The San Francisco call., 1898-07-04

 : land arrived in port this afternoon from St " Michael. She brought eighteen miners from the Yukon gold fields, with dust and drafts to the value of several ' hundred thousand dollars.
 :: They left: Dawson between May 25 and June 5, floating down the broad Yukon in .flat-bottomed boats, and de- parting from St. Michael on June 22. :: The :men who bring the first story. of the :@ season from the nugget-lined camps of r.. far north are: R. A. Hall, Long. Beach. Cal; E. Emerson, San Francisco;, George MerWin, San Fran . cisco;: NJ. Christensen. San Francisco; C. .Stoli,: Durango, Colo; Isaac Graham, Danville; Ell. H. N. Lacey, Seattle, Wash.;~:G. Nelson, California: G. Arn- old, California: P. T. Amber, Nanaimo, B. c.. John Ross, Nanaimo, B. G.; Albert .Meakin, .Nanaimo, B. C.; Ben Wobank, Nanaimo, B. C.; John Wilson, Nanaimo, B. C.; George Hepel, Nanai- mo-. B C.; John Callihan, Nanaimo, B. C.; Mike Muller, Nanaimo, B. C.; w. T. Heddle,,. Nanaimo, B. c.
 Captain Joyce and Purser Dennis of the New England are authority for 
 posit in the steamers strong box S175,- GOO worth of dust and that the drafts the miners carried would make an az gregate amount of over $200,0O0. w. T. Heddle of Nanaimo; B. C., is the largest. individual holder of dust. He is credited with ~S'N 900.
 According to estimates of the passen- gers on the New England, the clean-uu this spring will reach $20,000000. This, in addition to from :$5,OOO,0O to sS,O0O,- OO0 held over from last. season, will verify the prediction made several months ago by Sam w: WalL The Calls correspondent at Dawson.
 The Berry brothers will clean up SL000 coo from their claims on Fl. Do- rado.: while Alexander Mcdonald and the Stanley boys will each take out nearly the sale amount.
 These are among the notable excep- tions. There are hundreds of claims where the men who have worked hard from early morn to late at night will realize but little more than wages. The heavy yields of gold are the exception, while it has developed that a number of claims located on outside rivers and creeks do not pay for the work.
 The Yukon. River opened much earlier than. usual this year and is eight feet higher than it has been for years. By Mays it was clear of ice away below Dawson. The snow in the foothills and mountains above Fl Dorado and Bo- nanza creeks began to melt with the first warm days of May, and soon after the miners had sufficient water to com mence washing their placer heaps. . It is expected that the river steamers will reach Dawson this year with but little difficulty.
 The first river boats ere this will have brought. down to St. Michael hundreds of old. miners and new recruits. The schooner Hattie I. thillips is reported to have left St. Michael oh June 19 for San: Francisco with twentytwo return- ing Klondikers and over $500, 900 in gold g dust. Jack Ross, one of the New England passengers, reports the loca- ton of river boats as follows:
 ''The'. May West.will likely be the first steamer into St. Michael. We passed her. June s, 100 miles down the river from Dawson. She was heavily laden c with passengers. The following day the Victoria was passed 165 miles from Dawson. The barge Seattle No. 1 was te1nporarily hung on a bar twenty miles above Circle City She has 175 pas sengers aboard. On June s the Gov ernor Stoneman, with a number of pas seugers, was ashore on a bar at Fort Yukon. They expected to float her the next day. Forty miles below Fort Yu- kon we passed the steamer Hattie B. of San Francisco. She was on bar, but with every probability Of soon getting into the channel again.
 sThe river boats of the two big con- mercial companies withstood the ice break in good shape. The Bella and another steamer which had been forced upon an island opposite Circle City had been 'skidded into deep water and started for Dawson. The Weare, Ham iltorf. Alice; Margaret and Thomas DWver were on their way up the river and making good time. The Healy and St. Michael were on the lower river bound up"
 An interesting story of the conditions at Dawson is told by Henry Anderson of San Francisco. He went north last summer and worked for lay on No 900 below Discovery on Bonanza Creek He has worked hard and returns with s5O0o. To The Call correspondent he said
 eThe men who came down on the New Fngland are all workers for wages that is. they have depended on theil minds for their bread. Many of then own Ci9lIlS III lHt hIpilulhe, Dul IEdlly all of them have either worked fol wages in the camp during the last winter or else have worked on lays Their: success has been moderate; none of them have been heavy winners, likt Mcdonald, Clarence Berry and other old timers in the country. All of them however have some money.
 we all fioated down the Yukon iron Dawson in open boats. The trip wa: pleasant enough, but there was nc luxury about it. On our way down W, passed a number of river steamer. bound for Dawson, and we saw some that will not go up the river for man! weeks yet, being stuck on sandbars The first river steamer to bring ou men with gold will probably be thu May West, which was within a day. run of Dawson when we passed he coming down the river. The Hamilton was under good headway going 1T the river when we passed her betweel Anvik and Nulato. She will probabl. bring down a big list of passengers and gold.
 Want of everything in the way O sanitary arrangements in Dawson il the most unfortunate characteristic O the place. The streets are covered witt filth ard refuse. The summer month 1,rA@I Sfceae ca iOder natural oop6ifiopc c