The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-13

Tacoma, Wash, Sept. 12.-9Irs. e. A.
Henderson, the first newspaper cor
respondent to make the trip to Dawson
City, returned ON the steamer Cleveland
from st. Michaels and is visiting friends
in this city. With her is her little g..
year-old daughter. She spent some
months in the mining district, aud gives
some interesting experiences i&5the far
north.
Talk about my report Of the finding
OF the S5o3 nugget, the largest yet discoV-
cred in the Yukon country which Nick
KnutSon picked uD ON the No Sc Ell
dorado. and is bringing to san Fran
cisco on the Excelsior. has increased
the excitement which a calm view Of
the danger side of the grub question
had partially allayed- When the Ex-
celsior with its reported. but probably
exaggerated, cargo of nearly 81 900, 600
of dust, reaches San Francisco. the
fever Will probably reach is height
Yet the excitement is all on the out
side. In the Klondike country even this
huge nugget, which is as large as your
hand. and almost a. perfect Matched
head shape, did not greatly excite the
miners.
Il am asked a score of times, is the
Klcndilze country as rich as re3orted?'
| was prepared to say: 1t can scarcely
seen newspapers. and I reply more eau
tously. In several papers L saw the
statement that somebody had seen five
hVe-gallon coal Oil cans of gold in one
cabin. the work of two men for the
winter No one in that country ever
heard Of such cabin. The truth is,
lifted less than $4,000 of dust in d
granite bowl with difficulty, Gold is
heavy to bear in more senses than one.
The Alex Mcdonald above referred to
by Mrs. Henderson is an old Colorado
and Utah miner and prospector, and is
well known in all of the camps of the
two states, especially at Park City and
Aspen. Colo.
''TheSe figures are acz<rate. l have
been up the Yukon all summer. From
April IL to June IL four men took out
from No Il EildoradO, from sOut q small
part of the claim, strip only 25xI0 feet,
81, SIS and have recently sold the claim
for S45, That IS so far the highest
amount got out of a KIondike mine.
nearly s90,000. Dawson City is swarning
with diSreputable women. Early this
spring there were over 40. There are
dozens more by this time, for they go
by every boat one of the creatures is
said to have made $500 in one day, and
another 81, 500 IN ten days OF the lucky
ones, Alex Mcdonald, who went in not
long ago strapped, IS now more than
million ahead.
''BiII Cottwell bought a claim for 500
and sold 60 feet of it for $4,000. This was
No II Eldorado- On No 3 Eldorado there
is a streak above bedrock three or four
inches thick. The owners are taking out
very little. because they can't do any
thing with the eumbrous gold Just now.
On another claim there are two holes and
from these four men washed out $751; 900 in
one month"
What is the most gold you know to
have been taken out in the shortest time
on Klondike?~
I can answer it with complete assur-
ance for the principal owner Of re claim.
Frank Densmore, told me of it himself.
Il was SO pounds of gold in one day.
That's equal to something like $4,000
The stories of lucky failures are ex-
tremely interesting Fritz Kloke tried
Ia sell mis- half in the claim for 500. he
could not get it. He has just sold the
same half to John ]. Healy for $4,000.
Charles EnSle of New York City bought
half claim at Victoria for SO. q man
offered him $500 for it soon after. IF he
had offered 800 said EingeI to me- L
should have taken it. but the larger sum
told me IT was good to keep and 4 have
a good thing there There are dozens of
just such fortunate strikes made blind
folded- This is the lucky side of Yukon
mining"