The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13

WOO Snowg notnlnR ABOUT mining ano koes 7"
They are not nearly so rood as they wer,
for the average man who came TO California II
the 100000 young men who came poor TO Call
fornia in those days and went back homeol
have ali heard Of the few thousands-or, per
haps, the few. hundreds-who got rich. The
ionSiros sG Snyo o been men hol Tn mo as sSS SHINING example,
same Will be true Of the kionidke. The Ameri-
can people know already about how Joe Laduc,
ncy have icaped. from poverty to fortune in less
who have been in the Klondiko region since last
August and are as poor as ever and VIII never
81 would not advise any one to go TO the Klon-
poor man who knows. nothing about placer
mining and has q family dependent on him ~
dollars Into an Arctic mining outfit and go
for his Docket to ! put lis oatGt money Sy on a
gambling, game at home. Tho chances OF sue;
Be SSS' a Arc Iot i or nS sSop mii I'll SoGa; s sronte sdho bS tho tho
Klondiko gold. and you can no moro stop the
army of eager; restless men now at Seattle,
Alaska from taking slim chances in the race
for fortune in the north than you could bale
ut is said that the stories of rapid fortune
making In tho Klondiko I, gion are nearly all
oS < hYIssas 4, lies ,s. | don't know moMyh what S., has ! been been
TINT region exaggerated. Why, there will DO
dixie before navigation closes next fall. Some
people at Dawson City believe It will be nearer
of tho original miners on the Klondike. who
struck 1t rich there along with Bcrry and the
others that have brought gold back to %ciyiliz9;;
intact in their cabins. Many OF them have now
$6o;ooo worth of gold on hand. A few have
II have lots Of :advice to offer men who
are getting, ready to go to the klondike
n ali, I want tTr tor' IMPRESS Ss on %aV erery man rhrs going az
TO the Klondike. the importance of an out
At Of food and clothing good for one year, at
II Is constructive suicide for one to go to the
Klondiko with less than one years supply of food.
comfortable homes could only look ahead and
see what fate awaits every, one OF them In the
frozen Moy moaltains and ndu urnspeakably " depre ssHsc
gorges and cahons, they would not leave q
thing undone to insure some greater degree Of
summit OF Cbilkoot Pass. and look below. down
camp fires of several hundred haggard. gold.
hungry men on their way to Dawson CITY,
seek n fortune in mining in the Arctic Circle
means. Used as | am to a bard life and grim
things; in life; that scene az Chilkoot Pass was
horses that, had rolled Off the cliff and dashed
on the rocks below. Some mcr have gone
that seemed likely to topple over the Very
mountain peaks up the rocky. %tortuous trail to
ture Of distress probably 1 looked likewise.
They all slept, in snowbanks, ate frozen canned
food. and risked n thousand mortal ailments
from exposure.
Let me advise the man who is bound to go
to the .klondike TO sail northward in a first
class ship only. It is simply awful the way
hundreds of old tubs and ~unseaworthy boats
gathered from harbors up and down the PACIFIC
coast from Chill to Vancouver, are being used
for transporting the horde of gold hunters to
Alaska this ycar. There will surely be some
has already gone down this season off the Alas
kan coast, near Sitka, and all on board have
persisted. advise every man going to Alaska
after he has seen md investigated the craft in
which he will risk his. life. The would-be
klondiker should. also, bill his goods Just as
and outfits on the trails to Dawson City in the
past few months aggregate fully 100000. I
advise the man on his way TO the klondike to 20
to some creek on the American side of that re-
Fion-that is. unless he has special reasons for
going to the Klondlke to seek golden placers. l
mean that II he intends merely to go as a tender
about as good a chance Of finding riches on the
American side of the line as on the Canadian,
and he will not only avoid the impost duties of
Canada. but he will save the rather expensive
Canadian mining laws. Besides, we who
est finds of gold. this year. when tho weather
can side. There are several hundred men in
Dawson and Circle City who have vainly
sought gold in the Klondike for months and
lean side in May. Some of then, are crack
prospectors. and vou need not be surprised to
hear of rich finds in our own Alaska before the
Finally, ! wish to caution people against 60
Alaska. There is positively no gold there"