The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-08

IT should Ike TO be able 70 say that
food IN Dawson IS plenty. but 1t is not so.
There will be actual want in March.
April, May ard the fore part Of june
among the miners Of the Klondike. BY
this l do not necessarily mean starya-
ton, but serious deprivation"
These statements were made yesterday
by A. De Roux. who left Dawson octo-
Der "A because he was unable TO get sup
plies TO last through the winter. He was
obliged to let lie a claim on Campbell
gulch. simply from lack OF food 10 sus-
tain life until the boats shall come up
the Yukon from ST. Michael next June
or July. De Roux is a conservative man
and his positive assertions regarding the
existence OF a food shortage may be TAX
en- with confidence. Prior to going north
he was a mining engineer IN Eastern
Washington and left there TO try his for
tune in Alaska last August.
An Important Point.
LET me impress upon you one point
Of Importance. Il has been said that
owing 10 the number of people leaving
there VIII be grub enough left for those
who remain. Do not the men who come
out take provisions with them? II Is
long, hazardous Journey and n man needs
plenty to eat to bear up under the hard
ship. Not over 500 have left Dawson 10
go down the river TO Fort Yukon and
not more than 800 are coming out this
way. Before leaving these 500 had 10
purchase supplies. They went TO the
companies. not TO private individuals, ana
considerably reduced the supplies avail
able / estimate that there are now
6.00o men in the Klendike and there is
ample provisions for but 1000. A man
eats two-thirds again as much IN that
country as here. and what would Keep
one man IN this country a month would
last there about half that time. A ma
iority OF the people have provisions Tor
about four months, and the late arrivals
have next to nothing. Tc reach Dawson
as soon as possible they threw away ala
of their outfits save bare necessities. or
else. tempted by the high prices onered
them for goods, they sod out quantities
which they had better have held.
what 1t Costs to Live.
"Last September I paid 800 for fifty
pound sack Of -four When left several
parties came to me and offered to pay siCo
a sack for all the flour 1 could get in. IL
would be a good speculation 10 take IN
-four. but shall not attempt 1t. l know
too well the difficulties of the trail ana
return trip safely with food for myself and
partner. Imagine that 1t costs man W.
to get q very ordinary restaurant meal.
Isaac Rosenthal, formerly of the Royal
restaurant has the only restaurant IN
Dawson. He would be reap!ng harvest
at So 30 a plate IL 1t did not cost him near
~ all Of that 10 supply the table. The
companies have chiefly on hand sugar and
tea, with which they seem to have been
overstocked.
with the food supply so short, you may
ina CINE the rage OF the miners when the
steamer Bella arrived from St Michael,
September -. loaded principally with
whisky There were ominous mutterings
among the men, and had IL not been for
the interference of the mounted polsce. a
meeting would have been held which might
have led to disastrous results. The police,
about forty in number, are very vigilant.
and have the rougher element in good con-
troll"
De Roux appreciated the fact that con-
ficting stories would be brought down re-
garding the situation, and he was careful