Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01


new FL Dorado in Alaska. were receiV- T
ed here yesterday and have excited the .
greatest interest locally in the hncs on .
the Klondyke. a party OF twenty-five
or more viii leave This city for juneau .
in the spring
The three young men are Joseph .
Ffzrerald OF 80 1871 Eas, Mound
street who lef, ln tbe spring ior Alas
Ia: VIII Berg. % Clifton. who let- 90
the spring also. and Tom oB1ien'
brother on Mut OBrien. ex-President
Of Trades Assembly. who has been IN
Alaska flr tcn years
The frs. two named are at Dawson
CITY and the latter az Circle City.
Fitzgerald. In a letter here 70 his
mother. sent her two small nuggets
taken from the Klondyke He writes
AS follows after telling of his being
wrecked shooting the rapids on the
Upper Yukon and losing everything.
III Is no use talking; this camp Is
the greatest gold field ever found. they
are lust taking the dust out by the
handfuls. There has been as high as
Sl 500 in one pan. where IN CoCraoo
$50 was a very big pan. There is more
gold here than ever known before IN
the world They pay $40 a day up
her. Up 70 the diggins they pay SO.
There is no money here, all gold dust.
In ig q wonderful sight 10 see some or
tho miners come down from the Gig
gins staggering under the weight or
sacks of gold weighing from 100 20
800 pounds There Is so much gold
here that they are packing DO In whisky
barrels. They are locating new dig
cineg every little while that are pay
ing Jus. as we'll Remember that this
place has Just been found-last fall
Before that time a claim that would
nay $50 a day was good. and the most
they had struck but now they make
$4,000 OF $4,000 day. They are
building up the town fast. paying car
penters S15 Gay.
There are hundreds OF men that
Ave como In here iE the last year
couUUu 70 SyU,UuU apiece vi course,
this find will bring in thousands here,
but I am glad / am one of the early
back. for / know what 10 is 1t is the
. fastest and most dangerous trip a man
ever made through thirty miles of riv-
er IL takes just two minutes to run
three-fOurthS of a mile. The roar and
rush of water is terrible When you
enter the canyon you don't know any
thing until YOU get out The next dan
gerOus place is what is called White
Horse rapids, and it is very dangerous
and full of rocks If you row in it it
is almost sure death. All around are
graves of men who have been drown
cd by carelessly going through the
canyon The next dangerous place is
Lewis Tiver-that is where I got ship
wrecked-and next comes the Five Fin
gers and the Rink rapids. You can
guess what it is, and there is no fun
about it.
a sad thing happened here yester-
day A young fellow who had just
sold his claim for $4,000 and was wait
ing for a boat to so out died with
heart disease. ! guess the sudden for
tune had excited him too much"
O'Brien, in writing TO his brother
says; Forty Mile creek is in the Brit
ish northwest territory. There is no
trouble here about the boundary and
no disputes between American and
British miners. Americans do not
have TO become subjects of Great Brit
ain in order 70 hold mining ground in
British territory. BY paving q license
OF Sl5 a year you are entitled 20 all
privileges. But aliens cannot hold
mining ground in the United States,
so the Americans have a shade the best
Of it. The only dispute between the
two countries is over the coast boun-
Diary, and here at Circle City we are
soc miles from the Pacific coast and
I 400 miles from the Berine sea. The
richest mines to-day are in the British
terrilory-one Of the richest camps in
the Known world. Five new creeks
were discovered last fall with 600
claims Of 500 feet to the claim
Some of the claim owners on Bon
anza and Fl Dorado drifted out in three
months S150000 clear of all expenses. |
] have no claim as vet in these mines.
but am going up as soon as the river
clears of ice enough to allow the
steamers to travel. and then / Will re-
turn little lower down the Yu6Ca and
open a large coal mine which ; think
will in a few years be worth more than
a good gold mine. as wood is scarce
inthis country and the population and
river transportatiOns are increasing
raldly.
Brg, in his letter to his parents un-
der date of June It. says.
We had a fine trip in here. for il |
was pot cold and l did not see much
hardhip about it; part of the trail
was lRrd, but after VIC struck the river |
il wis easy enough. The hardships |
and cld are all newspaper wind: any |
good, StrOng man need EOt be afraid !
Of Il. The river was not without dan |
ger, but that made il exciting. and il 4
was grind. You come down the river 1
some PAGES like a train. but | would |
not nave missed seeing it for anything !
There were four of us in the boat with |
but one and One-half tons altogsther.
Some places il is very swift and shall |
low, with rocks, so one has to be on
his guard I steered most of the way
down. We ran the canyon and I also
rode the Five Finger rapids. We got
through all safe and did not lose
thing. A great maTy lost all they had
There were no liv&s lost this year. so
far as I have heardA
1T Is very warmS here now. lust as
Asrm as Il ever get at home, but it is