The herald., 1897-11-11
Home by Way Of Chilkoot
Pass
FAMINE REPORTS AT DAWSON
NOW SAID TO BE VERY MUCH
EXAGGERATED
The Reaches Take a Contract to Build
Two Big Ships for Alaskan
Trade
Associated Press Special wire.

Associateo IEess oueclui WEcs
SEATTLE, WASH, Nov. 10.-The
steamer Homer arrived here this after
noon from Juneau, Alaska. Among her
passengers was C. C. Burns, who left
Dawson City Sept. 20. Burns poled up
the Yukon and came out over the Chill
koot pass. Burns stated that when he
left Dawson no one had started down
the Yukon for provisions. The people
were daily expecting boats from st.
Michaels. They thought that the boats
were delayed by accident and knew
nothing of their inability to ascend the
river. Burns said there will be no starry
alton at Dawson this winter, though
rations would be limited with some.
According to Burns the only new gold
discovery made this year was on Sui
pliur creek, and that field was not prov
ing as rich as Eel Dorado or Bonanza
creek. Burns brought down with him
about $4,000 In nuggets and dust, the
result OF two years work.
The Homer also brought out a party
of five surveyors who have been locat-
ing and surveying south across the
summit Of Lake Lindermann for a
Portland company of which D. Ross Is
at the head. They report that about 100
men are at work on tramway from
Sheep Camp over the Chilkoot trail to
Lake Lindermann. The last work of
the surveying party was done on the
White pass. over which 1t is proposed
to have a tramway in operation by the
LIST Of February.
Five members of the Canadian mount
ed police came down from Sheep Camp
on the Homer
ALASKA'S TRADE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10.-At a
meeting of merchants and manufacture
ogD interested in securing the Alaskan
trade for this city, Captain Goodall, q
member of the firm in which United
States Senator Perkins is interested,
stated that while supplies may be pur-
chased just as cheaply in this country
as In Canada, the purchaser will be OBJ
liged to pay duty of 20 per cent to carry
them through the British possessions.
On the other hand the opening of Dyea
and Skaguay as sub-ports of entry will
allow him to purchase them in Victoria
and carry them on to the mines duty
iree
He intimated very broadly that the
establishment Of Dyea as a sub-port of
entry was an injustice to the interests
, Of the citizens Of the United States, and
might have been brought about by the
influence which Eli Gage Of the North
American Trading Company had with
his father, the Secretary Of the Treas
ury. However that may be, the privil-
ege of bonding goods entered there was
an injustice to the interests of citizens
of the United States, and had been
granted at the request of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad.
1t was ordered that the joint commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce, Board
of Trade, and Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association, be instructed to
draft resolutions calling on the proper
authorities to close the SUPPORT Of entry
at Dyea and to cooperate with all the
cities Of the Pacific Coast to that end.
TWO BIG STEAMSHIPS
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1O.-The most
important project yet launched for
transportation to the Alaskan gold fields
was consummated here today, when the
Yukon company of Seattle, Wash, exc
cuted contract with the Roach Ship
building company at Chester Pa, for
two 5000 ton steamships to ply between
Seattle and St. Michaels, to connect at
the latter port with the fleet of twelve
Yukon river steamers now being built
by Moran Bros. at Seattle. The ships
to be built at Roach's will be the largest
and most complete American steamers
on the Pacific coast. They will be 41S
feet long, 4S feet beam and 27 feet deep,
$ and will have a carrying capacity of 420O
tons and 1000 passengers. All Of the
passengers will have berth accommoda-
tions. The ships are designed to make
speed of sixteen knots an hour, and 1t
Is claimed that they will be the fastest
on the Pacific coast. They will cost
$1,000,000 and work on them is to be
pushed night and day to have them
ready for the opening Of navigation in
the spring.
Andrew F. Burleigh Of Seattle, the
president Of the company, on Monday
signed the contract with Moran Bros of
Seattle for fleet of twelve large river
steamers for the Yukon, to run from
st. Michaels 70 Dawson City, in addition
to two boats and twenty-five freight
barges. The company will sell through
tickets with first-class passenger accom-
mOdations.
STUCK IN THE MUD
LYNN, Mass, Nov. 10-The schooner
Abbie M. Deering, in tow of the tug
Alice, sailed from Lynn this afternoon
for Alaska via Cape Horn and San Fran
cisco with sixteen passengers bound for
the Klondike gold fields. The schooner
had been only half an hour on her course
when she struck bar and was stuck
In the mud. The party will probably
have to remain where they are until
early morning.
Relief Volunteers
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Nov, 10-It is more
than likely that some Of the officers Of
the revenue cutter Corwin, now in port,
will be on their way in less than month