The San Francisco call., 1898-03-10
RETURNING
 KLONDIKERS
 FIND GOLD Good Luck of Men Ice-BOund on the
 Yukon. Prospect Along N Neigh bor- ing Creeks and Are
 Enriched. Bonanza Strikes on a Stream Not Far From the Big
 Salmon.
DAWSON'S SCURVY PLAGUE Scores of Miners in the Town and Vicinity Afflicted With the
 Disease.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 SEATTLE, March 9.-The steamship Humboldt arrived in port this morn ing from Skaguay. On board were eleven men just out from Dawson. They had over $40,00O in gold dust and about s10O000 in drafts The return ing Klondikers were: A. Bartlett, Cal lfornia; w. G. Savage, Saginaw, Mich; William Pardue, Alaska; H. B. Peters Dawson; Chris Solid, ColfaX, Wis; William H. Kiernan, Green Bay, Wis; E. J. Mccormack, Portland, Oregon; P $. Mason, Knoxville, Tenn; J. S- Pierce, Spokane; L. E. Brad, w. H. Savage, Saginaw, Mich.
 These men came out in two parties, the last having left Dawson on Febru ary :. They bring news of the discov cry of rich placer grounds on Walsh Creek, a short distance down the Yu- kon from the big Salmon River. Pros pective Klondikers who were caught in the ice at the mouth of this river and were compelled to winter there made the strike. In speaking of the rich find on Walsh Creek, William H. Kier- nan said to The Call correspondent this evening:
 We reached the quarters of the Ca nadian police at the mouth of Big Sal mon River on February 21. We found every one much excited over the newly discovered placer fields on a creek a few miles down the Yukon from the mouth of the Big Salmon. It had been named Walsh Creek after Major Walsh of the Canadian police. number of prospective KlOndikers who had start ed down the Yukon very late In the season were caught in the ice near the Big Salmon. They were compelled to go into winter quarters and put In the time that hung so heavily on their hands prospecting the streams in the neigh nf h ir1Cr If rQl llln fnt1r1d q until the new creek was tried. The first dirt banned ran 35 cents to the pan and from that up to 75 cents They have got nowhere near the pay streak yet, and the prospects are glowing. SeYenty-five cents pan for almost surface dirt is wonderful if the placer ground Is of any extent. Thirty-two men had located claims up to the time we reached the headquarters of the Canadian police. These claims are the regulation 100 feet, and all seem to show up well. The creek runs back from the Yukon about twenty miles," Chris Solid of ColfaX, Wis, gives the following statement of the scurvy epi- demic in the Klondike country. It is considered a conservative one by the other members of the party:
 When we left Dawson there were between thirty and forty cases of scurvy in the Catholic hospital there. How many men are sick with the terrible disease in their own cabins at Dawson and up on the creeks is hard to say. The num- Der is large, however and some of the men are very sick. They cannot we'll be moved from their cabins in the out lying creeks to the hospital. All of the bad cases near Dawson have been taken to the hospital, however. A num- Der are sick there, but they are not yet bad enough to go to the hospital. The Catholic authorities take any one whether he has money or not and are doing noble work. 1 do not know per sonally of any deaths so far from ScurVy.
 There is absolutely no need of any one at Dawson getting the scurvy. could live there a lifetime and never be troubled with 1t. After a few years in the interior country men get care less as to the variety and preparation of their food. This causes the whole trouble. Some of the old Yukoners have been living on little else this win ter than bacon, beans and bread. They cook them in a hurry and in very un- clean fashion. They don't seem to care for a variety Of food. They could get 1t If they wanted it. The old Yukoners the new corners are sick. They are too full of life and work hard, while the old timers lie around their cabins and do no more work than enough to keep them III bacon ana DeanS.
 In speaking of the food question Mir Solid said
 ITO illustrate the change in the pro- vision situation at Dawson I will tell you my experiences. I expected to stay in the country all winter and stocked up we'll with supplies. Some I pur- chased last fall and when I sold my supply just before coming out I lost heavily. I bought three sacks of flour in the fall for $500. Just before leaving I sold two sacks for $90, and had hard work to find buyer. I sold a case of desiccated potatoes for $30-just what paid for 1t after the boat arrived ID the summer. Canned goods, for which I paid $1 50 0 can, went begging at S1 At the stores you can get butter, milk, etc, in small quantities a regular sum- mer prices.
 The returning Klondikers report that the trip up the river was hard one, and all of the parties had difficulty in getting past Thirty Mile Creek Sey- eral of the members were slightly frozen.
 Another story of a fabulous find Is brought down by L. E. Brant. He reports that shortly before his party left Dawson a considerable exodus had set in to Rosebud Creek. This location is about fifty miles above Dawson and four miles from Sixty Mile Creek The story that first caused the excitement early In January was to the effect that @ party of men prospecting the Upper Yukon found gold from the start on Rosebud Creek. They took out dirt that ran from s4 to s10 a pan. The news soon spread, and already num- Der of claims have been staked and cabins built on Rosebud.
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