The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-15
FOR THE SPRING EXODUS
Butte People Getting Ready for
the Klondike.
IN ACTIVE PREPARATION
There Win Be a Big Rush From the
Smoky City and All Kinds of Peo-
pie Will Join the STAN
pede for Gold

With the new year two weeks old
preparations are being actively made
for the spring exodus to the Klondike.
and it now develops that more Butte
people are contemplating a trip to the
Northern country than was thought to
be the case last spring. Parties are
forming in all parts of town and all
kinds of people are preparing 10 go,
but the greatest exodus will be from
among the leasers
One of the first parties to start will
be composed of Pat Holland, Jim Muir
ply and a number OF others, including
Murphys two brothers This party
will start in about 10 days. and will
outfit at Seattle. They want to be
sure and get into the promised land
early, and they viii have the advau-
tage of Pat Hollands experience Mr.
Holland recently returned from the
klondike, knows the trail and has
claims up there. The party proposes
to buy dozen or 20 horses in Seattle
and Will probably make an overland
trip clear to Dawson, packing their
supplies MIR. Murphy mas a brother
leasing in the klondike, and a brother
in-law there who is receiving $50 per
day as foreman of mine
Some of Buttes historical old timers
are going to the klondike. Dave Up
ton, one of Buttc's first Corners, and a
man who has been rich more different
times probably than any other man in
Montana, declares he is going to the
klondike in the spring, and is going TO
get rich once more il 1t is in the range
of possibility. The fact that he is now
gray haired and considerably beyond
90 years OF age doesn't phase him a
bit. Pat Mullins is going. too: another
man who has been identified with
Butte since before it became a city
Mr.. Mullins is in New York city now.
but said before he went to New York
that he would surely start for the
klondike with a good party as early
IN the spring as seemed practica BILE. j.
G. Masel, another old-timer who has
passed 90 years Of age, IS booked To
start.
Frank Doyle. who has been in every
mining excitement since he was born,
and who has made money in all of
them, is organizing a party and will
start probably in March.
This is the first mining excitement
| ever missed" said Mr.. Doyle yester-
day, and ! would have been up there
last fall but for the fact that | prom
ised my brother John to look alter
some of his mining properties How
ever. ii NAV be Just as well that |
waited. | don't intend 10 start too
early. for there is no use N lSing
dtoiHa y cdpiH NHEn ono can just as
well stay here and be comfortable for
few weeks yet. | am going over
either the Chilkoot on Skagnay pass
build a boat and go down the lakes
and the river just as soon as the ice
breaks up. / don't think there is any
use in starting before March. Miners
Will have little use for the trip up the
river from st. Michaels for the sum
mer is very short and will be nearly
gone before one could reach Dawson
by going up the river from 81. Mich
aers."
Mr.. kaufman of the Montana Liquor
company received a letter yesterday
from Frank Hatton, who is now To-
Gated at Skaguay. Mr.. Hatton is
manager of one of the largest gambling
houses in Skaguay He says Skaguay
is a very lively town. and thousands of
people are coming IN. Drinks and ci-
gars are % cents.
A, L. Murphy, formerly sergeant Of
yesterday on his way 10 Salt Lake
City. He went to Dawson last fall
and left his family in Salt Lake.
number of Helena people are interest
ed with him in his Alaskan venture
He seemed satisfied with the efforts
he made in the klondike for himself
and the syndicate. He took up "A
claim on Bonanza creek for himself
and William Stenive of Helena. and
with Kelly took up another and bonded
a third for the syndicate He esti-
mates the output of The diggings on
the several streams around the town
of Dawson at from $4,000, 900 to s3a-
900. 900. There is a. scarcity of candles
and a shortage of grub. Mr.. Murphy
had a hard trip over the Dalton trail
coming out.