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his services with sixty picked men of his j
regiment for duty in Alaska, has been
ordered to the new post.. He was born in
Minnesota on August 16, 1857. He was
appointed a second lieutenant in the Sec
ond Infantry from civil life March 1, 1877,
and for twenty years served in that regi
ment as second and first lieutenant. On
receiving his well-deserved promotion to
captain, August 27, 1596, he was again as
signed to the Second Infantry.
His regiment left Atlanta, Ga., July"l 3,
1877, and proceeded to Idaho to take part
in the Nez Perces campaign. In the spring
of 1878 a portion of the regiment aided
materially in bringing the Bannock
Indians to terms. The regiment remained
in tbe Northwest until 1886, when it was
ordered to Fort Omaha, Nebraska. It was |
encaged in the Sioux campaign of 1890-91
at Pine Ridge, and was under fire at the :
defense of the agency at that place. In
IS9S the regiment was ordered to take
station in the Department of Dakota, with
headquarters at Fort Keogb, Montana.
In 1884 General Miles, commanding tho
Depart nientof the Columbia, selected Cap
tain Ab-rcombie, then- a second lieuten
ant, to explore the Copper River region of
Alaska. The general in his "Personal
lections of General Nelson A. Miles''
refers to the expedition S3 follows:
"Lieutenant Abercrombie found them (the
natives) inoffensive and employed them
to drag his boats up the river. The cur
rents, however, were so strong and he ex
perienced so much difficulty in making
the ascent, besides the drawback of a num
ber of his party being sick, thst he found
it impossible to go as far as he intended.
He did, however, accomplish a very good
reconnoissance and exploration and made
some important discoveries as to the char
acter of the country, obtaining much in
formation ol interest and value!"
The captain is quite an athlete and takes
an active interest in all athletic sports
that have recently sprung up in the army.
He tips the scales at about '-00 pounds,
and when ih training carries no super
fluous flesh. He is an expert on tbe bicy
cle, especially so far as long-distance rides
are concerned, and even on short trips one
has to keep putting in order to keep up
with him. His bicycle trip, with tw6 com
panions of the Second Infantry, from
Fort Omaha to Chicago and return, affords
a good illustration of his physical endur
ance. The party left Fort Omaha at 5:30
a. m., June 10, 1896, and arrived at army
headquarters, Chicago, 11 o'clock A. M.
June 17, making a total of 583^ miles in
seven days over an average road as rough
as it was possible for rain and sun to make
it. On June 20 they started on their re
turn trip to Fort Omaha. The total num
ber of niihs traveled was 1112; number of
days actual traveling, 13; average miles
per day lor round trip, 88.
At military headquarters yesterday,
denerai Shatter, Colonel Moore, Lieuten
ant Noble and other officers studied the
map cf Alaska drawn by Professor David
son and published in The Call of last
Sunday. It was the only available map
that gave information of value.
It is said that the troops going to
Alaska will be supplied with clothing
similar to the equipment used in the Pine
Ridge campaign. 1 tiere is a lot of this
kind of clothing, fur trimmed and flannel
lined, at it*. PrMidio.
A DEPARTED HUNDRED.
The State of California Carried
North All the Minors Who
Could Get Passage.
The main Kiondyke excitement on the
water front yesterday attended the de
parture of tbe steamer Slate of California.
She will connect with the George W. Elder
at Portland, but did not take more than
one hundred miners among tbo passen
gers.
These ar« all ths company would carry,
as the other accommodation, on the Elder
for Dyea had been sold. Tbe crack
steamer carried 233 cabin and 114 second
cabin passengers. Many of these were
Christian Endeavorers, and hundreds of
church people were down to see them off.
A party of young ladies from the Mission
were also on the wharf to see two of their
iriends away, and as soon as the En
deavorers had finished with the hymn,
"God be with you till we meet again," the
Mission girls would break out with
"There'll be hot times in Klondyke
to-night." They had very pretty voices,
and "hot times m Klondyke to-nicht"
were tbe last words the miners heard as
the vessel moved away from the wharf
and Captain Green put her on her course
for the Columbia River.
Among those who went north on the
State were Dr. F. N. Rose and A. Bell.
They take 3000 pound, of supplies with
them and expect to be gone a year. Hun
dreds of miners, merchants and traders
wanted to ship goods to Juneau by the
steamer, but could not secure accommo
dations, and in consequence over 500 ton .
of merchandise was left behind. These
goods will now have to take chances on
the City of Puebla and the special steamer
Willamette that is to be put on the route
direct to Juneau. The latter will carry at
least 500 miners and their outfits, while
the Puebla will have accommodation for
about 100 more. These latter will have to
await one ofthe Alaskan steamers at Port
Townsend.
There is a wild scramble to secure
passage on the Excelsior that sails direct
for Dawson City to-day. All kinds of
bonuses are offered for the tickets, but if
tho Alaska Commercial Company finds
out that any transfer has been made the
holder of the ticket will be left on the
wharf. Gabe Cohn, one of the passengers,
does not intend letting the grans grow
under his feet. He expects to make a
fortune in the spring, but, nevertheless,
hopes to rake in a few shekels during the
winter. He has purchased a phonograph,
ana has cylinders with all kinds of mes
sages from friends and relatives in this
City to friends in the frozen North. Mr.
Cohn thinks that 50 cents will bs a fair re
muneration for the use of the instrument.
ALASKA TELEGRAH.
A Local Company Organized to Put
Up a Thousand Miles of Wire
to the Yukon.
Articles of incorporation of the Alaska
Telegraph and Telephone Company were
filed with the County Clerk yesterday
afternoon.
The company proposes to construct a
line of telegraph from Dyea to Dawson,
and two branch lines, one from Dyea to
Juneau and the other from Dawson to
Circle City. The estimated length of the
main line and branches is 1000 miles. In
connection with the telegraph line, cable
and telephone lines necessary for x the
complete operation of the line will be built
later.
The company is incorporated for the
term of fifty years and its headquarters
are to Lie in this City. The capital stock
is $250,000, divided into 25,000 shares of $10
each. There has been already subscribed
$100,000, making $100 subscribed for every
mile of the line. Ten per cent of this has
been paid in to the treasurer of the com
pany, C. U. Wright.
Ti.e director-* of the corporation, ap
pointed for the first year are: Theodora
lleicbert, C. W. Wright ot Marin Conntv,
D. E. Bohannon, J. W. Wright and J, F.
Fassett of San Francisco. Each of these
hold stock to the amount of $20,000. Be
sides these, a number of other capitalists in
the City are interested in the venture and
cs soon as the certificate of incorporation
is received stock will be issued to them
and the election of officers will be held.
The movers in the enterprise expect to
complet" the organization of the company
the latter part of this week.
Application for concessions from the
Canadian Government has been made. As
there is no apprehension of a refusal to
grant permission to build the line a reply
to the application will not be waited for,
but the construction of the line wiil be
begun at once, it is asserted, under the
supervision of D. E. Bohannon. It is
hoped to complete the main line from
Dvea to Dawson by the first of October.
Even on the completion of ibis line
there would still be a gap of several hun
dred miles between it and telegraphic
communication with civilization.
IT MUST BE A CABLE.
Assistant Superintendent Lamb of
tha Western Union on Tele
graphic Communication.
F. H. Lamb, assistant superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph Company
here, does not believe it practicable to
maintain a telegraph line to Alaska and
says that the problem of electrical com
munication must be solved with a cable
laid from the Sound along the inland
passages next to the coast from Vancouver
to Sitka and Juneau.
Mr. Lamb is competent to speak on the
subject, for he was with one of the expe
ditions of the Western Union Telegraph
Company which explored a route for aline
to Asia by way of Bering Sea late in the
sixties. T.-is enterprise developed soon
after the success ot the Atlantic cable.
The Russian Government agreed to build
a line from Bering Straits south to the
Amoor River, and the Western Union
Company proceeded to spend several hun
dred thousand dollars on the enterprise
on this side of the Pacific. Exploring ex-
OFF TO THE GOLD FIELDS.
To-day the steamer Excelsior sails for Dawson Gty via St.
Michaels and the Yukon River. She will leave crowded with
miners and supplies.
peditions took various long sections of the
uninhabited and almost unknown region
which intervened between the southern
most portion of British Columbia and
the Bering Sea. One expedition explored
the Yukon from its beginning to the sea.
Drill, who was a member of this expedi
tion, in after years wrote "The Resources
of Alaska," which is perhaps tne best
comprehensive description of the interior
which one can pet hold of now.
Another expedition worked in. British
Columbia and Mr. Lamb was with this ex
pedition.
"We started on the Fraser River," said
Mr. Lamb yesterday, "and went north
along the Fraser to its confluence with the
Hunproon. We followed that stream to
its junction with the main wagon road to
mouth of the Quesnelb four hundred
miles north of the starting point. We
crossed the Fraser and followed the old
Hudson Bay trail to Fort Fraser and
struck the Skeena about 150 miles Irom its
mouth. We built the line to a point
about 150 miles north of the Skeena.
About 400 miles of the line was abandoned.
The line is now operated to Williams
Creek in the district of Caribou about
sixty miles beyond Canal on Caual Creek.
I suppose that most ot the 400 miles of
abandoned wire has been taken by tho
Indians and others long ago. The Indi
ans use it especially to build suspension
bridges across the streams.
"I don't believe that it is practicable to
maintain an overland telegraph line to
Alaska. Our line could never have been
maintained if it had been completed. The
line would run through a rough and
beavilv wooded country and would be
subject to constant interruption. The
only practicable way is to lay a cable
along the inland passages inside the
islands from the sound to Sitka."
All sorts of telegraphic enterprises will
quickly come to the lront without doubt,
and it api ears certain that telegraphic
communication with Sitka and Juneau, if
not with the Yukon. Valley, will not be
very iong delayed.
YUKON PLACERS.
W. H. Mills EelievesThat the Yukon
Basin Is a Vast Deposit of
' Cold- Bearing Earth.
W. fl. Mills of the Southern Pacific
Company, who is familiar with the topo
graphical and geological features of
California through observation ana study,
had something interesting to say yester
day in reference to the new gold fields of
Alaska. He based his views largely on
conditions that prevail in this State.
"Itis frequently a subject of surprised
comment," he said, "that the science of
geology has contributed so little to the
discovery of precious metals. The suc
cessful prospector entertains a disdainful
contempt for, the suggestions of the
science of geology taught in the schools.
"Veins of silver, gold placers and aurif
erous quartz," he continued, "have been
discovered by those whose search for
them was not guided by the cosmogony of
the schools. Notwithstanding this the
miners accept theories at the hands of
the scientific geologists. Tbey believe in
the glacial period of the formation of the
earth's crust. Tbey have seen ti.e glacial
pavement. They have observed the con
tour of the surface referable only to glacial
action. Their observation has extended
to the production of placers as referable
to this glacial action. -f'fff.:y-fy
"The most commonly accepted theory
of the most successful prospectors and
miners relating to placer mines is that
they are the result of the erosion of aurif
erous quartz. Inferences derived from
many facts confirm this theoiy.
"There are many places in California
where the surface placers are poor com
pared with the richness of the placers
which lie two or three hundred feet Lelow.
An instance of this r.lat63 to the placers
around Folsom in Sacramento County.
lt is well known that the town of Folsom
is built upon fabulously rich placers,
which lie 200 feet below the suilace. The
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1897.
glacial erosion that carves the canyon of
the American River made rich deposits,
which were subsequently overlaid by the
slow decomposition of rocks, the natural
erosion of the hills and the gradual for
mation of a vegetable mold.
"If the theory entertained by the most
practical miner, relating to the origin of
gold placers is to be accepted it would
follow that the richest placers are to be
found where glacial action is most recent.
This theory has already found applica
tion to the rich placers recently discov
ered on the headwaters of the Yukon.
The glacial action which has given topog
raphy to the Kiondyke region is more re
cent by from one to two hundred thou
sand years than the glaciers which carved
the canyons on the western flank of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains. The deposits
from auriferous quartz are, therefore, not
One of the Canyons of the Yukon Through Which Gold-
Seekers Float.
overlaid, and if the present indications
are determinate of anything they are con
clusive of the existence of the richest
placers ever discovered. And it is not
reasonable — not even probable — that these
placers are confined to the ranyons of any
sintrle tributary of the Yukon. Placer
mining has been successfully pursued in
California along a region embracing at
least a thousand miles of extent. There
is no instance of a confined and. limited
area in which gold is found. Wherever it
has been discovered the discovery has
expended over broad"-, areas of analagous
formation. , V
"It is one of the fallacies of the human
mind to assume that the sources of gold
are exhausted. There is a feeling that all
the gold in the world has been found;
that the ardent*%earch for it has covered
the surface of the earth; that there is no
unexplored region in which gold ms-y yet
be discovered. All the gold lak-n out of
the earth by the human family from the
beginning to the present time would not
make a block of metal equal' in size to an
ordinary two-story frame dwelling. It Is
utterly preposterous to suppose that this
small block of metal is all there is in the
world. Substances in the earth have an
introactive relation. It is inconceivable
that so small a quantity of any given sub
stance could form any part or have any
place in the construction of a world.
"Tne Sierra Nevada Mountains extend
practically to the mouth of the Yukon.
The general geological formation is the
same.. Th. age of the unheaval is practi
cally the same, and it is becoming more
and more apparent tbat the Sierra Madre
oi Mexico, the Sierra Nevadas of Califor
nia, the Cascades of Oregon,* the cra-tt
ranees of mountains from the isthmus to
Bering Straits are referable to the .ame
geological causes and had their upheaval
in the .iime period of t' c world's lysiory.'
They ware, therefore, subject to the s me
changes, the same glacal action, and
with the mineral development of the
Yukon we have completed the discovery
of cold at short intervals throughout the
length of the entire range from tne
isthmus to Bering Sea. There are vast
undiscovered placersin California overlaid
with subsequent " deposits from erosion.
There are fabulous deposits of gold,
auriferous quartz yet to be made known.
The stories, therefore, of gold discoveries
on the headwaters of the Yukon find con
firmation in natural probabilities as well
as in the shipments of vast treasure
wnich are being received from that re
gion."
Commenting on the future of the coun
try he said :
* "The industries of a conntry are dis
covered only by inhabiting it. Coal and
iron will no doubt be found in the Yukon
basin. If they are they can be worked
more advantageously tban in a hot cli
mate; the labor will bo less severe.
"The resources of a new country are al
ways discredited. In the early history of
this country the people who had lived on
the Atlantic seaboard declared that the
prairies would not maintain a large popu
lation. The absence of timber and the
supposed absence of coal and the general
bleakr«ess of the country were believed to
be insuperable barriers to its settlement.
It was believed that the country would be
subject to destructive winds; it was
thought it would not be possible to manu
facture, as no coal was Known to exist in
the great Slates of tho West like Illinois
and lowa, and similar things were said of
California.
"I t is very likely that large areas of gold
bearing quartz will eventually be brought
to light, and with the present develop
ment in quartz-mining apparatus Alaska
will bay. a muc i better start than Cali
fornia had, a3 quartz-mining originated in
this Stale, and the early quart-miners had
everything to contend with." '
ONE OLD MINER'S IDEAS.
He Would Concentrate His Sup-
piles According to His Experi
ence and Travel Light.
"Were I going north, now," said an ex
perienced miner yesterday, "1 would pack
but very little if I had no money to pay
ray way. Here is what I would take, and
it will be found amply sufficient:
Twenty pounds of British ships' biscuit,
which may be secured at any first-class
erocery; six pounds of sugar in good
strong colton bags of three pounds each,
for they can be better packed in a bundle;
two pounds of coffee and two pounds of
tea; a dozen tin boxes of wax matches; a
bar of soap; a linpail to boil tea or coffee
in and use the lid for drinking out of; one
tin of salt and pepper; one axe; two pairs
of heavy blue woolen blankets; two pairs
of heavy miners' boots; two suits of
heavy underwear'; a suit of strong oil
skin, such as sailors wear; strong heavy
socks and gloves; a pair of smoked
glasses; a good heavy revolver; two
towels; a tent 10x8; on. pick and shovel,
and, if possibl *, a heavy india-rubber
sleeping-bag. There's the whole of my
kit, which I don't think would weigh
much more than an ordinary soldier's
marching outfit.
"The rope you would use in binding the
outfit would serve also for carrying it
over your shoulders, and on arrival at
your destination be used in erecting your
tent. The idea of carrying, or rather
packing, flour, bacon, cornmeal, rice, oat
meal and other such luxuries, as well as
numerous culinary utensils, building
tools and superfluous clothing, is all non
sense. ' ". v * S" • ■ •"-" -
"The journey to the frozen North is not
near so hard as some people imagine, but
for all that I would not advise an unprac
tical man to go there until next spring. A
seasoned miner can go there at any time,
but the green hand will find it a holy ter
ror before he has tramped the first fifty
miles. Stumping the railroad ties is
child's' play to humping the 'bluey' over
miles ol trackless -mountains and in the
face of vital-cutting blizzards, driving
snow and. sleet into your face. Young
man, take my advice and remain where
youare." , * -. ,
Alameda and the Klondyke.
b ALAMEDA, Cal., July 27.— The Klon
dyke lever appsars to be spreading, and
many people are either talking about
going or preparing to go. J. C. Mutber, a
well-known auctioneer, will leave in a lew
days, and he. is advertising for a number
of able-bodied men to accompany him.
He puts the amount needed to procure
supplies at $300 each. Dr. Dio Tisdale has
been thinking of/going, but will wait
until next spring. William Parker and
the Hofscbneider brothers of Fruitvale
start to-morrow. Others will leave at the
first opportunity. ; .
ESGLIStIMI • tMii&JtAST.
Americans to lu>>n*l- the Plant for a
Jjonrton 1-lec'ric line.
LONDON, Eng., July. According to
the Daily Mail, the Euglish firms are very
indignant that the contracts for the
iractiou plant of the London Central Rail
way, which is to be an underground eiec-
trio line, amounting in value to hundreds
of thousands of pounds, have been given
to Americans. ; .
The secretary of the company explains
that the contracts i for carriages, locomo
tive" and machinery' were given to Ameri
can firms on -the, advice of . electrical ex
pert-, who represent tnat the greater use
of electrical traction in the United States
has brought its manufacture to a higher
degree of perfection and made ~it far less
expensive than in England.
REGULAfiS* ■
MAY GUARD
THE PUSSES
Continued from First Page.
ordered to ship you a year's supply of cloth
ing, including fur coats, caps, gauntlets,
arctics; also 150 woolen blankets, stationery,
axes and otner tools for hutting. All for a !
company of infantry, leaving Seattle Augusts. ,
Weeks, Quartermaster.
From this it appears that the vexed
question as to whether United States
troops are to be stationed on the Yukon
has been settled.
The North American Trading and
Transportation Company's steamer which
sails August 5 is the Cleveland, now on
her way from San Francisco and due to
arrive to-morrow. That so much of her
passenger accommodations will be taken
up by the troops may be gratifying to
National pride, but it will be rough on
those here who hoped to secure transpor
tation by the Cleveland on the easy and
comfortable all-steamer route to Dawson
City.
The pressure on the transportation com
panies for passage to Seattle for Alaska
has resulted In an overflow from this
placo to other points. The steamer
Islander, which leaves Victoria to-mor
row for Dyea, will carry about 300 pas
sengers, of whom fully 100 are from Seat
tle and other sound ports. For the past
few days the Kingston, the regular
steamer between here and Victoria, has
been loaded with freight and passengers
from th point for Victoria, being the
Klondyke immigrants and their outfits of
supplies. The vexed question as to
NEW TO-DAY.
IS MANIFEST IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE, EITHER FROM THE
rush to the goldfields or on account of the passage of the Tariff bill. Many mer-
chants claim their sales have increased greatly; others bave doubled prices on'
Leather Goods, Woolens, and most other protected articles are advancing. Soon the
world will be looking for eoods instead of bunting a market— employment will be
seeking workmen instead of workmen looking for something to do. Buy now while ;
prices remain almost unchanged.
ALASKA!
EVAPORATED POTATOES, _K*^ , __l §— ___
EVAPORATED ONIONS, ■*- Mi_ - _**»* «___. t&,
GRANULATED POTATOES, /_!_ T _. ____!_. «£-* TECS" A
CONDENSED CABBAGE, .ATvtiL. ■ Ji^CJUCJ J___3^U__-_-U
BEEF BOUILLON. 1H ■ HL_J» /% T^"_K"2 ■**»>-*
AND OTHER GOODS. JL JETWU jCJL. _L__y < JE__-E ■
WOOLEN SCARFS.
LONG WOOL HOSE,
DOUBLE WOOL PANTS. -tT~~V <#*" ""_____!*
DOUBLE WOOL MAKINAWS, J* <__^ ,-» _ti_
DOUBLE-BREASTED UNDERSHIRTS, _^ _ —-« —-.-mm _«
HEAVY WARM GLOVES. Tj A_fe __££_£-- _OU
10-POUND BLANKETS, ""*'*"*^■^■—— ** «-_- __a» -X. -___-,
OIL BAGS-SOLBS.. 100 LBS., MI ■ D /% I 9P £
PACKING BAGS, DUCK, "■" -*■ ■»■■*• *™ " _*T H "*
, RUBBER BLANKETS. .......
AND OTHER GOODS
Alaska outfitting is a big feature of our business at the present time.
Shipping to far-away or near places is an every-day occurrence.
Selecting and packing goods for safe carriage is always a strong point.
Many men of many MINES should be sure of provisions along with them.
Free delivery to boats and trains, as well as in town and to near places.
SCASH STORE
STORE
*V___?ik_. * -> /J s^^^^wf We aim to give every one a welcome and to make
'x^^^Setn^^^^W/ their stay, whether for a moment or a month, as
S^^a^^SjjHgs^felj^/ "" pleasant as possible. l"> not fe.l that you must buy.
N^Q^^^agffiS^/ We are always "willing" to sell, but make no effort
__ to force goods on our patrons at
THE BIG STORE AT THE FERRY 2S-27 MIRKET STREET.
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KLONDIKE: KLONDIKE
ALL ABOARD FOR ALASKA!
One Ton of Provisions Allowed Each
Passenger as Freight.
Only 150 passengers taken.
The Safe and Seaworthy Steamer
"CASPAR"
Captain O. Ansindsen, will leave San Francisco
FOX DYEA
-W"_ECI_SN"ESI3A."2* AUO. 4.
Fare, with privilege of one ton of provisions or
ba.gage, 9125. -
For tickets and other information apply at the
office, 6*28 Market Street, opposite Palace Hotel.
KLONDYKE BOATS !
READY TO SHIP.
Ready to put together in three hours. Size 24
feet long, 672 feet beam, .2 feet deep: will carry
two ions: weight 20'J pound*; no piece over six
feet long. Targe ones built to order. ;-, _-,-•;
SAN FRANCISCO LAUNCH CO.,
North Point, and Stockton Sts.
b _A.IjA.SI£A
GOLDFIELDS!
STEAMER NAVARRO WILL SAIL FOR
Alaska about August 10: limited number
taken; _0(J0 pounds baggage or eight free. For
freight and passage apply to McKwES BROS.,
118 Montgomery street, Occidental Hotel block.
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DOCTOR SWEANY. ,
TEN V-ARS OF SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE
at 737 -Market street, Sin Francisco, has
stamped him as the leading specialist of the
Facifl3 Coast in the treatment of all Chronic,
Nervous and Special Diseases of both men and
women.. Entire or. partial loss of manly power,
and vigor in young, mid*ile-a;ed or old men posi-
tively restored. Weakening drains which sap the
vitality, destroy the health, cause paralysis, in-
sanity anil premature death, quickly and perma-
nently stepped. Private diseases of every name
and nature cured.
Write if you live away from the city. ': Book,
"Guide to Health," a treatise on all the organs
and their diseases, free on application. Corre-
spondence strictly conliaential. Addre's F. L.
SWEANY, 737 Market street, San Francisco, Cal.
whether duty would be charged on outfits
shipped oyer by those going on the
Islander has been settled by shipping all
such supplies under a bond given by
Captain Irving of the Islander thatthe
goods will be discharged in American ter
ritory, to wit, Dyea.
Tho further question whether any at
tempt will be made to collect duty on
such goods when they reach the interna
tional boundary line, on Lake Linder
man, across the Chilcoot Pass, remains to
be determined. It is not really believed
tbat such action is contemplated.
The horse market is booming here, and
the price of cayuses is rapidly advancing.
Indian ponies were a drug on the market
a few weeks ago at from $2 apiece upward.
To-day almost any sound pony wiil com
mand from $20 'to $30. Enterprising in
dividuals bave imported quite a number
from .the plains of Eastern Washington
where they have been worth rather less
than nothinsr, indeed where ponies have
been shot to keep the range for cattle.
Horse markets have been held on va
cant lots and in side streets for the past
few days. It has become understood that
the facilities for packing acrojs the Chil
coot and White Pass will bo totally in
adequate to the demands wbich will be
made upon thera, and at present the well
outfitted parties Insist on taking with
them one or more ponies, so as to lie sure
that their goods can bo got over teforo
the ice forms. and closes the river.
The Edith, formerly Ralston's private
yacht, will leave here July 31, carrying
sixty bead of horses at $22 50 each. These
are the property of the 150 Klondykers
who go north on the Rosalie at the same
date. The Rapid Transit, a steam barge,
has been chartered to taKe up 100 horses
to Dyea, leaving here August 1, and Ains
worth and Dunn have secured space on
the collier Willamette, leaving here on
August 3. for sixty head more.
An 111-Advistid Rush.
SELMA, Cai*., July 27.— Clarence J.
Berry and wile of tbe Klondyke arrived
REFEREE'S XAIIOF REAL ESTATE.
BY VIRTUE OF TWO DECREES OF THE
Superior Conrt in and for the City and County
or San Francisco, Male of California (Department
No. 10), ihe lint of which decrees was made and
is dated the *-_:- day of November, 1836, and th«
second of which decrees was made and 1. da ed
(he *Jsth day of .line, 1897, and both of which de-
crees were made and entered in an action pc idlng
in said Superior Court, wherein Adam »'rant is
plalmiiT anu Daniel T. Murphy ana others are de-
fendants, being case No. 49,033 In the said court,
the undersign* d, who was Ly said court appointed
referee in said action, will sell at public auction,
at the auction-rooms of .
G. H. Umbsen & Co.. 14 Montgomery St.,
In said City and County of San irancisco, on
Thuisdav, the 2d day of September, A. D. 1897, at
I*_ o'clock noon of that day, to the huhett b ddce
for ca. In lawful money of the United States,
and subj.ct to confirmation by said court, all that
certain lor. piece or parcel of land situate, Iving
and being in the City and County of San Fran-
Cisco, State of California, and bounded and par-
ticularly described as follows, to wit :
Commencing at a point where the northerly line
of Bush street is Intersected by the easterly line of
Sansome stree.; running thence easterly along th»
northerly line of tush street one hundred and
I thirty-seven (137) feet and six (6) inches; thence
I at rl-ht angles northerly and parallel with san-
' some street one hundred and thirty-seven (137» •
i fe-t and six (6) inches: thence at right angles
I westerly and parallel with Bush street, one hun-
I dred and -seven (137) feet and six (6) inches.
and to the eas. eriy side of Sansome street; and
thence sou.berly along the easterly side of San-
! some strea', one hundred aod thirty-seven (137)
I feet and six (6) inches to the point of commence-
I ment: together witn the buildings and Improve-
he* baser shall take the said lot subject t«
i the rignt of Join* W. McCauley and Henry Thorn*
ton lempleton. their heirs and as*igns. to use tha
brick wall along the norther line of said lot her*.
! in described as a party wall. -.•_■__ _...-.
Terms and con_i.ion_ of sale— Cash In lawful
money of the United states of America; t»n per
tent of the purchase price to be paid o the ref-
eree on the day of sale, when the lot is knocked
I Uown to the purchaser, anJ the balan eon con-
firmation of said n;*le by said court "
Dated Sau Francisco, Cal., July 1, 189 .
GUSTAVJB 11. t'MBSES, Referee.
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