The herald., 1897-10-24
THE YUKON
FROZEN UP
No Gold Will Come Out
This Season
IA HIDEOUS OVERLAND TRIP
TAKEN BY MINERS FEARING
STARVATION
They Bring Reports of Gold in Horse
loads, but It's Awful Hard
to Get
TAKEN BY MINERS FEARING
STARVATION
.ssociatea Press Special Wire.

1
er Humboldt arrived tonight at 10 O clock
with five men from Dawson City. leaving
there September 80 and three. men from
Minook and other points on the Yukon.
They say no gold will come out this fall
as this steamer has taken the last of
those who have come down the Yukon.
The river is already frozen hard and the
river boats laid up for the winter. The
Humboldt left St. Michaels October 9.
The five men from Dawson and John F.
Miller and Frank E. Sims Of this city;
C. A. Harrison of Atchison, Kan. Will
liam Dubell, New Jersey; and William
Braund of Black Diamond, Wash. They
were passengers on the river steamer
Margaret, which came down the
river within 200 miles from St.
Michaels. When they found the mouth
of the river blocked with ice they re-
Ysolved to come overland at all hazards.
For seven days they crept forward
through terrible wind and snow storms.
Some of them fell in their tracks and had
to be helped by their stronger COM
panions. They crossed rivers covered
with thin coating of ice, by lying down
and pushing their packs before them
and at night they sought shelter from the
storm by huddling in an Eskimo tent
or entirely unprotected from the biting
wind save by blankets.
OF the 5000 or 5000 people in Dawson
and vicinity, at least 1000 will be obliged
to flee from impending starvation. Up
to September 8, when the Miller party
M vys nc 1r, hor
three to twenty per day and there is
no doubt that the ratio will be con-
tinued all winter. Three hundred men
were working in the gulches and in the
hills were several hundred prospectors.
all Of whom knew nothing of the short
age and were depending on the COM
spany stores Cor provisions One way Of
relief is open to the miners. Five hum
! dred or 1000 could winter at Circle City
100 miles below Dawson. and draw their
supplies by dog train from Fort Yukon.
Circle City has 500 houses and is said to
be the largest log cabin town in the
world.
John F. Miller says there will not nec-
essarily be starvation, but certainly
miners will suffer extreme privation. Five
hundred men intended to come down
the river but that is closed and they can
not get out.
There is no doubt that the people of
Dawson have been alive to the situation
for six weeks.
Our leaving" says Sims was the be-
ginning of a stampede for grub. Trans
portation companies at ST. Michaels and
Fort Yukon claim the liquor traffic has
had no effect on thesupply of provisions.
Not more than 80 tons of liquor, they say,
has gone into the country With the
blockade of the Yukon every possibility
vanishes of treasure by the steamer
land. No gold will come out this year.
"There is any amount of gold at Daw-
son. 1t is not unusual to see horses load
ed with dust. But the mines are owned
by men who know their value. One sees
it OH every hand" say the returning
miners.
at seems plentiful but you must re-
member it was more plentiful in the
United States treasury and is just as
hard to get. People who flock to the
mines expecting to pick up gold in the
grass roots do not realize what they are
up against"
There is no doubt that a large amount
of treasure will come from the Yukon
next year If the miners can get CROUCH
to eat to continue drifting curing the
winter. The gold sent out early this
year will not be a circumstance to the
output OF next year. Mr.. Miller says
nothing of considerable value has been
found this summer. There is rot an inch
of ground unstaked on the Kioc,dike.
The following named creeks have been
located: Sulphur, Quartz ard Moose
Hide, for distance of twelve miles
above the mouth; Henderson, Dominion
and Victoria Gulch. Moose Hide creek
is five miles below Dawson, Henderson,
creek is twelve. miles above Stewart
river and Victoria Gulch is twelve miles |
below Stewart river.
ONE PASSENGER
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Oct. 2s.-
The schoovaer Fischer Brothers arrived |
today after remarkably rough trip |
from st. Michaels, her only passenger
being w. D. Gaylord of Buffalo. N. Y.
says the governments deter !
mfnation to make a military reserve of
st Michaels and the country within
radius Of 100 miles will be matter of
great satisfaction to the better classe.
Gaylord started for his home in the
east today, but will endleavor to-ieach
Dawson City in the spring by way of
Chilkoot pass
WON'T CUT RATES
TACOMA, WASH, Oct. 23.-The WASH
lngtora and Alaska Steamship company
announces today that it will place a
new steamer on the run to Juneau and
other Alaska ports in conjun,tion with
he steamers City of Seattle ard Rosa
lie, giving steamer from Tacoma ev-
Try five days. 1t is reported that the
Northern Pacific railway Will route
passengers from the east to Dawsor1 via
his route and the Chllkoot Railroad anG
transportation company, recently or
sanized. There is no incAcatton of the
Pacific Coast Steamship company In
lugurat ting n ra Ia. war fo.. Ah> ,,.,os,or~