Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-01-28
ALASKAN NUGGETS.
Skaguay is lighted by electricity.

Yakima parties will send | 600 head
of Angora goats to the Klondike this
year.
A Seattle firm has bought the ship
Yosemite OF San Francisco to go ON
on the Alaska run.
A herd OF 300 cattle will be driven
overland from Yakima county to the
Klondike this spring.
A water company has been organ
lied at Skaguay. They have an ele-
vation of 800 feet for n "head."
The steamer Cleveland will soon be
on the Alaska run again, having been
chartered at the rate of $400 day.
Skaguay has an ably-edited weekly
newspaper called the Skaguay Nems.
1t is edited and published by M. l..
Sherry.
Skaguay now has three commodious
wharves, and boats may land at any
hour of night or day. In this she is
ahead of Dyea.
Skaguay now has a population of
about 1000 permanent residents. 1t
is expected that this will be augmented
to from 10000 to $1,000 by summer.
So rapidly are buildings going up
at Skaguay that one has go over the
town at least once a week to become
familiar with new landmarks and keep
from getting lost.
High winds sometimes prevail at
Skaguay-from 60 to so miles per
hour. The temperature is mild, the
lowest ranges being between Is to 90
degrees below the freezing point.
A Stanwood, Snohomish county,
man writes home from Dawson that
the klondike is the poorest country a
man ever set foot in, and that prac-
tically two-thirds of the people there
are idle.
Night and day gangs of workmen
were employed in building a dance
hall at Skaguay, so important was the
object deemed of its proprietor to
" open up" to the business that
waited him.
1t is estimated that If steamer
left the Sound or Columbia river
every day during The next two months,
each carrying 400 passengers, they
would not he able to handle the traffic
with the New Eldorado.
A carload of dogs for the Klondike
market arrived in Seattle Sunday.
There were sixty-one of the CANNES
all heavy weights, and from the
chawed-up appearance of some of
them, they must have enjoyed a real
sociable time on the trip.
Capt. Edward Moss, n London mil
liOnaire, has purchased two dozen
monkeys to dig gold in the Klondike.
1t is said that monkeys are regularly
employed in the diamond and placer
mines of South Africa, and display
great aptitude for the business. Capt.
Moss says the two dozen he will take
in this spring are but the vanguard of
an army of these animals.
Edward J. Livernash, of the Eram-
iner's reportorial staff, and lately one
of the committee appointed by the
miners to 60 to Ottawa and secure
modification of the mining laws, does
not paint the richness of Klondike in
the roseate hues of a majority of the
boomers. He says that the winters
output, which has been estimate as
high as $50,0OO,O 5000, will not exceed
James H. Dougherty, or "Nigger
Jim" as he is familiarly called, came
down from Bonanza Greek lately. re-
ported to be worth half a million in
nuggets and claims in the mining
region. Jim was few years ago an in
habitant of this city, who occasionally
worked at logging and at odd spells
put in his time as manager of crap
table at the Green Tree saloon. His
success is verification of the saying:
"The estimate that the Almighty
places on wealth is easily discernable
by the people he allows to amass for
tune"
A railroad building race involving
the expenditure of $16,OOO,OO0 has
been commenced by two wealthy cor
porations, each of which desires to
own the first railroad into the Yukon
country. Each road will be about
400 miles long, running from Pyramid
harbor, near the head Of Lynn canal,
to points on the Lewis river between
Five Fingers rapids. The companies
back of the railroad projects are the
London Exploration Co. and the
Yukon Co., organized last summer by
Andrew +. Burleigh, the principal
stockholders of which are Philadel-
phia and New York men. The pro-
jectors of both roads figure on an
average cost OF over $4,000 a mile,
requiring an outlay of over SS,O0O,OOO
for each road. The equipment for
each will cost about $1,OOO,OOO more.
Both companies have secured rights
of way from the Canadian government