The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-15
CONE FROM EVERY LAND
SEATTLE THE HOME OF THOUSANDS
OF STRANGERS THESE DAYS.
FROM Every State In the Union. and
Most Every Country in the World
Ia Represented In the Passing

| NO single band Of adventurous fortune
hunters, bound for the home OF the aurora
torealis. have left Seattle better equipped
to hunt out the secret hiding places OF
| gold ribbed gravel than the squad OF six
| steamer Hueneme. AT the head of the
party is Ear, c. Emery. son Of Ex-senator
| Lewis Emery, of Bradford, Pa. With SIX
well broken oxen and ten tons of freight.
| the party Will make for the Hootalinqaa
and Pelly rivers. intending 10 prospect
some Of the dry gulehes OF the smaller
! tributaries of these streams. Mr.. Emery's
father has been in the oil business for
| thirty years past in the oil region OF
| Pennsylvania and owns number of wells
| with pipe lines to the coast. The Emery
| party viii bore through 10 bed rock win
| peculiar device which has been used fer
i years in boring for oil in PENNSYLVANIA
| None of the hundred and one other
| schemes to make prospecting easv is like
| this one. and IT is perhaps safe 70 say that
/ few OF those that have been adopted by
! different parties have seen practical use
| for any considerable time.
| The machinery TO be used by Mr.. Emery
| and his men in hunting for gold in the
| Yukon may be described as follows: A
| long tapering tree is feiled and attached
| 10 a stout post from twelve to fifteen feet
| from the butt. The butt is anchored to
| the ground and made fixed by the use Of
| rocks and by binding II firmly 10 stakes
driven into the ground; the tapering end
is left high In the air. the whole piece
| held up by the stout post well braced. 1t
twelve or fifteen feet from the heavy
end.
Near the tapering end a rope is fastened.
A few feet back of this. the boring ma
chinery TO be used consisting OF a long
and heavy iron rod. fastened by links Of
steel TO a drill. is suspended.
man at the rope pulls down on the
small end of the timber which holds up
the drill and weight AS he pulls at the
rope. the weight shoves the drill into the
ground. This operation is repeated rapid
ly and soon the driil, being turned round
| and round, opens up hole into the
ground.
Mr.. Emery says that by using steel
pointed drills and bits he can bore through
granite. The device is simple enough and
1t has been used In boring for oil FOR
| nearly a quarter of a century in Pennsyl-
vania.
The members of the party are: Earl c.
Emery, NJ. oueemer. John r. Mcdonald.
| y. r. Thornton. James I.akin and 3.
| Jaynes. They carry supplies sufficient to
! last them eighteen months.
Manager John B. Hogan. OF Carriers
| Under the Dome" company. has just
come TO Seattle after some novel expert
erces In British Columbia. Mr. Hogan
| has always been staunch friend OF Seat
| tie. and In reply to some statements made
| in Victoria about the comparative cost OF
| Quitting in the two towns offered to
| make a bet that the difference was not 30
| per cent. or 50 anything else, and that II
4.
! the purchase of supplies by Americans in
| Seattle. Mr.. Hogaus remarks were over
/ heard by merchant in Victoria, and he,
| later in the day approached the manager
| with a proposition TO furnish him with
| progra mines enough for the whole season
/ il he would allow a line to appear on the
| bottom. conveying the information that
| Victoria possessed advantages over any
| other place az an Quitting center. Mr..
Hogan informed the merchant that he had
| no interest in programmes. as they were
| furnished by the theaters where his COM
| pany appeared. The merchant remarked
| that he thought that Mr.. Hogan had
| considerable interest In Seattle from the
way he spoke regarding It's advantages as
| a place TO purchase supplies MY inter-
| est answered Mr.. Hogan. lis that am
| an American. and correspondingiy loyal
10 an American city" Subsequent TO the
| offer of the programmes the same Vic
| toria merchant supplemented II with an
| additional offer OF $500 IL the Victoria peo-
| pie might furnish the programmes with
| the foot note. This offer was also de-
| clined.
| Frederick X Gusiin, treasurer OF the
/ Seattle * Yukon Steamship Company
has arrived In the city from Chicago and
| with Mr.. J. +. Light vice presid.nt and
| manager Of the company. has esta hliShed
! ~ ~ 8
/ will operate the steamers rseelenaw and
| Elihu Thompson between Seattle and St
| Michael. Both are now en- route from the
/ Atlantic 10 the Pacific coast. One OF the
| ocean liners Will be operated between Sc
| attic and Dyea and Skagway Three
steamers and three large barges are being
| constructed by Moran Bros. for the COM
| pany.
IL have no doubt that Illinois will send
| many thousand people TO the gold fields
| OF the north" said Mr.. Gustin al the But
/ Ter last night. Chicago IL a verlsable
/ hot-bed of klondke excitement. Every
| one IS talking Seattle. and the wonderful
| prestige enjoyed by this city in connec-
| ton with Alaska shipping and trade Is
well understood in the East. | am much
| pleased with this city. and although /
| heard much OF the enterprise OF Its citl~
! gems and OF the hustle and life and com
! rnercial activity displayed on every hand.
yet | WAS hardly prepared TO see such
| cosmopolitan city and the immense traf-
/ tic that IL passing through IL"
/ Bert Branin. who went north on the
revenue cutter Bear az a mess boy, in a
| letter from Dutch harhor TO ms brother
/ Charles. an operator of the Postal Tele-
/ graph Company. says.
/ We had a very nice passage coming
up 10 Dutch haroor. We only got about
ninety or one hundred miles above g.
Michael and then returned 10 Dutch har-
Dor. We getting plenty 70 eat. bat IS
for clothing. the arernen and mess boys
are not faring as Well as the deck hands
/ bat We Will probably get better supply
when re start north again The Christ
mas presents that were Sens by the pe0-
PIE Of Seattle for the natives were grand
] The children were fickied 70 death !
( went ever 20 TnalaSka 70 the Christmas
eree and enjoyed the sight very much.
/. was awful lonesome until the I-akn1e
came. but not 80 bad now. for we can
/ visit Zach other; bsg stir & is lonesome
anyway.
/ Il think the Bear Nil 80 out OF con-
mission for while after this trip