The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-19
MAD RUSH FOR GOLD.
Thousands Going From the pacifc
Coast to Alaskan III Dorado.
Wonderful Strikes Made In
Klondyke District.
immense Fortunes Have Been Washed Out In
q Few Months.

San Francisco. July 19.--The civilized
the North. There are two attractions.
One Is Andree and his balloon, the other
Is Yukon gold.
(, The entire Pacific coast has gone gold
mad about the Klondyke. The Alaska
Commercial company's s steamers Will not
be able 10 carry 1-10th Of the hordes
now preparing to start for the frozen
gold fields.
1t is estimated that 5000 people will
start from San Francisco toward
Alaska before August. From the ports
of Puget sound as many more will en-
bark.
Tacoma reports that men Of wealth in
that city are forming sypdicates with
the understanding that the men who do
the work are to receive half Of the gold
they secure. These s.ndicates are made
up of from 10 to 20 men and each one
signs contract to receive his share Of
the proceeds. Each party will scatter
on reaching the placers. and 1t is esti-
mated that at least two out of each
party Of 10 will strike 1t rich and bring
the average of all up to not less than
$4,000. -
Mrs. F.. A. Gage. wife Of the son of Sec
retary of the Treasury Lyman Gage.
came down on the Portland. She went
north on 1t, and was at st. Miohaels. She
said In an interview:
1.-THE country is enormously rich. The
present gold diggings are only a very
small part of 1t, and there is little doubt
that there are millions only waiting for
the miners to come and dig out. The
men from the Klondyke are not the men
10 exaggerate for have talked with peo-
pie whom know TO be truthful"
1t is declared that there is no danger OF
food giving out all reports to the con-
trary are not honest.
A letter received from Jackson City
under date of June Is contains many in
teresting facts. The writer. Arthur
Perry, a well-known citizen Of Seattle,
says:
"The first discovery Of gold on the
Klondyke was in the middle of August.
1896 by George H. Cormack, on a creek
emptying into the Klondyke on the
south, called by the Indians Bonanza.
He found SLIGO to the pan on a high rim,
and after making the find known as
Forty miles went back with two In
dians and took out $1400 In three weeks,
with three sluice boxes. The creek was
soon staked from one end to the other,
ana all the small gulches were also
staked and recorded. About Sept. 10 a
man by the name of Whipple prospected
q creek emptying into the Bonanza and
named 1t Whipple creek. He shortly
afterwards sold out and the miners re-
named it FL Dorado.
Jimmy McLain took out 81, 900 dur
ing the winter. Clarence Berry and his
partner, Anton Stander, panned out
about the same in the same manner.
Mrs. Berry used to go down to the
dumps every day to get dirt and carry
it to the shanty and pan 1t herself. She
has over $4,000 taken out In that man
ner.
"Mr. Tippen, from Seattle, has q rich
claim, and his wife has a sack of mug
gets worth $4,000 that she has picked up
on the dumps. When the dumps were
washed in the spring the dirt paid better
than was expected. Four boys on a
Lay in Ell Dorado took out $49,O 900 in
four months. Frank Phiscater, who
owned the Grand, had some men hired
and cleaned up $4,000 for the winter.
Mr.. Lippin, so am told, has cleared up
$4,000. Louis Rhodes, No. 25 Bonanza,
has cleaned up $4,000. Clarence Berry
and Anton Stander cleaned up s13O, ZOO
last winter. This Is probably the richest
place ever known in the world. They
took 1t out so fast and so much of 1t
that they did not have time to weigh 1t
with gold scales. They took steel-yards,
and all the syrup cans were filled"