The record-union., 1897-07-18
Nuggets.

Hundred Thousand Dollars in
Nuggets.
SEATTLE (Wash). July IA spec
ial correspondent of the ''Post-lntelll-
pencer" who was sent out from PORT
Townsend on a special tugboat to meet
the incoming steamer Portland, from
ST. Mfchaels. send the following dls-
patch
At 3 O'Clock the steamship from st.
Michaels for Seattle passed up the
Sound with more than ton OF sollo
gold on board and siXty-eight pasSeh-
gers. In the Captains cabin are three
chests and a large safe filled with the
precious metal. The metal is worth
nearly S7O0, 600 and the most OF II was
taken out of the ground in less than
three months of last winter, and III
size the nuggets range from the size Oh
a pea to a guinea egg.
OF the sixty-eight miners ABOARD.
hardly a man has less than SIo0O, ana
one or two have more than sIoo'oVo III
yellow nuggets.
One peculiar feature is that the plS
strikes were made by tenderteet Whlie
the old and experienced miners oil
many years experience, are su1erlhS
indescribable hardships and prlVatlohs
in Alaska and the Northwest territory
and have only a few thousand dollatS
to show for their labor. Fortune seem
cd 10 smile on the inexperienced men
who went into the mining districts late
last wear. as nearly all of them We're
fortunate.
The stories they tell seem too inered-
ible and far beyond belief. Instances
are noted where single individuals nave
taken out in two and One-haf months
cold to the value of $150,0O0.
Clarence Berry of Fresno, California,
went to the Yukon in 1890 and pros
pected several years without success
Hhe returned 10 me last autumn, was
married. and took his bride TO hloh-
dvke last November. He is now on
the Portland with S135. 600, the result
Of a winters work and fortunes smile.
Frank Physeator of BacetooT Michi-
gan. is another lucky miner. He v.sA
TO the Klondyke last autumn and is
now returning with $4,000, having
worked two claims with nine men,
three months. and he still owns the
discoverers of the FL Dorado district
Although most of the passengers are
returning home with plenty of gold,
they all advise and urge people VINO
contemplate going to the Yukon to take
not less than one ton of grub ana
plenty of clothing. While it is a poor
mans country, yet the hardships ana
privations to be encountered by mex
perienced persons unused to frontier
life are certain to result in much suf-
fering in the winters. They should go
prepared with at least years sup
plies.
The rush to the Klondyke region
commenced late last year and the
claims were staked out and worked all
last winter. Labor was worth SO a
dav last winter and flour sold for SbO
sack and provisions were proportion
ately high. Some of the mine owners
tried to lower the wages to $40 with
out success BY burning the ground
to thaw the gravel which was hoisted
ND about twelve feet to the dumps,
where 1t was sluiced and washed in
the spring the miners were able to
work during the entire winter. In the
early part of last month the thermom-
eter was up to S5 degrees in the shade
and in January was IS degrees below
zero.
Additional details received per the
steamer Portland, which arrived from
Alaska this morning only serve to con-
firm those already sent out about the
marvelously rich strikes made in the
Klondyke district recently.
Joe Goldsmith of Seattle, a reliable
man, writing to a friend. reports that
three men on Skookum Gulch shoveled
out eighty-five pounds of gold dust
(abut S16.000 in seven hours TINS.
H. A. Stanley of the Evening Her
ald." Binghampton, n. Y. sends word
that not one of the 200 claims on FL
Dorado Greek drew blank Provis-
ions in the diggings have been very
high.
Another writer gives very reasonable
figures for the prices of provisions al
Dawson City during the summer. Flour
was as low as So a sack. Wages have
been as high as so to $15 per day.
one thousand pounds of dust was de-
1iverad to the Great Northern Express
Company for transportation to Helena
and a large amount to the Northern
Pacific Express Company.
DISCOVERY OF THE RICH PLAC-
ERS.
SEATTLE CWash.). July 1.-THE
steamer Portland which has just ar
rived here to-day from st. Michaels
Alaska, brings the following letter
written TO a resident of Seattle, which
contains the fullest, most succinct ans
accurate account of the great gold dis
coveries which has yet been in print
The writer is well known in Seattle;
THE first discovery of gold on the
Klondyke was made the middle Of Aus
ust. 1896, by George Cormaek. on a
creek emptying into the Klondyke from
the south, called by the Indians Benan-
"a. He found 81 90 to the pan on 3
high rim. and after making the find
known as Forty Mile went back with
two Indians and took out S1,40D in
three weeks with three sluice boxes
The creek was soon staked from one
10 the other and all the small gulches
xvere also staked and recorded.
About September 10th man by the
name of Whipple prospected creek
emptying into the Bonanza on NO. d