Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-24
WORD FROM KLONDIKE.
Greg Stewart Plainly Describes the Situation
Around Dawson City.
SOME GOOD DISCOVERIES BEING MADE
,,. first Turkey and What It brought In
n Rafiie--On the Exchange-Mis-
cellancous Items.

crep Stewart, gentleman well
known to residents OF Salt Lake. but
hotter known, perhaps, to citizens of
Grand function. Colo. and who is
,,,,, In the despised Klondike seeking
ont n fortune. has written to his wife
1, this city, telling her of his expert
enca since February last, at which
fine he left here northwird bound to
re,oin his brother and associates In
tbe,r operations along the Yukon and
its tributaries.
Mr.. Stewart came down from the
north last summer, and In October took
INTO himself wife, leaving his broth
or and associates to look after a num-
Der of valuable claims which they had
formerly acquired, until his return.
His letter is dated Dawson City, N.
w. T., April 10. 1897, and was received
by his wife in this city on Sunday.
Through the courtesy of friend, the
News" is permitted to make few
excerpts. MIR. Stewart writes:
II arrived. safe at Dawson April sth
at p. M. and went up to the claim
the next day, finding everything all
right. Clair this brother) was some
what surprised, and glad to see me
once more. He talked nearly all night.
! met George Westfield, Dave Hanna.
Shortie Bowman and w. Il. Carpenter
the day arrived, and gave Carpenter
his letters. tie mustn't made
anything here, George Topham is
over on Dominion creek and / did not
get to see him, yet | don't think any
Of the Grand Valley boys have made
n fortune yet. / think some of them
will go out next summer.
Clair hasn't got any of my letters
written after September. but he has
been well and getting along fine. He
has worked five to six men all winter,
but only has two now, as the weather
Is too warm to drift. The claim turned
out all right and think we will have
good cleanup In the spring, as he has
good deal of dirt out ready to be
washed. The Fraction just below my
claim Is very rich. They found about
30 ounces of nuggets today right Gloss
up to the line, not over two or three
feet from our line. one of the mug
gets weighed six ounces and Is worth
klOO. The largest nugget Clair found
this winter was a hundred dollar one,
and he has had several smaller ones.
He has been paying his help $3.50 an
hour. He has plenty of provisions to
last him all summer There are plen-
ty of supplies here. There has been no
suffering here this winter for the want
of food, ard although some were a
little short, II was more on account of
being hard up for money last fall than
anything else. y great deal of pro-
visions was brought up last fall and
held by spectators and was selling
very i.irh for while last winter. Flour
sold as high as 80 per pound and Other
things in proportion. Clothing was
very high; capes and mocasslns sold
for as much as $50 at one time: dogs
were selling from $3.50 to 5000 n head
one month ago, but are not worth much
now, as It is so late in the season. A
man was offered one thousand dollars
for his work horse the other day ana
refused to sell.
They have been paying ms high as
SOC per foot for hauling lumber up to
the mouth of Eldora creek, which Ia
about IA miles, and II Is worth 81 per
foot on the claims.
RICH STRIKES REPORTED.
There is a big change In Dawson
City and Bonanza creek since ! left
last June. The timber has been cut
off along the banks and hundreds OF
log cabins have been built along Bo-
nanza md Eldorado creeks. Many
rich strikes have been reported In this
part Of the country, but not many OF
them have proved to be much good sc
far. The strike on the hill by No. 3 is
true and Is very rich in spots. There
are a good many bench claims staked
In this nelghborhood.
II got the turkey and cake here all
right, and George Westfleld is going to
rattle the turkey on tonight. The cake
was n great treat to Clair and he sends
many thanks to you.
at Is true there was lots of sickness
and n great many died In Dawson last
summer. a great many froze their
feet and hands in this part of the
country this winter although 1t was a
mild one. There were about 500 people
went out on the ice this winter. we
were n Tong time on the way but had
a good trip. Several OF the best build
Ings in Dawson were burned last No
vember