Show NO Mom KLONDIKE I CLAIMS People 1 lUia lo In I Now 11 uI Work for wear I Seattle Wash Aug 3011 A Stanley Stan-ley who went to St Michael for the Associated returned to tills city on tho steamer Portland He says I have been seven week at the mouth of tho Yukon at St Michaels where I saw nearly all of the miner coming out and Interview them Aaa Aa-a result I feel It my duty to advise very one to stay out until next spring Wild In many cases exaggerate re Aorta have been circulated since the trst discoveries scene made The strike however was and Isone of the greatest If not the greatest In tho worlds t history Probably SJ000000 t1lA cleaned up thl spring and next spring I look for from 85000000 to 87 000000 The field Is I hardly opened up act a-ct but those going In now must bear In mind that everything In that region too slaked long bcforu any report reached the outer world end that they lust prospect for themselves buy lalm from tho present owner or vork for the owners No new strike had been reported up to the time of my leaving end another may not bo made for live year nl though Alaska I + An enormous country and will jet I believe produce I mora gold than wo dream 1 le of Hut It Is also I I In Irnl way a bleak barren desolate I ate I country country Incupablo of supporting any great amount of sal tmnl life anti n country such rigor OliO climate both winter and summer hat none but the most hardy can pos ibly live In It Ivcn they must have an abundance of food and warm cloth log I am awaro that there la I a popular mprcsslon that supplies can Iw bought III the vicinity of the mine They may lit present buy at six time Seattle prices but tley are taken nt even liojo price faster than they can begot be-got In and before winter I e half over It 1 even the present imputation stay Inhere In-here will bo actual starvation The average man require about one ton of carefully selected food and lothlng for n year supplies In tho minor ot ISM about 3500 ton of sup plies went up thus river and tho popu lotion of 1500 to 2000 suffered from vnut Of tho 3500 ton probably 1500 lone were rum tools furniture and uppllesiother than provision Thl season allowing for most favorable Ircumstanccs not atom than 4200 tOilS tupplles con lou lIt up tho river ully lr If of which II I rum and tool as well Ita supplies other than food There are more than three time as many people In there than last winter Iguro It for yourself drub wan completely cleaned out tills eprlng and If last winter there eras such scarcity that mooso ham sold for 810 each flour 810 per hundred bacon 81 a pound what will not happen hap-pen till coming winter Why will not people actually starve to death Aa to shelter DO per cent of Dawson Daw-son scams living In tent In July timber is I scarce and house cannot bo built low are several thousand people to withstand the rigor of a olio month winter of emldarknci when the mercury goes to seventy degree below cero AI to labor It Is I true that last winter win-ter the winter succeeding the great strike when men wcro scarce wage wore 813 per day but If no new strike Is made what he I to keep wage up this winter There are but 610 claim on llonanu Kldoradoand Hunker creek that will probably be worked thl Inter In-ter an average of eight men to each la 1 I think liberal If but 2700 men are employed and there are 5000 or morn seeking work what must be the result Wage must go down I am told that much grub ha gone over the divide yet from what I know I would wager my last dollar that not to exceed ex-ceed 500 ton of surplus oeran < above what tho carrier ate will reach the digging No man going In can arrive with more than four month supply The Klondike lea I land of lea and now aa well sin land of gold rot It tint Iw made a land of gaunt hunger wretchedness and death Thcro will bo 1111 good chance for mining min-ing In time future IIA now Let the people wait Till la I not n Cripple Creek or Dcadwood proposition If caught they cannot stable out |