The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-08

road. Abe extension to wild Goose
mines will be built this season, and an
extension to Cape York, or In that di-
Iection, is promised.
The Nome and Southern road nre-
liminary survey and reconnaissance for
which was made By party under Nor
man r. Smith, of Nome. this snrire, is
considered certainty, if the Nome gold
fields turn out anywhere near as rich
as promises now seem TO indicate they
VIII. RMS line would put Nome in
communication with the outside world at
all times of the year, and when 1t is
remembered that Boring sea Is fuu Of
ice from October to June and some
times open three months in the wear. the
Importance of this project Is apparent.
RATES OF PASSAGE TO NOME.
While the first sailings to Nome last
month saw tickets as high as a75 for
hrst cabin passage, all the transporta-
ton companies agreed last week to make
UNIFORM rate of $50 first cabin. So. 80
second cabin. and $50 steerage. Steer
age passengers furnish their own bed
0lhg. baggage to the limit Of $50 pounds
goes with each ticket. Freight rates
are fixed at $50 per ton, running I'D to
as high as $50 for heavy pieces of mining
machinery weighing over 1888 pounds
and which are difficult to handle
Inc INDIANS down from Kodiak island re-
ported Bering sea free from ice about
May 10, and it IS believed that a large
number Of the steamers end sailing craft
mat nave left for there during the last
month arrived in safety the AIpba being
the first to get in.
On the steamship Victoria, of the Dod-
well ine Maj L. II. French, formerly OF
the Third United States cavalry. took q
large hydraulic plant for working the ex-
tenslVe claims which are owned by a New
york and Worcester company The com
pany has 1900 acres of creek and tundra
land
Ihe three government transports, Sew
ard, Lawten and Athenian, carried large
quantities Of material and supplies for the
North. Gen. Randall, military command
er OF the department of Alaska, was in
charge of the expedition, which included
two companies Of soldiers The Athena
carried over 1,250000 feet of lumber from
the st. Paul and Tacoma mill, to be used
in the construction Of army posts at Nome
and st. Michaels. She took 100 mechanics
and large supply of provisions, etc. The
Seward carried supplies and coal. The
troops sailed ON the Lawton. which also
carried 400 tons Of coal and $50 tons of
supplies.
BEEF FOR NORTHERN MARKETS.
trade Is the supplying of meats Charlie
Tebo, the veteran >KIondfke supply man.
Will send 500 live beef cattle to Nome this
season, while the Pacific Cold Storage
company will adopt the other plan of
sending meat. On the steamer Fnhu
Thompson. of the storage company line.
3OO tons of meat were sent up last month.
and more will follow by the second sail
ing Of the steamer At Nome one Of the
TfNynr frfe for. or
pany VIII be anchored in the river and
used as a cold storage warehouse during
the season.
There is much speculation among meat
handlers as to which plan will prove the
most profitable. Beef cattle for the
Klondike have been shipped by steamer
to Haines, opposite Skagway, where they
have been driven by easy stages over the
Dalton trail to Fort SaIkrk, and there
placed on barges and foated down to
Dawson on the Yukon, or slaughtered at
Selkirk and the meat f1oated down; but
to Nome the entire distance will have to
be made by an ocean voyage Of about
ten days.
FIRST GOLD FROM DAWSON.
The steamers Flora, Sybn and Column
b!a, from Dawson, reached the upper
Yukon lakes last week with the first of
the Dawson mail since the closing of the
winter trail. Reports of the Klondike
cleanup run from 20G0O,O 900 to $50, 0GO, 600
One hundred and sixty passengers came
down on the steamer City, Of Seattle,
bringing about a ton of gold with them,
though very little gold is now brought
out from Dawson by miners. 1t is sold
to the banks at Dawson and by them
sent down. the. river, thus saving the
miners the care and risk Of carrying it.
Two thousand Klondikers left Dawson by
small boats for Nome and Koyukuk be-
fore navigation by steamers opened, and
twice as many more are said to be go
ing by steamers. Koykuk is receiving
much attention on account of the report
of extensive and rich fields discovered
there last fall.