Arizona republican., 1899-09-01

made Une sellers SICK linen other
pockets were discovered and the cap
tain is sill engaged in finding pockets.
He has a small army Of men, all
Swedes, helping him hunt. He pays
them SIS a day. The highest wages
paid anywhere else in the Klondyke
for the same kind of work is SIS a day.
Captain Anderson's property yielded
him this year $500, 900. He has been
a teetotler ever since he bought the
mining property because he has been
too busy to diSsipate. He says that
if anything should happen to him to
break him he'd get on another
drunk and try to buy another mine.
There have been very few episodes in
the Klondyke like this one
The Atlin district, Mr. Turner be-
/ lieves, is the most inviting 1t is
] easy of access by the way of Skaguay.
Bennett on july and the trip is
made from there to AtIin city by water
! and a wooden tramway across a mar
i row peninsula. The region is a de-
! ightful one. The summers are al
ways pleasant and the WRITER'S are not
iGnbearable. Back from the numerous
lakes and rivers, picturesque noun
| t2ins rise, green at the base md capped
with snow. The country abounds IN
wild flowers and above the timber line
the mountains are covered with wild
forget-me-nots to the snow line.
The A'1iu is the most orderly mining
district in the world. There is not
a gambling house in either of the two
! towns, Pine or Discovery City and At
lin City. One was suffered by the po-
lice until one night there was a dis
/ turbance and the place was permanent
ly closed.
There was gree. deal of confusion
at first over mining locations. The
laws of British Columbia were not
understood and there was a great deal
of jumping. The courts quickly re-
stored equitable order and every man
was fully protected in his rights.
Americans have gotten in by procur-
ing powers Of attorney" from Ca
nadians 10 locate and operate mining
claims and do anything else with them
except get into debt. A man cannot
cover the face of the earth with To-
cation. He may settle upon "a strip
only 100 fee. wide and he must remain
on it during the open season"
that is from June 1 to September 1.
A continuous absence of saventy-two
hours makes the claim the properly of
anybody who comes along. If the To-
Gator is compelled by necessity to
leave he may obtain a permit or a clay
over" which will preserve his rigkts.
During the progress of the estab-
lishment of system many who
couldn't wait while their rights were
being adjudicated went away broken
and in disgust. There are about 5000
persons there now Miners receive S.
a day and pay $3.50 for board. The
cost Of living is not greatly in excess
of the cost here. 1t is still cheaper at
Skaguay, which is slowly dying, and
Dyea is already dead. A good meal
can be had at Shaguay for % cents and
other things are even cheaper than |
they are At Seattle or San Francisco |
The perils of the journey TO the |
Klondyke are IN the past. The entire |
tip from Skaguay to Dawson is made |
by rail and wa..er. The line to Atlin I
is a southeastern branch of the Skag- |!
uay-Dawscn route via the White Pass. |
1t WIS the building of this line that |
killed. Dyea and untenanted its famous
but dangerous ChilkOot Pass.
The railroad and steamboat fares
would form a subjec'. for an Arizona |
legislature. There is one stretch CT
railroad CT forty miles on which the /
fare is $40. Steamboat rates are cheap
er wherever there is competition, but
they are subject to sudden changes, al
ways an advance. They sometimes
raise the rate AFTER the boat starts.
Once Mr.. Turner took passage and
paid his fare, so cents. Then man
came around to collect $1.50 more. He
was asked why. He replied that they
had just learned that the boat of the
compe ting line had been disabled The
passengers of this suddenly created
011 Il Il
vince and the Management accommo-
offered TO sail back TO the
starting point and let them d;sem-
bark
Mr. Turner describes the awful Ed
monitor trail which is not quite as ter
rible as sensational correspondence say
it is, but is terrible enough. 1t is n
project of the Hudson Bay company 20
reach Dawson by an inland route. 1t
starts from Edmonton on the bay
place reached by the aCnadian Pacific
ailway. Only that part Of it near the
shores of the bay had ever been ex-
plored by the company. The beyond
was an unknown land which no man
mad ever traversed until the so-called
rail was declared open for passage and
10 man who has succeeded in getting
through will ever traverse it again.
A part Of it leads over impossible
mountains and a par Of it through
OOttomless quagmires covered with
moss. The travellers have had the
singular experience of having been "a
nest frozen to death amid the moss
and of having been almost burned up
n it. For some of them have been on
he trail for eleven months Within
-h-'- tine the moss covers ice cold
ispths and within that time it covers
destructive fires, lighted by accident or
lob0dy knows how. A majority cf-hcse
who started on the trail and lived to
each Lake Teslin crossed down 20
Lake Atlin and passed cut to Skaguay
broken in spirit and health. A very :
Few have ever reached Dawson. I
E. Il. Hitler, formerly oc the Hart
ord Banking company of this city, is