The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-17

SkagWay. June Is via Seattle. Wash
June 16.)-A large amount of gold dust
and nuggets was landed at White
Horse Rapids last Friday. June 9, from
the first three steamers to reach that
point from Dawson City. over one ton
of it was officially checked off by the
officers at White Horse when making
the transfer from steamer to steamer.
The remainder was divided in packages
ranging from ten to seventyfve pounds
I carried by more than 500 passengers of
the three boats. They were in all sorts
of odd packages, and with no attempt
at concealment.
Owing to the low stage of the water
on the lakes and rivers. it was impOs-
/ sible for the small steamers from Ben
2 nett to reach them before Sunday. and
/ the first lot of siXty-five was landed in
| Bennett yesterday by the Nora, and
I reached Skagway last evening Anoth-
/ er lot of over 100 reached here at ,
this morning. and the remainder will
get here some time today.
The consensus of opinion gathered
from almost every man reaching Skag-
way was to the effect that the output
of the Klondike in the past year would
be between $4,000. 600 and 500. 600 0OO
Fifteen million which will nearly dou-
BILE last years output. will be found &c
be good figures TO gamble on.
Frank Slavin's Dust.
Frank Slavin, the prize-fighter. has n
sack weighing 5414 pounds.
Oscar Odin and his partner. Jack
| Raymond, had 200 pounds between
them
Louis Allanberry struggled under los
pounds of dust and s. 600 in bills
Thomas McLaric of Shelton, Wash,
has $4,000 in dust: William Rogers, So
0cO and TOe Clerkin 81 600
Every hotel safe in Skagway last
night was crammed full of gold dust,
with Waterman on guard all night,
and, as these safes could not accommO-
date an who had gold, the safes of the
several merchants had to be called in
to requisition, and the largest of these
were taxed to their utmost.
This gold is brought out largely by
n erchants, with only a few miners who
have been in the KlOndike all the way
from year to three years. Only about
half of it is from the winters cleanup,
and that from benching, as sluicing had
only about commenced when the steam
eIs left Dawson, May %.
Nelson A. GOucher. who has been
working No. 9, EldoradO. says that ia
nous creek viii surpass all expecta-
tions No. g. owned by Mercer & De-
mars. will clean up at least 5000, 900. No.
II, E,ldorado, he believes will prove to
be the richest claim in the whole Klon-
dixie. Mr.. Peacock of Quebec, who owns
a half interest. had thirty-seven men
at work on il all winter. and the clean
up will be in the neighborhood of from
s1,200,0O0 to s1,5OO,OO0.
Dirt Is Very Rich.
On Professor Lippy's claim, on 10. Ell
dorado, they quit drifting on March~S.
as they had more pay dirt out than
they will be able to wash up this sea
Tho dirt Thu
suits of this claim cannot be eStimat-
ed but will be enormous. Antone'S
claim. No. ., Eldorado. is also exceed
ingly rich, but no figures are given
+. w. Ward of Newcastle. Wash,
who is on Bonanza, said when he left
they were working rockers on benches
and sluicing had only fairly begun. Not
much work is being done below Dis
coVery, but great activity prevails
above il, and the claims are showing
up rich. Dominion creek is going to
make a good record. and so is Hunker,
but it is too early yet to give figures
from any of those creeks. owing to the
distance and difficulties of the trail to
and from Dawson.
Many of the men just come out are
merchants. who are here to replenish
their stocks and get back again as
Soon as possible.
Peter Odin gives a good account of
GOlQ Hill. DIT the junction. VI I-tQOldQO
and Bonanza, and says the results Will
surprise many.
Evade the Royalty.
The exact figures of the actual out
put will never be known, for the rea-
son that every effort is being made to
evade the royalty, and every trick and
device is being resorted to in order to
Smuggle the dust out of the country
Frank Slavin and his partners have
thirty-seven placer claims, most of
them good. There has been a lot of
prospecting for quartz. but no great
discoveries have been heard from. Sla-
vim is going to New York and London.
He and his partners have bonded the
Dome quartz proposition with a Lon
don company and got $100, 900 for devel-
opment work.
Among those who came in on the
early train with small tin boxes or
sacks of gold was Mr.. Preston. former
assayer here, who, besides his dust. has
a nugget weighing $50. Among other
noted ''heavyweights" are Stanley Nc
Grade l. Moewin, w. F. Forget, Col
onel Green, n. G.. Goucher. $. Clement,
A. r. Cox. E c. Campbell and Z. w
Morrill,. Clement, who owns No. is
above, on Bonanza, carries drafts ex-
changed in Dawson for his gold. the ag-
gregate of which cover six figures.
Mishaps to Steamers.
The steamer Columbian was wrecked
June by striking a rock six miles be-
low White Horse rapids. She is a to-
tai loss. The Columbian had a large
list of passengers, who were trans
ferred to other steamers.
The ice is still troublesome. The Nora
on her way down to White Horse went
through two miles of nine-inch ice on
Marsh lake At Cariboo Crossing the
Nora passed three stranded steamers
yesterday morning, the Australian.
Clifford Sexton and the eleanor. The
latter got off shortly after and started