The San Francisco call., 1898-02-02
KLONDIKE
 OUTPUT. 1. ] OF" THE. I Y WINTER. l. Returned. Miner. Says. ..= It Will Reach a. Ten ! ... Millions. Fears There Will Be >. Trouble Over Payment " "-
 of. Royalties. .= j Transportation Companies Win <: Again Be "swa1aped With 2 R. =... Provisions: IT" <. # Q Q
RICHES. OF THE BERRYs.
:. Quantities of.Gold Taken From Their : IT Claims ora Fl porsdo.= :
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Special Dispatch. to The Can:

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 SEATTLE, Feb i.-Among the la test arrivals from Dawson is J. E. Dauchy- of Torrington. Conn He left the Klondfke. gold fields on December 20 and canle into Seattle on the steamer. Al-Ki. In an interview with The Call cores pondent tonight Mr. Dauchy said: = = @.%: :.
 'eMine-owners 5on the Klondike are becoming very: unwilling to; tell how their mines are yielding, They are afraid of the coming royalty which : they will soon. be obliged to. pay. I think there will be trouble when the i royalty. regulationis enforced. l be- lieve the gold output this winter will be at least s1o. 100000: -.
 q look for a greater scarcity of food next winter than that expe- rienced this winter. The supply at Fort Yukon is very scarce and the boats coming up the river will be clean ed out before they, reach Dawson So many. people are going in this. spring that the transportation companies will be swanped next fall, and that<is when the greatest scarcity will exist.
 "In going in no man should attempt
 
 one and a half tons: of provisions and at least S50a in cash*besfdes: Men with a tendency to consumption or who have rheumatism should stay out However. it is. the place. for any young man to go to. who has grit. and cour- age and is not afraid of a few hard ships. .:*s:
 'oThe trail from Dawson to Pelly Is good-not much rough ice-blt from Pelly to Five Fingers the ice is damned badly, making travel slow ana :lapor- ious. Thirty nile River is. still open and is the worst part of the trail, From Labarge to Lindemap the trail is nrst- class. The day reached White Horse Rapids the police had finished new trail around the left side of the rapids. l. Walsh has ordered the mounted po- lice to vacate the Little salmon.
 ''The three sleds of mail for which the Dawson people have been looking vafnly for so long had reached Pelly River. There will be great rejoicing when that mail gets to Dawson.
 "The men who are rushing into the Yukon country at this time of the year should remember that they cannot do any effective work at mining until next winter. This means that if they go in now they will have to lie around all summer and do nothing. There is no possibility of acquiring claims in the Klondike district except by purchase. In June last the Gold Commissioner s office was established at Dawson. and since that time 4000 placer mining claims have been recorded. The fee for recording each claim Is S15.
 '"The festive sport is conspicuous and promiscuous In Dawson. Faro is popular game.
 "A rich strike has just been reported 4 dn xrh oh Thomas Rockwell of Seattle and George are taking out pay dirt which is ten feet deep and about one hundred feet wide, and averages S10 to the pan. Some pans have run as high as $125. Clarence J. Berry of San Francisco be- came rich and famous by reason of the big amount of gold that he took out of his Fl Dorado claims last season, but this year the returns from the same claims will be much greater and the Berry boys will clear up in the neigh borhood of $500,000 Frank Berry and his brothers are working claims Nos 4, and on Fl Dorado, and they have a streak of gravel from eight to ten feet which runs from sS to $100 to the pan. They are getting fabulouSly rich dirt from twenty holes.
 Tn a few of them they are working down to bedrock and the pay in them runs form $25 to $500 to the pan. Over S100, 900 is now contained in one dump alone The Berrys are also working claim No. 21 below Discovery on Hun ker. Six feet of gravel on this claim goes from S4 to S10 to the pan"