's a ''doctor and dru ggist" who
wants stake with which to make a
stake without driving claim stake. One
rustler is trying to make a gallant play,
to-wit: "Wanted-Twenty ladies to or
ganize company to send eight men to
Alaska; $500 required" C"If the men
were all transported far beyond the North
ern Sea-
A Yukon gold excitement fairly sets
the brains of schemers to sizzling. The
schemes are coming along on time with
the "Ho! for the gold fields!" to oted
ahead. The exploitation. exploration,
development, investment. mining, ETC.,
companies are getting out their pros
pectuses with enormous capital, and none
subscribed that people may get rich off
the Kondyke at home.
There Will be bat two more considerable
parties arrive from the diggings this year.
They will arrive in about six weeks, one
coming here on the Excelsior and the
other landing at Seattle from the Port
land On their return trips these steam
ers will bring down those who 60 down
the river to ST. Mlchaels on the last down
ward trips OF the river boats. Few will
come ont by the other route, as it in
wolves several hundred miles of polling
against currents, and is taken by but few.
The juneau route is a popular inward but