The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-02
ANOTHER ALASKA COMPANY
PLANS ron ExTENSIvE PLACER
MINING WITH STEAM DREDGEs.
Capatalisea ~ l2.O0O. 00o-0tAer o.
1eets Are Trading, Transports
tien. Lanbering. Etc.-will Carry
NaiI Frem Seattle 60 Lynn Canal.

frank -. VfoOm4n. president and gem
eral manager OF the Klondike. Yukon and
Copper River Company. capitalized at 3i.-
eoeooo. 10 In tho city. having Just arrived
from Chicago. TIE company is one OF the
largest yet organised for the purpose Of
carrying on extensive placer mining opera
tons with steam dredges. The secondary
objects OF the company are trading and
transportation, prospecting. numbering,
coal mining. and the development OF other
minerals found In Alaska This company
also has the contract for carrying the
United States mail between Seattle and
Dyes and Skagway for q term Of four
years. commencing July !. Congressman
james Hamilton Lewis Is counsel for the
company. and Senator John L. Wilson Is
q member OF the board Of directors. Presi-
dent Vrooman Is now arranging 10 send
the first expedition TO Alaska. and ex-
poets that Il will be ready to start on the
next trip Of the Queen.
To a Post-InteIligencer reporter at the
Rainier-Grand hotel last night President
Vrooman said: Our company and its
agents have secured and paid for leases
from the Canadian government for twenty
years for gold dredging nearly one hun
dred miles OF the richest gold-bearing ter
ritory In the world This includes prop
erty on the Klondike river the Yukon,
Stewart. Indian and the HootalinQua.
I'VE have also further options on twenty
years leases upon the banks and bars OF
about 200 miles OF rivers in the Klondike
district for hydraulic mining on q large
scale. One hundred and twenty miles OF
this IL on the Stewart river. and includes
territory similar 10 that where Jack Nc
Questen washed out $1,000 in sixty days
with q siuice box. and where the Hon.
William Ogiivie. the Dominica surveyor OF
Canada. has gone on record as saying that
he has seen men wash out 800 day with
ordinary rockers. have also secured
promise from the minister OF the interior
that applications for this territory will be
honored by the Canadian government.
I'VE have applied for townsite Of 100
acres, TO be used a. q general base OF
supplies for the upper Yukon district for
the company's trading post. sawmills. ma
chine shops and other like purposes. at the
junction OF the Lewis and HootalinQua
rivers. from which come the two streams
OF United States and Canadian emigra-
ton into Alaska. We have alsc applied for
five square miles OF timber, beginning at
this towns!te and at the mouth OF the
Hootalinqua river and extending In . strip
one mile up the river. The property that
we have already secured Is equal 70 q. -
placer mining claims Of legal sise. Tlto
property has been fully investignted ara
have reason g beiieve that = IN syie1a
Our drsdsss IN - 4 sas -, -
make. and are guaranteed to give satisfac-
ton. In connection with the subject OF
dredging / can also say that We have ef-
fected a consolidation with the Capt Jack
Crawford Alaska Prospecting and Mining
Company. and that Capt. Crawford IL
largely instrumental In forming tho first
expedition that II 10 be sent TO develop
our property. We are equipped with the
best machinery for prospecting. mining
and dredging that modern science affords.
The whole assets OF the Capt. Crawford
company have been turned over TO our
company. and insures the cooperation OF
Its directors. officers and stockholders.
Capt. Crawford will lead the flrst expe-
dition. and 100 reindeer. which I was able
to purchase from the government while
In Washington. will be delivered TO the
captain In the interior. Had II not been
for the interest Speaker Reed manifested
In the expedition we are TO send to Alaska,
1 doubt whether we would have been able
10 secure possession Of the animAis The
speaker accompanied me to the interior
department, and II was his first visit to
that department during the present ses-
sion OF the house.
sci. and the date OF Its completion Il not
far distant. Before leaving Washington.
however. the secretary OF war gave an
option for the purchase OF this vessel. and
in case OF war with Spain II viii be brought
into service. Work on this vessel Il being
pushed forward az rapidly as possible at
the reques; OF the government. so you can
see that the situation at Washington Is
growing quite serious. The secretary of
war also advised me not TO send any boats
around the Horn as 1t was difficult mat
ter TO predict the outcome Of the contro-
versy between the United States and
Spain. and In case OF war the Spaniards
would Internationally seize all boats sent
around by that route"
President Vrooman states that his wife
will accompany him TO Alaska. and that
they will live In boat which Is now beins
constructed In Philadelphia for their spe-
cial use The other vessel. on which the
government has secured an option. was in
tended 20 bs used a passenger and mall
boat between Seattle and Skagway. This
vessel would have a carrying capacity OF
20 passengers and a running speed OF
thiyty-sx knots per hour.
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