The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-24
Party of Twenty-one With Upwards
of 100000.
HAD LOTS OF NUGGETS
ARE BOUND FOR THEIR EAST
ERIN HOMES.
Returning Argonauts Were In High
Spirits Over the Prospects of
Speedily Meeting With Their
Loved Ones Again-Cape Nome
Diggings Not Fruitful.

With cash and drafts to the amount
of something like 100000 safely tucked
away in their clothes, a party of TWEEN
ty-one Klondikers passed through salt
Lake yesterday en- route to their homes
in the east The returning Argonauts
were naturally in high spirits over the
prospect of seeing their dear ones after
months of hardShips in the frozen
north land.
Reticent About Their Cash.
When seen last night at the Rio
Grande Western depot, different mem
bers of the party expressed themselves
as having had quite enough Of the
Klondike. They did not care to talk
about how much they had cleared up,
but upon being closely pressed, one Of
the leaders of the party stated that
their wads ranged from $4,000 to w.
600 each, and that 100000 would not be
far from a correct estimate of the total
brought out by the party.
I'VE are about the luckiest party out
of Dawson this spring." said o. h.
Nokes of Peoria, Ills. There is not a
member of the party who has not beat
the Klondike country TO the tune Of
well, good many hundred, to say the
least"
Have you got any nuggets with
your" he was asked.
Yes, 1 brought few along, al
though ii isn't safe to carry Them" he
replied. pulling a little buckskin sack
out of his hip pocket, filled with mug
gets ranging in size from pea to a
pigeons egg. The word was passed to
the other members of the party that
the inquirer wanted to see some mug
gets, and the boys came crowdlng
around with their little buckskin sacks,
purses and bottles, all filed with mug
gets, yellow and heavy.
Nugget For His Girl.
One gaunt-looking young man stuck
his hand in his trousers pocket and
pulled out a handful of saffron beau
ties, one of which was half as large as
a hens egg. THE big one is for my
The others are for mother and the
folks. We got our gold assayed in
Dawson and got drafts. 1t is much
safer to carry it that way, you know,
and we got Just about as much for it.
OF course we had to bring a few mug
gets along TO fulfill our promises"
Are you going back next year," was
asked.
Not on your tintype," he replied.
This party has got enough of the
Klondike. We're glad to get out alive.
There are 1900 people at Dawson, and
5000 of that number can't get out, on
account of lack of cash, and there's
going to be lots of suffering in that
country next winter. You can't get
anything to eat snort of a dollar, and
some of the men can't get the dollar.
It's a mighty hard country TO get in
and out of, and it's no snap after you
get in. Last Thanksgiving day it was
81 degrees below zero, and we didn't
have any too much to eat, either.
We've been forty days on the trip
,ut, and we're tired"
Cape Nome Diggings.
Others of the party who had investi-
gated the story about the rich diggings
at Cape Nome, ninety miles from Daw-
son, stated that all of the stories were
fakes gotten up by transportation COM
panies to increase their business.
Following is a list of the names of
the party, most of whom are bound for
points east of Chicago: c. NJ. Gillett,
w. H. Gillett, William Glover, NJ. Mo-
sier, C. Mosier, A. r. Smith, G.. Ander-
son. D. Sullivan, ]. McJury, c. F.
Wilkes, o. Z. Nokes, c. w. Guild, c.
NJ. Taylor, II. II. Scott. Paul Clubhouse,
w. H. Adkins, F. II. Jones, George W. |
W. J. Ellithorpe, Mr.. Fulton |
and Mr.. McMannis.
The party is in charge of James T. |
Fulton, Salt Lake representative of the |
Phillips-Judson combna ton. They /
spent the day taking in the sights Ia !
the forenoon they went out to Saltair /
and took a bath, returning to the city |
in time to visit the tabernacle in the I,