The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-31
COME FROM PENNSYLVANIA
Big Party, Including . Nineteen
Near-O1d Wife, Here 10 Outfit
for the Gold Fields.

Among the three or four hundred East
ern People brought into Seattle yesterday
10y the various railroads was a party of
ten men and one woman from Bradford,
Pa, who come here TO outfit for year in
Alaska The members of the party have
agreed TO stay together through thick and
thin until they reach the particular por-
ton or the Northern gold fields for which
they are headed. Beyond that however
they have little connection with each
other.
The party is registered at the Hotel
Butler. and includes w. e. Mathews, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur T. Hurley. John p Null
len. Dr. Hamilton. II. ". Gloss. Francis
Mullen, n. Wells, W. H. Brace. Thomas
Givens ard w. c. Campbell.
w. =. Mathews is a railroad man of
some years experience, and has lately
been In charge OF the street railways Of
Bradford. He Is making the trip into
Alaska In the interests of a syndicate of
Pennsylvania capitalists. who would like
10 build railroad In Alaska from some
point on the coast to the Yukon and down
the river to Dawson.
Arthur K. Hurley owns the Bay State
hotel at Bradford and has run II for
years. He Is going to the Stewart river
country for gold. II he can find it. Hur-
ley. with Brace, Givens and Wells, Is TAX
ing in drilling machinery, with which the
party believes they can prospect rapidly
any claims they may locate or those they
may desire to purchase from others.
Their drilling machines ares something
new in the West. The Bradford party
live in the center of the Pennsylvania oil
fields and their drill is fashioned after the
oil Well drills. Ii is worked with a spring.
pole device. which serves 10 drive in the
drill and to. keep it turning with one
movement. The spring pole works like
the handle of pump and can be- oper-
ated by ono or TWO men. The drill Is four
: inches in diameter and will bore its way
through any kind of ground. The drill is
provided with a bailer. with which the
value OF the gravel through which the
drill ~ passing can be ascertained at any
time. The bailer works inside the drill
and can be closed up SO as TO contain ev-
| cry bit OF the gravel picked up by simply
| pulling string. By using this drill and
| bringing up gravel at every few feet with
the baller they claim that they can ascer-
| tain the value OF claim IN a very shor.
| time.
| Mrs. Hurley. who will accompany her
/ husband TO the Stewart river Is but 10
| years old She thinks that she has tho
/ grit 10 make the trip.
John y. Mullen. a prominent Bradford
/ attorney. and Or. Hamilton are gold
/ hunters. They have heard so much about
/ the North that they have determined 10
/ see for themselves just what it is like
/ They VIII not bc disappointed IL they do
/ not strike Il rich.
II. W. Gloss and Francis Mullen have
/ been grubs{aksd by Bradford people who
( desire 20 get a share OF Northern riches
hut do not care 10 go after II. W. c.
/ Campbell IS the only man In the party
/ who brought dogs along. lie has a team
i of four big dcxs two Of which are well
! trained. The other members Of the party
laughed AZ him when he talked OF bring
I ing his dogs. but the sight OF the many
{ teams being driven around Sea;tle's
( streets has changed their ideas on the
| dog question.
/ w. r. Mathews. the railroad man Of the
/ party. was ssvn last night a, his hotel by
/ a representative OF the Post-Intelllgencer.
I aud outlined theirs plans as given in the
I foregoing Mr.. Mathews further said:
! we will leave here on February Tor
! pyea. after purchasing outfits in this
/ city. We will begin packing our goods
I over tha Chik0ot pass as soon as posi-
I bic taking them as far as Lake Bennett:
/ We viii build one large boat or two small
! ones az the lake and wait for the ice TO
/ break up. Then we will go down the Yu-
! kon As far SIS the Stewart river. where
( most ~ the party VIII locate.
Il have besn sent into ;he country hv
/ syndicate Of Eastern capitalists. who
! ara DESTROYS of building railroad in
( Alaska y the conditions are az an favor
/ able. The men ! represent knew abso-
/ lutrly nothing about the possibilities Of
+ the scheme. bias have the necessary mon
/ ~ ready x there should 30 any opening.
! viii first lock over the larger gold dis
| tricts on the Yukon. wiki a view OF learn