The herald., 1898-01-19
Think They've Struck the
Mother Lode
THE DISCOVERY IMPORTANT
AS ENsuRING PERMANENcE OF
PLACERS
American and Canadian Relief Sup
plies Will Be Rushed Forward.
Buying Machinery
A..oc,atea Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
SEATTLE, Jan. Is. - The news
brouebt by the treasure-laden people
who have arrived from the klondlke
on the steamer Corona is important
chiefly that it is confirmatory OF the
discovery of the great mother lode'
weIch. Coffin and Burt are authority
for the statement that the original strike
was made at the upper end OF claim 49,
Ell Dorado, while two stringers, one at
No. 81 and another yet lower down,
were subsequently located. through
out the district the discovery is accepted
as assurance of the permanency OF the
district as a rich gold-mining field. AS
to the placer diggings, they continue
very rich. Powder Creek, an affiuent OF
Quartz Creek has been having boom
since pans of S3.75 and $4 became
common thing. OF course the stream
was located from source to mouth as
soon as the first important discovery
was made All Gold Creek shows pans
of $40 to $1Oo, while the miners on Hunk
er Creek, Henderson, Dominion, the Big
Salmon and the Stewart all declare
themselves satisfied with the prospect.
One of the first men to stake ground
on Ell Dorado, and the very last man
out of the Klondike country, is Andrew
Olsen, known as "the big Swede." He
is notable as being the owner of the
claim on which the biggest Klondike
nugget has yet been found. This lump of
gold was valued at $5S6.
Replying to a question for an esti-
mate of the winters gold dust output
of the camp, Joe Campbell. one of the
returning miners, said: 1--WE have done
a great deal of figuring on that, and
the general opinion appears to be that
the output, Notwithstanding the scarcity
of food and light, will be from $12, 900, 900
to 5000, ,000.''
DIR. H. R. Littlefield, Mayor of Ska
quay came down on the Corona. He has
Just closed contract with the Canadian
government to pack provisions to Lake
Bennett for 25 cents a pound.
L. T. Grady, formerly a banker of
Fairfax, Mimi, paid $500 for the privil-
ege of walking from Dawson behind
brisk dog team.
THE KILGORE CROWD
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1S.-The
steamer Excelsior sailed for Alaska al
80 p. m. today with every stateroom
crowded with gold-seekers and loaded
to the guards with supplies. Her de-
parture from Main-Street wharf was
witnessed by a large crowd of people,
and the scene was revival of last years
excitement when the same steamer car
ried away the first big crowd of special
writer's and artists to the new Ell Do
RADIO.
Conspicuous among the passengers
were the members of party headed by
T. c. Gilgore, from Southern California,
which is conceded to be the best equip
ped on board. Another party from Sac
ramento, headed by r. W. Maddox, has
eight trained dogs in addition to its out
fit. The Cooperative Prospective Com
pany OF eight persons, party of seven
from Eureka and another from East
Oakland, are all we'll equipped for their
search for fortunes, as are also most of
the individual prospectors, who repre-
sent almost every part of the State.
SIXTY PASSENGERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IS. - The
steamer Excelsior will sail this morning
for Dyea, Cooks Inlet and the Copper
River. She will take sixty passengers,
to seek their fortunes in Alaska. The
cargo of the vessel consists largely of
stores and outfits for the Klondike. a
number of dogs have also been placed
on board. They are to be used as pack
animals across the frozen passes.
BUYING MACHINERY
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. sd. D.
Stewart, who arrived from Dawson City
yesterday on the steamer Corona at
Seattle, came to this city this evening
by the Northern Pacific and deposited
s29, 900 in gold dust with a safe deposit
company. Stewart, who is a partner
of Alex Mcdonald, the well-known mil
lionaire of Dawson, is on his way to
San Francisco to purchase machinery
to be used in mining in Alaska. 1t is his
intention to rush the machinery over
the passes as far as Lake Bennett and
then wait for the river to open.
John Gregory also a passenger by the
Corona, passed through this evening,
en- route to San Francisco, with valise
containing $4,000 in gold dust.
RELIEF SUPPLIES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Acting Sec
retary Meiklejohn, of the War Depart
ment, has written to Mr. Clifford Sifton,
Canadian Minister of the Interior, in re-
gard to the Klondke relief movement:
"The War Department has ordered it's
pack animals to Vancouver and ex-
pected to have the provisions at Skag-
uay some time during the present month.
Then we shall probably begin to pack
the provisions over the mountains and
make starting place on the other side.
DIR. JOHN c. OTIS WHO CHARGE