The San Francisco call., 1899-09-11
THE CAPE NOME
D|GG|NGS ARE
SHOWING RICHES
Miners FIocking to
hat Region.
DAWSON HOLDS ITS OWN
MUCH TROUBLE ON THE YUKON
OVER PROPERTY RIGHTS.
The Homer Arrives From st. Michael,
Bringing Many Passengers and
News From the Gold Fields
of Alaska.
DAWSON HOLDS ITS OWN
MUCH TROUBLE ON THE YUKON
OVER PROPERTY RIGHTS.

Save for a few small coasting vessels
the only arrivals of yesterday were
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, Captain
Ward, from the Orient, and the Alaska
Transportation Company's steamer Ho-
mer, Captain Higgins, from st. Michael'
Cape Nome and Dutch HarbOr.
The Rio came in very light as to pas
sengers, bringing only twenty-one in the
cabin and about three times that num-
Der in the steerage She left Hongkong on
August u and Yokohama on the 23d,
touching at Honolulu on her way across.
Her officers report pleasant, uneVent1ul
trip with good weather.
The Homer arrived with about $50 pas
sengers from Cape Nome, st. Michael and
Unalaska. Most of them were employees
of the transportation company who We're
returning to the city after having finished
their summers work at the company
different stations. Few OF them were
miners or proSpectOTs, and those few
brought down but little treasure to speak
of.
Among the passengers was Captain NJ.
A HeaIy formerly in command OF the
revenue cutter Bear. who has been spend
ing the last few months at the different
mining camps of Cape Nome ana the I u
kon as the guest of H. Liebes & Co. Cap
tain Healy speaks very favorably OF the
prospects at both the old diggings in the
vicinity of Dawson and the newer ones at
Il am not mining man myself" said
the captain, but, to judge from the way
the proSpectors are fOcking to Nome ana
the enthusiasm that is evinced by those
who do know what good mining property
is, | should predict that the new camps
will turn out remarkably well. BY that l
mean that they should prove fully as rlcn
as those of Dawson and Forty-mile, IL
they do not surpass them
The mines up the Yukon are also dong
well and fully holding up the reputation
they have acquired for richness: The pest
proof of this is the way in which caPIIIiaI P2IiI
l. iIrr fs,X1 r1cr inf .
American Transportation and Iradlng
Company, the Alaska Transportation
pany, the North American Transportation
and Trading Company-in fact, all the Dig
concerns and a number of smaller ones
are bringing in great loads OF merchandise
and building as fast as they can get new
structures up. This is the best possible
evidence of the prosperity of place. II
there is no money in a country the Dig
mercantile concerns soon let it alone
"One thing which is a source of great
annoyance on the Yukon is the legal en-
tanglement in which nearly every one IS
mixed up. | mean the litigation arising
from clouded titles to mining claims ana
real estate Almost every person who is
has his right to it disputed by anywhere
from one to half a dozen others, and the
result is a great deal of trouble ana end
less legal confusion. However, in time
this will be all Strengthened out.
ION our way down we met the revenue
cutter Corwin. which is now on her way
up the Koskoquin River to Investigate the
reported murder of some miners by the
Indians in that part OF the country. L
did not learn the names OF the men
The physicians at the Harbor Hospital
had an easy time of 1t yesterday Only
one case was reported, and that was the
Ease of Joe Egan an employe at W. ".
Montague & Co.'S, 500 Market street. He
nut his hand in a stamp and then pressed
the lever to see what 1t would DO Inc
machine crushed the index finger Of his
right hand so badly that an amputation at
the second joint was necessary.