The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-15

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 15.-A letter re-
ceived here from Anvik, WASH, under
date of August %, says:
When the steamer Hamilton drew up to
this little Indian village and wood station
this afternoon IL found the Alaska Cornnier
cial conipany,s river boat, Bella, tied NJ
TO the bank. She is taking down eighty
miners, nearly all of them with a big
.'s;ra; As the Hamilton drew in the
Bella's Passengers lined up on the shore
10 greet her and the neweomers. and there
was NOISY exchange of greetings.
Lewis Stoss, OF the Alaska CONNER
cial Company, coming out for the winter
was ag:onisned at the number OF those
going VI the river at n time of year when
ne and ottser wise ones ale going down.
Answering the greetings Of nunlt,er Iii
arquaint ances, he said: You people
have gone crazy"
Later Mr.. sioss was informed that am
other shipoad OF people were waiting
at st. MichaeIs for the Bella. He said
at once thar he would advise them Ju go
back whence they came, declaring fatty
that there IL not food enough up river
u supply them. The people coming IN
over the pass are not bringing feed with
them In sufficient quantities, and a ines
sen ger had beeE sent 70 ChiIxooJ Pass 20
warn suon as might not have fun supply
TO 10 back
Both the trading companies have quit
selling provisions To any but miners,
and Uney seii to them In the most limited
quantities. A check is kept upon all
saies aud Do more than provisions for
few DAYS will be sold 20 any one person.
This pTecsutien WAS found necessary b.
a few wealthy miners We're buying up
all tie stocks as rapidly as they were
lau,lee, 10 the exclusion of the Others.
Mr.. slOss sid that the policy uf linn
iting the sales will be continued. ms
plan works both ways, however. While
IL prevents the weaithier and heavy op-
orators from getting all the stocks 20
the exclUslon of others, II also prevents
thesC fInm buying enough To cna bic them
to go into the hills for the winter pros
pectirg.
IAN records ha We been broken this year =
said Mr. SlCss, land there is no basis for
conn .utng what demands viii be made
upon Cur stores. We have not taken pro
visions into the country I'm any proper
tiOn to tue number of people who have
gone in In excess of the amount and the
number of last year. That would have
been Impossible. as the ia ciiities would not
permit s., far as my obs servatious go, the
people who are coming in over the pass
were not bringing provisions with them
Thereforethere cannot help being scarcity
.ff- or.I DIR.
to such as these is To turn around and
90 bach. Intend to advise the passengers
who Cane up on our Loaf, the Excelsior.
and VINO are TOW at 81. Mienae els, to 20
back to San Francisco, and / VIII give
them free transportation if they win &C
cept it,
The eighty miners Oh the Bella are
carving out with them net weight Df
gold valued at not less than $3.50, ,000. 1t
is impossible to get at close estimate,
for n1ng Individuals refuse to give the
amount they carry, while they keep such
close guard over IL as to leave no doubs
tSat It Is treasure. Those who took
pains to make inquiries uh the way down
give widely var wing figures. One placedit
at $500, coo. another at 81, 10000. Let
either be true, this much is certain, nat the
new dicGings are rich beyond anything in
the history cf placer mining.
You VIII see more gold III one saloon
IN Dawson city" said Hugh Hacgerty,
than you ever dreamed of. Money or
gold lis nothing there. Grub is every
tl.iue. If the boats make another trip
i believe there VIII be plenty, but If
there : : any Interruption it will be tough.
Most nf the men aboard the Bella are
going out because they don't Want 20
take chances In there tiHS winter"
Jack NcQuestiOn, who has charge OF
the ALASKA Commercial Company's store
at Circle City, one Of the earliest of the
pioneers, and best known men on the
Yukon, had this to say:
There are not Provisions enough on the
Yukon for the people. There are about
5000 more people in this country now
than there were in the spEng How many
thousand have COME sipce or are still
coming il is impoSsible to say, but they
seem to be hurrying in as fast as possible
Ii all the toats We're doing all that they
might under the best conditions, there
would still be q scarcity, but none df the
boats will be able To ma ke more than one
tip. Two OF them have missed trip
tu.otlSu InirudIsS, diiu fiidN HOt bt dbie 10
make another. The Marguerite is struck
ON bar twenty miles above Fort YEken,
and the wcare i s fast in the sand thirty
miles above there. 1t may be estimated
that these mshaps TO the Weare and Mar
guerite mean the loss OF Thousand tons
of provisions in tile camp"
Charles Rupel, of Tacoma, one af the
miners, comes from Monook Creek. He
says the diggings on the creek, while not SO
rich as the Klondike, are good, and he would
not be coming cut now. but he feared scare
fty OF provisions He believed that very
many on the Bella were coming out for the
same reason. And ar the same time he said
the outlook ON the Munook wasmuch better
than Farther up, as the bar at Fort Yukon
presented such difficulties to navigation
that a quantity of stores always remained
there. Rupel said the boats were not car
ryingin the provisions they might or should,
great deaiof spaceand weightbeing given /
to whisky. Itwas Rupel who said that the
Bella was taking 81 1,120,000.
Mrs. / ID. Barnes ,apassenger on the Ham,
iltnn, going in to join her husband, who
owns III interest in Il Bonanza above aud
3S Ell Dorado, two of the richest claims,
received word from him by his partner, g.
W. poGcl, ON the Bella, that lie is coming
ilton.
The effect of all this upon the boat
load CT passengers going into the eUUn-
tiy is naturally very depressing. They
lave been changed from a party of en-