The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-18
Twenty-Five More KlOndikers
Arrive From Dawson City.
Bring With Them Gold Dust
and Drafts for S1,OOO,OOO.
TALES OF THE YUKON.
Saw the lee Standing in Cakes
Twenty Feet High.
No Question That the Gold Mines
VIII Be Permanent.

Seattle, Wn, Jan. 18.-Twenty-two
persons arrived here last night from
Dawson City on the steamer Corona,
bringing with them a small amount of
gold dust and drafts on the North
American Trading and Transportation
company and the Alaska Commercial
company, amounting to between $500, 200
and 81, 900 600. In the party was one
woman. She is the second woman to
come out this winter.
The amount of drafts brought down
represents the proceeds of sales OF
claims to the Cudahy-H -Healy Yukon and
KlOndike Mining company and private
The large Individual amounts were
brought by the following:
D. Campbell, S130, coo; E. H. Jenkins,
S12j. coo; Leonard Sedgwick, ,$100, 600; An
drew Olson, 100000; T z. Brenier, $46,
eco; Joe Brand, 1000.
In reference to the food situation at
Dawson City last nights arrivals cor
robOrates previous reports that while
food is scarce there will be no starVa-
tiOn. They consider that it will be i'm
possible to get a relief expedition in at
this season of the year. Relief expedi-
tiOns can easily reach the foot of
Lake Lebarge but the trouble
viii begin when the Yukon river
is reached. The Yukon is filled from
shore to shore with great ice ridges
from 10 to 20 feet high, the ice being
thrown up in great blocks and standing
in all sorts of angles. Men with dogs
can make their way by hugging the
shore but no amount of supplies can be
carried with dog teams.A road way can
be cut through these ridges but it
would require a large amount of money
and it is doubtful if the work could be
completed before the ice moved out of
the river in the spring.
The proposed use of reindeer in this
country is considered entirely impracti-
cable.
Heavy snow storms have occurred
week ChilO0Rf
travel has been practically impossible
for days at a time.
The news brought by the -reasure Ia
den miners who have arrived from the
klondike on the steamer Corona is i'm
pOrtant, chiefly in that it is conhrma-
tory of the discovery of the great moth
er lode. Welch, Coffin and Burt are
authority for the statement that the
original strike was made at the upper
end Of claim No. 80 Ell Dorado While
two StrinSerS, one at No % and anOth-
er yet lower down We're subsequently
located. Throughout the district the
discovery is accepted as assurance of
the permanency of the district as q rich
gold mining neld. As to the placer
diggings, they continue rich. Powder
creek, an aHuent of Quartz creek,
has been having boom, pans of 1915
and $4 being common thing. OF
course the stream was located as soon
the first important discovery was
made. All Gold creek shows pans of
$40 to S100, while the miners on Hunker
Salmon and the Stewart all declare
themselves satisfied with the prospect
One of the first men to stake ground
on FL Dorado and the very last man
out of the KlCndike country is Andrew
Olsen, known as the Big Swede.' He
is notable as being the owner of the
. claim on which the biggest KIondike
nugget has yet been found. The lump
of gold was valued at 1886
Replying to a request for an estimate
of the winters gold dust output of the
camp, Joe Campbell, one of the return
ing miners said:
we have done a great deal Of fig
uring on that and it now appears that
the output, Notwithstanding the scarci-
ty of food and light, will be from $12,-
900, 900 to SIS, 900, COO
/. l. Grady, formerly a banker Of
Fairfax, Mimi, paid $500 for the privi-
lese of walking from Dawson behind
brisk dog team.
Muret Anderson, an elderly gentle
man of St. Louis, made the trip after
much the same fashion.