The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-18
naturally told and re,old their stories Of

naturally told and retold their stories OF
the north.
Let NE tell YOU said WEIGH, impres-
sively. There are claims in the kiondike
That have more gold OH bed rock than
4 a,n ready to believe anything now"
sighed young Fastener. among Weich
THE Butler boys. Of Seattle" continued
WEIGH. only went I'm last September and
they now have bench claim on EiSorado.
back 500 feet from the creek, that is pay
ing SO and $50 10 the pan. There is gold
everywhere aud there viii be plenty OF
room Tor all the people who think OF GO
Il have not come out because OF the food
land and attend 20 somt business matters
| shall not so back until the middle OK
next May. People who are trying 10 Sc ir's
now are very foolish | would not face
Inc tran Tor Dawson at this season save
under stress of great necessity. As for the
relief expedit-pn, II cannot possibly get
through 70 Dawson before the river opens
The only thing they can do e 10 go 20 the
head OF navigation and wait for tie break
no 70 iio8t down the river The miners OF
the kioadlke are not besEars and II any
food reaches them Il wifi he bought ~
princeiy figures My idea IS, that the
money being expended On the s:sempt 30
over the ice. would do more good II Il were
used In improving Z roadway across the
. White pass. That would help people who
wish 10 80 in now. to reach the foot Of the
lakes with their supplies ana when ihe
bveak-tp comes in the snrlng they could
ko on down the river. reaching the mines
the latter pA"t ~ April or May. az a time
when Food viii bo most needed
IT IS ridiculous 10 think OF Kiondike
miners as objects Of charity. j could tell
Won % things I have seen IN Dawson which
ycn would hold beyond belief. Il Is
common thing 20 see gold piled up IN the
stores ~ Tire big TRANSFORMATION ard trad
Ing companies hat what il an everyday
story - she pt-ple ~ thar country would
Ia Thought a fairy .7le here
II r Coffin s. mining engineer OF long
eNpFrteuc". lie considers the government
scheme ~ reaching Dawson this winter
entirely imnTacticable.
There Ia 70 method NJ transportation
that can b. employed 10 sQrrn0unt tire OBJ
Stacfes ~ the iourney 20 Dawson. on
the Lewis river the tee Is piled IN cakes IS
high - a six-story building. sloping IN
gradually or orc side sGd breaking Of In
sheer rrarfplreS ~ thp Other Here ia
founf the reason FOR tire easier travel IN
coming cut than in going IN. The current
setting down the river. runs the ice to-
gether i0 such a way thar the s!oOp IS To-
wa.3 Dawson. IN coming est yoa climb
the stcg,e a-d drop over the precipSca b1lt
~ beading towards Dawson tha face Of
the ice H. encountered. The oniv way 10
get food in tu tjrne 10 6o any good. t. %
take it g ere head II navigation ard float
DOVE when she river opens / shall not
attempt 90 So In again 9ntil late ju me
spring
The cola outnut This year will exceed
ans eStirsat. I hsva yet seeo PUNISHED
Ju5EirE BY whst has already come ont.
and what IS ucw being done IL the ken
ke AZ least Saos} 49, wf}l % hv1u-ht
tfa0g between My and August Laws
Nsve been let or al = .hs. pri~cif,aT Chains
Sc ;he klaGdike district. AMI they are be-
tnx worked for all there IS IN them"