The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-11
YET ON THE BOOM
Kl0ndyke Prospects Seem to be
Better Than Ever.
GOOD OUTLOOK ON ALL CREEKS
Work in the North is Being Rushed
Great Stream of Gold viii Come
Down This Year.

DAWSON, Nov. 19.-(Via Port
Townsend, Wash, Dec. 25.)-Reports
from all creeks in the vicinity OF Daw-
son indicate that the winters product
OF gold will exceed that Of last year by
more than 100 per cent. New strikes
are being located daily from new loca-
tons and all indications are that the
full extent OF the Klondike placer re-
gions has by no means yet been deter
mined. All the known localities are
crowded with handwriting miners,
who are rushing development work
with a rapidity unparalleled in this
! country. Yankee genius has furnished
thawing machinery and frost extract
| ors which enable the miner 20 work
economically and speedily, so that the
gold production for this winter VIII be
at considerable less cost than hereto
fore
Nearly every claim along the whole
length of Ell Dorado, Bonanza, Hunker,
Skookum, Bear, Chief Gulch, Aurora,
French Gulch and the bench claims
bordering them are being worked, and
nearly all with full prospects of sue
cess. From Thistle and Tulare Creeks,
on the upper river, the most fiattering
reports have come, and those who
stampeded thither in the latter part of
September are now returning to this
place to procure outfits and pronounce
the reports of great richness genuine,
although there is an absence of detail
and particularly in all reports that
make them doubtful.
From the Forty-mile and American
creek districts come reports Of great
richness, particularly in the Forty mile
region. Large parties are being organ
lied here to go there over the ice.
Eagle City, in American territory
has had wonderful growth and is now
a place of between 1000 and 5000 peo-
pie. Messengers from Eagle City and
Circle City have arrived here since the
river closed, and all bring most en-
'couraging news, but nothing sufficient
ly definite as to Justify positive state
ment.
Cold weather has but just set in The
thermometer, which has hOvered at
zero and several degrees above, on
Tuesday dropped to 80 below, and as
low as As below has been registered.
Several persons are reported TO have
frozen to death. One of these was
found in a kneeling posture beside his
sled and dogs between Hunker and Do
minion at the summit. He is supposed
have made effort rpnair a
break in his dogs harness, and while
so engaged to have become overcome
with exhaustion and cold.
j. H. COudenheads, a civil engineer
in the employ of the Government, was
recently found, frozen, standing erect
in the ice of the Klondike river. with
a pack on his back and within fifty
yards of inhabited cabins. The con-
lecture is that he broke through the ice
in attempting to cross the river, and,
succum bling to the severity of the
shock, was frozen before he could mus
| ter strength sufficient TO eXtricate him
| self
1t is far too early as yet TO offer
| reasonable estimate of the amount of
gold likely to be produced, but those
| best posted declare it will be double
that of last year. Notwithstanding the
|
claims this winter unless the royalty
was reduced, work is being pushed
everywhere to the utmost. All Gold
Too Much Gold, Swede, Moosehide and
a dozen other localities generally held
in light esteem, have, none the less, a
full quota of workers delving in search
| of the elusive pay streak.
| In commercial lines, however, bust
ness has come to practical standstIlI,
| and Will perhaps remain so until after
the holidays. Hundreds of discour-
aged, disheartened and disguised pros
pectOrS have sold their outfits and
started out over the ice, determined to
reach home and never return. Others
are preparing to leave for the States
as early as possible with the intention
of returning with the first open water
with large stocks of goods, such as are
now scarce and likely to be out of the
market in the early days of June.
Several steamers are in winter quar-
tiers on the upper river prepared to
take advantage of this first rush of
traffic. These are the Ora, Nora, Flora,
Clara, Columbian, Canadian, Governor
Pingree, Phillip B. Low, one of the
Moran fleet and the James Domville.
Between Dawson and Circle City there
are reported the steamers Arnold and
John C. Barr, in safe winter quarters;
the Monarch at Circle, the Sovereign
Iaground in mid-river and certain OF
destruction, as are also two of the
Moran fleet, the Victoria and the Ia
coma, operated by the Empire Trans
pOrtation Company. Nothing has been
heard from the regions below Circle
City
Dawson has been saved from des-
trction by fire half dozen times since
1.-THE big fire of last month by the promp-
titude of the newly organized Fire De-
Ipartment. Destructive flues are a con-
slant source of menace TO the safety