The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-15
HOME FROM THE KLoNDIKE.
But MT. Moylan Returned to Stam-
 ford Without Gold.

ford Without Gold.
 Patrick Moylan arrived at his home In Stamford, Wednesday night, finishing the last stage of his return from the Klondike by the seamer Shady Side. He returns with an interesting experi- ence of life in the Klondike but without the fortune he went forth to seek last January with the members of the Connecticut and Alaska Trading and Mining association. The Advocate gives the following of MT. Moylan's travels.
 The Norwich Sentinel says: He left the interior on Aug. 15 and sailed from Fort Valdez on Sept. 10. On the same boat were 300 miners, disheartened and eager to reach their homes in the United States again. after having spent their savings and undergone suffering in expeditions in search of the yellow metal. When seen to-day by an Ad- vocate reporter, however, MT. Moylan was apparently as cheerful and happy as though he had returned with a sack full of gold. His rugged and healthy ap- pearence denoted that the Alaskan cli- mate quite agrees with him, but the beautiful climate was offset by many hardships which beset life in that country. Shortly after reaching Alaska, MT. Moylan and few others separated themselves from the company After some prospecting and interviews with old miners returning from that district, the Stamford man concluded that time spent in scra ratching for gold in that sec tion was time lost Hundreds were go- ing in, however, and there became de- 1nand for packers, to carry equipments I'D the glacier which confronted them. A climb of about one mile was required to reach the top, and $3 a trip was offer ed. He devoted himself to packing and made from $25 to S30 a day while it lasted. He had just formed a partner ship with an old miner Louis J. Myting, and they were about to travel the earth for more inducive spot to dig the yellow dust, when his partner fell into the waters of the river, July Il, and was carried off by the current and drowned.
 Despite the reports of discoveries of gold in the Copper river districts, and especially by members of the Stamford party, MT. Moylan corroborates the statements of these Stamford men who previously returned home. No gold has been found, nor any trace of it. Sluice boxes had been found on the banks of s the streams and lakes old with age, indicating that miners had been there years before.
 The Stamford party are now located at the head of Lake Telerva, about 100 miles in from the coast, and are pros pecting some fifty miles further in. AS winter is the only fit time to travel in that country, they are anXiously wait ing for it. They will not have long to wait, as snow was already falling when MT. Moylan left They propose then to start to Forty-mile Creek, which is some 150 miles further in. A part of the company will remain and keep camp at the foot of the lake.
 B. F. Smith, who succeeded MT. Mur- phy as president of the company, is putting in some sluice boxes at Lake Tonsina, where the men are now pros- Decting MT. Smith, they claim, is a more enterprising and energetic man than was their former president. It is he who will lead them to Forty-mile Creek.
 Every member of the company is in excellent health, MT. Moylan says, and Lindsay Stead who ,broke his knee cap, is about again, and is now in charge of the company's store at Port Valdez. Re- garding the attack of "cold feet" with which the remaining members charge those who returned home, Mir. MOylan said that they are not the only ones. Of the thousands who went into the Cop per River district but a few hundred now remain. There was no sign of gold nor prospects of any, and he thinks they did wise to return home while they could. Not even a claim, he states has been recorded in that section, and no probability that there ever will be. It was all one grand big scheme on the part of the railroad and transportation companies, with the support of some of the Western newspapers, which are still reporting false stories upon the return of some of the miners. One in particular came to Mir. Moylan's mo- tice. A man who has been no further than Port Valdez was credited with having acquired a fortune in dust at a small lake in the interior which the man never sew.