The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-02-24
DAWSON CITY
COME TO STAY
Mining Syndicate Organ
lied With Unlimited
Capital.
Machinery on a Gigantic Scale
Will Soon Be Placed in
Operation.
Water Works, Telephone and Tele-
graph Wires and Even Street.
cars Are Talked Of
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SEATTLE, Feb. 23.-Among the
prominent of the most recent arrivals
from Dawson City is James E. Scoville.
He left the Klondike country the fore
part Of January and reached Seattle
from Victoria to-day. Mr. Scoville
brings further details of the organiza-
ton of the mining trust by the big
claim owners on FL Dorado and Bo-
nanZa creeks. The entrance Of the
trust idea into Dawson is one of the
newest things in the camp. The pro-
motors Of the scheme make no secret of
the fact that they aim to operate the
mines in the camp on the most econom-
ical basis possible. The company is
called the Bonanza-El Dorado Com
pany, and is capitalized at 5000, 00O, 900.
Competent engineers have been en-
ployed by the syndicate for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the feasibility of
bringing water into the camp from In
dian River and reports have been made
strongly commendatory of the scheme.
1t is proposed to dig a canal from the
upper reaches of Indian River through
a pass in the divide to the headwaters
of Ell Dorado. From this point the
waters will be distributed throughout
the camp. The moss formation will be
blasted away with dynamite and the
gravel beds will be exposed to the sun,
which will thaw the ground to a depth
Of several feet. After two or three
weeks of hot weather the water will be
turned on the claims through the giant
machines and the gravel sluiced out.
There seems to be no doubt what
ever as to the practicability of the
scheme" said Mr.. Scoville. 1.-The aim
and purpose Of the company, of course,
is to find some way to work the mines
on a big scale and at a lower cost than
is now possible. Science and engineer
ing equipment should most certainly
bring about a solution of the problem.
The proposition is backed by the heav-
lest mine owners in the camp, among
them Alexander Mcdonald and the
Healy Company, which is now the
largest claim owner in the camp, bar
ring Mcdonald. The latter has secured
altogether twenty-seven claims on Do
minion Creek, seventeen of which are
in one group. He is conducting his
mining ventures on very large scale
and is thoroughly interested in the
venture of which I have spoken
According to Mr.. Scoville, the camp
of Dawson is assuming metropolitan
airs, and will soon have various i'm
provements. Mr.. Scoville, who is in
terested in new telephone company,
said to The Call correspondent to-
night: II have already filed an order
for three tons of wire. I don't antici-
pate any difficulty whatever in ar
ranging for a lease Of the requisite
number of telephone instruments. No
other company is in the field, and we
are we'll equipped financially to carry
to a successful issue any project on
which we may enter.
The mine owners in the Klondike
are determined to equip the camp with
every improvement known to civiliza-
ton. We are to have electric lights
and telephones, and some day street
railways. Any man who believes that
Dawson is temporary camp is mis-
taken. The development work that has
been done in the mines this season has
proven beyond the peradventure of a
doubt that the camp is one of the rich
est on the globe. At Dawson will be To-
Gated thriving city, and the people Of
the place are able and willing to pay
for improvements and conveniences
such as characterize life in the outside
world.
1.-The company was organized largely
through the efforts of Alexander Nc
Donald and E. Leroy Pelletier. 1t is
capitalized at 100000, and is called the
Yukon Telephone and Telegraph Syn
dictate. am one of the members of the
company, and it is our intention to
build telephone lines in the district
wherever they are required After
building the exchange in Dawson, it
will be our purpose to connect the
mines with wires, so that communica-
ton can be had with Dawson. There is
no doubt whatever that the mainten-
ance of a system of telephones is per-
fectly practicable in Dawson, and you
can depend upon one thing, and that is
that every one in the camp will pat
ronize it. The claim-owners and bust
ness men in the Klondike are able to
pay for the best that is to be had, and
they want nothing else. The officers
of the company are: p. J. B. LIE Blanc,
president; E. Leroy Pelletier, secretary
and treasurer, and Alexander McDon-
aid, general manager"