The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-16
BUTTE News.
COLONEL DOYLE IS HOME
he IL Going Back to. the Klon-
dixie in the Spring.
LOCATED MANY CLAIMS
Aftsr the Abnormal Rush Has Died Out
Alaska WI Be Q Good Country
for Men Who Know How
70 Make Money.

Colonel Frank Doyle got back from
the Kiondyke Monday night and yes
terday was engaged In shaking hands
with everybody In Butte. Everybody
knows him. for he Is one OF the Oldest
p~rospectors n mining men In these
parts.
Colonel Doyle left Seattle about Aug.
I Of last year and was accompanied
as far as Juneau by John X. Toole and
John Gillie. He went over the Dyea
trail and the Chilkoot Pass inc at Lake
Bennett took passage on a boat. reach
ing Dawson by boat In the quick time
OF ten days from the e of navigation,
camping every night.
II went right to prospecting" said
h colonel. land made a number of 10
cations. There was a great scarcity of
provisions last winter n / went TO
Fort Yukon and Circle City. partly on
ice and partly on the water. In the
spring I went back TO Dawson. There
were plenty Of rations in the spring.
II have secured a number Of good
mining claims, but a taken very lit
tie gold from them as YETI / am going
in again next spring to open them III
j will go in over the ice as 1 can get
In earlier that way. l have been la
charge Of the clean ups Of Harper.
-1eS AN hi1A NV o"h tLt
townsite. which is a very responsible
position, but j was sick during the sum
mer and concluded to come out for the
winter. j came back up the river,
leaving Dawson about Oct. / on the
last boa to White Horse Rapids. There
was a portage of two miles and then 1
went by boat to Lake Bennett. From
there I followed a trail for 80 miles
10 White Canyon over the Skaguay
routs. There is a railroad from there
into Skaguay which is run by Murray
Miles. who used to live in Butte. There
are 1000 men working on the road n
they win run It to Fort Selkirk. which
Is q Canadian post 200 miles from Daw-
son. The road will be over the pass
by spring.
DIR. Reed is we'll. 81 Marks is also
well. He Is working on a lease n
has a show of making money Tom
Bulger is working ON a good lease on
Dominion Creek. Dan Drew Is running
a big boarding house called the Mon
tana. and is doing very well. He lost
his brother by sickness last winter.
There is a good deal OF sickness there,
pneumonia, with some dysentery.
THE Klondyke is bound to be a great
country after awhile. The big rush is
dying away and when 1t Is over the
country will be better than 1t has been.
There Is no doubt but there Is plenty
of gold there. The country lis all staked
now in that part. In the spring there
will be a rush to the Allan country
which Is nearest the coast or n of
the tributaries of the Yukon. Some fine
prospects have been opened up there
and I expect quite a stampede in
that direction.
Everything is high in Dawson. You
can get meals there now for a dollar
but in most places they charge sl.50 to
81 for a meal. and in some places 81.
There was practically no fresh meat
there last winter. but there will be
plenty of IL this winter. Pat Calvin.
who used TO be City Marshal of Helena,
has gone in there with 1000 head of
cattle. besides sheep and hogs and there
will be plenty of meat. Calvin was
backed by a London syndicate and is
making a fine thing out of his specula-
iinn-n