The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-07-13


Six Thousand Pounds of Gold.
Three tons of KloDdike gold were
received in Seattle. All save about
500, 900 worth OF the treasure came
on the steamer City of Seattle, Capt.
w. A. Connell. The smaller amount
came as City of Topeka cargo. In
value the total treasure of about 5000
pounds is estimated at $1,500,OO0.
And it all came from the Klordike.
The officers of the City of Seattle
are inclined to believe that they had
nearly $2,OOO,0OO gold cargo Purser
Parmelee gave such an estimate.
The Seattle had one shipment of
$6OO,OO0 consigned by the Dawson
branch of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce to the Seattle assay office.
There were nine boxes with. a gross
average of about $50 pounds each.
This gold remained on board the
steamer all yesterday and last night
under heavy guard. 1t will today
be taken possession of by the Seattle
representatives of the Canadian Bank
of Commerce and by them sent to the
assay Office.
Thomas S Lippy, formerly athletic
instructor OF the Seattle Young Mems
Christian Association, and several OF
his Klondike friends had another sin
gle shipment of about $50O,000. OF
this amount Prof. Lippy is the indi-
vidual owner of probably 100000
which represents the seasons cleanup
of his famous Klondike mine No. 16
Eldorado. This return, with the three
previous clean-ups, nets Lippy about
81 ,OOO, 600 as the total yield of his
great treasure hole. The yield of the
three past seasons, it is genenally
known, gave him about 100000. And
yet the mine is by no means worked
out. Indeed 1t is said that It's owner
will have to go to the trouble of max
ing at least two more trips to the
Klondike for his gold clean-up.-P. L.
The output of the Klondike district
the washings from the dumps of 56C
claims that were worked on all creeks
last winter-will amount to $685.
273. This large amount of gold was
washed from 155,0S0,1S pans of the
rich gold-lined Klondike gravel. In
all $3.50 men were employed during
the season.
This in brief is the story OF prosper
ity as tabulated at Dawson City. Ac-
cording to the statistician who compiled
the table brought out by the miners,
is output is larger than the actual out
put of last season by three million
dollars. The data from which the
table was compiled was gathered al
each claim, care being taken to make
it as accurate as circumstances would
permit.
An impression has been held by
many that the claims OF the Klondike
district are being worked out, but ac-
cording to miners who have toured the
various creeks being worked, the
streams are not only producing more
this year than ever before, but they
will continue to increase their output
for many years to come. This is true
for the simple reason that the use o
modern methods has made it possible
to treble and quadruple former pro
ductions and to work ground that un
der primitive methods would not pay
to operate Steam as thawing agen
and steam power for hosting has soly
ed the problem of successful mining
On creeks SO maryelously rich as Ell
dorado and parts of Bonanza prof
can be made by using wood fires bu
even there miners find an increased
| profit in using steam. On creeks like
Dominion, Sulphur, Hunker, and Colo
Run, mining could not be proftably
carried on without the aid OF modern
machinery, but with it the gold pro-
duction of those creeks is enormous
This agent alone has permitted vast
extension of the mining industry, and
added many millions of dollars to the
wealth of the Klondike.-Tacoma
News.
| White Man Turned Yellow.