| Show A I 111 I THE GOLD CRAZE I klf I I California and KlonclikCompared Interest If u I Ing Statistics uI I I The people of California bean yesterday I yes-terday a weeks celebration of the GOth I nnnhersary of the discovery of gold I I I In that state I ls I a silgular Cat that at the name time another discovwy oC 11 Tl gold the first of Importance In North eI3r I Ill tj j America since IS48 should be drawing I I south rot army oC CotU1hunt I I I toward the 1aclflc coast In 1 numbers I f not equalled since the rush to Calla 11 forlia In IS 111 Ii 1 The historian of California n n 1 1 11 11 Bancroft Is authority for the state 1i 11 melt that 42000 Boldseekers and pioneers ji l pio-neers entered that territory by the i overland route In 1SI3 and 39000 more came by sea They took possession of il I 41 I Bold fields of unparalleled richness 311 They were singularly favored also by I A 1 a mild climate Innd of great firtlllty tj an1 easy access to tImber and inost or the material and allplla needed for A if t the prosecution of the gold hunt Their i gold product I rose frnm about 10000 J 0 In 18H to J40 oooooo In 18 < 9 und to JG5000000 In 1853 when the point nf I I maximum production was reached ii I 1 I I I IIve years had aunked II hrlnl Into I 1 Viet the beginning of the eu1 oC thnt I 14 Ttorderful bonanza Jut large no are the figures of the Bold yield for those I Yearn ronlar what the average shre I 11 per miner must have been The average aver-age Yield for each miner In the field i after the summer of 1819 Raja the Ids F 11 torlon wa certainly much less than Ith if I 1000 a Year and he adds that them never was n year In tho whole period t 1 i when the average l we ROB of white laborers 1 y la-borers In l tiny other occuptition were tr t not double the return to the miner r li That Is to Pity the rat nulas of the ti mlocr outride of the few who made I j the lucky finds never teollxed moro than i a bare hard living from their A I fPIh vnture I 11 i I What then must be the prospects y h1 it it I j before the moss of men now rushing t i le I I on 10 the 1lomlke region T la not Imflhl that thin enlon aY I 1 I equal In numbers file inernorable14Y9 rush lo California There are already I it It I 8000 or more leople nMvmbliil nt it i X Dawson City and In that MflnltyThou 1 and more are on the Alakan const Y awaiting the advent of spring find the t 1 it I opening of the ke nnd rockbound was h of the upper Yukon gold fields gvry 111 1 11 vessel 1 that now leaves the coast oC I If California Orepon Wnshlnton anti 4 n 1 4 British I Columbia Is I loaded down with I do I oldke A steamer alllnu yesterday I 0 yester-day from Portland Ore carried 4W I Adventurers And refused paesaee to 200 I other appttoanta A schooner loIn Sale yesterday carried as many aa la could Including 25 women A prty 70 left Connecticut Yesterday bound for 1 i the Klondike The railroads running I from Chicago to Washington unit Ore 1 l gon are already enjoying I large traffic of this kind and preparing for a much 1i 0 greater rush O the spring drns near 1 Their stocks and Ionh are Irone In Wal trt specula t ion on this pros If 4 i I pet I i 1 I nut If the velt oC the California be V nana prd thot the grent clients oC Il l the goldseeKerB hall hen engaged in a i I wlldgoosf chase what mint 1 < said of I r I I the probable results of this Klondike I II venture The eople I of California i j have their celebration this week bell g be-ll I cause I was fifty > > ars mum this time that John Marshall found the gold nug I 10 I get that set the country by the ears I I That year of 1 8 brought out 000 I 00 But tile 1100000 or less of gold I which came from the lon lke I lat I I glum mer and fal I wn eIf t Is product nol of a season but largely of two or three I Yearn of diligent labor on the part of I those stbu brought I out One miner I who his jut arrived on the AlnV on I mat from Dawson City reports that the whl long wlntcri work or tile I thousands 10W II the KlondiVo neld will nol yield maN th AH jcoooono inn in-n gold 1 has been IlmdIcted by I on nf I 1 the more P nlhualaste loloiners recently coming front that quarter that the gold production This year In Alaska an1 nacent territory would reach 30000 0 but a later arral who wont reached tho newspapers Yesterday 1 placed jooooooo the probable yield of the year nt 1 There to I every prospect that from I 20 000 to TO 000 people will b struggllnit I for n hare In this product here midI mid-I I summer mail If the Yield houll reach I the largest estimate obviously the re I o turn to the great las oC gold seekers nobe beggarly Indeed 1 And they I mut endure such hardships J the Callfomln mIner never droa in ed of to I gt that light return But tile chancre are that the lrdnclon will fall under I the minimum estimate of 21 OOO The latest news from the Bold region Is I that nn new opiriken have hen mnd Ince enrlv last Year The New York Time prints a letter recited from Dawson City under the date of the first of Decemhe hleh give tile ht And evidently most truthful account I < the situation there that I 0 have I Peen Itstatm thnl the entire dltrlt up and d nth arlnn creeks hre I old hag been round ling hen otolel out or preeniptiod that msny of thi socalled mIl tire of little or no I Val To that thoy tire all walked it nder the mot t Wnrul condlthn hnlnl ble that Cod I Pearce anti must beCame be-Came scarcer a nil must be troorl riot IV high In price nt nil times lis Call ar of the inocceslblllty of IhJ re glon Rod Iht In Iho hee of Cur thr discoveries beyond the occupier dlstrlls tile Dennis who Ara now moMng to the fields must heroine wngo workers for those holln Ihp claims and must expend their high wnga for i equally highpriced food un1 pndure great privation cold and hardship In I addition Nevertheless the rush to th < Klon dike wi mcol rt I hn 1 knm1 thot I ten men In n cnmpany of 10000 hnv ywalwi np a uddn fortune In that field And gotten out safely ithll th ILL 1000 hap either starved to death or barely coca rd with their 1110 I < and the rush tlll still go on Justlfjlng MR1111111ka110 I lint t celebrated foreign charactifriza ro i that It you were to throw A dol Inc across I the pit of hud tho average I Yankee Republican would test > Cur ISprlngneld I |
