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rOLTJME LXXXII.-NO. 65.
TO DREDGE
THE YUKON
FOR GOLD
V* > Gigr^ntie Scheme of En
v terprising Seattle
; -vv ; ;';^ : Capitalists. '
BOWEES* MACHINE TO BE
_Zit&--:\AI APPLIED; ?'.
;?\}lf. Successful, Other Streams
,rr Will Receive; Attention by
-/•.•••;■'.'..•-■•... the Company. •
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. ' ■.-'• GLOWING • RESULT'S ALREADY
-, V ' ... PREDICTED.
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V** .lf Gold Lies In the Bed of the River
.— ' '. It; Will Be Scooped Up in
I_^^L___l^l Short Order.
••'•'. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. The most
'." stupendous undertaking' 'in connection
-.- •with the' taKing of. the virgin gold from
•the icy hills and bleak- water courses .of
Alaska and the Northwest Territory that
'•• has yet been proposed, and beside which
all .other attempt's appear puerile and in
,. significent, is that which has within the
past three days been taken up by a group
.- of well-known Seattle capitalists, at the
head- of which is Edward F. Sweeny.
--... "The other 'members of what will be a
powerful company do not for the present
. .wish to have their names made public.
• -Anything in connection w.th operations
' .ro the North must now bear the stamp of
• . originalityof sz*, and the matter which
.'is now made public eclipse-* anything that
..-."has been "proposed regarding mining ot
any. kind .at any time or in any part of
..the world. •.;?;* '.v. ?•• ' . .
' . Saturday there arrived in this city Sam
uel H. Saleno of San Francisco, the for
. eign representative of Alphonseo B. Bow
ers, inventor and -owner of the Bowers
dredging patents and of the Bowers sys
„ tern of hydraulic dredging to which the
patents are applied. '•
Mr. Saleno bus recently returned from
.... an and it was on the trip back from
'the Orient that he met Mr. Sweeny and to
him communicated his plans for the ap*
plica-ion of the dredger to hydraulic min
ting. . '
When the K'ondyke fever struck the
country Mr. Sweeny wired Mr. Saleno to
come to Seattle, ln the' meantime the
interest of those who* will make up the
balance of the company had been aroused,
but all suggestions of their intentions
• . were kept a profound secret.
*" ' The project has now taken definite
•shape. The intention of the company is
'to build one of the great earth and mv I
eating' machines that are converting the
tide lands of the upper bay end into the
blocks of redeemed land that have marked
« one. of 'tie- undertakings that will provide
Seattle 'with manufacturing sites, and
• . send it to the mouth of the Yukon River,
.where it will be' put together. One of the
differences, that will make the proposed
dredger so unique will be its power for
eelf- propulsion, and its' extremely light
draught. The -power will be supplied to a
..stern-wheel, -tbe same as to the light
* draught fiver steamers.
'After. the completion of building of the
, dredger at the mouth of the Yukon, she
Will start on her tour of investigation up
theriyfer, putting her Ipng black beak into
the sand 4rid • gravel of the bottom and
; doing some prospecting on- her own ac
count. When a rich streak is found, she
Will chum away with mr centrifugal pump
' •and toss the* gravel and nuggets, as well
as dust and mud, up by the bushel..
- /When* it is remembere t that those who
.. have come down say that a day's work is
*20«00 pounds per mau, the largeness of the
enterprise, when these amounts
• are multiplied four or five hundred times,
os is possible with the Bowers machine.
' When asked what capacity the proposed
. dredger would have Mr. Saleno answered
that it would depend on the wishes and
' intentions of the company. He urges that
the gold deposits of the rivers and creeks
are the resdlts of the washing down by
■o high waters, and the carrying down of ice
floes. Upon this assumption .the argu
ment is made that in -the deepest channel
the gold .has sunk lower, and as the
dredger will work down to bedrock the
belief, is that the -result of pumping from
the bottom will be proportionately richer.
It has been demonstrated that the
, Bowers' dredger, can deliver at the end of
'their conveyor pipes seven and even a
higher percentage of solid matter,- and at
Mare Island, where work was at one time
being done for the Government, the cen
" trifugal pump brought up cannon balls,
old . tools arid old anchor chains. At
Portland the dredger brought up loose
mercury that was lost from a broken case.
" . If ft. Will do this the specific gravity of
gold offers-no impediment to the action
Of the' pump' in bringing it to the surface
V. apd delivering it at the dump. •
• There will be no encroachment 'upon
• t.he'-claims of others, as the bottom of the
rivers and creeks is believed to be the
• place where thegold will' be found. Mr.
Sa-I'e.no also says that as the United States
, counts have established the ownership oi
the Bowers -patents the company will be
protected, .and the application of the ideas
will not' be' granted to others. The con
.. tract for building the dredger will be let
and its construction carried on under the
: supervision of -he-Bowers people and from
their pfans'and specifications.
To-sb.ow their entire confidence in the
scheme, 'Mr. . Saleno says that his people
would be willing to subscribe largely to
1 • the common .stock of- the Seattle ;. com
pany, the organization ol which is not yet
. public property. V^£B-QraS"
.Besides the application of the dredger
to thfe'Yukon, Mr. Saleno says that if .sue
•"^eflsful it will undoubtedly be put into im
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mediate use on the Frazer, Columbia and
Rogue rivers, and in fact on any streams
that have shown p rolific placer mining
possibilities.
HEADING FOR THE NORTH.
Amona. Tho-e Going From Seattle
Are Two Re esentatlves of the
French Aristocracy.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 3.— Two repre
rentatives of the French aristocacy will
go north on the Cleveland, sailing Thurs
day for St. Michaels to investigate the new
gold fields of the Kiondyke, and incident
ally to picK up a few thousand or hundred
of nuggots to display to their friends in
Paris as mementoes of their trip. These
gentlemen are M. Louis de Poliniare and
Vicomte Henri d'Hauteville. M. de Pol
iniare was in Chicago when the news of
the Kiondyke discoveries broke out, while
tbe Vicomte was in San Francisco.
Telegrams were exchanged, and as a re
sult each of the gentlemen started for
Seattle* and met here to-day. M. de Poli
niare brought with him a letter from
President Weare to Mr. Hamilton, man
ager of the North American Trading and
Transportation Company, instructing
him to extend all possible courtesies to
the two, and as a result they will have the
best quarters on the boat and are per
mitted to take rather a larger outfit than
is allowed to the humble prospector.
They really intend to prospect, and if
possible mine for gold. To a' Call cor
respondent Vicomte de Poliuaire said this
evening:
"If you send this news to Le Figaro or
Le Temps in Paris it will greatly interest
our friends. If we are successful you can
expect to s.e a very large number of
French gentlemen take their departure
'for Lie Kiondyke next year." ■ • ""? .-^
The Al-Ki left for Dvea .and V Skagaway*
to-day. She carried 200 passengers and an
equal number of horses, as well as a large
number of cattle, the Tatter of which are
to be driven over the trail to Dawson
City. She was heavily laden with freight,
consisting largely of the outfits of the
Klondykers. The news of the jam at
White Pass has bad no deterring effect.
Every man in the crowd thinks he will be
able to get through even if none of the
others do so.
The big four-masted schooner Novelty
was hauled into Schwabacher's dock this
afternoon to load a cargo of 600 tons of
general merchandise for the Klondike.
There is a slight' probability of the Nov
elty reaching Michael, in time for the
goods to go up the river before it is closed
this fail, but the stock will be on hand to
go-in the first thing in the spring.
An interesting mining story, not, how
ever, connected, with the Kloi dyke, was
brought down by an Oiympla gentleman
returning from a visit north on the Queen.
James Campbell was a resident .of
Olympia, who went up into Southeastern
Alaska some three years since. Not hear
in.' from him in two years his wile be
came digusted and got a divorce.
A year ago she and her son, a young
man of just. 21. went north. When the
Olympia gentleman was up on the Queen
he found that Campbell had located a
very rich ledge of free-milling quartz on a
small Alaska island called Venina. The
ledge extended clear across tbe island.
Not only tbis, but be had located other
claims in the names of his son and former
wife, who were on the ground developing
the property. Campbell himself had
formed a new matrimonial alliance with
a dusky maiden of the forest, and remains
true to her. The ledge is enormous in
size and assays an average of $40 a ton
clear across the face. It will make botn.
branches of the Campbell family rich.
The Willamette, advertised to sail to
day, will not get away before Thursday if
indeed she sails at that time. Passage
has been secured on her for 800 men and
200 horses besides a very large quantity of
freight.
MANY ARE TURNED BACK.
Canadian Police Compel Fortune-
Hunters to Have a Year's Sup-
ply of Provisions.
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. Four thou
sand people were at the ocean dock this
evening to see the steamer Al-Ki off for
Alaska. As she carries fifty Tacomans
among her 200 pnssengers there were
many last good-byes to be said. ,
The crowd was entertained until a late
hour watching the hoisting aboard of
horses and cattle with a donkey-engine.'
The Al-Ki sailed at midnight.
The old bark Shirley, which carried
lumber lor years between Tacoma and San
Francisco for the Tacoma Mill Company,
will go into the Alaska trade.: She has
been purchased from the mill company by
the newly formed Tacoma and Dyea
Transportation Company, '.'which will send
her north next week with passengers,
iraightand livestock. She will accommo
date several hundred passengers. A tug
will tow her to Dyea. '?-'...' .
The steamer Queen brings word down
that the mounted police of the Northwest
Territory are meeting all people bound
for the Yukon country at the British line,
beyond White and? Dyea passes, and com
pelling all who have not one year's supply
of provisions to return to the coast. But
few of the fortune-seekers who have 'left
Tacoma and tie sonnd within the last few
weeks lor Dyea or Skagaway had crossed
the passes into the interior when theQueeh
left Dyea July 28. Two hundred or? more
miners were encamped at Skagaway then,
SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1897.
IN A QUANDARY.
awaiting an ' opportunity to have their
sUDplies packed over the piss.
The first pack train over White* Pass
was expected back at SKagaway on the day
the Queen sailed from there. Rev. Alfred
Kunnnerof Oakland, Cal., one of the ex
cursionists, went ashore at Bka*away, and
reports he was told by two men there that
it would cost $400 to have their supplies,
weighing 2000 pounds, carried over the
pass. Mr. miner aud Captain Carroll
warn cv. ry one not to attempt to enter
the Yukon country before next spring.
The captain says not even those who are
now at Skagaway and Dvea will be able to
reach the interior (his winter, principally
because supples cannot be gotten over
the passes. Indians are hard a; work
packing, and all the horses available are'
pressed into service. „',-..-.,_ v ■.{■_ . ..''
..-. Men can . puck, they ' 6ay, but seventy
five*, pounds one way. and the round trip
ls seventy-two miles. The situation will
be -much relieved, however, when the
Al-Ki and Willamette arrive there, for the
Willamette alone will, carry 300 horses.
By August 11 it is estimated there will be
at least 800 horses packing freight over
Chi coot and White passes. Rev. Mr.
Kummer, pastor of the First Meth
odist Church of • Oakland, says
the Queen landed 200 passengers
at Skagaway,'. who, with the. small
party left there by the Al-K , comprised
all tbe gold-seekers at the place. They
found a good place to camp, with water,
wood and mosquitoes plentiful. A .great
many of the men went into camp to await
their opportunity to hire men or horses
to carry their provisions over tbe pass.
A strong Indian can carry 100 pounds
over the p;»ss, but the average white man
does well to carry seventy-live pounds.
Men who have been accustomed to cleri
cal work find packing almost beyond en
durance.
SIGNS OF TROUBLE.
Gold - Seekers May Not Tamely
Submit to the Canadian
Exactions.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Aug.' 3.—
According to information received by the
Queen yesterday the crowd that has al
ready arrived from the south forms only ;
a small proportion of the kicking, cursing
mob that, itching under the unwarrant
able delay at Dyea, is making that place
one of the liveliest in the Northwest. '
The sure-thing gambler is there and it
is said that in several instances men who
have got that far nave been fleeced out
of possessions and will not be able to go
any fartner. ; ...y.!' ._?.?)-,, '.'.'■- ■'■':
The advices say that there is going to be!
serious trouble at Dawson City tbis sum
mer over the effort that will be made to
collect: not only custom duties, licenses'
and taxes from the miners, but also roy
alties upon whatever they may succeed in
taking out. •■'ii V-?' :."_■--?,: v. ';. \
, News of this decision on the part of the
Canadian Government had reached Dyea
belore the Queen left- and ■ was met on
every hand with protests from 'the gold
seekers. Although, no definite arrange
ments had been made it is generall under
stood among miners that concerted refusal
will be made against paying any of the
Government's demands, and for a time at
least the bluff will succeed, for, the miners
outnumber t c Canadian mounted patrol
100 to 1. When the first 'conflict- is re- ;
ported to Ottawa the force will be ma
terially increased, but the miners hope in
the interim to take out a stake and leave
the country.
ALL ARRANGEMENTS MADE.
Plana for Carrying Passengers
„ From. Portland Direct to
D wson City.
PORTLAND, Ob., Aug. a— "We will In
all probability have our arrangements
perfected by to-morrow," said W. 8.
Mason of the firm ■of Mason; J Ehrman &
Co. and director in the newly incorporated
Portland and A!a Trading and Trans
portation Company.
'•Then you figure surely on securing the
steamer Eugene for use on the Yukon
River?", was asked.
"As sorely as business negotiations can
proceed' without' the papers being signed
and sealed," was the reply.
"And you feel confident that the Eugene
can be ; made read.* for her long ; ocean
voyage by August 15?"
*T see no reason, why, with ample funds
and facilities such as are at our disposal,'
this boat cannot ■■ be ; put in . such shape '_ as
to be able to withstand any weather that
she may encounter between the mouth of j
the Columoia River and the delta of the
Yukon," replied Mr. Mason. "'[
"How about the ocean steamer which is
to convoy the Eugene? ? Has the charter
with the owners been closed?"
"Not as yet. But, as I said, we will in
all probability have everything arranged
by to-morrow." .... „-_.
Thus this morning spoke one of the
leader, in the Portland and Alaska Trad
ing and Transportation Company, the in
corporators of which are H. P. McGuire,
E. B.? McFarland; J. A.. Yeakam (agent of
the. coasting steamers Homer and Alli
ance), •' W. F. ! McGuire,. [Captain , -F. B.
Jones and W. S. -Mason.
'.'■■ The company proposes placing men tak
ing* passage on 'their line at Portland
directly on?, the river at Dawson.
Th. hard.ntps and.. trial* of the. passe*
over the Chilcoot range of mountains will
be avoided, and if nature Keeps up the
schedule she has followed during the years
past the company expects to land, its pas-.
! sengers on the Kinndyke by September 15."
The passage money is to be placed at $300,
which includes the transportation of 150
pounds of supplies for each passenger.
Aside from the passenger, traffic, the
idea of the new incorporators is to build
up a trade between Portland and the
Yukon country. This, they believe,' can
only be done by placing a direct line of
steamers on between this city and the
camps adjacent to the diggings.
TWENTY FROM FRESNO.
A Party to Co Overland to the
Kiondyke Country From
Vancouver.
FRESNO, Cal., Aug. 3.— A party of
twenty men from Fresno County will
leave to-morrow for San Francisco, where
they will embark in a few days for Van
couver, with the intention of making the
trip overland from . that place to the
•Kiondyke, in far-away Alaska. The
names- of all the members of the party
which will make the perilous trip could
not be learned to-night, hut among them
are J. B. McDonald, J. Wilbur Cate, J. F.
Moody, Alexander Holmes, F. R. Dunlap,
O. L. Ingels and Bert Stevens. Mr. Ingels
is the constable at Sanger, and he leaves
an excellent grocery business to try for
the fortunes of the frozen north. ..
Mr. Cate is a well-known business man
in this city, and Mr. Moody has been a
deputy in the Tax Collector's office.
/From British Columbia the miners will
take a herd of horses, which will be driven
to the goldfields, where it is expected to
realize handsomely on them. * The expe
dition? will be in charge of J. S. Mack, who
will guide the fortune-seekers through the
wilds of the great Northwest Territory,
and those who will follow him place the
greatest confidence in him. 'He was 'for-/
merly in the employ of the Dominion
Government as surveyor,' and knows thor
oughly ' the provinces of Athabasa, Al
berta and the Peace River country, which
.he traversed while engaged in making a
topographical survey for the Government.
V "This route is the easiest one them
all, " said Mr. " Mack to The ; Call corre
spondent to-night. "The journey by way
of the Northwest Territory does not really!
begin, you might say, until you reach
Edmonton, which is at the end of a branch
of the Canadian Pacific - Railroad, that
leaves the main . line a* Calgarry, in Al
berta province. You can go to Edmonton
either by way of Vancouver or Ogden.
From Edmonton to the Kiondyke mines
is about 700 miles, and the region to be
traversed is level ? and presents no obsta
cles. On most maps - you will « find : that
the Rocky Mountains- go .almost to the
Arctic through 'the Northwest Territory,
when the fact is" that they stop at about
the sixty-second ?or sixty-fourth parallel.'
I have surveyed * around then, at about
this point. vT VV - ; "
"The region through which one passes
on this journey is for a great part an ex
cellent farming country. *Th \ tripto the
Kiondyke can be made by horses, which
may be used both for riding and as pack
animals. At . the : - right time of the year
there is plenty of feed lor the anima s and
game for the, travelers, and there are
practically no hardships to encounter.
There are numerous Indian settlements,
though tbey thin out as you get farther
north.*. I * have .spent some time in
the Northwest .Territory,-,-, and ! know
there is plenty of gold 'there.'
TV: was at the CassiarV .mines
near Dease Lake and also visited;; the
Peace ] River ? diggings, all of , which are
Very rich. But the Kiondyke region is so
much richer that no doubt these old dig
gings have been deserted. While on the
other route* it is necessary to have from
$500 to $600 in order to make the trip in
good shape, between $250 and $300 is suf
ficient on the route I propose to take.
This will allow the purchase of a year's
supplies, too."
ON TH- TE^LIN TRAIL.
Calbreath Says It Is the Best Route
to Drive Cattle Into the
Kiondyke.
VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. John C.
Calbreatb, who has been commissioned
by the British Columbian Government to
make a passable trail from Telegraph
Creek to Teslin Lake, was in Victoria to
, day receiving detailed instructions. He
says: '
"If I had the money to-morrow 1 would
run a steamer from Teslin Lake to the
Kiondyke diggings, and from Wrangel to
Telegraph, providing the Government*
would complete the trail, to say nothing
of a good wagon road. A good 12-foot
road could, I think, be built for $150,000. 1
consider the Teslin trail^the only route
over which one can drive cattle or sheep
into the Kiondyke.' It can be put into
thorough repair at small expense, and re
quires only two bridges, each less than
100 feet long!" ■ . f
At present, he? says, it is passable for
p- <-i trains witn light loads. The streams
have to be forded, but water at this time
of year is low. There are a few spots
along the trail where gardens could be
made for roadside houses. Grass in great
abundance g-ows all along and a com
paratively, level country is found, and the
hills met with are not a j serious obstacle
for either a trail dr wagon, road. Over a*
good trail loaded animals weird pass to
the head of the lake in twelve days, where
as it takes now fifteen days or over. ■ A
"proper light-dranght steamer for the river
could, Calbreath 'says, carry, freight from
Wrangel to Telegraph tor $20 Der ton, pro
viding it had a considerable amount of
freight to carry. The rates to Wrangel
are high and the wharfage at Wrangel is
abo high, but there is not sufficient trade
at present to warrant tbem being reduced.
Wharfage now at Wrangel is $3 per ton.
A stern-wheel steamer of right build can
ascend the Stikeen at any season, provid
ing the ice is out. When the ice is out of
the river a steamer drawing 2"_ feet and
having the freight capacity of 100 tons
could go up to Telegraph.
Navigation? opens in the fore part of
May, but a steamer has made the trip in
the last of April.- On May 15 last year
there was ice in the river, but it was all
gone the next day. On Telegraph Creek
oats and barley are grown successfully
either for hay or grain, but where these
are grown the spots are like an oasis in
the desert, the general face of the coun
try-producing; nothing but grass and
bushes. Below Glenora and extending
down as far as Grant Rapids there are
many fine pieces of land suitable for
growing almost anything. *
JOINING THE RUSH.
Many Persons Leaving Stockton
for the; Goldfields of the Far
North.
:';-. STOCKTON, Cal., Aug. 3.— Numbers of
men, young and old, are leaving this and
adjoining counties bourn! for the ice-cov
ered goldfields in the north. Yesterday
Al Brown,' secretary of the Stockton
Athletic Association and the present sin
gle-scull amateur champion of California,
left for Seattle, en route for the Kiondyke.
To-day Robert L. Quisenbery, one of the
Yardley exoedition that is fitting out a
steamer to run to Dawson, left for San
Francisco to leave on the steam schooner
South Coast.
Eugene 'A. Trefethen of Lathrop has
engaged passage for two persons on this
expedition,' one of whom is his son, who
is at present attending the University of
California;' A Modesto capitalist named
Hatton has secured passage for four per
sons whom he is backing. A Mr. Thomas,
who has been in the employ of Matteson-
Williamson V Manufacturing '.'•; Company,
will be one of the passengers. The Yard
ley expedition, will *go by the steamer as
fir as St. Michaels, and thence by a boat
of lighter draft to Dawson.
Another party is being organized among
the railroad employes to go to the Kion
dyke. Several men Yon? the road have
agreed to go and have bound themselves
by placing ; a \ forfeit in the h and s of . the
projectors of the enterprise. V A number
of others in that part ol the county known
as the West Side are interested 'in the en
terprise, and it is proposed to charter a
steam schooner on which they now have
an option. ?,
MILLIONS YET THERE.
Clements Advises Gold- Hunters
Not to Journey North Until
Next Spring.? V
'■ V STOCKTON, Cal., Aug.. 3.— James Cle
ments, the wealthy Klondyker land erst
while railway brakeman,' arrived here yes
terday with his wife to pay a brief visit to
relatives in thi-* city. /Mrs.' Clements went
direct to the residence of G. H. Clifford at
105 West Roase street. As? the man who
had taken a quarter of a million of dollars
worth of yellow dust and nuggets from
the' Yukon country in a year was tired out
by his long traveling trip, and being bored
Continued on ' Third Page,
SPEEDING
HOSTS TO
THE NORTH
The Walla Walla and Noyo
Bear Crowds Away
To-Day. v
STEAMERS FROM SEATTLE ARE
STILL OVERCROWDED. ?
The Interesting Tale of Two Christian
Endeavor Miners on the Yukon. ..
Gossip of the Rush. ••'•"'-.
On still another trip are the berths of a
big regular steamer inadequate to the
Alaskan rush. The Walla Walla will sail
this morning at 9 o'clock for Seattle with
ail her cabin accommodations sold two
days in advance, -with many who pay
cabin rates and who will eat cabin fare
sleeping iv steerage bunks, and with two
connecting steamers- for the north, the
Queen and the Mexico, awaiting crowds
and freight tbat will use every cubic yard
of space in them.
The Noyo will sail this forenoon with a
finely outfitted party of over a hundred
bound to Dvea, but the Caspar expe
dition fins b3en abandoned. Several
other special expeditions are being rapidly
arranged and fitted, so that this week will
see the departure of some hundreds for
the goldfields of the Yukon.
The Walla Walla will leave both freight
and passengers behind. The merchants
of Juneau and Seattle are pouring in im
mense orders for merchandise which goes
to supply the outfitting trade and 'there
is a heavy tonnage of the individual out
fit taken along from here. The steamer
has a large passenger list of those going
on later summer. excursions to Alaska and
of those going to the Sound only and tak
ing advantage of the cheap ' rates. These
demands which are filled early lessen the
room for the Yukoners and yesterday
many of those who wanted cabin had to
out up with second-class sleeping accom
modations.
At the Pacific Coast Steamship ticket
office here passengers for Alaska are-being
booked for the Queen and the Mexico,
two of the connecting steamers which run
north from Seattle. The Queen will de-
Dart at once on the arrival of the Walla
Walla, being booked to leave for Juneau
and Dvea on the 7th inst. She can carry
300 cabin and 180 steerage passengers,
lhe Mexico will depart two days later
with 300 cabin and 180 steerage passen
gers.' The accommodations of the two
steamers have been divided between Seat
tle and San Francisco, the latter office
taking the starboard side. Those on the
passenger list yesterday, who are bound
for the Yukon by the Queen, are as fol
lows:
CABIN-.
E. D. Howe, John D. Milligan,
J. Jbiniay, . John Winsbip,
A. Laumeister, Frank Winship,
W. C. Silvia, A. B. Cade,
J. A. Se^bers, J. Wagoner,
Ed Austin, J. A. Pearce.
STEERAOE.
C. M. King, li. B. Davison,
F. While, X Jones,
W. Lord, C. M. Prung,
J. Haw-ins, George i. arrack,
Mrs. llobjs, O. B. Lomtz,
A. .ace, W. Flood, -
Din -.rill. H.U Lamb,
11. B. Mlder, (_'. I. Osberg, i
A. Cranu, P. Wickman,
J. V. i. kin an, E. F. Bec_,
K. M Weste, F. Spinney, ...
J. >miti>, A. Gimn.
B. .mm. M. A. G. Mllie%
E. _-imo-, A..F. Cook,
l . O. Edgar, T. B. Donan,
J K. Rogers, H. J. Wilson,
Arthur, • «. D. Bennett,
S. G. cox, F. Brodeil.
Those who will board the Mexico with
their outfits are the olio wing: .
!?.-?'.' ?*V* * ' :: ??f.: t CABIN.
A. G. Meyers L. C. Haas- ";•'-%-.; ■'..'
O. Hoffman ' Mrs. >>. Hoffman
B. W. McNight A. _». Hialt
L. 11 Wenso.i Dr. H. li X. Klerulff
V A.M. Kierulff C _•». lio.sback
T. W. Fisher W. B. Kills
! J. J. Bullock A. ott
Will i uckiey B. B May
Daniel 1 op- z John Kelly '
W. E. Pierson Fred Smith
T. A. Brown C F. Mail
S. J. B. gers T. P. Maloney
James Grant ' W. C. Price
J. Lennon * .-.'.-'•;■ H. E. Ju-iner
K. X. Leacock 8. F. Pond
M. 8. Lutliam - William Jones
Frank Austin W. 11. Fairbanks
Joh. de Bo.k Mrs. Cbapland
JH-Scholton T.H.Matthews
B. J. Young J. B. Kelly
STEERAGE.
. F. P. Warneke M. D. Yonng
A. O. Hamilton A. Bobel'e
Dr. F. Blehl P. Tower
. Fred Riehl a. ii. Blankman
A. Bi.hl . T. Pe.llsonn
F. Hough George Hoods
- A. O. I'icolt J. Feuniss
: F. A. Boynton J- W. Alkena
D. A. Ciowen J. B. Chase . ■ „
J. C, Muliher w. Hanson
R.A. McGinnis J. Darlington
C. Hirst- hey V A. J. Monroe
B. _.oge-_ and son :P. Tower
About thirty of those in the above
given lists are booked for Juneau, where
they intend to complete their outfits and
to start for the passes by the small local
steamers which run between Juneau and
Dy^a. V A number of berths on the Queen
and Mexic. have ben reserved for the
Canadian mounted ; police that are' on
their way to the "- Yukon region. The
Queen and the ; Mexico will land passeu
gers at both Dyea ; and Skagaway, and it
is likely that? a major ty will debark at
Skagaway to take th« White Pass route.
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BUILT THE ARCTIC.
i Wetherbee Goes Up Again : and
Two Friends Await Grub
• ■ * "_. 1 ■ * ■ ■
stakes.
I The man who built the Yukon River
steamer Arctic, now - wrecked, is going
back to St. Michaels in the steam schooner
North Fork, which is to start with a Daw
son-bound party on the 14th inst.
V Furthermore this boat- builder has two
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
mining friends whom he wants some rich
gentleman to grubstake for the expedition.
"If any gentleman will outfit two expert
miners- for a year T will guarantee him a
grand bonanza," says Mr. S. L. Wether
bee, who is the mechanic referred to. The
North Fork will be back from Eureka on
Friday, when she will be fitted out to
take a party of 100 to St. Michaels. C. P.
Troy & Co. advertise that they will give a
man a year's supplies and get him to
Dawson for $300, nhd they may possibly
do it. Anyway Mr. Wetiierbee is going
as far as St. Michaels, where, he went*
once to build a river steamer for the.
Alaska Commercial Company. . .
"That was in '91, I believe," said
Mr. Wetherbee- yesterday. "I went no c
in the steamer Bertha, at. the time
McGrath and Turner went up to go
up the river and 'locate the boundary.
The boat I had erected at Benicla,
and she was shipped with her ma
chinery all ready to put together. I took
but two 'prentice boys along and got her
ready tQ launch, in thirty-one days with
the help of eight. or ten natives. '1 he chief
engineer had only three men with him.
She was built on St. Michaels Island on a
little point right alongside of the Alaska
Commercial Company's post. The place I
used was a croquet-ground, and^McGrath
and Turner and the agent there told me
that 1 had located the ground. And it was
mine. 1 didn't think anything about it
then, but I am going to claim it now.
; "We got there July. 4, and, as I said, I
had ber launched in a month. She was
152 feet long, 124 feet on her keel, drew
13^_ inches of water light and 3J_ feet with
a toad of 300 tons. Well, three uours after
she left on- her first trip she was at Stew
arts Island, a few miles from St. Michaels,
loading with wood for fuel to go into tho
river. Two barges were alongside with
the wood. A heavy storm' came uo at 10
o'clock at night, and the tide set so strong
she couldn't hold her anchor. She. tried
to steam up, but -the barge townnes got
tangled up in her wheel and eccentric and
she went ashore. Captain Siiverson'sent
an Indian to St. Michaels with word that
she was a total wreck and to send 'down
everybody to save what they could. Mr.
Newman said tome: 'Well, Wetherbee,.
there's $100,000. What can you do with
it?'
"1 got her all right in :■ just' eight days.
She ran on the river until last year, when
she got stuck, and they blew a hole in tier
trying to blow the ice around her loose.
They took her machinery out and put it
in a oarge that is running now. - *
. "I don't know whether I'll get to Daw
son this year or not, but if not I can stay
at St. Michaels all right. Put it in about
those expert miners that will get anybody
a bonanza that will stake, them. They,
can send word to me at 3435 Sixteenth
street." ' .
THE NOYO READY.
Will Lead Away the Fleet- of \
Special Craft Being . •
Fitted Out.
. .
The Caspar Expedition Abandoned
and New Ones Being.-
Planned Daily.-
The steam schooner Noyo, first of the
fleet of special craft , bound northward
with gold-seekers, is to leave this fore- .
noon with over a hundred men, a-dczen
women and a large and picturesquely as
sorted cargo, which includes aoont' twen
ty-five donkeys, horses and mules. *
On the Noyo go those who bad engaged .
passage with the rival expedition of the
Caspar, which was abandoned, last* night
and consolidated with that of the Noyo. *
The Noyo lies at Mission-street wharf
and there was a crowd and a busy scene .'
about her all .day long. A. number of
boats, all ready to put together- "when the
lakes beyond the pass are reached, are be
ing taken along by little parties of men
who are traveling together.- Those who
take along pack-animals and do- not have
to stop to build boats will be the aristoc
racy of the pass. Bags of beans, ca c after
ca*-e of canned meats, bags of dried fruits -
and vegetables - and oilsacks filled with
clothing, etc., are the most numerous- •
features of the heterogeneous cargo. The
Noyo will nave all the passengers and •
freight she can carry.' -
Loading the mules is always the fun of
getting off for Alaska the.edays. After
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