Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-29
THE GOLD FIELDS.
A Big Chicago Party to Leave for
Klondyke.
SOLDIERS TO Be Sent TO ALASKA.
Canada to Take Every Other Claim and to
Collect y Royalty on the OUTPUT
Klondyke on Wall Street
Quartz Vein Discovered

CHICAGO, July 2s. "A party Of men
who wish to try the Klondyke gold
cure will leave Chicago on special
train next Saturday night en- route for
the newly discovered Alaska gold
fields. There will be 100 persons in
the party The special train on which
the party will travel will run directly
to San Francisco. There the gold
hunters will remain three days to pur-
chase mining supplies. The party will
then ship for st. Michaers on special
steamer The trip will occupy IA
days. Three steam launches will be
in waiting to transport them up the
Yukon to the mouth OF the Klon-
dyke river. This trip will require
IA days. Each tourist may take 800
pounds of baggage from San Francisco,
but only a portion of this will be taken
up the river with the party. When
the Klondyke is reached. the steam
launches will be moored in winter
quarters. The tourists will live aboard
them until the spring begins to break,
some time next summer. The trans
portation company claims to have
made plans for carrying enough pro-
visions to supply all its travellers with
plenty of food until next summer 1t
is the intention of the promoters of
the excursion to make the shortest
Journey on record to the gold fields.
An effort will be made to complete the
trip from Chicago to the klondyke
within 80 days.
SOLDIERS TO BE SENT TO ALASKA.
SEATTLE. Wash, July 2S.'-Capt. Ray,
U. s. A., with five officers and So men,
will leave Seattle for Circle City. Alas
ka. via st. Michael's, August 5. Orders
have been sent to San Francisco to
ship years supply of clothing, which
will include 100 wooden blankets, axes
and all tools necessary to be used in
cutting" Twelve improved conical
tents will be shipped to Seattle from
Philadelphia by express. Passage has
been secured for the United States
officers and their men on the North
American Transportation & Trading
Co.'S steamer Cleveland, which leaves
Seattle August 5. Each mans fare
will cost the government $3.50, and
each ton of freight will be charged for
at $50. The Dominion government is
to send So additional mounted police
to the Klondyke, there being 25 there
now. The men will leave from Vic
toria on Pacific Coast Steamship Go.
boat in few days. They will go in
from Dyea, travelling light, getting
provisions after they get in.
TOUGH ON KLONDYKERs
OTTAWA, Ont, July ss.-At the close
OF the second sitting Of the cabinet
yesterday evening 1t was announced
that the government had decided to
impose a royalty on all placer dig
gings on the Yukon, in addition
to Sl5 registration fee and 500
annual assessment The royalty
will be 10 per cent. each on
claims with an output of $500 or less
monthly, and 20 per cent on every
claim yielding above that amount. Be-
sides this royalty, it has been decided,
in regard to all future claims staked
out on other streams or rivers, that
every alternate claim should be the
property of the government and should
be reserved for public purposes and
sold, or worked by the government for
the benefit of the revenue of the Do
minion.
KLoNDYKE ON WALL STREET.
New YORK, July IS. Klondyke mat
ters are about to be Investigated by
the Mining exchange Of this city, and
steps taken to have the most reliable
information in the event of the listing
Of Alaskan gold stocks. The officers
of the exchange are in agreement as
to the gold discoveries being certain
to increase business and to lead to
more inquiries. 1t is also expected
that there will be "boom" in mining
stocks. Little else is talked Of at the
exchange than this new feature of
mining excitement, and the proposed
starting of the Alaskan syndicates.
QUARTZ VEIN DISCOVERED.
SAN Francisco, July 2S.-The latest
rumor from Alaska is of the discovery
of wonderfully rich quartz in large
quantities ON the Stewart river. Par
ticulars are vague, and beyond the
fact that the ledge is a large one, and
that the rock assays $500, nothing can
be learned. This, II true, will mean
much for the Klondyke district. The
Stewart river runs into the Yukon not
far above Dawson, and it is reasonable
to suppose that the placer gold now
being found below may have its origin
in the mountains at the head Of the
Stewart and neighboring rivers and
creeks.
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