The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-16
FROM GOLDEN KLOND|KE
THE LATEST REPORT OF CONSUL
MCOOK.
Gold output Reduced one Halliday
Miners-Some Noted Gamblers-Or-
der is Well Kept.

Consul McCook sends, writing to the
Treasury Department reports in regard
to conditions in Dawson City and vlci-
nifty. The city, he says, is being rapidly
rebuilt after the recent fire. The fol-
lowing is from his reports:
There is a great deal of activity in
shipping at present; at one time, there
were II steamers at the various land
ings. The boats are providing improved
accommodations for passengers, and i
do not see why excursion parties are not
organized to come and see this land of
gold now that travelling is made so
comfortable. l should think a trip up
the Yukon would be more interesting to
Americans than a trip up the Rhine.
THE bulk Of passenger and freight
traffic will hereafter come by the upper
river route, several lines of steamers
connecting this port with Lake Bennett
The rates from Dawson to Puget Sound
are: First-class $1S5; second-class $3.50;
but these will probably be reduced one
half as the season advances. The rates
charged by the companies running
boats to st. Michael's, there to connect
with ocean steamers, are $3.50 first-class
and 800 steerage. No second-class mail
matter will be brought in or sent out
for the present as the rates are too high.
No second-class mail matter was re-
ceived all winter, and If anyone wishes
to send papers or magazines to their
friends, they should mail them as first
class matter.
Instead of 500, 1000, 900, which was re-
ported as the probable output for this
district for the past IL months, 1 am in
formed that $10,000,000 VIII fully cover
the product. Reports from Alaska indi-
cate that more gold will be found there
than will ever come from this territory.
Alaska is rich in placer mines, but re-
quires development. Very little pros
pecting was done here last winter The
miners simply ate up their grub and
waited for someone else to report dis
coveries of gold. If the indications are
good, they go on a stampede, dig a hole
or two, and if they can not find pay dirt
at once, they say the creek is no good
and return. This country requires in
domitable pluck and energy. 1t is very
difficult to take care of ones health, as
the canned food and poor cooking are
hard on the system. Typhoid fever has
already broken out-siX weeks earlier
than last year The ground upon which
the city is built is being drained, $4,000
having been spent on this work. There
are several hundred destitute persons in
Dawson, who want to get out of the
country and have not the means.
THE city is overcrowded at present,
most of the work on the mines having
ceased for the season, and the gambling
fraternity and saloons are reaping rich
harvests. At the junction of Eldorado
and Bonanza creeks, IA miles from here,
quite a town has sprung up since last
year, chiefly composed of gambling
houses. All sorts and conditions of men
are found in this cOuntry-doctors, law
yers, politicians-working at anything
they can find to do. At one gambling
table there sat recently four men, three
of whom had been chiefs of police in
cities in the United States, and the
fourth we'll known Pinkerton detec-
tive. The authorities are now filming
the gambling houses, however; and, in
spite of all the drinking, etc, order pre-
walls. Dawson is comparatively quiet
and safe, and the laws are enforced"