Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-30
ALASKAN NUGGETS
THEY MAY NOT GLITTER WITH
THE LUSTER OF GOLD
Hut Still Prove Serviccabie In Find.
Passion and RcasOn-COnsider All
Things and Hold Fast 10 That
which il True and ust.

The woods in the Yukon are tull o
moose, cariboo and bear.
Whipsawed lumber sells for $3O'
a thousand at Klondyke.
The Mexico took up a consignment
of telephones for use in Dawson City.
The fare 10y way of st. Michaels
has been raised from $3.50 to an evei
5000.
The Mexico took nearly 300 pas
sengers to Dyea, on her last trip. Sh'
sailed Sunday at noon.
A Portland speculator is buying VI
dogs for shipment to Yukon. ANY
kind of a cur brings price.
The distance from San Francisco tt
Dawson City by the water route is A.,
$50 miles, overland 2,72S miles.
Eight thousand people thronged the
wharves at Seattle, Sunday, to witness
the departure of the Mexico with heI
250 gold-seekers.
Miners who were making "good
money" at Cooks Inlet, have deserted
their claims in the craze to pan out
nuggets at Klondyke.
No man can stand the wind that
frequently sweeps through Chilcat
pass, and its velocity is so great that
nobody can breathe who is breasting
it.
Not one-tenth the number 60 to
Klondyke who would 60 did not the
grub-stake" cost so much. The re-
quisite amount, from $500 to $1,000,
does not grow ON bushes.
Eight months of the year it is dark
on the Yukon-that is grey twilight.
Lamps or candles are lighted at one
or two in the afternoon, when the
twilight becomes denser.
Peru has a rival to the Klondyke
district. An Englishman took out
279 pounds of "virgin" gold in June.
1t is thought that he struck the
hitherto considered mythical Inca
gold fields.
Some knights of the green cloth in
San Francisco have organized pool
with $4,000 capital to run games at
Dawson. That camp is already
crowded with gamblers of the tim
horn" species.
Joaquin Miller will carry with him
some sausage made in Mazatlan for
food. He says of it, at is hot; very
hot. 1t dries up and when you put it
in water it increases in size. I am
not going to starve."
The steamers Bailey Gatzert, the
Eliza Anderson, the City of Seattle,
the Geo. w. Elder, and other old
time favorites, will figure prominently
in the search OF our modern argonauts
for the golden fleece.
The character of the soil in the
mining district is a marshy muck,
which thaws down for ten or twelve
inches, then there is solid ice. There
is a heavy coat OF moss all over the
country, sometimes foot thick.
The mail carrier who was carrying
letters to the Yukon for S. each, trav-
cling 300 miles afoot with the tempera.
ture at 65 below zero, has resigned his
position, preferring to take his chances
at furnishing supplies to the miners.
The Commission of Labor at Wash
ington has detailed mining expert to
proceed to Klondyke and make care.
full and exhaustive study of the con-
ditions, to be embodied in a special
report or bulletin of the Department.
Copies of the Examiner sold readily
at one dollar, at Dawson City, a few
weeks ago. But, there everything il
on top shelf. Eggs sold at 81 pei
dozen, lemons at 81 piece, bread al
81 a loaf, and other things in proper
ton.
Mrs. Berry, who went to Klondykt
as bride one year and four months
ago, from Fresno, Cal, picked up $40,
600, as her share, at Klondyke with hel
husband. She did this after doing
her housework. One pan she washed
out yielded 1896.
By the Queen which sailed from
Port Townsend last Friday there wal
a decidedly mixed crowd of passengers
There were the millionaires and Bos
ton school marms of the Raymond
Whitcomb excursion, and 210 miner.
in woolen blcuses and sombreros.
The officers of the Alaska CONNER
cial Company are limiting the num-
Der of their steamers nOrthward fol-
fear that scarcity of food will prevail
in the mining district, as the rivel
will close in October, making trans
portation exceedingly difficult.
Mrs. Clarence Berry says: "In th'
winter the Yukon is one of thu
healthiest of places for everybody 60
ing there in sound health, but wher
summer comes it is unhealthy. 1t il
damp, the water is bad, it gets yer.
hot and the mosquitoes are awful"