The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-16
GONE KLONDlkE- MAD.
Mr.. Clark's Observations i'm the East.
Hints to Cattlemen.

Hints to Cattlemen.
Great Falls, Feb. 15.-B. Percy Clark,
member of the big wool growing firm
of Clark Bros, is in the city tonight on
his return from a visit TO New YORK.
He told the Standard man tonight that
his father who was taken very ill while
on visit here last fall, and who was
taken to his home in New York under
physicians care, had improved very
rapidly and was now quite well. Asked
about conditions in the East, he said
that New York was slowly feeling the
effects of improved conditions The
West and South We're purchasing heav
lily and New York wholesalers in conse-
quence We're doing good business.
The principal topic of discussion was
the Klondike craze. Men of high stand
ing, who were accustomed to hesitate
over any deal which was not gilt-edged.
had loaned their names to some of the
Tankest frauds which had ever been
perpetrated upon creulous public.
Every one was wild over the gold dis
coveries and those of moderate crcum-
stances were depriving themselves of
even the necessaries of life in order to
put a few dollars in wildcat Klondike
enterprises. Men of Judgment on other
matters went wild over projects for the
mining of gold Most of the companies
which had been organized in the East
were being engineered by sharpers who
would leave their victims without cent
if it was possible. There We're in New
York quite a number of actual Klon-
dilSers, who had been there and actually
owned claims. These men were doing
their best to expose the frauds, but it
was a herculean task when they were
springing up daily by the hundred.
Among those whom Mr.. Clark saw in
New York was Pat Calvin, formerly of
Helena. He had just returned from his
fri IN tho old where he
successful in raising a company with
81, 600, 900 capital tc work Bonanza creek
claims Mr.. Calvin stated that he had
placer ground where man might go to
work on the dump and in a weeks time
wash out 100000. At st. Paul AMI Min
neapolis the railway stations had super
seeded the city pounds. There We're to
be found every species of dog, from
dachshund to royal Dane, and all were
for the same purpose-the dragging of
sledges in Alaska. Owners of st. Ber-
nards in those two cities were keeping
their dogs locked up in back yards and
cellars. but even these precautions did
not prevent their being stolen in whole
sale lots
Among the passengers on the same
train with Mr.. Clark was c. w Tebo of
Kalispell who had AZ dogs. He had just
returned from trip to London, where,
ii is said, he obtained all of the capital
that heart could desire to engage in the
development of his Dawson City pros
poets.
One of the signs of prosperity for
Montana which Mr.. Clark observed was
the fact that the big packing houses of
Swift and Armour have started their
buyers into the field thus early in the
season. This augurs big prices this sea-
son for beef and mutton. Last year the
same maneuyer was made with the re-
suit that the profits from early buying
We're enormous. Mr.. Clark predicts that
those who hold their cattle and sheep
win lose nothing this year. AS Mr..
Clark called the turn very closely on the
wool market last season, his forecast of
the market is certainly entitled to care
full consideration.