The San Juan islander. [volume], August 18, 1898, Image 4

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WEALTH OF THE YUKON.
Ten to Fifteen Millions of Dollars Win Be Cleaned Up This Year— Dawson City,
With Ten Thousand People, Is the Greatest Mining Camp in the World—
The Greatest Known Gravel Deposit—What the Districts Show.
The output of the mines of the Yu
kon district this year, while it hat
reaohed between $10,000,000 and $16,
--000,000, has disappointed eren the
more conservative estimates made last
fall, and based on the prospects then
existing. Three things have contrib
uted to shorten this spring's olean up:
The Canadian royalty, lack of men and
lack of strengthening food. One of the
most prominent civil engineers on the
Pacific coast, who ha«spent this winter
in the mines, has said:
"Considering the fact that leas than
8.000 poorly fed men have gotten out
this winter almoßt $15,000,000, the
Klondike haa made a showing that
entitles it to consideration as th*
greatest gravel deposit in extent and
richness in the world. Tbo placer
mines of California in early days are
its only rivala."
The great riches of claims on French.
Chief, Little and Big Skookum gulches
arc the wonder of mining men In the
interior of Alaska. A claim owner on
French gulch offers a standing bet of
(20,000 that he can rock oat o< his
claim, single-handed, $9,000 on any
given day. The benches are old river
beds, which have been broken up by an
eioption of the earth. A continuation
of the old river bed haß been found near
Hunker o»aek, and while little prospect
ing has been done, It is thought that it
will turn ont very well.
Eldorado and Bonanza weeks have
proven all that was expected of them.
Much more could be seen in actual re
mits if the olean-uphad been completed
this spring. But hop© that the roy
alties may be called off, and the
early drying up of the water which
con 11 be used fh sluicing, has caused
many big claim owners to leave about a
third of the dirt taken out on tjaer
dump. The wash-up bub been com
pleted on very few claims, and on
fewer etill can a statement be obtained
as to the real amount of the clean-up.
This makes it impossible to state posi
tively the output of the mines.
Of the less known streams, Dominion
creek is giving evidence of mineral de
posits which may make it known as the
richest strike yet made. The conflict
of claims, owing to the two discoveries
allowed, is about settled, and there is
nothing to interfere with the develop
ment of the mines. Hunker creek is
tich in placer, but, unlike the rest of
the country, is spotted. Gold Bottom
is not turning out as well as expected.
Many other creeks which promise well
have not been sufficiently developed to
make an estimate of their wealth safe.
Bo many are the disadvantages in
mining in the Northwest territory that
attention is being once more directed
to mines on the American side. It is
©el loved that many surprises are in
REMEMBER
if you are dissatisfied with the size of piece or with the quality ]
of the chewing tobacco you are using— I
PLUG
and you ' 11 get your moneys worth. The 10-cent piece of Battle Ax I
is larger than the 10-cent piece of any other brand of the same high I
quality, and is the largest piece of really good chewing tobacco that I
is sold for 10 cents. I
Tjemember the name ]
*^ when you buy again
store in this dlreotlon. Forty-mile
creek has been relocated and many new
claims recorded. Chicken creek, which
! has been known for the last two years,
! but not worked, will be developed this
| year. Canyon, Nugget guloh and
| Franklin creeks and the bais on Forty-
I mile will be worked by the hydraulio
process, and there will be a good camp
at the mouth of the river within two
I years.
American creek, 40 miles down from
Forty-mile, is known as good; the
ground is high and well laid out. Pans
are taken running from 50 cents to $5.
The Misson creek district haa three
1 formations —placer, quarta and coal.
lAt its month is Ragle City, fa which
| will be established the United States
j barracks and the custom boose.
Twenty miles below Eagle City is
! Btar City, guarding the month oi Sev-
I enty-mile river. Tbye bars of this ilv«
bas been worked for many years. On
Barney creek, from three to six ounces
to the day has been taken for the last
three years. The other tributaries are
as good as Barney, but it is only now,
when people are spreading oat, that
much work will be done. A number
of men are now at Star City getting
their outfits up to the mines.
From Seventy-mile to Circle Olty
has been prospected, and creeks are
found here and there which give good
indications. Coal and Sheep creeks
promise especially well, and also the
Charley river.
Circle City has been practically de
serted sinoe the rush to Dawson but the
riches of Mastodon, Independence,
Eagle, Deadwood and a dozen lesser
gulches in tbo Birch creek district
Will revive the town. A moderate
fortune can be made in that district
in two years of hard work. Miners are
returning to Birch creek from Dawaon.
They appreciate a district in which
, there Is no royalty, no wood and log
tax and no timber grants.
Across from Circle City is Jefferson
creek, which is now being prospected
for its whole length. It will be cheap
ly worked, because of being so readily
accessible to the Yukon river.
Further down is the Minook creek
district, which has been thoroughly
advertised this year. It has developed
some olaims which have paid $27,000,
$25,000 and $15,000 for the winter's
work. The country is to a great extent
an unknown quantity. The discovery
of Idaho bar, front which men have
taken out $100 a day with a rocker, is a
great boom for the dis4rict, and the
prospects of the camp are extremely
bright.
A gieat country will be opened up
in the Koyukuk. It has been known
to miners for 10 years, and no pros
pector who went in there has failed
to bring out a good grubstake. The
territory to be worked is of a vast ex
tent, and offers wanv opportunities to
the newcomer. Taiiana, Kusfcoqulm
and Chandler rivers have all been
Brought prominently to the notice of
mining men this year. All things con
sidered, the American side would seem
to be tne place of the future.
As for Dawson City itself, it is un
questionably the greatest mining oamt>
in the world. Frank Canton, United
States deputy marshal in Circle City,
and in former years an officer of the
peace In many of the largest camps of
the West, has said that nothing he has
ever seen approaches Dawson as a model
mining camp. Accustomed as he has
been to dealing with the roughest class
of criminals, his commendation of
Dawson, as a law-abiding town, has
great weight. The sidewalks are crowd
ed with men and women from morning
to night* People are even forced to
walk in the middle of the streets to
make progress. It is a great jumble of
the good and the bad, and the only
pledge of respectability required is
regular attendance at church. Daw
son's population has grown until it is
now between 8,000 and 10,000.
Nine-tenths of the newcomers are not
in the country to work, and when they
find that success in the Klondike can
only be bought by baad labor, they will
be ready to come out. A great exodus
of unsuccessful men will take place
this fall, and the cities of the Pacific
coast, to which these people will go,
will be overrun With a rough, desperate
and altogether undesirable class. They
are now in Dawson as the advance
guard of the more substantial men to
follow. It is a repetition of the his
tory of Circle City. When the Birch
creek mines were discovered, two years
ago, double the usual invoice of people
went there, but spon left disgusted.
Had they remained, they would have
been in on the ground floor in the Klon
dike discovery.
The Cuban Machete.
Much has been said of the terrible
machete, a deadly weapon indeed in
the hands of a desperate man, and
when used againet a defenseless person.
The macho to was never intended for a
weapon of warfare; it is an instrument
of husbandry carried by tbe Cuban
peasant in times of peace, and is his
one familiar daily companion. It cuts
his fire wood, aids him in building his
hut, hews his path through the rnani
gua, and performs many other offices.
The machette is a straight, heavy
blade about two feet long, with a
wooden or bone handle, having no
guard; consequently it is utterly un
suited as a weapon to be used in a con
flict with an armed man. The Cuban,
of course, by reason of his long famili
arity with the instrument, is an adept
in its use, and its effect upon a group
of unarmed workmen is truly terrible.
It is in the foray against the defense
less and unarmed that the most serious
work of the maohete has been done in
the island of Cuba.—"Cuba as Seen
from the Inside," by Osgood Welsh, in
the August Century.
Advices from Honolulu state that the
executive council of the island govern
ment has signed a contract with the
Schymser Company to lay a cable from
the American coast to Honolulu and
KANSAS SUPERSTITIONS.
Carry a potato in one't pocket to
cure rbenmatiam.
The akin of a black cat worn in one'«
clothing will cure rheumatism.
Hold your hands above your head
and yom nose will cease bleeding.
Never let a chicken die in your hands
and yon will not have palsy.
Hold a silver spoon against the back
of the neck to stop nosebleed.
Wear a red string or ied beads
around the neck to pievent the nose
bleed.
The skin of a snake worn arotrad the
one's bat crown will onre the headache.
Wear a string of gold beads around
your neck and your nose can not bleed.
Headache may be prevented by wear-
Ing in one's hat the rattles of a rattle
snake.
The negro sometimes sleepß with a
young dog in order to transmit rheu
matism to the dog.
At Delphos. Kan., lives a young man
who gallantly procured his sweet
heart's warts by purchase.
A sty may be cuied by robbing it
with a gold ring, a silver spoon, or
one's finger moistened with saliva.
If you see any one asleep in church
say to yourself: "When you awake
take these warts."
Bore a hole in the wall the heignt
of a child's head; when the child grows
above the hole it will be cuied of
asthma.
In order to cure the toothache out
your finger nails on Friday. Another
sure care is to wash behind your ears
every morning.
Write on a stove with a piece of
chalk the number of your warts. When
the number hss burned off the stove
your warts will be gone.
Rub the wart with seven pebbles,
wrap the pebbles in a parcel and throw
them away; if the parcel is picked up
the wart will go away.
You may always prevent cramps in
the feet by turning your shoes upside
down every night beside your bed.—
Gertrude C. Davenport, in tbe Journal
of American Folk-Lore.
Steal a dishcloth, rub tbe wart with
it, and then bury the cloth under the
eaves of the house. If you tell no one
and no one finds out your theft, your
wart will go away.
If you have a wart and see a man
riding on horseback in the rain (or, as
another version runs, riding on a gray
horse), say: "Take these along;" rub
the wart and it will leave you.
Put into a red calico bag "hearts"
from grains of corn; "run down the
road;" throw away the L not look
ing where they fall; run home agan,
and if any one picks up the bag your
warts will go away.
Some of ttiese cures, which were col
lected in Coffey county, were obtain
ed from colored people. The majority
of tbe superstitions, however, which
were collected in Douglas county, were
obtained from people who declared they
knew no superstitions and believed
none; namely, student? in attendance
at the Univeisity of Kansas. These
students came from nearly every
county in the state.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The ilver Jordan makes the greatest
descent in the shortest distance of al
most any stream.
The average height of the human
i«ce is, men, five feet six Inches; wo
men, five feet two inches.
Pendulums are affected by variations
of density of the aii, as well as by
changing temperature.
According to Professor Galton, a
few person see mentally in print every
word they hear uttered.
Water pipes are now often made of
glass and covered with asphaltum,
with highly satisfactory results.
The entire collection of ooins and
medals in the British museum consists
of nearly 260,000 specimens,
Dartmoor is the largest tract of nn
oultivated land in England; it occupies
one-flfth of the county of Devon.
The bull ring of Madrid stands a
mile or so outside the city. It was
built in 1874 at a cost, it is said, of
180,000.
Millions of pairs of doll shoes are
sold in this country annually, the great
part of Which are imported from Ge*»
many.
The youngest volunteer in the naval
reserve is Cadet Roland 8. Gielow, a
bugler on the training ship New Hamp
shire.
Fourteen children—seven sets of
twins and all living— \§ the record of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hanis, of Rich
mond, Mo.
It is computed that when marching
■o'.dieis take T5 steps pei minute, in
quick marching 108, and in charging
160 steps.
British trade with the Philippines
last year was $9,984,690? that of the
United States, $5,145,808, or about
half as much.
At its present rate of combustion it
is thought the son will last from 7,000,
--000 to 15,000,000 years before burning
itself out.
The average duration of human life
in European countries is greatest in
Bwed»n and Norway, and lowest in Italy
and Austria.
Barcelona 1b now the most populous
city of Spain, the result of the census
juit taken showing 530,000 inhabit
ants, to Madrid's 507,000.
Tbe Bt. Louis team of tbe National
Baseball league has been sold to Ed
ward Becker, a retired capitalist and
piinoipal creditor of the club.
Alexander Qiegg Belleville, of St.
Louis, who recently buried his seventh
wife, has married again, this time to a
girl of 15. fle is 57 years old.
Judge John 8. Candler, of Atlanta,
who has been appointed colonel of the
Third Georgia volunteers, lost both hit
feet in a railroad accident in 1881.
Mrs. L N. Barber, principal of the
Bt Paul school of fine art, committed
suicide at Mendota, Minn., where she
was in charge of the summer art
school.
Owing to the extreme drought placer
mining in the nortben counties of Cali
fornia has been suspended. It is
thought that operations will not be re*
turned uutil next spring.
Nmt«i« T»l«« «T P«H» KIM.
«r FwderU* A, Obm wtlt^wi
irticle loi the AagMtGtntpry on 'The
f Wand of Porto Blco." Mr. Gber sayit
J^ Until fit was dtaooTered that Porto
Rico poaaeaeed great value m a "itrategio
center" of naval operation!, the fair
isle slumbered undisturbed, merely a
link, and no important one, in the em
erald chain that separates the Atlantio
and 7 the Caribbean. Stiddenly naval
folks became aware of its Importance;
they saw that while it borders on the
Caribbean sea, yet iit breasts the rough
Atlantic • waters; 5 that f : it ? is r- equadie
tant, or about 1,000 miles, from * Key
West and Colon; fiom J. New York
1,600 miles, which is half the distance
from Cadiz; 1.800 from Newport News,
which is half the distance to the Canar
ies. It lies, in fact, at the very point
that we should have selected r e for
a coaling station, had we unrestricted
choice ol : location. All t the arguments
that have been advanced for the acquisi
tion of the island of St. Thomaß, 60
miles distant, and '■'. for which at one
time wo were almost ready to pay seven
million dollais, apply with ft tenfold
force '■:■ to Porto Rico, with c its six good
harbors to the one of St. Thomas, and
its commercial as well as - strategical \
potentialities. '/ ',' . *
LUST HIS ::xi_FK SATING OTHERS.
: A country boy f Vial ' New York ■' topped
a frantic runaway team that was ;; about to
dash on the sidewalk where f there were hun
dreds of women and children. ■ Be saved their
lives, but lost his own. Hundreds tof lives are
saved every year \by Hostetter's Stomach 1 Bit
ters. * People « who \ are \ fast I going to . their
; naves • with disorders : of ft stomach,- t liver,
bowels and blood are brought back to good
health by it. All the sick should try it.: s :>; ,;
Gov.;M<^rd has received 7indefinite
leave of absence from his duties as the
executive of Arizona, n and r? will take
command as colonel of the regiment of
infantry now being ; recruited; in the
;four*' territories. , ■ ' '':y.~ ".','*,•': S';S,'- . •• ■■■•;
: TBT ALLEN'S FOOT-BASS. 0,
A powder to be shaken into the. shoes.
At this season your feet feel [ swollen, ner
vous, and hot, and get tired easily.;; If you |
have smarting ! feet or, tight shoes, try |
Allen's Foot-Ease. ; It cools; the feet ana
makes walking easy.: Cures j swollen and !
sweating feet, blisters and - callous ■ spots.
Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and
gives rest and comfort Ten thousand tes
timonials of cures. Try it today. Sold by
all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent
by mall for 25c in stamps. Trial package
FREE. ; Address Allen & Olmated, £•
: Roy, New York.i ji-,■ .;;•/.-: OA-r'r ■ -y, ■i .
l'[ Bail | building in Africa is pro
ceeding with^wdhdeifai rapidity; con
sidering the difficulty and ? expensive
ness of most of the enterprises. ■ i<
WAGONS -:. IMPROVED. J-
The new improved - Stoughton 'wagons
stand the racket. Three more car loads are
on the way. It pars •* to V have - the t best.
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Microbes are so minute that 250,
--000,000 can be comfortably accommo
dated on a penny postal stamp. '
;, According* to a German' authority the
human brain is composed of 300,000,
--000 nerve eel j; - *N, 1 -'"..- ;•';
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