The herald., 1897-08-13

| am onto snap where | can buy out
n-eighths of a 10 foot fraction on
Ell Dorado for about $4,000. | own the
other one-e ghth. The ground is divid-
ed up so that the other three owners all
want TO sell. One hundred and ten feet
! IS more than four men can drift out in
one winter. l may, if get it, work that
next winter.
| There are scores Of men here who came
in this spring who can work their own
ground and still keep it, and go out next
spring with $4,000 to $4,000 and more.
Look at this calculation: One hundred
| and fifty days is moderate estimate
| for drifting days in the winter; $50 buck
cts for two men to hoist in a day is an
average; pans to the bucket; 10 cen -
to the pan, is 150x150x5 to 10 equals
S11 $50; substitute so cents to the pan
(That is Mr.. Lippys pay-Jan. 8, 1896
averages now $1)-equals $50 25O; sub
stitute so, equals 81 125OOO So you see
| it don't take much of an average 10
make a good clean up in the spring.
There will be more money taken off
ten claims in El Dorado creek this, win
ter than has come out Of the entire Yu-
kon country during the last ten years
Take my advice, which l am not going
to offer to another living soul, and come
in early in the spring. If you don't get
onto some good property during the
summer, l Will gamble you can get a
lay worth $5000 with my aid | believe
| | have fortune in my bonanza prope rty.
but not big, compared with some claims
There are now two districts in the new
country-Hunker and Boranza-anG a
man can only locate one claim in dis
trict The gold commissioner will likely
throw all the country on the Klondyko
river above Huuker creek into one dis
trict. Twelve Mile may be another dis
trict. Five hundred feet is a claim
though that may be less next summer.
There will be great zeal Of talk in the
roast papers about every man bringin s
one to two years outfit If the majority
do not do so there will be a famine next
winter. Just the same, If man brings
! in the ready cash and buys his outfit
as soon as the first boats get up he will
be all right. No man without big out
| fit should land al Dawson with less than
$400 to $500 in cash. If you happen to
have about $4,000 cash beside, you could
buy in a safe part interest in a good
claim, provided you don't locate any
thing yourself
Leave Juneau about the middle of
March. You can buy everything you
want in Duncan just about as cheap
as in Frisco. The merchants there
know just exactly what is needed.
Buy two dogs. Don't fail to do that
Get them on the coast somewhere Get
short haired young (two years abou)
..1,0 ,A l., Il
as short as the mastiff, because they
cannot stand the cold. One hundred and
ten pounds is about the weight And you
could sell them for $100 apiece if you
wanted to the moment you land here
With two dogs you can, pull your load
clear to the foot of Lake LIE Barge and
need not pull a pound yourself A dog
is absolutely indispensable in here. One
dog will pull more than you will-600
pounds in the spring and $50 or 800
pounds in winter. OF course the more
grub you bring the better it will be for
you, but it costs quite a little to get
packing done over the summit. Would
advise you to hire your boat run through
the Grand canyon-$5. Get your sleigh
Quilt in juneau of oak and twenty
inches wide. Most everyone will tell
you eighteen inches is wide enough but
don't you believe it. What extra feed
you have to bring for your dogs will
never be noticed, and when you see the
| 'other fellows tugging their lives out,
you will be glad that you did so. The
river will open about the middle of May
and it Will only take a very few days
to float with the swift current to Daw-
son. ! will leave letters for you at Daw-
son advising you where have gone, ana
where | think the best opening is, etc.
| Will give you all the news and hope
will have fortune waiting for you. II
we do not strike something during the
summer it will not be because I'm not
on the lookout for it
1.-THE dreaded winter weather is all
right. 1 haven't had a real good 'shver'
all winter L wish it was winter all the
year Build your boat big enough ana
wide enough. A. crowd of four is the
proper caper.
''If you don't come in the spring you
can just charge yourself up with $50, 600
How about the Paris fair in 1900? I'm
going, you bet. Well, | must close-wil.
probably add three-page postscript.
l can only say Come: Gomez! Comet.
Be sure and call for your letters at Daw-
SON. Yours for a European trip in 1900,
LEWIS w. FOX
"P. Sect 1880 rifle with steel lead
tipped bullets and smokeless powder
etc. a few solid steel balls for small
game is a good scheme.
January s. 1S97--Since writing the
first portion of this letter we have be-
gun to get big pans ourselves The first
gold day we got $10S0 PAM the next
a $49.50; next an $50, and the next day
we got one pan with $212.22 (record)
and the next Sill 2S In the last week
or so Lippy has panned out about $500.
| have about decided to give up my spring
trip and take layout as / can make
from S250O to $4,000, against $500 to $17OO
working for wages until summer. Lippy
offered me 25 feet for $5000--and it's
worth it!
Don't mention the prospects men
toned on this sheet, as l.. wishes them
kept quiet.
There is now a possibility of claims
being reduced. If 1t looks that way in
the summer your plan will be to camp
on some El Dorado claim and l will also
camp on the trail of the gold commits
| sioner and as soon as the official an
lnOuncement is made / will start for you
with couple of Indian runners. Two
hundred and fifty feet will be easily