The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-24
No LA!g|K OF BRIGHT GOLD.
TRAVELLER FROM NOME SAYS
THERE is PLENTY
LEFT
ADVISES ADVENTUROUS TO GO
With Pluck and Good Judgment
There Is Every Chance for Those
Going NOrth-CaIifOrnians
Who Succeeded.

Not less than half dozen fortune seek
ers from Cape Nome have passed through
st. Paul within the past ten days Most
of them are former residents of the East.
and are going to their old homes to pass
the winter, intending to return to their
frigid abodes in the spring. There is an
apparent air of satisfaction about these
pilgrims from the new EliOrado that
seems to Indicate that fortune has not
withheld her alluring gifts from them.
ii. w. Whitley, former rancher of
Central California, who is now actively
engaged in searching for goll in the
Alaskan region, stopped off here last
night on his way to visit his ICED par
ents in Indiana, whom he has rot seen
for many years. Mr.. Witty has Hean
out of the Cape Nome country, where he
is now engaged, since Oct. 1, and will re-
turn at the first opportunity III the
spring.
This latest arrival from the goll fields
is greatly impressed with the Importance
that the United States should attach to
the entire strip of territory, now the
cynoSure of such d vast number Of her
people, seeking and finding their fortunes.
He has no tales of woe to tell, but relates
many facts to prove that the pessimisC is
only he, who, through some misfortune,
avoidable or unavoidable, has come back
from the northern country without hav-
ing realized the fruition of his extrava-
giant hopes.
The larger per cent of those who go
to Cape Nome, the Klondike, Dawson
and the other good fields, who exercise
good Judgment and have lots of grit, sue
coed. OF course there are many who do
not succeed who apparently do all in
their power to make it a go, but do not
think said Mr.. Whitley, that their ex-
periences should be taken as a criterion
of What can be accomplished in that
country. Why take the experience of
some OF us who have prospered?
Men have gone to that country actual
~ stripped of money, except enough to
barely get them there and give them a
grub stake, and have come back within
comparatively short periods simply rich
men. One of these men to whom I refer,
and with whom I am personally acQuaint-
ed, is Clarence J. Berry, of Selma, Cal.
Berry is one Of the most successful
! miners up there He went into the Klon-
dixie with bare pittance, when the terri
tory was in its infancy. He came out
year later worth all of quarter of a
million dollars. His example inspired
others in the San Joaquin valley in Cali
fornia, and, though they have met with
similar eXperiences--probabl not accu-
muiating as great fortunes-they have ac-
qulred enough to make them comfortable.
Why, I can cite you certain town and
that town is the one | have just named
that is today standing monument of
what the gold fields of Alaska have done
for the coast and especially California.
From Berry's fortune one whole blo&
that was destroyed by fire years before
| he went to the Klondike has been rebuilt
and the condition of the little city has
been materially improved from financial
standpoint just from this very source
The men--some of them-returned home
and invested their money there, not how
ever, abandoning their claims in Alaska"
Mr. Whitley said that one of the largest
oil companies recently organized III Cen
trail California, the Home company was
formed largely on klondike capital, and
has several of the young men who made
their fortunes Up there as directors. He
declared that the entire Pacific coast
! has been inmeasurably benefited, and
would continue to be thus advanced, from
this one source alone, which has been
so greatly underestimated by Eastern
people.
81 am not a Klondike agent and l
| have no claims or land for sale there"
said Mr.. Whitley. but you asked me
for some facts about the country and 1
have given them to you. I know what
has been my own fortune and that of
many others.
Yes, l think the exodus from the west
| ern portion of the United States for the
| gold fields the coming year will be very
| great, in fact, will exceed by far any,
! thing that has yet been witnessed, and 1
also believe that the amount of gold
! taken out of the deposits, which I con-
| slider inexhaustible, w4 many times
! double that mined last year. AS the ia
| cilities for mining increase and improve.
| as they are gradually doing, the metal
! will be taken out in larger quantities.
| There is no danger of the mines giving
| out very soon. II you have planned to go
| up next spring, don't abandon your trip
| for fear of that"