The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17
BACK FROM THE KLONO|KE
Seventeen Miners Bring Down a
Total of 5000, 900.
SOME BONANZA STRIKES
The Total Yield OF the a Now Esti-
mated at From Fifteen Millions to
Twenty Millions-A Seattle Man
With 800 900 1 n His Sack.

Seattle, July 1s.-Seventeen miners h
left Dawson City June rs arrived here to-
day on the steamer City of Seattle, bring
ing with them gold dust and drafts esti-
| mated at 5000, 900. OF this amount $lSo.00O
was in dust. The largest individual
amount of dust was brought by E. M.
Sullivan Of Los Angeles, who is credited
with $50, 900. The largest individual
amount of drafts and dust was carried by
e. Levin of Seattle, whose sack Is esti-
mated at 500, 900. The other individual
amounts range all the way from $1,000 to
$40 900. There were a few who had barely
enough to reach home.
The "Klondike Nugget" the first news
paper published at Dawson, under date
of Tune 2s says: washing up is still In
progress and probably will not be COM
pleted until the latter part of July, owing
to a scarcity of water. Opinions as to the
amount of the total yield differ.
run all the way from fifteen to twenty
million dollars. The most conservative
place 1t below the former sum. Many men
who worked on lays did not make wages
and some did not even make expenses.
ION June Is a nugget worth $50 was
picked up on No. AZ Eldorado. The Lippy
claim, No. Is Eldorado creek. will 1t Is
estimated, clean up from one-third to half
n million. The principal claims that are
being worked on Bonanza creek are from
AZ above to so below discovery.
ION Eldorado not many above IS were
worked. No. s Eldorado, owned by Charles
Lamb, has been sold 1r sS50,0O0. One maj
on sulphur creek cleaned up 1880 after
two days sluicing. r. d. Rhodes claim
on No. q. above Bonanza, yielded "a
~V,-o1a In a ofnuIa nInnnln MANY claims
on Eldorado and Bonanza will yield 500,
900 or more"
The most remarkable strike this season
was made in French gulch. a small trib-
utary of Eldorado. Pay dirt was found on
bench claims at an elevation of 200 feet
above the bed of Eldorado. In one day
s., 900 was PANIED out.
The Canadian government has already
collected a royalty of about 81. 600, 900 this
year.
Theodore Habernal said: Three boats
left Dawson for st. Michael just before
left and one was scheduled to leave or
Tune 80. The boats were the p. 3. Weare
which left on June %; the Hamilton
which left on the 24th. and the Bella or
the 18th. The Seattle No. i was scheduled
to leave on the 3oth Of June. About LOO
people left on the four boats. They viii
bring out somewhere In the neighborhooc
OF from seven to ten millions of gold, AM
possibly more. The Klondike has turned
out fully as we'll as was expected by thu
old miners. although there has been som'
disappointment In the cleanup on som'
of the principal creeks.
Bonanza creek turned out fairly well
but the cleanup shows that II had beer
considerably overestimated. Eldoradt
turned out well as far as can be learned
but IL was rather too early to form an es
Innate of what the cleanup wouls
amount to when I left. Big and Littl'
Skookum gulches turned out fully to ex
pectations. Some very rich bench c!aim'
were located there. Sulphur and Domin
ion creeks are very rich, but the report
from Hunker creek were very ~disappoint
ing"
Most OF the gold brought down to-da,
was deposited at the government assal
office,