The San Francisco call., 1898-08-09
But Conditions at Dawson Are Now Becoming Most
 Alarming.
Deadly Ravages Of the Dysentery Among the Many Thousands of Idle
 Men.

JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 4 (by steam ship Rosalie to Port Townsend, Wash, Aug 8).-Still the gold continues to pour out of Dawson. Between sixty and seventy men have arrived at Dyea and Skaguay only nine days from Dawson. Only a few sailed for Puget Sound and home on the Rosalie the majority preferring to remain here and at the Lynn canal towns for few days rest. The amount of gold dust brought out by this party is estimated at about $150,000, while the drafts in the side pockets of the fortunate ones will reach sum not to exceed $200 o00 It is impossible at this time to give a complete list of the names, as those who have come hele cannot recall them. The estimate of the amount of treasure is conservative one. and only about twenty in the party have any treasure. The others are miners who failed to make a good location and gold-hunters disgusted and returning home.
 When the crowd comes down from the passes it will be possible to give list of the names and more particular information as to the amount of treas ure owned individually. Several heavy sacks are in the Rosalies safe. The steamer stayed here only just long enough to allow some of the old timers an opportunity to greet old friends, being In. haste to catch high tide at Wrange. Narrows.
 Dysentery is spreading rapidly at Dawson, and there is almost a panic there. Scores are taken down with the complaint daily. The hospital is full to oVerf1oWing, and many are eotng down the river or coming out this way on account of the disease The cause is ascribed to the drinking water and the bad sanitary conditions of Dawson and the camps. About fifty men have died in the last thirty days.
 No new strikes are reported The country is staked for nearly 100 miles around Dawson in every direction. One hundred and fifteen men left Dawson on the little steamer Ora July 26, about sixty-fiVe got off at the wood camps along the Yukon and Lewis rivers. The fact that so many got off to be employed at the wood camps is significant for two reasons. It indi- cateS that many men who have gone to Dawson are hard up and are taking any kind of work they can get. also that the time from Dawson to Juneau with the increase in wood camps and fuel for the small steamers running between Lake Bennett and Dawson, will have a day or two knocked off 1t. It Is quite possible that one may be able to go from Dawson to Puget Sound in ten days and from the Sound to DaW- son in seven days, being, favored with sharp connections between steamers, before the river freezes next winter Under the conditions of a year ago Dawson was not nearer than thirty days either by way of St Michael or Juneau. A letter of date of July p of which the following is an extract has been received In Juneau from George E. Pilz, an experienced miner. It states the real situation in Dawson and vicin- tty:
 "I was In a boat, and the crowd in it would not stop anywhere. They were in too big hurry. to get here, and now they curse themselves, as there are nearly 30,000 people in this district. I send these few lines by one of the boys coming out, as the Canadian mail is very poor. There are several thousand men each on Stewart, Indian, PelIy, White, Big and Little Salmon and the Hootalinqua river, and the Lord only knows how many are below here. I went out to the diggings and spent a week Everything is staked and thou sands and thousands of claims are To- cated without a color in them. One has to lay low and watch his chances. All