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5’1 any man could get credit in the lower country. but when Antone applied to ,the Alaska Commercial Company, the temporary agent would not let 'm have it unless it was guaranteed. e Clarence Berry came forward. guaranteed Antone’s bill. and re- neivad in return a one-half interest in the claim. wrry was sometimes spoken of as a “tin-horn gambler," W not supposed to have much money “a...“ uuv ODAIULDo .. No. 31 El Dorado was sold by the original staker for $100. $80 being cash. \Vithin six months it was sold (01' 331.000, and one year later the owner refused $150,000. One-half of 30 El Dorado. it is said, was sold for a sack of flour. The Owners, big Alec. McDonald and Billy Ohappel. did not think enough of it to work it themselves. but rather late In the season put it out on a lay. and took a lay themselves on {another} claim. The laymen struck it the first hole. and out of thirty burnings took out 840.000. ~ ‘ Antone went to Forty Mile after staking. He was short of grub. and". wanted to work his claim. Ordinarily ____ __A_. A~4 For this is what happened; first claims were of no value; then. as gold was found. they rose in value slowly first. then with great leaps. The seller would want. say, a thousand dol- lars; by the time the buyer found that it was really worth a thousand, the claim owner had discovered it to be worth ten thousand; and when the buyer was willing to buy at that price. the value had jumped to twenty thousand, and so on. The buyers were fiust one _l_ap behind the sellers. values like others in that country. .Those who sold were by no means fools. They simply had a chance to sell for a grub stake, which was about all a man usually got from a year’s .work. And if the truth were con- fessed. the reason why there were not more siles at that time was that Johns, like so many others, little knew the value of the claim he had staked. After some days. a favorable report must have been received from the new diggings. He was offered $500 for the claim. and sold it to Knut was cash. the other half to be paid when _bed-rock was reached. In the “The next morning. at six o‘clock, we started back. and reached the Indian village at one p.m. crossed over to our cache, and had dinner. Then we started for Forty Mile, which we reached at ten-thirty that night. "The spot where the gold was dis- covered was. like the discovery on Bonanza, at the edge of the creek on the line of N03; 2 and- 3. It was taken from a cut in the bank. and was prac- tically surface gold that had slid down from the old channel on the hillside. It was nothing more or iess than ‘bench’ gold, the existence of which was not even suspected at that time, From $1 thale eight‘e.en inches deep in the creek-bed, and un- der water. as high as two dollars was taken out. Bed-rock where the real richness lay. and the real creek-bed“ was fifteen or sixteen feet below the; snriace. under muck and gravel. l rnd next day we recordéd agaip, and .igally at Constantine’s office." “Cobb lost his claim, for Constan- tine decided that ‘at the time he jumped there was plenty of as good ground farther up the creek, and that it was hoggish, to say the least, to jump ground where a discovery of gold had been made.’ Had all the five claims been jumped, instead of only one, and this been done after the creek had been staked. there is a chance whether Antone. Keller, and company would NOT HAVE LOST THEIR CLAIMS. to which they had not the slightest legal right until they had taken their names off Bonanza, and the reasons that barred Cobb would not have ap- plied to late comers, when there was no more ground on the creek above.f THERE “'ERE FE\V BUYERS. "Cobb jumped Phiscaters claim, as he had not taken his name off Bonanza. The name of the creek was formally declared to be “El Dorado. as agreed upon at the meeting the night before. “We all went over to the creek. and began to measure and record. 13 in a fictitious name. to try to hold {or a friend. perhaps. and this was afterwards jumped by a man of the name of Hollingshead. "The first of a gang of stampedera. who had come to Dawson on the steam- er. arrived. Anong those were William Scouse and William Sloan. who took 14 and 15. Some one staked “He treated with disdain Cobb’s threat to jump the claims. and said he would go and see the recorder. McKay arrived on the scene. and the recorder told them that if they cut their names off Bonanza. he would put their names down on the new Creeks. This Clements. Antone, and Keller did. .0: n Fauna-x Storyâ€"Untold Wealth In the Far Northâ€"Hardships of the Internsâ€"In: and Blue: Disappoint- mâ€"Wc Fro- Clndc City- To“ By a Special Correspondent of ,SQMEIHING A3667 THE COUNTRY AND ITS mscovma. MARVELLUUS KLUNDIKE. FINDS ANOTHER TINY SLICE. Nothing was too small on El Dorado. There was one ten-toot fraction. It wu v r vvvvvv J Law est piece of ground in the whole Klondike must be left till later, when there are papkâ€"horeea to carry the gold down to Dawn. On El Dorado the claims were almost THE VALLEY IS BROAD. He should have measured the five hundred feet in the direction of the valley, but he was not able to see the direction, perhaps on account of the thick woods, and followed the creek in its winding. \Vhen the surveyor came along and threw lines across the valley corresponding to his upper and lower stakes. the poor policeman, in- stead of having a claim was in debt six feet. One of the claims near Discovery on Bonanza was staked by Micky \Vil- kins. Micky was not one of those who were thrown into boats and brought {along nolens volens from Forty Mile 'in the first stampede, but he was one of a party who did help tie a drunken man and throw him into the boat. Micky. like a wise man, sold out for a few hundred dollars. When they came to survey the claim, the new owner found only a few inches. I felt sorry for all who sold at the very start until .I met Micky. A fraction of a claim would hardly seem worth having, at least except in ground like Klondike. No. ‘2 above was staked long. John Jacob Astor? Gulch. Dick Low put the “tape to Dusel’s claim and found it about eighty-five feet too long, and took a narrow slice directly opposite the mouth of Skookum. He did not think so much of it at the time. He wanted $900 for it. No one was so foolish as and he did not find a cent. Further; account of what is probably the rich- ""O" “0-“ ‘uvu Mr. Ogilvie made a partial-survey of Bonanza and El Dorado. But many of the claims on Bonanza were short. One of these short claims was not the fault of the official measurer. It. was on lower Bonanza. I never found out just where. but it was staked by a mounted policeman. The creek winds very much there. and be in the country at the time locat- ing the international line. was called from Forty Mile to settle the trouble. Mr. Ogilvie, being a. magistrate, took testimony; the men confessed, were re- penta‘nt. and were forgiven; and then on and staked the same as full claims. but upon the deception being found out. there. was a big row, and Mr. \Villiam Ogilve‘ the Canadian Boun- dary Commissioner, who happened to VVhen they began to measure the claims. by some trick, a forty-foot rope was introduced, instead of a fifty-foot one. This had the effect of reducing the five hundred foot claims by fifty feet or more. which left frac- tions between that by this time were of great value. These were seized up- ing at the same time to pay to Cap.- tain Constantine in due season the $15 required by Canadian law. so as to avoid the long trip, as well as to straighten out at once disputes that inevitably occur. They paid {shis recorder 32 for each claim, agree- Another right which the miners had under United States law was that of appointing one of their own num- ber, and one recorder for each gulch. The Canadian system. however, pro- vided one man in a mining district, appointed by Ottawa. whose sole busin- ess was to act as recorder, or gold commissioner. Where the diggings were near at hand. this was no great inconvenience. but where they were distant not less than sixty miles. as the new diggings of Klondike. the miners themselves were under the necessity of appointing a temporary recorder. asMr. Johns has mentioned, â€"â€"vâ€"-__ MADE THEIR OWN LAWS. and might make the claim any length they chose. up to something over. thir- iteen hundred feet; but upon nearly all the gulches it had been fixed at five hundred feet as the smallest claim that could be worked. at the same time being large enough to af- ford return for the labor of prospect- ing. At least five. hundred feet was required to give a . sufficient drop of water for the sluice-boxes. This wise act was one of many indications at that time of Canadas sincere de- sire to govern her growing territory in the best interests of the country and the miners. miners. The length of the claims here. as elsewhere in the Canadian Yukon. was five hundred feet. instead of one hundred feet allowed by the general law of Canada. The modification in favor of the larger claim was brought about in 1894 through the agency of Captain Constantine, who recognized that. on both sides of the international line. which crossed the heart of the Forty Mile diggings, mining conditions were precisely the same; indeed. the exact location line was unknown un- til 1896. On the American side the Aw -vâ€"wâ€"v' -â€" young bride. and nuggets by the hand- ful. and he was never called upon to make the guarantee good. It was whispered about the camp that the agent ex- pected to profit by the transaction. As a matter of fact he did not. After ‘wards Antone and Berry bought con- trolling intereas in N08. 4 and 5.‘and a fraction between 5 and 6. Their group of claims became known. through the public press as “the Berry claims." about Which there was a little romance of a winter trip. a THE DURHAM- CHuuNICLE, June ew millionaires was back- w'hioh was not, often, a Iâ€" ---J “ ings. no hold-ups, none of the things associated in the popular mmd w.1th a real live mining-camp. Somethmg in the Yukon air discourages all that. It could not be the presence of the police, for the ' ' City, and a baker’s dozen were at Daw- son. Gold flowed, and when it would not flow it was sowed, literally sowed, broadcast over sawdust floors, ‘ in drunken debauch, as if there was no end to the supply. Gold was panned There was no rea ings no bold-Ups “finAn:_ M \Vild.scenes followed the clean-up. en wuh their lures were there being no printed blanks avail- able. A military reservation was set apart between Ladue’s town site, and ”the Klondike River. A rectangle of log houses, for barracks, was built on a piece of ground somewhat higher than the general level of the flat, and facing the Yukon. and from a tall pole was set. Up 'the union-jack in the red flag of Great Britain, river broke, and the new-comers, who had received the news from frxends 1n- on the run for Dawson, where an In- dian with five or six dogs was in waiting. Lereaux had the same num- ber. At' Dawson they were not far apart. The men both had good dogs. But dogs are poor things to race with. .as every one knows. A dog has no am- bition to pass ahead like a horse; he prefers to follow. Besides. when the trail is narrow, it is hard for one team ‘50 Pass another..._How they. did man- age to. pass each otherat all .isa. mar- vel. but it happened that. every time they passed a cabin the leading team. Insisted on turningout. whereupon} the hind team would seize the oppor- tunity and dash by. It was a great advantage to have a man run ahead of the dogs. \Vhen they reached For- ty Mile, Lowerie and the Indian were ahead. The recorder’s office was across the creek, at Fort Cudahy. .The Indian did not know this, or else the dogs de- termined to turn into Forty Mile. Low- IT \VAS IN JANUARY. There were several parties on foot, and two men who had dog outfits, Prompt- ly at twelve o'clock all hands staked and started. Lerea-ux and a compan- ion, Vaughan, ran to No. 48 above. where one team was waiting. Lowerie, the ether dogâ€"man, put down the trail On account of the distance to Forty Mile, sixty days were allowed in which to record. Any claims not recorded within the sixty days were open for relocation. There were several such claims, left vacant by. men who consid- ered them no good, and recorded else- where. Such a claim was N o. 40 above on Bonanza. It was known to a large number that the claim was open, and a Mounted Policeman was there, with watch in hand to announce when exâ€" actly twelve o'clock midnight came. l The first hole techs put down by burn- ing is credited to Skookum Jim. P3893 could be filled with the finds that day by day were made on those claims that were worked that winter. The personâ€" age not unknown to fame, “Swiftwa- ter Bill," with William Leggett and six others, took a lease, or lay. 0f 13 El Dorado; Seven holes were put down before the pay was struck, though many think there was pay in one of the first holes, and that they filled it up. At any rate, they ask- ed the price-â€"~$45,000â€"bought the claim paid $10,000 down, put in a rocker, and paid for the claim in six weeks. thought to be worth ten to twenty thousand dollars. A thirteen-foot frac- tion was found next to 14. It was so narrow that the owner had to take a lay of thirty-seven feet on an adjom“ ing claim in order to work it. Nor was all the luck confined to the mines. A butcher by the name of “Long Shorty,”’otherwise Thnorp, had driven in some cattle, and was trying to reach Forty Mile late in the fall, in the ice with the meat ‘on a raft. He was frozen in at the mouth of“ the Klondike; only to discover there abigf mining camp. That beef was a godr send to the miners that winter. It is considered essential to prevent scurvy; Provisions were very scarce. The trans-j portation company had been able to‘i bring enough up to supply the camp, Flour had to be freighted with dogs, from Forty Mile, and sold at from for- ty to sixty dollars for a fifty-pound sack. Beef was one to two dollars a pound. Mining tools were scarce also, shovels bringing seventeen and eigh- teen dollars each. But wages were proportionately highâ€"one dollar and a half to two dollars an hour for com- mon labor, and often not to be had at that Price. The price of wages cor- responded to the Opportunities afford- etrlby “Prospecting. SUDDEN LY MADE RICH never vvv-v in the town; and would go out into everybody in, and L driink. Whenever anything sm« be stuffed in the paper cylinders, but not sufficieng to affect tea cigarette, which is pa: patronized by women. ‘_ â€"_â€" rm“ ronizecs me with the assumption that it is she who is neglecting me. Mark the: Wisdomjj have uttered. _w-VVL‘$J yGDL 40 is properly termed good woman. I resolved to snub this creature, and I wanted her to know I was snubbing her. I would never return her visitâ€" nemer. And how do you suppose she takes it? Every time she sees me she apologizes to me for not having re- turned my visitâ€"blots my intended neglect of her out of mind and pat- er than run the risk of what she might do to me It I violated this fun- damental principle or right social ac- tion as prescribed by every etiquette hook in the land. \Vhen she called a second time she addressed me an “my good woman." I can forgive almost anything but being called a good wo- manâ€"only a menial or mediocrity past .40 ° ‘ ‘ ‘n nâ€"Aâ€"‘-_‘_ ‘Lâ€" , When a skinny woman's face shines it (means she’s above using powder and is sure to make a. parade, as a virtue, of the very wrong that is to account for the lack of flesh an her bones. I couldn’t help the woman calling on me, and I returned her first call rath- ‘_ LL- ‘- gerous. perating woman in the world? The woman you can't snub. She is two kindsâ€"the meek and lowly sort, that when you smite her turns the other cheek, until you' re positively too tired to deal her another blow, and the one whose self-importance is invulner- able as Achilles' heel. I met one of the last kind early nn the winter, says a writer. On general principles, I would avoid this woman, because she's skinny and her tame shines. Same- thing is all wrong about a. skinny wo- The fortunate ones started for civili- zation with their new wealth. Not all. Many remained to work their claims, and these, perhaps not less happy nor exultant, were not heard of outside in the excitement that accompanied the [breaking of the good news to the world. {The bulk of the gold, amounting to not. over $1,200,000, went out, of course, down river, to St. Michael, where wait- ed the good steamer Portland of the N.A.T. T. Company, crowded with friends and relatives of the returningj miners, who had sent word home of their coming. Others preferred the upâ€"river trip, and in parties of three and five took to their poling-boats, and it was some of these, and still others, fleeing for their lives from the threatened famine, that we ourselves met on our way in last year. The End. Theifirst year showed nuggets of all sizes up to one of 3585, estimated at l Oz.__or $17, from 36 El Dorado. One hundred and thirty thousand dollars came out of the Berry-Antone claims, 6 and the fraction. There were spots on Bonanza as rich as El Dorado, but not so even and. regular. One thousand dollars to the foot is the tOp figure, on an average. for best of El Dorado, but the cost is one third for taking it out. If pay streak were 100 feet wide and 3 feet deep, there would be 150,000 cubic feet, equal to, say. 675.000 pans of dirt. Think what an average of a dollar to the pan, or even twenty-five cents, would be! On some claims the streak is wider; onothers,- less. How much gold came out of the] ground that first summer can never be _ known. Two and one-half millions is probably not far from the mark. The richness of the fifteen miles reported by Mr. Ogilvie was much exaggerated. The pans of dirt that were washed out gave him reason for believing, upon computation, that there might be' actually four million dollars in each claim. But these were not averages., Far. far from it. Even if they were.f I the enormous cost of working the rich- est, yet oostliest, diggings in the Yukon was not taken into considera-1 tion as it should have been. 1 Clements panned out of four pans1 $2000, the largest being reported at! $775. Clarence Berry showed gold 1n bottles that he said represented, re-; spectively, $560. 8230. and $175 pansy There were many others like these. Of course they were picked and scraped. off bed-rock, and did not represent average dirt. Five dollars even one dollar, “straight" as it is is called, would be. 1. vvâ€"wvâ€"â€"â€" been the way he “blew” in money, spent $40,000, and had to borrow $5,000 to go outside with. His claim was good for it, though. 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