Show NO MORE KLO N ra I 1 CLAIMS CI who no co la an bow ow hanst byork I 1 for 4 seattle wash aug 30 11 A g ley who a went to st michaels michael steil 2 for foni associated press te returned to abis thlu I 1 on the steamer ety t por llanil 11 he 1 I have been ys seven even we week mouth of the ilia yukon at st lk miela at the ell i 1 where I 1 saw nearly all of 0 uia a ta milr r coming out and inte interviewed ved ill Invie them 8 a result I 1 fe feel a I 1 it my y duty to ait A t everyone every one to toy stay wit mut until next sarlo wild in many cases c x attea ports have been circulated sinco 1 tl k f first ar d discoveries 1 1 were strike t r ike sisco bo however wever virles was a and grenade n 1 l made is one of 0 T tl tb 8 1 a g greatest ate it not 0 alie greatest areat 1 ia athali th 11 worlds history probably y ftc was cleaned cleaned up this thia aprin sprin was cleaned up aprin sprin spring and 1 celt n i spring I 1 look for from OOOO top tg 7 u the field is hardly opened up il yet but those going in 10 now must br s T ita in m anund in d th that a t c everything in that was s st staked 0 c d 1 iding ang before any report l reached the outer voyla and that they ther must prospect for buy in t claims from the present owners or n work for the owners no new strike had been reported I 1 n to the time of my leaving ani and another may not be made for live years al though alaska is Is an 1 anav and ill yet I 1 believe produce niort more gold than wo we dream of but it Is is also in many ways a bleak barren barrea deso late country a country incapable of 0 supporting any great amount of 0 ja aai mal life and a country of 0 su such eh rigor ons climate both winter and ana summer that nono none but the abe most hardy can sibly live in it even they must have hate nn an abundance of food and warm ing 1 lam I am aware that there bere is a popular 1 impression that supplies can tie be bought in the vicinity of the mines they nay F at present buy at six times seattle prices but they are taken nt at cireo yen those prices faster than they can in t got in and before winter is half liaU over oter it if even the present population stays in ill there will ivill be actual starvation star ration the average man requires about abou tove oae ton of carefully selected food ani and clothing for a years supplies in the summer of 1896 about tons tong of 0 sup plies went up the river and tile the pops popa lation of 1 1500 to 20 suffered fron from want of the tons probably amt tons were rum tools furniture and than provisions this thi season allowing for most favorable favor allt circumstances not more than 4 hafl tons of supplies can be got up the river fully half of i which illich is rum and 9 well as supplies other than food there thera are more than three times as many people in there than last winter figure it for yourself grub was completely cleaned out this spring and it if last winter there x v as such stich a scarcity that moose hams i sold for 30 each flour per hundred bacon sl 1 a pound what will sot mot happen this coming winter why will not people actually starve to death As to shelter 00 per cent of mv DOT son was living in tents in july timber is scarce and houses cannot be bull built now how are several thousand people to withstand the rigors of a nine months winter of semidarkness semi semi darkness when thi the mercury goes to seventy degrees leloff zero As to labor it is 13 true last tho the winter succeeding the great strike when men were scarce wages were nvere 15 per day but if no new strike is is made what is to keep wages up this winter there are but claims oil OB 5 bonanza eldorado and illi illinger creeks 4 that will probably be worked this vrin ter an average of eight men to each is I 1 think liberal if but 2700 mel are employed and there are arc sow or more seeking work what must be 14 tit tho I 1 an 81 i down result wages must go told that much grub rub has gone over tin tho divide yet frota from nhat I 1 know I 1 woula WM that not to ef 0 last dollar wager wag er my acce aeed d tons of surplus over and abom what the carriers ate will vill resell reach tin 08 diggings xo no man gome going in call with more than four supply the klondike is a land of ice bud I 1 snow as well as a land of gold let it not be made a ian land a ol of gaw gaus anti anil deat deahn 11 wretchedness hunger 1 4 there will be as good chances for hiir let ald 00 ing in the future as now no crippa plo people wait this is i not a crip creek or deadwood proposition caught they cannot walkout alk out |