Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-01-28
TELLS. HOW TO GO.
Charley Gurley Sends a Few Pointers
on How to Make the Trip to
Klondike.
Extracts From an Address by an
Experienced Miner to Pros
pective Klondikers.
eurley Thinks the Information viii
be Of Value to Adventurou
Spirits Here.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 10, 1893.
DEAR TRIBUNE: In your issue of the
18th inst. which reached me yesterday, (
I fluid a very interesting letter from
.'Lord Plunkett' entitled "Ho for Klon-
dike!!' Knowing full we'll the pioneer
spirit of the old timers in Bismarck,
and believing that in the early spring
my old comrade GARNER Wallace" will
lead a host of gold-seekers to the Alas
kan Ell Dorado, I send you the enclosed
clipping from our Washington Evening
Star, being an address by w. H. Lewis
of Seattle to fifty prospective Klondik-
ers.
You might give the farmer some en-
tracts therefrom as to clothing, grocer
les, (wet and dry footwear, etc. Also
impress upon him what Mi. Lewis has
to say concerning the Importance of en-
gaging hotel accommodations for his
party at Seattle in advance.
But to be serious, I know you have
many in Bismarck who are thinking of
Alaska and the Klondike fortune which
would surely BIZ theirs did they know
just how much cash it will be necessary
for them to have to make the trip. Mr..
Lewis not only answers this inquiry, but
many others Of equal Importance:
"While Alaska is full of gold fields,
some of them very rich, I advise people
now to go to the Klondike region of the
YUKON river. Undoubtedly the richest
claims on the Klondike and it's branches
have been located, but new and rich
discoveries are betty developed near
there and all along the Yukon this win
ter, and the miners who reach there
first in the spring will be able to locate
claims adjoining the rich ones developed
this winter. And moreover, on the
Yukon a miner who fails to locate a
rich claim, can always secure work at
from $40 to SIS a day.
1.-The Copper river, Cooks Inlet and
other districts along the coast all prom
Use we'll and may be extremely rich, but
nothing definite is yet knewn OF any
rich discoveries there. The ind cations
are that, unless rich strikes are made
there this summer, there will be great
h%ardships among the thousands of men
who are going, and who, if they fail to
strike gold, will be able to get work ut
day wages.
mo man should think of starting for
any Of the Alaska gold fields without at
least a years outfit of clothing, hard
ware, groceries, medicines, etc. Such
an outfit is an absolute necessity, as
once on the trail ali opportunities for
! buying are past. You must make the
trip with the outfit you have or turn
back.
"Outtits may be purchased in Seattle
which is the acknowledged Quitting
point for the coast. San Francisco and
Portland are both too far away, have
very little direct communication with
Alaska and know little about the re-
quirements of an outfit.
"Next to Seattle I consider Tacoma
the best outfitting point. 1t has all the
advantages of location, though lacking
perhaps, the large number of dealers
carrying complete stocks of goods.
Neither have lis dealers and their en-
ployes had as much experience in sup
plying the Alaska outfits as have those
of Seattle.
Various lists of the articles neces-
sary for an outfit have been published,
and each differs somewhat from others.
"The weight and cost of an outfit, in.
Guiding all that is needful for one year,
is shown as follows:
4 Clothing. 40 lbs. 500 to S7s m