Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-07
CAME TO UTAH,
BUT WILL LEAVE
Mr. H. [. Ball, Alaska Weather
Man, Ordered to Oklahoma.
TERRORS OF THE KLONDIKE
Intense suffering Of I'rospcctors
Transportation Agents "should
be ttRnged.n

Mr. II. T.. Ball who has been 10
charge OF the weather bureau service in
Alaska during the past year, stopped
on IN tho city last evening on biz
way TO take charge of the station at
Oklhnan. Mr. Bnu WINS scnt 90
Alaska 90 establish an agricultural and
weather bureau service there. iu order
10 investigate tho conditions Tor the
benefit Of future settlers During bis
iobor he established nine voluntary
stations along the coast and six IN the
interior Communication 90 and from
the interior 81 so seldom made, hove
ever. thnt the reports from there como
about only onco "a year.
Upon being asked whether Doe raw
much suffering in Alaska among tlc
gold-HookDr. Mr. Ban replied 'oh,
See. lots and lots of d. have seru
men bowed down with scurfy and Huls
forinH from starvation many. Too. have
! aruu with frozen limbs ua ID result NJ
insufficient clothing and shelter. Scores
OF mon may Doe seen everywhere That
arc dead broke spending their time
either iu Curs.ug the country or Ia
wishing TINT they were homo, Tile
country of the klondika has been great
hut There o. one thing ] DO want 90
say Mr. tHU continued owphutIcflly
ut ia that the members N some uf
those transportation companies ought
TO boz hanged. They issue their patent
mcdlciup-llkc circulars by the thuuH-
nndH and azure men into parts ~ tho
country where there is no gold ut nll
They took 1000 men into iNntzChue
Sound. where there b. not 90 bit ~ Eplit
and 300 nrc still there on the point NJ
starvation. whom / believe the govern
mont win have 90 rescue % their
lives are 90 Boz saved GO 900.
"Thsrt were hundreds ~ men taken
into tho Cuiu0r river ANA Cooks Inlet
countries. u.l every grain Of gold that
has been seen there am confident was
taken from ioWU other place IN order
90 create a boom. SO you see thlt there
De- n great deal of dishonesty in klon-
dixie mining. Yes, the members Of
some % the transportation companies
ought 90 be hanged Tor their traffic In
human beings. hope that they will be
prosecuted.
"pid you see many rucccssfm gold
seekers asked the News reporter
'No. not many. indeed. ! have boon
told by mon that ought 90 be- nhln to
Judge correctly that OF tho hundreds of
mines in the Nloudika which nro paying
ut ull, lnsH than 100 could be called
b0unuzua, ana that only 30 are num-
hercd among the larger mines of the
world. S1. you see the itlOndlke ~
greatly oycrcrowdcd with thousands of
men that viii return without a cent, II
they return at all"
and didn't you get the gold fever
after spending "a year Ia Alaskan
asked the reporter
"Oh. yes" Atr Ran replied. - have
some claims Tor which I am asking
100000. and ! think / shall soon be
able 60 rct that price"
lie also said that although the wins
come the greatest country In tho world
Tor quartz mining. although tho quartz
H. Of rather low grade
Mr.. linll said that although the win
tors are long and SEVERE he has seen
raised there some Of the finest grain
and garden vegetables. And the grasses
ON pasturapo lands grow ~ high aa
tho waist ana often us high us the
shoulders. The wild berries Atr BAH
says. Hurpnas any he ever saw; large.
nne Currauts.Htruwhorric and rasphgr-
ries grow wild In great prufuslun. Fish
and game too, he says, are almost cX-
hHustlcEH
nut Alaska has its disadvantage"