Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-07-22

Seattle, Wash, July 21.-B. w.
Shaw, formerly a we'll known insur-
ance' man Of this city, has written a
letter to a business man in which he
states frankly that he does not expect
to be believed.
This is a great mining strike" says
Mr. Shaw, probably the greatest on
the American continent or in the
world. Gold has been found in great
paying quantities except on two creeks,
about 200 claims. Some of the pay
streaks are nearly all gold. One thous-
and dollars to the pan is not an I'M
common thing, and as high as 100
ounces have been taken out in single
pan. 1t is not unusual to see men
coming in with all the dust they can
carry.
you would not believe me when
tell you that | went into one cabin
and counted five five-gallon oil cans
full Of gold dust, but it is a fact. 1t
is the result of the work of two men
during the winter and the dump is
not much more than half worked out.
There has been about $2,000,000 in
dust taken out so far in the district.
At low estimete | believe that there
will be $5O,O0O,000 taken out during
the next year"
There are promises Of an additional
steamer service between this city and
st. Michaels, and also line OF Yukon
river steamers. Arrangements are be-
ing made by company that is being
organized by local and Eastern CAPT.
talists. The SCHEME is to build sea-
going ship and light-draft steamer for
the business between st. Michaels and
Dawson City. The company is organ
lied on a 100000 raid in capital
basis.
Fort Townsend Wash, July 81
Owing to the rush to the Klondyke
gold fields, and the still greater rush
which is expected next spring, the
Puget Sound Boat Company has decid-
ed to put a steamer on the Yukon river
to carry passengers and freight from
St Michaels to Circle City, and the
Klondyke Valley steamboatmen here
estimate that beginning about the trst
of next April large steamer can leave
the Sound for Alaska daily with all the
passenger and freight accommodations
crowded.
British North Americans are stalk
ing out a railroad to be built from
Telegraph creek to Testin lake, 100
miles. there to connect with the boats
via a series of lakes into the gold re-
gion of the Yukon. A line of steamers
will be put in operation from Fort
Wrangle up the Stikeen river TO Tele-
graph creek. The railroad is to be
narrow gauge. This route would be
5000 miles shorter than the present
one via the Yukon.
Tacoma, Wash, July 21.-Dr. Willis
Z. Everett. a mine expert, has been
offered SIS, 200 to conduct small party
of explorers into the KlOndyke Dig
gings for New York capitalists. ~
have refused the offer, said DR.. Ev-
erett, "but if the proposal is made TO
my liking l shall go. | spe vt two years
making a typographical 81 yey OF the
Yukon, including what is NV known
as the Klondyke district, for the
United States government. have yet
to see a man who has remained in that
country LOT tNO years anu lCboihOu hAo
health, or who could live afterward IN
a civilized, temperate zone commun-
ity. Although the thermometer drops
to more that 20 degrees below zero,
and the frigid air freezes your breath
into a shower of frosty crystals, the
humid. sticky, nasty heat OF the sum-
mer causes more suffering than the
frightfully cold winters"
San Francisco, July 21.-Clarence j.
Berry has arrived in this city from
Alaska. With him was his plucky
young bride of year, who braved the
rigors of an Arctic winter on the klon-
dyke and helped him to make one OF
the biggest piles of any Of the FORUM
ate miners who helped to populate Daw-
son. Berry is credited with having
brought away from the Yukon $4,000.
This tells only part of the story of his
great strike for he left behind him
nearly $4,000 of money he took out OF
ground. He invested $4,000 OF 1t in a
claim and the rest he paid out for Ia
hor Berry is q wears old. When he