The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-17
OVER A TON OF GOLD
Landed at White Horse From
the First Steamers.

Skaguay, June Is, via Seattle, Wn.,
June IA 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 10 to 75spounds carried by
the more than 300 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
nett to reach them before Sunday and
the first lot of IS was landed in Ben
nett yesterday by the Nora and reach
ed Skaguay last evening. Another lot
of over 100 reached here at this morn
ing and the remainder will get here
some time today.
Every hotel safe in Skaguay last
night was crammed full of gold dust
with Waterman on guard all night
and as these safes could not accommo-
date all who had gold the safes of the
several merchants had to be called into
requisition and the largest of these
were taxed to their utmost. This gold
is brought out largely by merchants
ter's clean up and that from benching,
as sluicing had only about commenced
when the steamers left Dawson May
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No. II Ell Dorado, it is said will prove
to be the richest claim on the whole
KIOndike. Mr.. Peacock, of Quebec, who
owns half interest, had 81 men at work
on it all winter and the clean up will
be in the neighborhood of from s., 200,-
900 TO 81, SOC. 900.
E. w. Ward, of New. Castle. Wn., who
i I,e 1aF% how
were working rockers on the benches
and sluicing had only fairly begun. Not
much work is being done below Discov-
cry but great activity prevails above
it and the claims are showing up rich
Dominion creek is going to make a good
record and so is bunker.
Peter Odin gives a good account of
Gold Hill at the junction of Ell Dorado
and Bonanza and says the result will
surprise many.
Frank Slavin. the prize fighter, and
his partners have thirty-Seve placer
claims, most of them good. There has
been lot of prospecting for quartz but
no great discoveries have been heard
from. Slavin is going to New York and
bonded the Dome quartz prospect with
a London company and got 100000 for
development work
The ice is still troublesome. The
Nora on her way down to White Horse
went through two miles of nine-inch
ice. At CariboO crossing. the Nora
passed three steamers yesterday morn
ing. 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 Sc. 900 900 and $50, 600. 600.
Fifteen million, which will nearly double
last years output, will be found TO be
good figures to gamble on.
The exact figures of the actual out
put will never be known for the reason
that every effort is being made to evade
the royalty and every trick and device
is being resorted to to smuggle the dust
out of the country
GOLD REACHES SEATTLE.
Seattle, Wash, June 1.-Two hundred
Klondikers arrived here last night on
steamer City of Seattle.
Collectively they had considera BILE
gold dust but their estimates of the
total amount varied greatly Purser
Pope said:
About four hundred thousand dol
lars in actual dust is a conservative
estimate I think I had about $50. 900
dollars placed in my care on the jour
ney.
Several passengers carried drafts but
no authoritative estimate can be made
of the total amount. One man was said
to have one for $50, 000.''