The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-31

yielding from III to 50 yard, which will
contain more material than 20 dredges
could work out in 100 years. will show
you gravel benches where, with four men
shoveling about four cubic yards each, l
cleared So 900 in two months. The gravel
yields 10 cents TO the pan, or $25 to the
cubic yard. The chances are that in the
channel it Is very much richer than on the
exposed part of the bars There Is enough
of this erial at $3.50 yard in Forty
Mile to last 90 dredgos 20 years. 1t is diff
cult of access, but quite possible TO reach.
The gravel Is small and easily worked.
There arc acres and acres of ground where
j have seen men take out eight yards, and
it yielded $24. There are also immense
bars and banks farther down the Yukon,
which have been prospected and whose To-
cation i know, which have yielded and
will go from 81 to So. There is another
tributary where the bars are very rich all
the way for 400 miles
$50 you sec the outlook is flattering.
Our party will include abont 40 persons,
many of them being from out of Chicago,
for we have extended our enterprise to
Washington and New York. The LIST of
July the second section of the expedition
will leave
AS W Jul Dodi, ~ 10 W W. II
sea home In every particular. The Flying
Dutcbman Is 240 feet long and will ac-
oommodate from 300 to 400 passengers.
The hull is of solid steel and double plates
1t will be adequately provisioned, not
only for our own party, but for the trading
posts we will establish in advantageous
spots. In this connection want to say we
are negotiating with the United States
IN son1 of
along with it's agents TO Siberia and Lap
land to purchase 100 reindeer for our com.
pany. These reindeer we will use for
transportation purposes principally in
winter. Our overland trip, however, from
Juneau to the Yukon river district will
be made on sleds drawn by dogs"
The plan for river transportation, as ex-
planned by DR.. Washburne, is interesting
and unique. The party has already placed
an order to have built eight river boats,
which may be sent in pieces and put to-
gether at st. Michael's. These boats will
be used at the time the rivers are frozen
as hotels for the people In those parts.
The dredges to be used, with their ex.
elusive patents, are already packed for
transportation. At one end of the dredgo
Is suction pump, and at the other end
series OF chain buckets, so that the gold
can be coaxed from the gravel In double
quick time. This dredging will be begun
as soon as the party secures Its sites, which
is expected t, be the latter part Of April
This talk about dredges reminded Dr.
Washburne of a telegram recently received
from Mr.. Vrooman, who Is now In Can
ada, and which reads:
I'VE have secured definite promise from
the Canadian government of exclusive
leases for dredging about 90 miles of vari-
Gus rivers In the center of the richest dis
coveries In the Klondike. This includes
five miles Of he Klondike river, ten miles
OF the Yukon river, beginning at the
mouth Of the Klondike, two ten mile
stretches on the Yukon at the mouth of
both the Indian and Stuart rivers and
other territory on Indian and McQuesten
rivers"
The co operative idea which underlies
this enterprise makes IL unique. This Is
the plan which gives every man equal
chance with his fellow wanderers after
wealth Each man going puts In enough
money TO patty psy his immediate ex-
pensss, but he company gives him tho
equivalent u stock at once, pays his ex-
penses for ~ months and presents him
with block Of stock for his services plus