The San Francisco call., 1898-05-12
A Californian's Hopeful Clutch at a Klondike
 Bon anZa.
Robert Anderson Expects to Make S1e,ooo,ooO by Hy-
 draulic Mining.
Secures a Twenty Year Government Lease of Part of Hunker
 Creek.

"Rich beyond the dreams of avarice." :" Such Is the expectation of Robert Ander- son. a well-known California mining man of wide and varied experience. who claims to have secured bonanza in the hion- dike gold fields.
 MT Anderson came directly to san Francisco in 1874, and has ever since been engaged in mining in California and else where In June last MT. Anderson went to the Klondilxe. and found that the lower five miles of Hunker Creek had not been taken up by the miners, on account of the stream being so wide ana nat. He immediately made proposition 10 Gold Commissioner Fawsett that 1T he could obtain a twenty-year lease or three miles of the vacant creek ne would, through his connections in London, put up S250 900 and demonstrate that hydraulic mining Is practicable in the Yukon coup- try. As the ground was bringing the Gov ernment nothing, the Commissioner recom- mended the granting of the lease. Hur- riedly going to Ottawa, MT Anderson had but little difficulty in obtaining the desired lease from the Government. IL being granted by order of the Council Crossing over to London, he formed large company, under the name or the Klondike Government Concession, Limited; of Hunker Creek, and easily induced several wealthy noblemen and prominent capitalists to invest in the enterprlse The company was capitalized at S2, 800 .O00, and the stock was all taken. The sum or S250, ,000 was at once put up as working capital. MT. Anderson came to san Fran an cisco a few days ago to engage an ex- perienced mining engineer and to make preliminary. arrangements TOT the con- struction of machinery, which will be shipped to Dawson at the opening or navigation on the Yukon next year 1nls concession. by the way, is the nrst ana only one of the kind that has been grant ed. The Government, of course, will re- cpiVa the usual rOyalty.
 Hunker Creek, where it is covered by this concession, is about 2090 feet wide, and than $1coO per running foot. making total of nearly SIG, 900 900. The property has been favorably reported on by three ex- perts, after a careful investigation. It extends from Last Chance Creek town to the junction of the Hunker and the Klon- dilxe, and is about thirteen miles from
 ilThere is no reason why hydraulic min ing should not prove a success in the Yukon country" said MT Anderson.
 ihne in nas sbera gssh for years The eondi tions in the Klondike region are the same. The ground has been frozen for ages. The introduction of hydraulic mining will work a revolution in the methods now employed, and will produce wonderful and quick results. There Is no place in the world where there is as good show to make money with capital as in the ISlon- dike gold fields. The gold that I saw there GXCeeQSO IfN NllOesI uTedttlS l uOH care to tell what my expectations are, as peo- pie might not believe me. However. I am free to say that that chance trip to Dawson has made me millionaire-how many times millionaire I don't know yet.
 For a practical miner there Is no better place than the Klondike. I have been in far more inhospitable countries in my time. The region is healthy. All the country needs is transportation facilities and that it is bound to have at no distant day. Many people go to the K1ondike who have no business to go there. and meet with failure and death''
 MT. Anderson, who has been staying at the Palace Hotel, left last evening for Dawson via Seattle. accompanied by his engineer. They will spend the summer in planning the work that is to be done next year.