The San Francisco call., 1897-10-02

-. UNALASk As ALASKA, Sept. % tyi.
steamer North Fork TO Tacoma; Wash:
Oct. 1.)-Professor p C. Richardson
: Seattle Is among the returning .passen ger.
on the North Fork. and brings some In ter
esting# facts from the aKlondike dIsl rict
3: He leftPuget Sound on the 25Ih Of July
poing over the PASS from Dyea and reaeh b.
E ing Dawson City on August 10 There he
remained six; days and took the steaine Ell
Bella for st. Michael, reaching there or
August %, JUST month after leaving Seat.
lie. When Richardson arrived at Dawson
on August u be foupd camp OF nearly
so tents and. possibly hundred cabins
in.the course of construction. Very littlt
preparation forthe winter was being M ad e,
most Of the people failing to appreciate
he rigorous weather that they must
undergo. -. * 81. :s.:
e. In the city nearly every one seem ed
TO be employed, money was plenty, but a
feeling prevailed that owing to the scar,
suffering m ust prevail during the coming
winter .sss - -.
Fl In the opinion of Mr. Richardson The
tood pro blsm at Dawson City is but one
.ritwo serious conditions that VIII exist
here. The health of the people is the
other. Dawson itself is built on swamp
at the mouth of KIondike Creek, whictt in
" / be winter is frozen solid and IN the s1tn-
:. 1neE is thawed TO depth of.about loot.
No provision has been made for drainage.
% There are fewif any outhouses, and all
*tke offal is dumped at the back doors or
ION lhe streets, and when the warm. sun OF
May and June come out it seems inevil-
II ia
during the months of July and August,
there were fifteen deaths in Dawson fro N
typhoid and this beforethe condition 81
the city was in any. way alarming .@::s.: .@::.
Among others were the two Carlson
: brothers. who had spent two or three
years in the country; had worked hard
and lived on insufficient food and; had
staked out one of the richest claims on
Bonanza Creek the previous fall, and in
June, having an opportunity to sell for
: $4,000 cash, they did SO, intending i O. :re-
: turn to Sweden, their native land. ~ 4. f.; s:
" Within the month, while waiting for
the boat to go down the river nd before
the money haa been paid, they both died.
The quality OF food which the more fortu-
>. nate ones have been a bic TO procure in
sufficient quantities is such thatlt will
leave lis mark. Scurvy has re ufied in
many cases. and men weakened from its
1. effects gladly leave the CuuDtry;fori a sea.
son TO recuperare bodily strength. Is ::
: :@3 MI. Richardson is Of the opinion that
:: Stewart River will be. the stream to re
Z celye attention next. "A mum Der of men
s. are already there and :he: thinks a
:slampede may follow. There Is, howeYer,
no. question but that Ell Dorado and
d. bonanza Creeks are nlarYelously rich, ind
during the time that. he was at Dawson
: reports from prospects on :Hunker Creek
: indicate that it might be equally rich as
: the other. -: -. = 3. IL: =:
III There are number of creeks ente ring
into India River whien have been pros
" pected and are said TO have good surface
Indications but nothing can be told un ii
!" holes. have been put down to bedrock
Mr.. Richardson will OF ha zard an opinion
: as. to the. amount OF gold the relurnine
= KIondikers will bring down. Many o
the men who have made mon ey :ex peci
10 come out on the boat which wa,
billed to leave there the first and second
week in Septem ber,. but unless the river
= rises, so the. boats can get across The
Yukon fats, there will be, ne means O.
- EOIlAb Al a. NV .hSls AtlSA e al
several hundred ofthese1 men,: ::
THE efforts Of the company are now be-
:: in g. directed not to getting in sufficient
:. supplies, which is: regarded as hopeless:
task. but to getting empty. boats up: tc
Dawson in: order to. bring miners out.
4. 1t will be epteasin., informal ion that Mr.
Richardson, brings to the effect that the
mines of Birch Creek, on the American
side, are not by. any means worked out,
although the greater part Of the popuia-
lion has been drawn to Circle City. In
E addition TO the good mines that are
: worked: there: now at q profit there are
miles ofcreeks that will pay:$8 of: SO per
:: day to the man, that will be worked so
soon as transportation and provisions are
-@cheapeDed enough to justify. cheaper
WAGES than the presentrate OF $1U or sic
:. .l.er day. -: @ q: =. ::a.,-'
:. Minooks Creek. several hundred miles
below Circle Ciyy, flowing into the Yukon,
IS the latest discovery, but it is difficult
10 make a: prediction as: to its richness.
: However. the Minook Greek cam will be
a:large one during the winter, owing to
the TACT that the steamers being able 10
getover the Yukon fats will leave large
part of their passengers at Minook until
spring.
On the 18th Of August" saio Mr.. Rich