The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-08
lCK WITH KLONDIEE GOLD
.RTY OF FOUR NORWEGIANS
.ETURNS WITH FAT PURSES

ey Have Spent Four Years on Ell
dorado Creek, and Say Their La
bor Has Met With Suitable Re-
wnrd-NOw on the Way to the
Old Country to Visit Relatives
Rnd FTicnds-Minnen News,
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. AFTER four
ars of hard labor in the Klondike,
HalStead and a party of miners
we come out much richer in this
orld's goods and in experience. Mr..
2lstead. H. Bruseth, Fred Bruseth and
of Rustro, all natives of Norway. ar
we'd in this city tonight almost direct
ON Eldorado creek. The party is reg
tered at the Hotel Nicollet, en- route
Norway. They will leave here for
ew York Tuesday morning to take
le steamer for their native country.
I the winter the party will be back
the Klondike, resuming the search
'r gold.
Mr.. Halstead, who is the head of
lie party, is an old miner and has spent
ANY years in camps. He left Seattle
bout four years ago for Alaska, and
'cated on Eldorado creek on the Ca
aoian side. His friends soon Joined
I'M, and the entire party remained at
ldorado four years working claim
ir. Halstead had staked out. The
lace is eighteen miles outside of Daw-
on City. Speaking of his good for
.lne and that of his fellow workers,
Ir. Halstead said:
Yes, We have been mining at Edo
ado creek in the Klondike district for
little over four years, and met with
abstraction. We are now going on a
rip TO Norway. but will return to
l2ska in the winter.
we have a good paying claim there,
nd l have an interest in the Bonanza
line at Eldorado creek, which is also
good investment. There is still plen-
of money in the Klondike. In fact,
10 man can estimate how much ore
here is in the district. All this talk
bout no money up there is trash. The
ountry has been overrun with a class
II people who are no account and won't
work if they get the chance. OF course
my man without capital or without
ufficient stamina to stand hardship
miners were paid $1.25 an hour for
light hours work, and the same is
paid in the summer, and the men can
work as long as they like. Such wages
surely ought to keep any man from
starvation.
THE output from the Klondike this
season will go over S15,000,000. 1 cannot
state the exact amount we brought out.
You see, our claim being on the Ca
nathan side, we are compelled to pay
10 per cent tax on the gross output.
After paying miners license, dog IL
censes and numerous other taxes i'm
posed by the government, considerable
pre- must be taken out to make a salts
factory showing. But that's what we
did with four years Of labor"
Mr.. Halstead was not inclined to
state the amount he and his party
cleared up, on account Of the govern
ment tax that might be imposed on
future clearings. Mr.. Rustro, who was
present, however, had no hesitancy in
stating that they had cleared at least
S500,G00 and had brought 1t with them
from Klondike. Mr.. Halstead did not
deny this. but wanted the amount
kept secret.
The party started to come out of the
klondike in June, and left Dawson City
on the st. Paul for San Francisco,
thence to Seattle and Minneapolis. 40
cording to Mr.. Rustro, provisions are
plentiful at Dawson and ST Michaels,
and about 10000 people are at the
former place, with hundreds coming
out of the trails every day.