The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-04
First Installment of Dust For This
Season.
MINERS HEAVILY LADEN
TWENTY OF THEM BROUGHT
OUT 100000.
Estimate the Total Cleanup at Ten
to Forty Millions-Cane Down the
Yukon In Fourteen Days-Tired Of
Life In the Klondike-W. 7. He'd
die Comes Out With $4,000.

Seattle, Wash, July 3-The first
miners to come out from the Klondike
this season arrived here this after
noon from ST. Michaels on the steamel
New England. There were 20 of them
and they brought gold dust and drafts
estimated at 100000 Their names
are: P. T. Amber, John Ross, Albert
| Meakin, Isaac Graham, Ben Wohamk,
John Wilson, George Hepel. E. Nelson,
r. A. Hall, E. Emerson. Fl. n. Lacey,
w. T. Heddle, George Merwin, K. Sau-
| set, w. Shearer. A. Lumber, George
Appold, John Callihan, Mike Muller
Yukon river from Dawson to ST.
Michael in small boats.
AS to the amount of gold they
brought with them, they are very re-
ticent. Captain Joyce and Purser
Dennis of the New England are author
ity for the statement that there was
on deposit in the steamers strong box
s175,00O worth of dust, and that the
drafts they carried would make an
aggregate amount of over 100000.
w. I. Heddle of Nanimo, B. c., is
the largest individual holder of dust.
He is credited with $4,000.
Captain Joyce of the New England
states that the schooner Hattie I.
Phillips left St. Michael June 10 for
San Francisco with % men from Daw-
son with $4,000 in gold dust.
Todays arrivals from Dawson made
the trip down the Yukon in IA to IS
days, drifting and sailing in the cur
rent. They report the trip an easy
one. The river steamers which We're
laid up in the Yukon last winter in
the ice were considerably damaged.
The Healy came to St Michael and
returned. The last miners to arrive re-
-%1I l.
near the mouth of the Yukon and
liable to be detained. No other steam
ers were ready to move up the river.
but the Rock Island people expected
to be ready in a. week~r two, and the
Alaska Commercial company had one
nearly completed. with q barge in ad-
dition. The Canadian Pacific Naviga-
ton company had steamer ready to
launch, but the machinery expected on
the Danube had not arrived.
Several schooners, the G. W. Wat
son, r. w. Bartlett, J. B. Leeds and
others were lying at st. Michael dis
charging their cargoes and various
small companies with their outfits were
scattered along the shore+preparing to
ascend the river as soon as they could
get ready.
The May West was Within 100 miles
of Dawson June 6. The ice left st.
Michael harbor June II. The Yukon
river is reported as eight feet higher
than ever known before in it's history.
This dispels the story which has fire.
quently been reporte that the river
was never so low as this year.
The New England party report that
when they left st. Michael u miners
from Dawson had arrived, each one of
whom was burdened with gold dust.
Their explanation for making the
trip in open boats and making con-
nection with the first steamer to leave
St Michael is that they were utterly
tired of life at Dawson. and having
cleaned UP all their gold, We're in
hurry to reach civilization. They esti-
mate this years cleanup will run from
10000, 900 to i0,000,0G0
Scurvy has marked hundreds Of men
in the Klocdike for its victims. Ty-
phoid fever and pneumonia have al
ready begun a harvest of death in tie
camp. The unhealthy season has be-
gun, and the one hospital in the camp
was crowded with victims of the dis
eases peculiar tc new and thinly set
tied country. The deaths average about
three per day.
A flood during the first three days of
June caused the waters of the YuRc2
to invade the city of Dawson, and Coz
two days the citizens of the Klondike
metropolis waded around in their high
topped boots or p2ddled ABOUT IN DoatS.
Late in May the Catholic church n
Dawson burned to the ground.
News of the war reached Dawson by
incoming travellers late in May. Great
interest in the war is manifested
throughout the camp, and every new
9~~'--al is ca 9erlv queetioned for news
When R. A. Hall, who worked on the
BeI4y brothers Claims, Eldorado creek,
left the diggings June 5, the miners
were in the midst of their annual
spring cleanup. Gold dust was being
brought into the camp from the mines,
but when Hall left Dawson not -co-e
than 900 Of this seasons had been
carried to storehouses at Dawson.
George NJ Erwin said out of 1880
claims that have been recorded in Daw-
son district, less than 200 have proved
to be paying property.