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Mesa free press., 1897-06-04
GOV. MCCORD IN WASH .
= INGTON.

The Washington Times of May
18th, in an interview with Col
McCord says:
Governor-to to .be MeCord was seen
by a Times reporter at his tempo
rary home in Washington, .ast
night, in regard 10 his romi nation
and to the fortunes of the territory.
He is an enthusiastic Arizoniasl
ard talked of the present and the
future Of his home. He believes
that the Territory ind afterwasd
the Stat Of Arizona will be one Of
the finest in the Vest.
"Wby, " i,e said, ''the Salt River
Valley I.lonc ca" seaport half a
tail!ioh Peosl.'. i is the finest in
er.e wor|d. The tc,'ito,y is 800
miles long and IS i"rgt'r ihan New
York and pennsyl,auia togs her.
It il mostly an ag, icultnra| country
and s;iN be remarkable for this
more thar anything else: The
s6eep raising industry is in its IN
fancy; but II has wondetfpi pros
poets TO dream about. We can
raise oranges and lines and lemons
and grape fruit and FIGS, and all
the semi tropical fruits in as great
abundance and of better quality
than any part of California can
produce. The other agricultural
iuterests are almost equally i'm
portant IN their future, and are
eren larger now. And then it is
great stock raising colnsry, too.
ITO my mind the one paramount
need of Arizona is early admission
to the Union as a sovereign state.
It is the history Of every state that
has been admitted since the orig
inal thirteen, with very few ex-
cepptions, that within three, four or
i've years immediately following
their admission, they have doubled
in wealth and po2qlati ion. [ do
not believe Arizona would be an
exception; there is no reason why
it should Is not stat ehood then
a boon worth striving fo, The
best way to obtain it is by demon
strating to the world thgt we are
worthy CT it.
"lhis can best be done by enact
ing and enforcing good laws, giving
to the people good government and
the lowest possible taxation con-
sistent with commendable progress.
sion and that spirit of public
enterprise that ought to animate
the breast of every citizen by ele-
waiting 70 ? higher plane, if pos
sible, our common schools and other
educational institutions /; and hy
encouraging and inculcating TEN
perance, wcrality, virtue and good
citizenship among the people.
Another thing Arizona needs which
in Importance is second only to
Statehood is capital to build more
railroads, carry out more irriga :
tion projects and to develop its
latent resources and uncover it's
hidden wealth. ."
ssTo assure this we should set
onr faces like flints against every
act that in the slightest degree
hints or squints toward repqdiation.
I'm no other way con we acquire Or
retain the confidence OF capital.
Let US not forget that the eyes OF
che public are constantly upon us,
and remembering this, see 10 i
chat our acts are such as to reflect
credit upon and compel respect fo'
the Territory and it's people, dc
not forget that large share of this
advice applies to our public oficial'
ond hv ma II will he c0Nstantl,
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Have placed an order for one of the largest and most
complete threshng outfits that has eyer been n the
valley and will to CONTRACT to Dc threshng M in
Che best naansg !s snd It most customary rates
The Company is a strong one and has had many
year. experience ID Harvesting and thrsesshng |sst
Mesa free press., 1897-06-04

Pet toads are sold at s pence @
piece in Paris.
Mesa free press., 1897-06-04
Santa Fe, Prescott / Phoenix l.
::
RAILWAY co,
WITH THE
i.
SANTA FE SYSTEM
E~ ~ {
sh 'r.est a1d Quickest r,its - D'l:.r.
Kansss City, Chicago and st. Lcp!s.
SANTA FE TIME CARD.

SANTA FE TIME CARD.
Trains tor California iea:es Ash Fork ct 35
p m. arriving in Los Angeles next morn.
ing at 8 SO, and San Francisco same even
ing ct 6 Is. Train for the East leaves As
Mesa free press., 1897-06-04

SRth1yC ~ H2oA VIM NoA sAoOubNs ~ w h'
and $50 p M / i /.
Leave Ash Fork. southbound. 7f5 e ~ aid
Las pm
Leave Prescott, south bound, 4bs pm
Leave Prescott, north bound, 8 IS M
Arrive at Phoenix. south bound, at IL 45 p m
Tho scenic line OF Arizona. The best rout.
to California. The only North and South
Line ip Asixopa to the Grsnd Canon fathe
Colorado. PetriHed Forest. Great Pine Forest,
Clia'Gwelltnys, Great Salt River Valley and
other points OF interest: - - r.
"Thronyh tickets to all points in the Unitsd
StA3si, Cansds and Me@ico:
Nos. s:andi9 connect at Jerome Junctie n
with trains u U v&P lsy for Jerome. !
Dining efation at Skull Valley. Connections
made at Jerome Junction.
Connecting 1t Prsscott with stage lines for
all principal mining camps, At Congress juno
ton with Congress Gold Co r r for Congress
and stage lines toy Hsgqua Hsla Station, end
Yarneh. A Phoenix with N L R R for all
points on the System, also with sRvR R
GEO. A.sARGENT. G.PA,
MURPHY, Prescott, A T
Pres. 4 Gsnl Mgr, PrsscGts. RE WELLS.
Asst Genl Mgr, Prescott
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

not idle moment during the fifteen hours
of daylight.
On the wharf and on the steamer it was
a continuous rush. Between decks the
men were slowing cargo, while on the
main deck the cabin-boys were preparing
the staterooms for the favored few who
will go direct to Dawson City.
If the Bertha will carry nothing but
merchandise TO st. Michaels the chances
are that the George w. Elder will carry
little else but passe ngers from Portland
to Juneau or Dyea. She is scheduled to
sail on or about the Goth inst. and last
night Captain c. Miner Goodall of Good
all. Perkins & Co. went 10 Astoria to su-
perintend the getting away OF the steamer.
The Elder will not stop at any Puget
Sound port, but will go direct to juneau
via Alaskan ports. Many of those now
leaving for Juneau will not attempt to
cross the divide until next spring, but
then again many others will take the
| chances OF being frozen in on the upper
Yukon and many tales of danger, if not
disaster, may be expected.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
% x I P s Their

as souvenir ever since. He found it in
1890, nearly two years after he went in.
He first went to rocking on Forty mile
Bar, and next year he was in Franklin
Gulch above where he found this nugget
while digging drain. He could get
$40 so for it. He worked there three years
aud once sent out $525 in nuggets, and he
says that when the Klondyke find was
made he had smassed probably $4,000
during all those years and spent it all.
He went to the Kiondyke last October
with the rush and bought claim for $500
that turned out worthless, SO he was one
of the old timers who got LETT.
Then he and his partner, Charley
Meyers, took a "lay" on claim 20 on El
Dorado Creek and didn't find pay dirt
there. They took another lay with two
other men on claim 80 and went to work
March 20. They worked through dirt
giving $40 to the pan and kept on for
something better, and got it a. bedrock.
After twenty days of work and
getting out $28, ,0C0 they had to quit work
because the charcoal fumes from the fires
in the drift became too strong aud the
season became too far advanced. He is
now here with what he has left of his
$1,000 and next spring he is going back to
prospect for new finds way up the Pelly
River.
The others who arrived yesterday we're
T. Morrin with $1,000, Joseph Cazelais
with $4,000 and Joseph Derocker with
S70O0
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will leave their bones there. It is no

will leave their bones there. 1t is no
chlld's play TO go to Alaska at any time,
and to attempt to travel over the noun
tains in winter is almost sure death. The
storms there are simply awful and they
come with a suddenness that upsets all
the calculations even of the old-timers.
The Indians up there remain very closely
housed up from the beginning of winter
until late in the sprlng, and never go any
distance from home after winter sets in.
The question of provisions can easily
be overcome. 1T is simply matter OF
calculation that has been figured out in
every mining district in the world. Any
old miner can tel! you just how much
grub it takes to last man month, and
if you will multiply this by the number OF
months to be spent there you Will come
close to knowing how much to take. But
be careful to have necessary transporta-
ton for the provisions, or you might as
we'll stay at home. 1t is easy TO build an
igloo, or snowhouse, to live in, and they
are really much warmer thau the houses
| built of lumber. 1t will take at least 8
month 10 reach the diggings and then an
other two weeks to prepare for the winter,
and as the summers are not more than
three months long you will see that 1t will
take fully two seasons to make any show
ing at all.
1.-THE ground is frozen down as deep as
you can dig. and it is necessary to have
fires burning all night on the place where
you expect to dig next day if you expect
to make any progress at all. There is
great deal of game up there and plenty of
fish. l have killed deer, caribou, moose
and the big Arctic hares right from the
door of the cabin where spent the time
was there. There are polar bears, but they
are difficult to get. In the summer the
streams are full of wild fowl, and fish are
very plentiful. Ii party were to dele
gate one of its number as hunter he could
supply a dozen men with fresh meat all
summer long. In the winter it would be
a piece of rare good luck if any game were
killed. for the weather is so treacherous
that it is as much as a mans life is worth
to get away from the camp. And 1t gets
so cold that it is almost impossible to
handle gun even with heavy mittens on.
and any hunter knows that to do good
shooting you must have bare hands. l
have had my hands stick tight to the steel
barrel of my rifis and have the skin so
badly torn from This cause that l was un
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

con or beef candles. l pint vinegar,
pounds beans, 2 pounds salt, Y pound
pepper, pounds coffee or pounds tea,
! IA pounds bread per diem or an equlva-
lent IN -four. Soldiers may substitute GER
tain equivalents for these items.
Various prescriptions for years outfit
of provisions for the Yukon country have
been given. They are generally given off
hand by experienced men, who approx
mate it with a fairly good guess. Such
off-hand bill OF particulars was given
yesterday by n. Z. Picotte, who brings
out $24 900 in golddust after nine solid
years in the Yukon country. The fact
that Mr.. Picotte has been secretary of the
Yukon Pioneers and estimates that there
is 81, ,000 600 easy in one of his claims,
gives an added value TO his dietary ad-
vice.
1--WE generally figure on ton OF sup
pies to man for year, but this includes
his clothing, his stove and his mining
tools, and so on. Provisions ought to be
about like this: Flsur, 500 pounds, though
200 pounds wouIdNdo until the boats get
in with supplies next summer; bacon, $50
pounds; beans, $50 pounds; sugar, 100
pounds; dried fruit, 100 pounds; coffee
20 pounds; tea, 20 pounds; rice, sc pounds;
butter, 100 pounds; condensed milk, l
case; salt and pepper. THESE are the sta
piles, and other things can be added to
suit.
Clothing should include three suits of
good wooden underclothes, dozen pairs
of warm WOODEN stockings, two pairs out
side stockings. a good macintosh coat,
two pairs of rubber boots for summer. Foot
wear for winter, preferably mooseskin
moccasins, and mooseskin mlttens and
cap can best be got in the country itself.
So can shovel, picks and so on. paid
SIS apiece for three shovels last spring,
but that was exceptional, and they gener-
ally sell for about 50 So.
r. Crooks, miner, who has made sew
eral trips up and down the Yukon. has
further suggestions to offer regarding out
fits. He said yesterday in the office OF the
Alaska Commercial Company that every
miner who went into the Klondyke dis
trict should take with him 400 pounds of
-four, rs pounds OF bacon, rs pounds of
brown beans, 2 cases of evaporated pota-
toes, rs pounds of assorted dried fruits, rs
pounds of assorted dried vegetables. l case
of condensed milk, 5 pounds of baking
powder, 5 pounds of tea and Is pounds of
coffee, about 2 pounds of spices, some
salycilic acid, IS pounds of sugar, %
pounds of oat or corn meal, 3 cases of as
sorted canned meats and case of sea-
biscuits 3 or suits of flannel uudercloth-
ing, half dozen pairs of socks. overalls.
gum boots, Indian boots and mitts.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
RATIONAL POINTERS.
The Makeup of Those Year S
Supplies" That Gold Hunters
Must Take Along.

There is much important inquiry about
the food that man should take along to
last him during that first year of gold
harvesting on the Klondyke, since every
man should be his own sutler up there.
People who want to go are all trying to
find out just what provisions they ought to
take along, and how much.
The popular ignorance of how much
one will eat in year is remarkably wide
spread. People who have been eating all
their lives are no more competent 10
figure the thing out than baby, and
those who have been eating the most
seem to know the least about it.
The established rations of the regular
army may be of interest to many. The
army ration is supposed to EN- body the
accumulation of generations OF practical
experience with able-stomached me and
the highest type of dietary wisdom. The
army allowance for one month is as fol-
lows: Al ponds sugar. 81 Il pounds ba
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
HE WILL TRY 1T AGAIN.
One Who Was Years In Alaska for
the Government, Going


Tor a.
Fred Funston, formerly connected with
the United States agricultural depart
ment and later captain of artillery in the
Cuban army, left last evening by rail for
Portland, whence he intends to start for
the newly discovered gold fields of the far
north. Mr.. Funston is a son of ex-
Congressman Funston of Kansas and
spent nearly two years in Alaska in the
interests of the Government, making
studies of the fora of that region. He
says that he discovered gold indications
several times while he was working there,
but his time was too limited to permit a
careful investigation. He said 10 CALL
reporter yesterday:
II think that now. since all eyes are
turned toward Alaska, there will be de-
velopments in mining there that will as
tonish the world. 1t has always been be-
lIeved by scientists that large quantities
of goli would some day be found in
Alaska, and while there have not been
many reports of big strikes there 1 know
of quite goodly mum Der of miners up
there who have made good money out of
it. The great trout bic has always been a
scarcity OF provisions and of com pany. 1t
| takes very neivy man to 60 alone, or
even with one companion, several hnn-
dred miles from the base of supplies. and
| this has deferred many miners from work
ing claims that they have located.
Now that the rush is being made for
| the Arctic regions there will BIZ further ef-
| forts to locate mines closer to civilization
than the Klondyke River country. I
know of two men who have assured me
7, time and again that if they could get
companions and supplies sufficient to en-
able them to work two seasons through
without returning, they would develop
mines worth millions OF dollars. l think
| that they will now be able to carry out
their Intention, and / am going to try to
| get In with them before the rush comes
| to the nearer placers.
1.-The two winters | spent in that coun-
| try put me In position TO know how to
| take care Of myself there and 1 feel that
| shall be able to locate good claims at
least 500 miles nearer to Juneau than
those to which these gold-crazy people are
| going. l am much afraid that OF the
thousands who are going in now many
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
THE DARK SIDE.
There Are Many Who Go to Dig
Gold, but Find Only
nnaIh

Along with the stories of wonderful
finds of claims yielding almost ia abulous
wealth, and of men who had struggled
for years for bare subsistence and then
suddenly found themselves rich, come
others with tinge of sadness. They are
the stories of those who vigorously started
out full of hope and courage to win for
themselves a share OF the vast wealth
bold adventUrers, who pushed out farther
than the rest and were never heard from un-
til months later party of prospectors would
find in some unexplored gulch little pile
of human bones whitening in the sun-a
melancholy reminder of the curse of gold
telling their own story of death and
despair, and hanging around the fatal
trail would be droves of gaunt, wild-eyed
wolves.
Many OF these sad finds have already
been made, and in all the eager struggle
and thirst for wealth not one instance has
yet been known where the little band has
not taken the time to dig shallow grave
and decently inter these remains OF one
of their fellow argonauts.
In the more thickly settled regions.
however the struggle is not so hard, and
deaths, except from natural causes, are
less frequent. There also the diving man
the ills of the body and spiritual consola-
ton for his soul. Missions of the Episco.
pal, Roman Catholic, Russian and other
denominations are quite plentiful, there
being an average of one to every 100 miles,
and in most cases the missionaries are
both doctor and preacher.
When man dies on any of the claims
he has generally friend or acquaintance
with him who sees that the BODY is
brought 10 the nearest mission of his IA
vorite denomination, where it is LAID away
with the solemn rites of the church.
If any one is missed from one of the
numerous camps Information is always
carried 10 the nearest N ission, from which
a searching party, consisting mostly of
ChrlstlanIZed Indians, is sent out, and if
the body is found within reasonable dis.
tance, 1t is carried back to the mission.
Ii too far away a hole is burned in the
ground and the Eody inferred where found.
The death rate Is generally highest in
the spring, when many lose their lives in
the attempt to make their way up or
down one of the over-filled streams. The
bodies OF the many who perish IN this
manner are seldom found, although as
many as fifteen have been known to lose
their lives in this way in one season.
With the exception of those at the mis-
sion stations or scattered trading posts.
there are no regular graveyards, but here
and there throughout the country are
lone graves, some marked with a cross.
others with fence made from the stunted
shrubbery, where some old miner who
never struck his bonanza has been peace-
fully laid to rest by his comrades
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
TERRORS ARE MANY,
Arctic Perils, Famine and DesoIa-
ton Abound In the klon-
dyke Land

OAKLAND, CAL, July 22.-Albert Rol.
son Shippey of Haywards has recently re-
turned from the Klondyke region. He
spent three years trayersing the territory
ana Is we'll informed about the prospects
and hardships that are in store for the
prospectors now on the way or ready for
the trip on the Excelsior.
de is anxious to return to the El Do
rado IN the north. He left the vicinity of
Dawson IN the middle of July last. lust
two months before the discovery of the
Klondyke fields. His return home was
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
STEAMERS OF THE NORTH.
The Bertha In With More News.
Crowds on the Excelsior.

More gold arrived from Alaska on the
steamer Bertha yesterday. The fact that
it came from Unga Island did not detract
from the interest manifested by the crowds
who awaited the docking of the vessel, and
when $50 900 in bullion was brought ashore
one man would nudge another and say,
that's from Klondyke."
The bullion came from the Apollo mine
and the Unga mines sent down 600 tons OF
concentrates, which were taken to Selby's
smelling works late yesterday afternoon
Among the four passengers who came
down on the Bertha from Kodiak was DR..
nnison, the Alaska Commercial Com
pany's physician at that point. He says
that the hlondyke news reached Unalaska
by the steamers Excelsior and Portland
last month, and that the town has been in
a ferment ever since. Business men have
sold out their stores, policemen have quit
their beats, carpenters refuse to work any
more and manya half-completed building
is to be seen, while the builders are vainly
seeking transportation TO the new EI Do
RADIO.
Among those who are bound across the
divide are Superintendent Bald win OF the
North American Transportation Com
pany at Unalaska, and R, Handry,
the United States Custom house officer at
the same point. Handry cannot leave
until his successor is appointed, and
when the Bertha left UnaIaska he was
fuming and fretting like Gagged lion be-
cause he could not leave for the goldfelds
at moments notice.
1t was the same story at every point
touched at by the Bertha and the chances
are that labor will be very scarce around
Sitka, juneau, Unalaska and other Alas
kan ports this winter.
The Alaska Com mmercial Company has
not yet decided what to do with the Ber-
tha. The heads of the concern are more
than anxious to get plenty of provisions
into the Klondvke district as tbey fear q
famine during the coming winter. Atthe
same time they have to get the winter
supplies into Unga Island and the Bertha
must go to either one place or the other.
In the event of her going to st. Michaels
another boat will be chartered to carry
provisions to Unga.
Prospectors and gold-hunters need not
buoy themselves up with the hope that
they can secure accommodation on the
Bertha. She will go, if she goes at all, as
a freight boat Nearly all her cargo will
be for Dawson City and the hopes are that
the river will remain open long enough to
allow it to be brought to its destination.
The steamer Excelsior, which sails on
the 28th inst. for st. Michaels, was be-
sieged with visitors yesterday. All who
attempted to ascend the gangplank were
confronted with the sign mo admit
tance." and burly quartermaster was
there to enforce the order. The wharf
was stacked twelve feet high with cases OF
canned goods, and the ships winch was
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
Capital for KIondyka,

Articles OF Incorporation of the Alaska
and Yukon Gold Exploration and Trading
Company were filed in the Office of the
County Clerk yesterday with capital of
$500, 600, which is fllly subscribed. D. G.
HOBART takes $19S. 900. and Edwin ]. Car
ter. Witcher Jones, Jacob Stencil and
James s. Johnson $500 each. The cor
poration is TO last fifty years.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

able to use them for weeks at a time
Alaska gold mining IS all right if you go
fully prepared to meet all emergencies,
but otherwise it usually means starvation
and death. | venture to say that out of
the many thousand people who will be
enticed there by the wonderful stories
one half will never make enough to repay
them for their first outlay for provisions
and transportation"
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
Laborars Fight.

Charles Dugan and John Donovan, laborers
in the Street Department, working at Twenty.
second and Guerrero streets. quarreled last
night. Donovan struck Dugan on the wris
with shovel, infiicting an ugly wound. He
was treated at the City and County Hospital
and Donovan was booked q { the Seventeenth
street station for making an assault with a
dee div weapon.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

Ho, for Alaska! Klondyke District.
A special steamer will start August 1.
Fare $500. including one years provisions.
D. J. Grammar, general manager, 10 Mont
pOmery at y
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
NEW TO.DAY-CLOTHING
THE
REMNANTS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES so ssoss0as
BUSY
SEASON

We're engaged in getting
these out. Never yet in aW
It's history has our house
Tece1Ue6 such u severe
oUerhaulin9 as it's GETTING
these days. We're house,
cleaning and 1Ue're dome
our Worb With zeal and
2est with the purpose of
cleaning house.
I'LL small lines, all this
seasons goods, and nlL
this seasons choicest goods
nothing spared. Such
bargaM-eettj1g 0S you'll
enjoy today and to-noor-
ro1o will do your heart
GOOD.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

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