The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-14
Whole City Stirred With she
Klondike Excitement.
MANY TO START THIS SPRING.
Most Of Them VIII Come by Way OF
Seastfe-J. G. Brand and . Party
of Six Now in the City En- Route
for Dawson-They Already Own
Valuable Claims ON kionaflke ana
Are Returning to Develop Them.

J. c. Brand and party Of six viii leave
Seattle next Tuesday. and expect 10 be
In Dawson before the expiration OF thirty
dass. All OF tbs party except two have
been in Alaska before and are returning
10 work propositions that they own. Pat
Calvin, one OF the party. Is zald TO have
sosd out his interests IN Alaska for s. 500
GO IN London, England George Meclock.
who has Interests on both Bonanza and
Eidorado creeks. brought out sieS.es last
fall Joe Burk, whose interests are on
Bonanza creek. brought out $4,000, and
Mr.. BrdnG who owns claim on the same
creek. brought OUT s., ooo. The latter
states that they will all so down on the
ice before the river breaks up. SO as 10
De on the claims before the siuicing sea-
sen commences He left Dawson on tbs
12th of last December and made the trip
over the Ice In ewenty-six days. The dogs
that brought him out will take him back.
IL Is the intention 10 take in only
enough provisions 10 last themselves and
dogs during the trip, as they have their
outfts at tee field OF operation. They
will encounter no difficulty In getting past
the officials without the required amount
OF supplies. as they have passes in. Mr..
Brand says that the Dyea trail VIII be
the che taken, as he believes il TO be the
best Owing 10 the number OF people
passing over st. he does not think there
will be any snowshosing until Lake Lee
barge is reached. From there down nearly
all the trip will be made on snowshoes.
The other three members OF the party
are a San Francisco Chronicle representa-
tive New York Herald representative
and j. Monroe. The latter has a brother
on Bonanza creek and goes TO assist him
in working the property.
Mr.. Brand has just returned from a trip
to his home in Los Angeles and says there
is almost as much Alaskan excitement
there as there is 10 Seattle. II all the peo-
pie 20 from there Who say that they are
going there will be between 1900 and TO-
go residents of the City OF the Angels in
Alaska before the season has passed.
While he does not look for an exodus OF
this kind he believes that the number VIII
foot up four figures. Many of the stores
there are advertising aud selling Alaska
outfits. Much Of the stuff consists OF
cheap good, utterly unfit for the service
for which IL Is meant. He says that bet
tor outfits can be secured in Seattle than
In any city on the Coast, and as the ma
jority OF Los Angeles people are aware
of this fact they will come here before out
fitting. The people there do not realize
the hardshps 10 be undergone In max
Ing the trip and their ignorance is very
dense in this respect. One young man. a
clerk In one of the stores, asked him II
high standing linen collars could be worn
there. and Mr.. Brand said that he thought
not. The clerk. however. went out and
bought five dozen Of them and intends To
take them with him.
Before he left Dawson last December
Mr.. brand had a watch chair. made out Of
gold from the different districts. and pre-
scented IL 70 his brother. who is in BUSH
ness in Los Angeles. II became known
and so many people called upon him 10 see
II that IL seriously inteffered with his bus
mess.
The names OF kiondike and Seattle Mr..
Brand says. are on every ones tongue.
and people OF all conditions are doing their
utmost TO get started toward the gold
fields
Winter does not possess the same ter
rors to Mr.. Brand that summer doee lie
says that when the thaw comes the moss
thaws out for about two feet and makes
a regular mosquito breeding muck that Is
very hard 10 get through. Mosquitos are
terrible pests and nothing is effective
against them except netting, Penny
royal and a thousand ether drugs have
been tried. hut the tuosduttgs pay no at
tentipn 10 them. r