Show as KLONDYKE much wealth is in that country LATEST REPORTS MADE great values set upon claims two tivo il lillion dollars ready for shipment wash aug 29 while the small amount of gold brought from by the steamer portland was a disappointment to many the miners who return unite in saying that the countr country y is fabulously fabulously y rich the claims which have been baen worked promise well and in fact many of them give of proving very fj F j riba ri li all estimates of the amount of gold which will be taken out oat of the yukon next year vear must necessarily be very rough as there is no means of determining how much work will be done if men could lie he secured to work the claims already located there undoubtedly would be many millions of dollars taken out but the majority of men who go there prefer to prospect on the their irown own account notwithstanding the fact that high wages can be had bad wherever claims have been located and have proven rich statements have been made that the steamer portland on her next trip will bring fully in gold eold but the most reliable men from lawson oily city say that no such amount of money will come as asit it has not been taken out of the ground one miner who came down places the outside figures at 1 OCO OCI r eldorado and lian arzi beke i eke lere the riches strikes were ere made have been staked out for many miles milea and desirable bl claims claim are scarce the prospectors are peg laning to scatter out when the rich strikes were made at bonanza and eldorado hundreds of miners left paying payin g claims and rushed to the tha now new diggings many of them stuck it rich while others secured nothing and either returned to their old claims or went prospecting anew it is stated that the north american trading transportation company brought down of their own money on the steamer portland but it was generally general lv understood that this money would not be brought down until the next trip of the portland when she ehe would be ba convoyed by a united states revenue cut ter john P miller ex district attorney of seattle writes to a friend in this city from dawson city under date of july 3 a as s follows there is an enormous amount of wealth in this country gold by the thousands and millions but bat it is just as hard bard to acquire it here ss as elsewhere it as elsewhere is in the hands hand of a few while the manware many are hunting and searching the same old story eldor ado and bonanza creeks are the richest of all in this Icca locality lity and in fact are so BO far practically the only diggings of great value and I 1 can say that one might just as well try to get in on wall street in new city he could do so with no more money than here herd men on these creeks value their claims at an enormous figure one two and three hundred thousand dollars and even hig herThe amount taken outlast out last winter may justify valuations but of murse course there are no purchasers you can inform anybody and everybody who intends to come here that if they expect to find gold scattered around at random or get sume something Ehing for nothing gothing thing as colonel sellers once attempted they will be disappointed while it is true that the gold depos its in the locality were found almost accidentally ci it is no encouragement to note the fact that it is the first accident of the kind in 30 years searching new diggings will doutt doubtless leBs be discovered from time to time but when and where the sages cannot tell one in this country is quite a creature of circumstances if he chances to be within reach ot or a discovery he may stand a show of ob a claim but should he be some distance away he be stands no chance whatever I 1 have been out on a estam stampede or two and staked a claim but the tha chances are there is nothing in it 11 |