Deseret Evening News | 1897-11-18 | Page 5 | Picturesque Yakon

riCTUti Mjuu IVICO1 1IIIr Jllller Hew Alala rr u Lec turoTitoolilold lIon Harry WIIr ho came down from the Ilondlk J1OIoI section lurlng who month of November arrived In Salt Lake yesterday and Is I now making th neamary rrnngmnl for IIn Illustrated Illus-trated lecture by Air It it McMIcklng nt the New Ornnd Thealei Saturday afternoon and even mr Mr Miller was seen by a News reporter re-porter and talked freely on conditions along the Yukon He gave It as his opinion that Eldorado Creek and Klondike Klon-dike river were Ihus far tile best sections of that country set explored 1nut1t said he I believe Stewart river will not be long In forging Its nay to the front as a gold producing section The upper tram of the Yukon are all right as lire Man the upper forks of the Mackenzie river where Thomas Tlllson whom I met before leaving declared to me that the prospectors wero malting splendid discoveries of conme gold There are also good oil 9 glitirs nn the 1I0nlllllnqnu river In the northwest territories outhe of the present mining elllln I met II Chlnman named Ka Chong who list came out of that country after a perold of twelve scars Isolation and he had with him about I t000 In the yellow stuff The headwaters of the Yukon continued con-tinued Mr Miller are In Kngllsh territory ter-ritory and American prospectors make a big mistake when they outfit In the states before proceeding northward Their mistake li I tills When they reach Tasrlsh Lake they are forced 10 pay a high duty on their Outfits Hnl thin makes them decidedly expensive before they get tlnouth whnMS If they bought their Roods nt VMoila they would save this dutv vvhleh the advance In the price of good there does not begin to equal Ym will Fee that I favor the StlklneTeslln route which I do because for tile most part II Is I all open country easily acces Bible Ppenklng of provjslons In that section sec-tion Mr Miller was of the opinion that Mm merchants were better stocked than some people Imagined He cited pnrtlculaily the North American TrI Ing I a1 Tronlorlation company a1 the Alaska Commercial Oil tape sly but It at Dawon City and which no said wr w1I supplied alth flour n1 bacon ba-con tile great necemsttltv Mr Waech 11 of Spokane Said th rentlemnn Ij I also milking Ihllhword with 40 head of beef cattle unit Ill the arlhon and other game which the Indians kill together with the fish though be caught In that section he t-hough much ol tile 1I0tlol Ippoted eurrrln late would wittily In oIono away vvIth reI Miller nnd him parwyl are well equipped with Icr ptlcoll Views 00 = n = = = he Yukon country on1 promise IIn Inlretlllg and Instructive lecture tit the New Grand on Saturday