The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-23

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Culbertson. Following is part of Mr..
Wheeler's letter:
Dawson City, June 3, 1S97.-We ar
rived in this beautiful city, consisting
of tents and shacks, the list day of
June at about 3 o'clock. We found
everybody out of grub; sold some ba-
CON for 81 per pound; butter, 81 per
pound, and could have sold all the pro-
visions We had at the same rates, but
let little go. However, the boat came
in to-day with large amount, so pro-
visions will be somewhat cheaper. The
mines are something immense. Sup
pose nothing like it was ever discov-
cred before. Men that We're dead broke
count their gold by the fifty and one
hundred thousands. Everything is
taken so far as heard from.
I'VE have not been here long enough
to decide what we shall go at, but will
find something to do. Wages were SD
a day all winter, and men worked all
winter. Everybody has money, and all
the business is done with gold dust or
nuggets. If a man buys drink he
takes out his sack of gold and the bar
tender weighs out the price. BY the
way, have already started my sack.
have some dust, also a good-sized mug
get. We may lease a mine or work a
couple of months before prospecting.
The letter from Mr.. Culbertson also
tells of the trip. He gives more par
ticulars of the death of Thompson. He
says that one of the coal miners was
''monkeying'' with a 44-caliber Colts
revolver, and shot Thompson in the
stomach Thompson lived about four
hours and died at a. M, Sunday, May
18TH
Mr. Culbertson tells of great strife
between the towns of Dawson City and
Clondyke City. They are on opposite
sides of the Clondyke River. The Daw
son people call the rival town Louise
town" Mr.. Culbertson goes on to say:
I'VE heard stories about the mines
that will scarcely be believed. One
claim washed out over $4,000 in one
day, and others as high as $4,000 and
100000. Some have had to clean up
the boxes as high as three times a day,
but this cleanup does not represent
one days work, but the wash of the
whole winter.
THE bonanza claims, of course, are
al idhCll up, anu Tic ClCChS lliC
rich finds have been made are taken
clear up to the top of the mountains,
but we hope to get hold of something
that will satisfy us before long, for
there are as good fish in the sea as
ever were caught, they say.
Il will probably go up to Too Much
Gold Creek tomorrow and get a To-
cation there. They had a stampede,
and 1 was informed by a friend that
was there that there were claims To-
Gated there by men who were not en-
titled to them, and that he would put
me onto one"
THE FEVER AT NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, July 22.-The World"
says: The Clondyke gold fever has
reached this CT q. At all the ticket
agencies and railroad offices inquiries
are being made about rates.
What will it cost to send my son
to the new gold fields?" a well-dressed
woman inquired of C. E. Lambert, the
General Passenger Agent of the West
Shore Railroad.
Mr.. Lambert gave her the figures,
and she promised to return. ''She is
only one of a dozen who have been
to see US this week. said Mr.. Lambert
The first expedition from this city
for the Yukon gold fields will leave
early this week. All the details have
been arranged at the Office of the form
er Judge George M. Curtis. The party
is to comprise William H Edwards,
young lawyer in Mr.. Curtis office, a
son of Billy Edwards of the Hoffman
House; John w. Edwards, a Brooklyn
druggist; Dr. James w. Broston of
Brooklyn and Charles Edelman, a civil
and mining engineer of this city.
In addition to scientific and CASTRO
nomieal supplies furnished pro rata,
each man will put 81 200 into a COM
mon fund. Every detail has been care
fully arranged, and all that remains
to do is to engage passage on the Pa
cific Coast steamship Queen, which will
sail from San Francisco August 7th.
This will be attended to by Judge Cur
tbs, who is in the metropolis of Califor-
MIA on legal business. All supplies win
be purchased at San Francisco, and the
party will leave the Queen at Juneau
and go overland to the Clondyke dis
trict.
Speaking to a reporter one of the
members of the party said: There is
one thing in favor of the Yukon dis
trict, and that is the abundant supply
of fresh fish. We will have plenty of
fishing tackle and every article neces-
sary to establish a comfortable home.
The doctor will look after our physical
welfare. DR.. Clark. too, is a pharma-
cist, and he can compound the doctors
prescriptions. We viii have the best
equipment experience can suggest, and
we shall be well supplied with weapons
to use in self-defense if necessary
DR.. Edwards, who has visited Alaska,
has prepared a list of meats, sacharine
and farinaceous food products together
with fresh and dried fruits and pickles.
To this will be added tea, coffee, choco-
late, spices. etc, and the supply is
besed on a total of seventy ounces of
food for each man daily
This amount" said DR.. Edwards
may be reasonably assured, as the
quantity necessary to the maintenance
of mans perfect health in a latitude
such as the Yukon. We intend to take
along a good supply of spirituous liq-
ors, as they will be of great value to
US"
Each of the party is in excellent spir-
its, and confident of success.
w B. Fasig,. prominent horseman
CT Cleveland, well known in this city.
is authority for the statement that he
and a number of New Workers have
chartered a steamer, and are arrang-
ing an expedition which will sail from
this port in September.
ANOTHER STEAMER.
CHICAGO, July % The North
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