Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-19
CANE bACk FROM DAWSON.
0ne Woman in Party Which Reached
Seattle on the Corona.
The Yukon Packed With Ice-The
Returning Klondikers Say It
Would Be Imp 3ssible to Send Re-
lief to Dawson at This Season.
One Man Paid 5000 for the Priv
lege Of Walking Out Behind a
Dog Team.

Seattle, Wash, January 18.-Twenty-
two persons arrived last night from
Dawson City on the steamer Corona,
bringing with them a small amount u
gold dust and drafts on the North
American Trading and Transportation
Company and the Alaska Commercial
Company amounting to between $780,
600 and $1,000,000. In the party was
one woman. She is the second woman
to come out this winter. The
amount Of drafts brought down repre-
sents the proceeds Of sales of claims
10 the Cudahy- Hea1y Yukon and Klon-
dixie Mining Company and private par
ties The large individual amounts
were brought by the following: J. d.
Campbell, 100000; E. H. Jenkins,
$780, 900; Leonard Sedgwick, 100000;
Andrew Oleson, $4,000; T. E. Bren
ier, $4,000; Joe brands, $4,000.
IN reference to the food situation at
Dawson, the men corroborated previous
reports that while food was scarce,
there will be no starvation. They con-
slider that it will be impossible to get
relief expedition in at this season
Of the year. Relief expeditions can
easily reach the foot Of Lake Lebarge,
but the trouble will begin when the
Yukon river is reached. The Yukon is
filled from shore to shore with great
ice ridges from ten to twenty 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 taken with
dog teams. A roadway can be cut
through these ridges, but it would re-
quire 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 con-
sidered entirely impracticable Heavy
snow storms occurred this week on
the Chilkoot Pass, and travel has been
practically impossible for days at
time
Powder creek, an affluent OF Quartz
creek, has been having a boom, pans
of 1913 and 81 being a common thing
now. Of course the stream was locat-
ed as soon as the first important dis
coyery was made. All Gold creek
shows pans Of SO to $500, while the
miners on Hunker creek, Henderson,
Dominion, the Big Salmon and the
Stewart all declare themselves salts
fed with the prospects.
One Of the first men to stake ground
on Eldorado and the very last man out
Of the Klondike country is Andrew
Olesen, known as the big Swede."
He is notable as being the owner of
the claim on which the biggest Klon-
dixie nugget has yet been found. The
lump Of gold was valued at $685.
Replying to request for an estimate
Of the winters gold dust output of the
camp, Joe Campbell, one of the return
ing miners said: I'VE have done
great deal Of figuring on that, and it
now appears that the output, notwith-
standing the scarcity of food and light,
will be from $l2 10000 to SIC, 600, 600"
Dr. Fl. H. Littlefeld, Of Skaguay,
came in on the Corona. He has just
closed a contract with the Canadian
government to pack provisions to Lake
Bennett for % cents per pound
T. L. Grady, formerly banker of
Fairfax, Mimi, paid 5000 for the priv
ilege Of walking from Dawson behind
a brisk dog team. Muret Anderson, an
elderly gentleman Of st. Louis, made
the trip after much the same fashion.