Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-20
EXODUS FROM
DAWSON CITY.
orrFlTs SOLD FOR A SONG
-, usn Wade Money. but Many
rorc HAD only sunerinE In 'hP
search for Gold

s,uie. wash. July ie.-The steamer
800, arrived today from skaguay'
go. with news u a reported strike
me- salmon river. a great many
.,..tors from Dawson and vicinity
~ rushing into the district. The
rI,.s, had a number OF passengers
10y, p4wson who brought out email
...gBt Of guild dust The purser 81
IL. steamer estimates the amount on
,t. p.He1 at quarter u million.
,,s following news of clcan-upa In the
Min district was brought down by
p,srnren from Atlin;
Wilson and partner cleaned out
,sIn 100 feet long. and all the gold they
,st 60 show for this was fl0.5h
A svsde named strong, who held an
adjoining claim. staggered on a nugget
valued at SO. and this was about the
mn total Of his cleanup,
aFrsnch7 Joe made q cleanup "
1900 on No. 10. below Discovery. ON
Pine crock. Harry Lund on No. 1. be-
f5u on Pine creek. washed out . a day
Z, the man Tor awhile. These clcan-upa
were maguined In the reports sent out
into the thousands OF dollars
Another small md by a man named
usasia was made ON Birch creek lie
washed out SO from under a boulder
By the time the news got around lit
ua ths amount had Ewcllr 10 sic ana
by the time Il reached Willow creek u
was $1,000.
AdvIcps concerning the exodus N
miners down the Yukon river were
brought here today by Jack Carr OF
ihIa city. lie brings information from
che Yukon mo- far down ~ Nulato, the
Ann. Uampart and lNoyukuk.
Al THnnuu, Carr observed from 100
60 go men going down the river In
small boats. They were coming from
Dawson and other points. The trans
pUrutlJn companies were taking down
600 Go $500 men every trip OF their
steamers. There wcrv estimated 10 be
200 men up the koyukuk, 1850 OF
whom would 40 down the river 10 Cape
Some and 81 Michncls.
In the vicinity of Tannnu and on the
koyukuk. mon were Hcampcring Ia get
away. Flfty-two steamers were quar-
tered M the Tunann last winter. This
spring vessels sold 40 low az 500 each
about the Tannna ana K0yukuk rivers.
Carr reports one outfit that cost $4,000.
selling ~ low aH 81 600 at Rampant city.
This was the steamer Suult Ste. Ma
ra belonging to "a Michigan party.
with 10 went sawmlll and complete
electric Hight plant. Carr reports u sale
% uaphthA launch that cost =. 500 In
Sew York. Tor $3.50. With the launch
went one years provisions for seven
men.
Provisions can be bought at Tanana.
KUyukuk and at Rampart city In Job
lots for q song. Flour sold at Rampant
al low uH 81 90 Der hundred,
out uf a party Of iive when left New
York i've years ago In search OF
mythical diamond mine ON the vest
yrn coast OF Alaska. but one has re-
turned. He n n. g. Holman. "a ma
thlnlHt, formerly In the employ OF the
Baldwin locomotive works Three OF
thr party. Walter DuddH Of Patterson,
y D. James la Belle Of Canada. and
q man named French. dled Of disease,
The fate uf the fourth member. Henry
Martin OF New York, Ia unknown.
According 10 Honman's remarkable
story. thH party left san FrauciacO,
July. 1894, Ia q small trading schooner.
bound for a district lying between the
kulhnu md MpIk pung rivers. known
uH thr Black Hole, where the richest
diamond mine IN the world was said
70 exist They had two years pro-
visions
AZ knnkak. La Belle died frna dis
French were stricken with the same
disease. Rather than suftcr as la Belle
lli. French shot himself through the
helft, and DoddH. with ample supply of
Provisions, was left to care Tor himself
WIN the understanding that he was to
o'riuke Martin ana Hoffman should
he recover. Nothing was heard Of him
..giln' Martin and Hoffman pushed on
70 heNellkpg, a Russian Indian village
helt the Black Hole country.
lha Village was made up OF Russian
nIusruH from the prisons OF S,berln.
Ihei robbed Martin and Hoffman "
.,tIylh'ng N value and kept them
lsongfa Hoffman was separated
Uph Martin and taken to another VIII
gag where he was competed to do
hfnlal work Al the end Of a month he
lp"d and reached the small town Of
AhAh un the koyukuk river where
?, was OH tor several months, lie new
u. ''''iNrl any further tidlngs OF Mar
J. Wilson Of New York. who arrived
lie today from Alaska. recount- a tale
'hlosur. and hardships on the I'D
l,Ns lrhll. lie was thirteen months
t1ls from Edmonton to Dawson. One
~ ago the past winter he mnde cnmp
! elulReon lake, about 100 miles below
NNff slave lake In the British pose
'l9nA lie lived with the Indians.
,,ptns as they slept and eating what
I nag 10 eat ana whatever came to
v,.N n d'nd horse found on the trail
~. Outlines considered dellcncy.
~ Nll ana any other style OF refuse
nl,n ne Indians possessed made a
49, lluner Whom these gave out or
trl, u1l nt hand a pony would be
q few days. $50 Wv So wv '''