The age-herald., 1898-04-24

favorable weather, to make record. His
 dog team is the best to start from Dawson
 for the outside. Several persons taking out
 properties will accompany him. The klon- dike News company party, consisting or U.
 E. Meadows, Virgil Moore and three oth- CTS, starts tomorrow. Meadows and Moore own three-quarter interest in the Klon-
 dike News, and they are going out to have
 the paper published in either Chicago or
 Cincinnati The KlondilSe News is to be
 an illustrated paper containing paid write
 up' advertisements at the rate Of SlO00
 page. Contracts to the amount or SoOVvo
 have been obtained here. The Klondlke
 News party have caught the craze for bond
 ing properties to sell outside and have load-
 ed up with large number of claims on va
 rious creeks. They have also purchased
 collection of S2 800 worth of nuggets taken
 principally from Skookum gulch and El
 Dorado creelx) to be displayed in their office
 window on the outside My advice to all
 would be not to buy properties without
 sending competent persons up here to make
 an ihvestigation. While this Is rich placer
 district. vet there is vastly more ground
 without gold than there is with 1t.
 A great many quartz claims are belng
 recorded, but I have yet to see my hrst
 quartz containing free gold, and l have
 looked at quartz from as many as l0O dlt-
 ferent claims I am a firm believer in
 oua1ltz mining in this country. peileVe
 rich finds will be made in quartz leoges
 next summer. I also look for rlcn dlscoV-
 cries in placer deposits on the American
 side If the Dominion government does not
 repeal the existing laws relating to mining there will be an exodus from these dig gings to the American side. Prospecting in the northwest territories Is practically dead except In this immediate vicinity. Miners
 will not prospect for 10o-foot claims and pay a. royalty of 20 per cent, every alternate a1o;r 11n;,, tn
 The weather in the last few days has been very mild, the temperature ranging from 10 begrees below zero to 31 above. Old timers say that there will be another "cold snap, when the merucry will drop to 50 or 6o de- grees below zero. The breakup will come
 suddenly along the early part of May. Not many will undertake to reach the outside leaving here after March 25.
 Prices for provisions are unchanged, un- less it be for sugar and rice. Sugar Is now 90 cents and rice $1.50 per pound. Meals cost from $250 to $3.50 each, and they are such meals as would be served at a second-
 rate boarding house on the outside. Miners
 wages are $1 to $l5O an hour. Carpenters
 get $20 a day for ten hours. Janitors wood- sawyers and common laborers get from $1O to sis a day Faro dealers and lookouts get s20 0 day. Dance hall girls receive $40 week and twenty-five cents for each dance in addition. Musicians receive from sl5 10 s25 day. Ground is now being cleared and foundations laid for two new saloon bulld- ings strong man, handy with an ax, can find a good Klondike when coming into this country by way of the lake and river route by stopping from twenty to 100 miles
 above Dawson, where the timber Is thick est cutting logs and rafting them in to Dawson. There will be a good market for all the logs that can be cut and brought In. They will be wanted for lumber cabins and
 for wood. Sawmills will pay from $l5 to
 sl0O thousand feet for logs that will square eight inches and upward. Logs for cabins will bring S5 to sS each For fuel alone the logs will be worth from $25 to $40 a cord, judging from the winter price,
 which has not been below s25 cord and at the present moment is $40 cord. There is winter than there has been this, and 8 strong man can easily clean up several thousand dollars by simply bringing in logs