Show nii 1 P r Jr r i Are c Bound 1 o i a For Cape N Nonie I 1 WAITING w AlT TOE FOR STEAMERS I I GOING FROM PROt PACIFIC COAST i CITIES crins AND DAWSON I I t I 4 I Great Prospective Bace Race in Sight to I Take Up the Rich Bach Beach Claims Which May Nay Be Worked Without I Flumes Plumes or Machinery Exodus From Prom the S Minneapolis Minn Jan 26 A special special special cial to the Times from Tacoma Wash Va h says Estimates made by ship shipping shipping shipping I ping me men show that about men I are tire re intending int iding to t reach rench Cape Nome by bythe bythe the first steamers from from Puget sound and DawS of this num number number number ber will go Su from Tacoma Seattle San I Francisco Francl co and the balance will go down the Yukon river from Crom Dawson Da and oth other other other er Yukon towns A great prospective race is in sight between these them two contingents I First arrivals will secure the best part of the beach which will be in the i greatest demand become bench beech claims may mo be worked without flumes or ma machinery chinery According to latest advices I over half haIr of Dawsons population will head for Cor Cape ape Nome as fast Cast as the I Yukon steamers wintering on Ure th upper river can follow the outgoing Ice down downstream downstream stream Dawson miners have great hOP of DC reaching their Mecca first and to accomplish this are arc even prepared I W t I e the steamers below Nulato and make a portage of oC miles across the I Tundra I Nearly N thirty steamers each ench carry carryIng carrying Ing InS from to 1000 passengers arb arh now scheduled s to sail roll from coast ports porta I between May 10 and Juno June 1 I Shipping men declare that all steamers sailing this early will be compelled to wait nU at Dutch Harbor two or three weeks for forthe forthe forthe the Ice lc to move out of Bering sea s a Severe storms still blockade the White Paste Pa railroad No trains have reached Skagway from Crom Bennett In Jn two weeks Returning are experiencing terrible ter ble winds in crossing the summit afoot Several have been badly frozen |