Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-28
Charles Anderson's Luck.

"a man who goes to the klondike with
the necessary money and Is willing to be
eXiled for five years can expect to come out
at the end of that time with $4,000 to S25,-
600. OF course, If he makes the strikes that
are sometimes made, he will be worth a good
deal more For instance, a young man of
the name of Charles Anderson went up there
to buy claim. Some men who had one to
sell that they had been working long time
and had not taken anything out of to
amount to anything got Anderson drunk
and sold him their claim for $500. They
thought they were robbng him and got out
of the way Immediately. Anderson had no
money left and he had to do something, so
he went to work on the claim he had bought
against his will. This year, when he makes
his cleanup, he will take out about 81 ,OOO,-
900. The cleanups this year will range
from $50, 900 to $2,000,000, but of course the
men have been working, some of them for
years, without making a cleanup. man
who has no practical knowledge Of mining
will probably have to work for someone else
If he goes up there, although few keen
young fellows who knew nothing at all about
1t have made fortunes. 1t doesn't make very
much difference If man does work for
while for someone else.
Big Investment by Cudahy and HeIey
"The Yukon Transportation company, in
which the Cudahys and Healey are in
terested, will take out about s2,00OOO0 this
year. They are introducing a new
system of working their claims. They
are putting in a water plant which
will pump water to the head of the gulch
at Bonanza and Eldorado, and from there
they will use it to wash down the surface
of their claims all along the sides of the
gulch. They have bought up practically all
the bench claims in that region and will
probably get hold of the others in a short
time. bench claim is strip of land be-
ginning at the waters edge and running
up to the top Of the gulch. The creek
claims extend from the water line one
side of the creek to the water line on the
other, including simply a piece of the bed
of the creek. The Cudahys will wash the
surface down the sides of the gulch into
big sluice boxes at the bottom, where the
gold will wash out. AS they cut down the
side of the gulch they will move the boxes
away from the stream and follow I'D close
to the foot of the bank. This is an enor
nous plant to put in and will cost several
millions, but they will take out plenty of
gold when they get it done.
THE gold in that country will last long
after the young men of today are dead and
I think the prosperity of that region is per-
ing camp the world ever saw The ground
is all full of gold, and it's all what We call
coarse gold; none of it is flake gold. That
shows that it all comes from a mother lode
and when they find that mother lode it will
be something wonderful.
The AtIin District.
"The new region that is attracting great
deal of attention just now is the Atlin dis
trict about $50 miles from Haines Mission.
A friend OF mine who is there wrote me of
a find = man made out of which he took
$65 900 in one winter. The man was old and
alone, having no one with him but an old
Indian sQuaw He has left the place now,
but he told one other man where it was.
This Atlin district will probably be as rich
as the Bonanza and Eldorado creeks.
dawson is getting to be quite substan-
tal city now. They do not allow any more
tents to be put up. At first the city was all
tents but now the houses have to be of
wood or something like that. There is only
one difficulty about its becoming a big
place-the scarcity of fuel. Wood is very
high now, as 80 much of it has been used
by the miners to thaw the ground. But
tnI, nod hn,