The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-04
Two Steamers to Sail From San
Francisco This Morning.
The A1ki and Cleveland Sail From
Seattle for Dyea With a Full
Complement of Go1d-Seekers,
Carrying Also Large Cargoes of
Freight and a Number of Cattle
and Horses.

Carrying Also Large Cargoes of
Freight and a Number of Cattle
and Horses
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-Two
steamers will leave tomorrow for
Dyea, via Puget Sound. The YES
sells are the Noyo and the Walla Walla-
The Noyo sails at 10 a. M, from Mis-
sion wharf, and the Walla Walla at 9
a. m, from Broadway dock. Among
the Noyo's passengers will be a dozen
women who will accompany their hus-
bands on the trip to the mines. Elx-
Mayor A. c. Scott of Springfield, ILL.,,
Will also occupy cabin on the coaster.
A big pile of miscellaneous freight is
awaiting storage in the steamers hold,
and the prospects are the vessel will go
out well loaded down.
The office of the Humboldt Steam
ship Company has been besieged by
persons who wish to secure passage for
st. Michaels. Two large barges are
being built at Oakland for the char
terers of the pretty steamer These
bargeS will be carried on the steamers
deck, and on arrival at ST. Michaels
will be put together and launched.
First they VIII be used to lighter the
Humboldt's cargo ashore, and then will
be tOWed UP the river to Dawson. The
expedition expects to reach the Klon-
dyke by September 10th. The Humboldt
viii carry about $50 passengers, from
present prospects. About fifty tickets
have been sold already.
The Caspar expedition leaves to-
morrow for Dyea, and the North Fork
clears for st. Michaels on August 18th.
On August 18th the Farallon sails for
Dyea
AT the office of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, under the Palace
Hotel, there was a lively demand for
transportation on the Walla Walla all
day. All first-class accommodations
had been Disposed of the day before,
but the eager hunters for gold on the
Klondyke We're not to be stopped by
little things like that in view of the
hardships before them in their long,
weary tramp over ice and snow be-
tween Dyea and Dawson Those who
came. late were satisfied with steerage
fare. The Walla Walla connects with
the Queen on the It'll, but she carries
many passengers for the Mexico. which
sails for Alaska from Seattle two DAYS
later.
TWO STEAMERS FROM SEATTLE.
SEATTLE, Aug. 3.-Adverse reports
from Dyea are laughed at, and big ex-
petitions to the mines are being planned.
The steamer Bristol. the largest sent
north, to carry 300 horses and thousands
of tons of freight, has just been chart
cred to leave Victoria on August 10th.
The charter party is selling horses, in
cluing transportation and feed to Dyea,
for from $50 to 800.
The steamer Alki sailed at o. m. to-
day for Dyea, with a full complement of
klondyke-bound prospectors, fifty
horses and fifty cattle. The steamer
Cleveland left tonight for ST Michaels,
with so passengers, S0horses and 40 tons
of freight, or | 900 pounds to each man.
Captain Ray, Z. S. A, goes north on
the Cleveland to examine the situation
in Alaska.
The four masted schooner Novelty is
loading for st. Michaels with freight
for Yukon River points. She will said
the last of the week.
The Pennsylvania Smelling and Rein
inc Company of Philadelphia, will send
sailing from here August 10th, to make
experiments in the interior of Alaska,
which will be watched by the scientific
and business world with interest The
company's representative is W. A.
Rogers. metallurgist and nlineralogist.
SHORT AND EASY ROUTE.
WASHINGTON. Aug 3.-There is a
short and easy route to the rich gold
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communication to the interior Depart
ment from j. NJ. o. Lewis, civil en-
gineer of Salem, Or, who says he can
open up at a small expense a route
from the south of the Copper River by
which the KAondyke may be reached by
a Journey of not much more than 300
miles from the coast.
The route which he proposes will
start inland from the mouth Of the
Copper River, near the twenty mile
glacier, about twenty-five miles east
of the entrance to Prince William
Sound. He says the Copper River is
navigable for small steamers for many
miles beyond the mouth of it's princi-
pal eastern tributaries called on the
latest maps the Chillina River, which is
itself navigable for a considerable dis
lance. From the head of navigation
on the Chillina, Mr. Lewis says either a
highway or a railroad could be con-
structed without great difficulty or very
heavy grades, through What the natives
call Low Pass" probably the Scoloi
Pass. From this pass the road would
follow the valley of the White River
to the point where 1t empties into the
Yukon on the edge of the Klondyke gold
fields.
George B. Becker, in an unpublished
report made to the geological survey of
his Investigations in 1895 of the coastal
districts, says that most of the islands
of the Alexander archipelago contain
gold deposits, yet unworked, that would
probably repay very handsomely we'll
directed efforts of placer mining. There
are deposits in the neighborhood of
Sitka and generally on Baroneff and
Admiralty Islands and the beaches of
the adjacent mainland Another fair
" promising region is in a group of de-
posts on the Kenai Peninsula, on the
scout beast shore of Cook Inlet and at
YakutaI Pay and the beaches of
Kadiaki Island These regions have not
yet been explored. only to a limited de-
gree, owing to the unfavora bic pre-
cipital condition Of the coast