The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-17
TONS OF YELLOW NET AL
First of the Years Cleanup in
Klondike Comes Out.
FABULOUS TALES TOLD
Output of the K1ondike Region This
Year to Be Double That of Last
or Over Fifteen Million
Dollars.

Skagway, June 13, via Seattle, Wash,
June IA large amount of gold dust
and nuggets was landed at White
Horse Rapids last Friday, June 8. from
the first three steamers to reach that
point from Dawson City. Over one ton
of it was officially checked off by Off
GERS at White Horse when making the
transfer from steamer to steamer. The
remainder was divided in packages
ranging from 10 to Is pounds carried
by the more than 800 passengers These
were in all sorts OF odd packages and
with no attempt at concealment. Owing
to the low stage of the water on the
lakes and rivers it was impossible for
the small steamers from Bennett to
reach them before Sunday, and the first
lot of 65 was landed in Bennett yester-
day by the Nora and reached Skagway
last evening. Another lot of over 100
reached here at 2 o'clock this morning
and the remainder will get here soma
time to-day.
The concensus Of opinions gathered
from almost every man reaching Skag-
way was to the effect that the output
Oh lH6 u1Sllttl ltlS year WUulu
be between SIS, ,000o60 and $40 600, 900
Fifteen million, which will nearly dou-
BILE last years output, will be found to
be good figures to gamble on.
Frank SlaVin, the prize fighter, car
ries sack Weighing 54A pounds. Oscar
Odin and his partner, Jack Rasmond,
had 200 pounds between them. Louis
Allanberry struggled under LOG pounds
of dust and $4,000 in bills. Thomas Nc
Larbie of Shelton, Wash, has $40, 600 in
dust, William Rogers $1,000 and jos
Clerkin $4,000.
Every hotel safe in Skagway las,
night was crammed full of gold dust
with a Watchman on guard all night
and as the safes could not accommo.
date all who had gold the safes of The
several merchants had to be called into
requisition and the largest of these
We're taxed to their utmost.
This gold is brought out largely hy
merchants, with only few miners wha
have been in the Khondike all the way
from year to four years. only about
half of it is from he Winter cleanup,
and that largely from benches, as sluic-
ing had only about commenced when
the steamers left Dawson May 25.
Nelson A. Goucher. who had been
working Eldorado ) 3. says that that
famous creek viii 9urpass all expeeta-
tions. No. 8, owned by MERCER and De
IlldTS, w III GIHdlI atp DIT iNeSt S-VVtopo'
No. Ii EldoradO, he believes. VIII
prove to be tn richest claim on the
whole Klondikt Mr.. Peacock of Que
bee who owns a half interest, hal
81 men at work on 1t all winter and
the cleanup will be in the neighbour
hood of from 81 900 to $1,5o0,O0o.
On Professor Lippy's claim, on 16
Eldorado, they quit drifting on March
3, as they had more pay dirt out than
thpV will he a HE wash tnlS sea-
son. The dirt is very rich. The re-
suits of this claim cannot be estim-
ated. but it will be enormous.
Antone's claim, II Eldorado, is also
exceedingly rich, but no figures are
given.
who is on Bonanza, said when he left
they were working rockers on benches
and sluicing had only fairly begun.
Not much work is being done below
Discovery, but great activity prevails
above it and the claims are showing
up rich. Dominion creek is going to
make a good record, and so is Hunk
er, but it is too early yet to give fig
ures from any of these, owing to the
distances and difficulties of the trail
to and from Dawson.
Many of the men just coming out
are merchants, who are here to re-
plenish their stocks and get back as
soon as possible
Oscar Olin gives a good account of
. Gold Hill at the junction of Eldorado
and Bonanza, and says the results
win surprise many.
The exact figures of the actual out
put will never be known for the rea-
son that every effort is being made
to evade the royalty, and every trick
and device is being resorted to in or
der to smuggle the dust out of the
country
Frank Slavin and his partners have
81 placer claims most of them good.
There has been a lot of prospecting
for quartz, but no great discoveries
as yet have been heard from. Slavin
is going to New York and London.
He and his partners have bonded the
Dome quartz proposition with Lon
don company and got $4,000 for devel-
opment work,
Among those who came in on the
early train with small tin boxes or
sacks of gold was Mr.. Preston, former
assayer here who, besides his dust,
has a nugget weighing $S5 Among
other noted "heavyweights" are Stan
ley McGrade, l. McEWen, w. F. For
get Colonel Green, N. &. Goucher, ).
Clement A. r. Cox, e. Campbell and
A. e. Morrell Clement, who owns
IS above on Bonanza. carries drafts
exchanged in Dawson for his gold, the
aggregate of which cover six figures.
The steamer Columbian was wreck
ed June by striking rock six miles
below White Horse rapids She is a
total loss. The Columbian had d large
list of passengers, who were trans
ferred to other steamers. The ice is
still troublesome. The Nora, on her
way down to White Horse, went
through two miles of nine-inch ice on
Marsh lake.
AT Cariboo crossing the Nora passed
three stranded steamers yesterday
morning, the Australian, Clifford Sif-
ton and the Cleaner. The latter got
off shortly after and started for At
lin City, but blew out her cylinder
head in Taku Arm and had to tie up
to the bank.
The water pt Carihoo crossing is
only IS inches deep.