The San Francisco call., 1897-10-05
THE CALI"
WILL GET
THE NEWS
Sam Wall Is Not Turned
Back by Low
Water.
TO WARN THE MI
NERS OF DANGER.
KIondikerS Can Get No More
Supplies by Steamer From
ST. Michael
RESPONDENTS STOP
AT HAMMOCK CREEK.
An Effort VIII Be Made to Carry
Supplies to the Miners
This Winter.
TO WARN THE NIL
NERS OF DANGER.
KlOndikerS Can Get No More
Supplies by Steamer From
ST. Michael
CORRESPONDENTS STOP
AT HAMMOCK CREEK.
An Effort VIII Be Made to Carry
Supplies to the Miners
TniS Winter.

FORT YUKON yukon River, on the
Arctic Circle, Sept I, ISo7.-The steam
er Hamilton, that left ST Michael fifteen
days ago with $50 passengers for The
Klondike, including delegation of news.
paper correspondents, has been here two
days trying to get over the shoals. 1t
has failed and will early tomorrow morn
ing turn back 10 Mannook Creek and
probably so into winter quarters there.
This brief statement compasses almost a
fulflIment of all the evil prophecies that
have been made since this wild rush to
the Arctic gold diggings began. Itmeans
that about 1000 tons of provisions which
the people at Dawson and in the Klon-
dixie diggings and along the upper
stretches of the Yukon are depending
upon for the winter will not get there.
This is catastrophe wholly outside the
calculations of the TRANSPORTATION COM
panes, as well as of the needless throng,
and means great deprivation, suffering
and perhaps death. The conditions are
unprecedented. The river has not been
so low for many years. The DAYS are hot
and the nights are cold, and the low
river is dropping hour by hour. All the
boats of both companies are below, all
expecting to make at least one more trip,
and not one of them will be able to get
up. There is a barge stuck on the bar
few miles above here and the little steamer
Marguerite is transporting its cargo by
slow and uncertain stages to Dawson.
The people and the company's agents
on the upper river are now unconscious
of the dilemma they are in, and will re-
main so until arrive and advise them.
have spent this day building boat, and
at e o'clock this evening, an hour from
this writing, with three rivermen, shall
begin the journey of $50 miles to Daw-
son. The course is upstream, through
shallow water and must be made by pol
ing and towing the entire distance, as the
current is, everywhere too swift for the
use Of oars. My purpose is not only to
advise the people of Dawson of their
danger in time, perhaps, for them to get
out, but to warn the people along the
way to preserve what grass may be pos.
sible for the use of horses that may be
employed this winter in transporting pro-
visions from Mannook Creek (Rampart
City,, and wherever the boats may find
themselves ioebound. This last is COM
mission from and by earnest request of
Captain Hill of this steamer, the Hamil-
ton. There are about twenty horses at
Dawson, and he thinks they will be
brought into requisition for this pur-
pose if feed may be provided
the food question being, with beast as
with man, the one consideration now. II
is expected that the steamers will all
winter in this vicinity as far up the river
as they can get, probably at Rampant
City, the newest town on the river and
which has sprung or is springing into ex-
istence as the result of the growing inter-
est-Scarely yet an excitement-ln the
diggings of Little Mannook and Hunter
creeks, tributaries of Mannook Creek.
About fifty passengers of the Hamilton
stopped off there as we touched at the
place last Friday. The next morning at
Fort Hamilton portion of the newspaper
contingent got off and went sack to the
place AMI at the next stopping place the
cook and two of the walters left the boat
for the same purpose, carrying with them
a quantity of provisions, the loss of which
was not discovered until later. We have
also passed small procession of canoes
going downstream with miners from the
vastly richer, but now entirely absorbed,
diggings on the Kondike. The Mannook
is proven to be good pay from only
one test of the bed rock-I22 ounces be-
ing taken out.
About 100 claims have been staked on
the two creeks. On Mannook the claims