The herald., 1898-10-04
DIGGfRS OF GOLD DUST
COME DOWN FROM DAWSON WITH
HALF A MILLION
THOUSANDS MORE COMING
There's One More Steamer to Arrive
and That Will Be More Heavily
Loaded
Associated Press Special Wire.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Oct. S.-The Fast
net has arrived from Skaguay with a half
million in dust and news that million was
on the wharf when the Fastnet left. There
will be but one more boat from Dawson,
the Columbia, which will bring down a
large amount of treasure. The principal
owners of the gold on the Fastnet are II.
NJ. Kersey, general manager of the Yukon
Steamship Company, $4,000 in nuggets for
exhibition purposes; j. b. Rhoades of Port
land $50. coo in dust; w. Caldwell of Port
land, $4,000 in dust; Edouard Laoson, $780,
900 in dust; j. Sinclair of Vancouver, $685.
600 in dust, and there was some $4,000 d.
vided among the passengers
M. Tenant, agent of the French govern
ment, having gone over the ground Will
report favorably on the Klandike to his
government He has seen transportation
companies regarding the carriage of 1900
Frenchmen to the Klondike next season.
General Manager Kersey of the Yukon
Steamship Company states that in January
10 900 people will leave the Yukon country
for home bringing several millions in
wealth
Why They Failed
CHICAGO, Oct. "a. P. Swineford, ex
Governor of Alaska. who is In Chicago,
declares the prospectors who have re-
turned goddess from that region were un-
successful because of lack CT foresight in
failing to prepare for a fortune in new
country. 1.-THE trouble Is that 10000 people
made for about 600 rich claims, all of which
tnl.o
of the Klondike, and good sense will tell
any one that six months or year is too
short a time in which to reasonably ex-
pect to make trip of 10000 miles and at
the same time prospect for gold with the
least degree of success" Continuing, he
says:
1.-The miners were more than ten years
finding the Klondke placers, and may be
equally as long in finding equally as rich
grounds elsewhere on the Alaskan side 1t
is a big country and development of its
mineral wealth will be gradual. The great
wealth of Alaska In precious metals is in
the quartz viens with which its every island
and large part of the mainland is INTERIM
inably scanned and interlaced.
'The great majority of those who have
gone to the Yukon in the past year have
passed through what I believe is destined
to be one of tho richest mining districts of
Alaska. Within pistol shot of the deck of
the steamer which carried them are some
very rich quartz lodges now in process of
development. There Is gold in the islands
of the Alexander archipelago and the main
land from the southern boundary as far
north as Skaguay and Dyea. That am
justified in this belief is proved. not by the
mines now working and paying enormous
profits. but by numerous discoveries that
have lately been made and the large num-
ber of prospects now in course Of develop
ment In the producing mines''
An Arctic Railroad
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.-John Stan
ley. mayor of Skaguay, Alaska, who is now
in this city purchasing apparatus for a
ire department, says:
The Pacific and Arctic railroad, now be-
ing built from Skaguay to Selkirk, is Wen
under way. Rails have been laid to
Whites pass, and up to that point the road
Is infull working order. Over thirty-five
tons of freight are daily shipped over the
spur Seven hundred men are working on
the road. Last month the payroll was
s29, 900. From White pass to Lake Bennett,
a distance of thirty miles, freight lis trans
ferred by sledges. Laborers on the rail-
road received 35 cents an hour"