The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-29

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shortage was coming and knew that
they had but TO ask for high prices and
receive It. can relate, however, an In
stance where pcivate party sold 10
miner a sack OF -four for S75 ana bacon
at 81 per pound"
II. A, Ferguson salds
THE situation at Dawson was re-
lleved by the exodus TO Fort YUKON.
doubt II there win be anv actual star
walton there, but there viii shortage.
The old-tlmers have provisions enough
to carry them through. The stores are
practically clean out. All they would
sell was five pounds Of sugar to the
man. Flour could not be bought at all.
One or two sacks were quickly picked
up at 5000 per sack.
wages are still Sl5 per day, but they
nre sure to 20 down to IS by next sum-
mer, and IS day there is no more than
81 20 day outside"
Thomas Magee, sr., the well known
San Francisco capitalist In an inter
view with the correspondent of the As
soeiated Press said:
"The excitement over the failure OF
the steamers. TO bring food up TO Daw-
son continued when the Dalton party
left. The police took charge for two
days Of the stores and warehouses Of
the Northwestern and Alaska CONNER
cial Company as precautlon only.
Flour was selling Mt 80 n pound and. no
sale OF less than fifty pounds was made.
No plans have yet been formulated to
avert the starvation Of those who are
short Of provisions. Those well sup
piled have not much sympathy with
those who are snort because OF the
fact that the majority OF these latter
went in with little food, although
abundantly warned at Lake Bennett in
advance.
at had not been discovered up to o.
tober l6, who shot the two men In Daw-
son, who were caught stealing food.
One was found dead; the other fatally
wounded, and died at the Catholic hos
pital. 1t is believed that n secret Or
ganizntlon exists for the purpose OF
shooting down thieves. The organlza-
tlon OF hunting parties for the winter TO
hunt moose wns talked OF and will be
Garfield out. Dysentery and accompany
ing features were general at Dawson
last summer. caused by the swampB on
WHICH lHt vi lllt NVNll 10 Dulll
and poor drainage and sewerage. The
sickness viii be worse next summer.
The river water was bad. but there is
one spring OF water out Mt the Catholic
hospital. Nothing was talked but the
grub election, The solution will prob
ably be a public committee to gather up
voluntary or enforced contributions.
The food thus gathered is to be pub
e.. 49, IL
cash, by those to whom II is given.
The Yukon river practically closed
twice about September 30 and again
about October 25, but the ice ran out
hgain and left the river free, so that
the parties who had taken chances OF
being left out In the wilderness, most
of them short OF provisions, probably
got to Dawson, or near II. This opening
of the river twice was n phenomenon
never known to occur before. There was
no new mining excitement. With q per-
sistence heretofore unexplained, many
parties from Dawson, as well as new
comers. went up tho Stewart river.
Nothing whatever except good claims,
have get been discovered there. The
belief, however. Is that rich discoveries
will be made there.
Jack Dalton and Mr.. Maloney. n law.
yer Of Juneau. have purchased OF Hugh
Ferguson and Alexander Mcdonald,
skookum claims numbers 1 and ., for
SS2. 800. It Is reported that large ad-
vance has been offered 10 the buyers.
Skookum claims are looking up because
some OF them have yielded initial work
fta
where. Thomas Magee. jr, has pur-
chased interests on some OF the best
creeks, EldoradO. Bonanza and Slsoo-
KUN. He will return TO develop those
claims very early in the spring BuBl-
ness In connection with them was what
brought him out. An agent OF the
Rothschiids who invested sixty thou
sand dollars last fall,has made arrange
ments 10 return in the spring. Because
OF the failure OF the September steam-
crs to take passengers down the Yukon
early enough 10 give reasonable assur-
ance that ocean connections would be
made at st. Michnels hundreds wno
were intensely anxious to get out of tho
country for the winter VIII later try 20
get out over the ice md lakes with dogs
and slcighs this winter. Many OF them
will suffer nreatly because competent
guides and dogs are both scarce. The
people there are being largely prevent
ed from developing che enormously
rich country by nearly utter isolation
and scarcity OF food,
"rho work to be done IL sufficiently
hard and trying at best and It's great
difficulties should not be Increased. A
railroad In the real wnnt, II steamboats,
were run frou Lake Bennett to Dnwson
they could not travel continuously. A
rniiroad would be for oil OF the year
The Dalton trail goes over very easy
country OF remarkably light grades A
Cnllberger Of San Francisco, " In the
field, surveying a route. We passed
him fourteen miles from Chllknt He Is
reporiod 10 have capital behind him, He
said his company win begin work by
tho argl OF January Somewhere quartz
and placer mines OF great extent ana
richness arc 10 be found IN that coun-
iry. through which We passed every
whore, nnd II Is my deliberate opinion
that California and Australia are like
IL Ia have their past aud present vaet
mines outdlslunccd by the development
of thc noXt ten years IN that Wide ro-
glon. m saying this. nm not dream.
inu VI adding stimulus to the Wild nnd
bllnd heilpr Hkcltcr rush " nlmlegs
pooplc. who have hecn, nnd viii be
tunbllng In all sortB OF unprcpnrcd
ehapps into that Wild country
"fl war generally prophcalr1 at Dhw.
p1n that there would next summer and
IAN be- nearly nm great number of olll -
ropw ~ NJ lncomorg Some Vcrg iioh
etrlhca. none VI which were made last