Show JAMES M SHOUP HERE He is on Leave from Duty as I U S Marshal in Alaska 1I 1 I I STEADY GAIN IN GOLD YIELD I Dawson Diggings This Year Will I Send Out Twenty Millions in the v Yellow Metal Other Camps Will Also Make Good ShowingsThe Great Treadwell Tho Recent Storm and Disasters at Cape Nome Reported Re-ported in Letters Received by Mr Lippman In This City Hon James Shoup United Status Marshal In Alaska with headquarters at Juneau came down from his old home In Idaho yesterday morning and after a pleasant visit with old friends will leave for the north thin morning Tho campaign over he will return to his olilelal duties in Alaska the future of which In his opinion must be characterized char-acterized by a steady Increase In the output of gold for at present there Is not a part of the Territory which is not veing actively prospected The output of the diggings around Dawson City said Marshal Shoup will reach a totjl of 20000000 for tho season notwithstanding not-withstanding the inadequate supply of water and yet the real extent of Its riches remain to be fathomed On FortyMile creek the cleanup should reach a total of 2000000 at least while a corresponding amount Is promised from Rampart gulch with 52000000 from Jack wades gulch iuursnai i Shoup reports Important and sensationally sensation-ally rich discoveries on the Tahnanu river a tributary of the Yukon while on the headwaters of the White river Is a copper deposit which the visitor says is the largest of which he has any knowledge In the world Some of It occurs In native form and has long been known to the natives of the in I whole according to I tenor while the I 1 expert testimony can bo most profitably profit-ably handled as soon as a railway Is put to it The Trea well on Douglas island across the channel from Juneau Is an enormous proposition said Marshal Mar-shal Shoup At present It has a battery I bat-tery of 840 stamps dropping day and night while addition 4 are to be made which will Increase It to no less than 1JOO He Is Indeed most enthusiastic over the future of the territory and says that not a few from Utah have secured footholds from which they must derive substantial results if not a fortune for-tune |