The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-16
WILD oVERTH KLONDIKE.
krHE GREATEST RUsH THE WORLD
HAS EYER KNOWN r. AT HAND.
start fer the Goid Regions In the sprInE-
a Fever That HAS spread All over tho
p.rth-uOta or women are Goinr, Too,

navigation In the Yukon River region mex
March and April Is anxlously awaited by ten
OF thousands Of men on the Pacific coast, ant
by many moro in tho Eastern States. The rusl
of men and women to tho Rlondiko gold field
in 1893 Is likely to DO the most extraordinar,
movement of men fOrtunoward in modern
times. Il has been compared to the stampede
OF Eastern people TO the California gold fields
in lsAe and 1850, but all the miners who came
pouring into tho now FL Dorado in tho first
three years Of mining here for precious ores did
not number more than 10000. Several caro-
full historians do not put the number at more
than 10O,O 600. The emigration to tho Klon.
dixie region from the Pacific coast alone will
surely BIO more than 10000, and 10000 more
people from the Eastern States, Canada. Eu.
rope, Australia, and South America are OK.
pected to swell tho volume OF travel to the
Klondike TO moro than 100000 souls. The
rush of English, French. and Americans to
South Africa in the eighties has been cited for
comparison. There wcrc never moro than
10000 arrivals In the South African mining
,~regions in, any ono year, Tho Australian gold
excitement in 1859 started some 10000 toward
,the antipodcs. The Comstock. bonanza gold
excitement in 1873 and "a drew some 1900
miners to Nevada.
The five transcontinenta railroads have al
ready contracted TO sell to transportation agents
IN the Eastern cities tickets for carrying more
Shan 45. 900 people going to the klondike be.
,fore next June. and probably not one pros.
pective Klondikcr in five has yet been heard
from by the railroad ngents. Tho two princi-
pal steam navigation! companies that operate
thetween Seattle and San Francisco on the
south and the Yukon River on the north have
orders for:the transportation Of more than co.
900 TRAVELLERS. The most conservative esti.
mates by the passenger agents Of the railroads
ITO the Pacific coast put tho number of people
they will transport to the northward vessels ut
iSansFrancisco, Seattle, Vancouver, and Tacoma
this year at not lcss.than $4,000.
At the shipping towns hundreds of men are
NOW employedsday and night in fitting mp ves-
sells suitable for carrying people and provisions
70 tho Yukon River from the timo .naviga.
ton opens until next September. Every yes.
ssel on the Pacific coast from Chill to British
Columbia that can be bought and made SER
viceable for n sea voyage is in preparation for
the Klondike business. A score or moro Of
,sea.going craft are now on the way from New
York, Philadelphia, and New England around
the Horn to the Poetic coast to be ready for
tho grand rush to Alaska. The Los Angeles
Herald recently estimated that more than
e3,000,000 is being put into shipping in Cali
tfornia alone for the Klondike business. Sew
eral companies with millions of capital have
been incorporated on this coast lately for
handling the Klondiko freight and passenger
-.
: traffic, when the new mining country has set
tied down on an established basis.
The Eastern people can have little idea of
low cohpietciy inc hiohuike ieVer mas taken
noio y. heari' u, men vi u racine COAST par
Sicuiari! IN oaiiiornia ana washington. In
many locaities IN Caniorhia the preparations
ior going 10 Inc hiohdiko next spring are al
most as senerai ana earnest as 'they were IN
Eastern localities for men going to tho war In
the early sixties. GO wlcro Won NAV from
san Diego IN yictoria any of these davs and
van viii hear KIon1it" taItsd On ,bo co a"' IN IN
I'm all tho cite, nuggets and bottles Of cold
r.. -, a.. IyI.,u". .-..,t..,
ouse y Il N'ohuiho eAniol'eu III slorc SHOW
windows. and groups of rncn.constantly about
.,sa '.,.. D.n,.1 1p va ~
co'oreo win hioho'ke c'rcuiars. iinhareds
Klondike outfits of fur cans and coats. rubber
hoots and o~tro ,roroo,ts ana nou, tha. =
selling the outfits like hot cakes. whenever
you observe a knot of men in the street. In n
ynro, biobyov or IN anv nuh,ic n,ace IN ra,i'
Eurni highway or III any puohc place IN GAIL
fornia you are pretty sure:to find that the latest
news of new strikes in the Klondike dippinps
49,. s... An 49, 80. sSi"e
ID uhoer. discussion. All the letters that have
como struggling down from Dawson City are
shau t.I 49, 80 go ''"' 'N '' Nv
Shey faL INTO tatters.
ma an9 and Mlo cnilaron ne shar IS in IN thu boa as vGrS "a ar a., w r,cs
- IL &C A w,.n.nlo VI az u, y ec' rich
ON the hlondikc' anu maps OF Alaska have been
pored over by a multitude of families on this
coast for evenings nj n time Little schoolhovs
- -, 80.
ana Ririskhow the topography OF the Yukon and
Klondike regions better than they do that of
their nathye State Tho foct TINT sororoI h,n-
49, 49, ~ :" ~ ~ seNeIai nun
1Eou meh "ehC from the racine coast TO the
Yukon River mines in 1894. 1895, and 1896,
ali very DO ,r, and that they come hack I, 1907
-. W. N"'" - i0''
W oser }gbem bIioHine II s ,nGm th ma,,iS 9na res ana no some 0nn
" tn SSa pnriifIhs VIII thc,h Soo'oOo, $'o,ooO,
enu SSo,Go, IN actual goid-has set the com
Snuhities III Which nnese SuccessIui klondikers
re known iersonally Weli'nigh wild with anx-
tetE 10 To- ana 90 HkeIise
Inc uesire ON inc incinc coast for lnforma-
tion apout lle possibilltles IN the marvellous
4 nv p %iEEthY fiir nai s'h ba u ali almost hpd san to han nSII:
tor nieTatmre relating 70 Alaska. Al the re-
sul r hiI h nave Dceh run after and APP
peaiSd 10 py crowds OF men ana a few women
SoTr hiondiko ihhornnation. The more success
~ hhiorhern nhSo Doen arlVGn 10 GXaspera:;
lion Dy 33hG1unIaple questions from drovcs, OF
R4e sninra w conntrr Hbe o%1o N Who came back to his 5
can nHeu Win goid dust, and nuggets, had