Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-07-23 | Page 2 | Claims Worked Out

j CLAIMS WORKED OUT r Grit Gold Fields In the Klondke early Exhausted REPORTS FROM FAR NORTH FUTUE WEALTH MST COM PROIt NEW DICOV t Starig Stores Brought Dw Prom Alaska By Prospector arriving In Sa Fncico YestryFew PAlsners aad Gold Dst Nany Had Thrd Luck Tales Hd Luc Tnes + I San Francisco July 22The steamer domer which a2TIvc frm Dawson City today brought down six bodies of gold dust conn 10 the Alaska Exploration ploraton company and tree boxes consigned con-signed to the Ba ot Brish Columbia Te value of these cud not be acer ta1e ut Drbaly In conjunction J with what the passengers brought with them the steamer cri over half a million in treasure G AdePon brought bak with blm 5000 J Burke and B Murphy have claims on EI Dorado creek They brought dow 0 and 5000 respectively respec-tively C L and O Lonaneau brought down 20000 with them Some ot the peengers however brought down stories of had luck an may sad they believed the claims on the Klon dike were being worked out The miner who returned from the KlondlkG numbered abut 100 and the majority of then had nothing to show for the work of two years most or the gold brought down being in the hands of 3 few men The reports they bring regarding the Cape Nome district Are very conflicting l P Anderson o Se atte who had been on SUlphur creek for nearly two years sold h cam for 20OO Joseph Hurle George Taylor and F J Facis of Colorado who ce from Gold Hill a new cap where a strike was mae lat season said they had done fairly well but might not return migt rur Frank Baker of Los Angeles thinks that mot of the creeks near Dawson are nearly exhausted and Captain Howlad a well known steamboat man believes tat the future wealth of the Atc gld fe isill come frm new dvera9