The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-20

said to Eddie Dolan: Il think can make
. hit in the Klondike."
Get out said Eddie Dolan. '.you could
not hit anything with q shotgun
But Tommy was determined to 80. and
finally Eddie produced so In cash 10 outht
the young Arxonaut. Tommy started from
juneau March 3. 1897. with l.l0o pounds OF
grub. He packed every pound OF IL over
C.niikoot pass and then fioated down the
Yukon TO Dawson. He wrote letter TO
his brother describing the trip and the
people he met. II was as original a. one
OF Mark Twain's descriptions in Innocence
Abroad" Then came the news that he
had got hold OF a half interest in two
claims on Hunker. Not satisfied with that
he got hold of an entire claim. Next ne
got in on tao stampede to Big Skooknm
and staked out claim. BY uickering
around he got hold OF another. and there
you are.
Eddie Dclan was wondering how Tommy
was getting along when Frank Clancy re-
ceived the letter announcing that Tommy
had made q fortune. There viii be q hot
time at Clancyis when Tommy returns.
4 NJ. F.. Thompson. better known on the
Yukon as silver Tip" 10 in Seattle on his
way back from Dawson. Thompeon came
out from the Yukon last winter with Rich.
ard Butler and other Dawson celebrities.
Just before he left the kiondike metrop-
change. sold out claim with hin partner.
his interest in the purchase price being
about S.. 0Q0 Then he struck out Tor the
coast and landed in Seattle in month att
err he had left Dawson.
Mr.. Thompson Ia one Of the Kiondike
winners. He has number Of claims on
the best creeks In the district. Mining has
been his business for twenty-five years.
and he knows the coast mining districts
Ike book. I'VE all have TO come back
TO Seattle" said Mr.. Thompson. yesterday.
1T is not surprising that the Yukoners
make this city their stamping ground
when they are on the outside. ! am going
back to see some Of tho spring cieAn-ups
in which am interested. No. I viii not
take in an outfit. or. 1T least. 70 mars
than Is required by the regulations"
n. A. Seaborg. the millionaire Astoria
canneryman. was In Seattle last night on
his way to Fairhaven. where he is con-
structng a salmon cannery. Mr. Seaborg
established one Of the drst salmon can
neries in thu Pacific Northwest. on the
Columbia river He came TO the coast late
in the '7os, and a few years afterward en-
tered into the business OF packing salmon.
Now he owns canneries on the coast OF the
Pacific from the Columbia to Alaska.
II do not believe that the coas: salmon
pack VIII be as large this yeGr a. last"
said Mr.. Seaborg last night, at the Butler.
1tic PACK idSl year WAS 0NfE J,DNVsVW
cases, which was go. 900 larger than the
year before. Last years run OF salmon on
the Sound was one of the heaviest on rec
ord. and 1t does not stand 10 reason that
the fish VIII be as plentiful this year. Be-
sides. the packers are not expecting tho
fish in such numbers. and they are not
preparing TO handle such y large busi-
ness
Mr.. Seaborg gave Il as his opinion that
the industry on Pnge. sound would con-
TRUE 20 grow, and that rev csnneries
would be added every season. The can
merry he is building at Fairhaven will have
a capacity OF 1900 cases per day. or $4,000
cases per season.
Henry III. Shufe.dt. who owns the But
Ter hotel arrived in Seattle yesterday from
California, where he has been sotourning
for several months past. He Is accom-
panied by Mrs. Shufeidt and they will re-
main In Seattle for several days. They
are at the Butler.
To Post~Infeiligencer reporter. Mr.
ShuSeidt said yesterday that he did not
wish to talk for publication at this time.
that there was little that he could say
for the reason that he had not been IN
the East for months and had only arrived
in Seattle.
''Skaxit county is among the most PRES
porous in the state" said Col Franz
wilkeson at the Butler last night. Every
industry within Its borders has felt the
auickening effect OF better demand from
al home and abroad. Particularly IN this
true In the numbering interests. Logging
Is now on profitable basis. There is al
most a, boom In logs" and Col. wilks-
son smiled.
1T Is plain 70 me-" he continued. that
Washington Is in much better condition
than ever before In her history. Perhaps
my Views OF this are due 20 some ex-
tent 20 the conditions that surround me
AT home. You cannot make any mistake
when you say that the farmers Of gkaxft