Show THEY MAY STARVE miners in dawson city poorly provisioned there are millions of gold in the ground but supplies cannot be purchased at any price many adventurers will hot reach the klondike this year cal sept 8 the news by the steamer national ci y from st michaels corroborate all that has bea said of aba prospects of short rations in the gold diggings of abo apper river during the winter the steamer which cot with the river etaamer J J healy at the mouth of abe river drought ahree passenger one of abeen is J A baliton of mcallister street san francisco he bays there Is cold and lots of it in tt e klondike bat it fc generally still in the ground it is that the claims now located would tarn out fifty tons of gold this winter if the scarcity of food did not prevent full operation he gives a rough glees that the klondike is good for before petering out six thousand men in abe mines about dawson city is the estimate of ralston who came down on the nation city with F eleonard of nanaimo B 0 and R B lamb of portland ore the supply of the necessaries of life to feed these men be baye is totally insaf Xi clent in fact he estimates that ibe stores will be exhausted before winter is half over when the famine will be on in earnett earne ot and especially as the ninab er of men in the country will be greatly augmented by the later arrivals over the passes there is whiskey ekey beer and all kinds of liquor in abundance he but their places could have been better filled on the steamers with flour it is not that abe men in be country have not the money to buy supplies but that the stocks of abe stores are inadequate says that one of the best claims on the eldorado is the property of james 11 of missouri it will turn out at least claim no eldorado ie 1 very rich it Is no uncommon thing to tike out two ounces to the pan from part ot the claim what wealth is comina on by the etaamer excelsior Excel fior cannot be estimated those of the passengers of the kiealy who came to st michaels were reticent as to their store of dust with abe exception of ralston and hie companions all the passengers of the kiealy took on abe excelsior that vessel kit st michaels on abe night of august with eighty passengers abbe was put into Oon alaska for coal and captain anderaon Ander fon of the national city is of abe opinion that the excelsior should arrive in san francisco today when the national city left st michael the teacher tea caer cleveland was taking in ballant and expected to sail for sound ports august many of the passengers who had tickets for the Ol eveland took passage in the excel bior on the way down the from daw eon city which place abe steamer IL aly left august abe etaamer weare was found bard and fast on a bar on the being then about 1200 mile from the mouth of the river the boat had been on the bar twenty days and the kiealy laid alongside took 00 her passengers and bome olber freight and then proceeded on abe way leavier abe unfortunate boat bard and fast with mcinall chances of getting oft before the river clodee E leonard says that the weare bad on board 1 pis engere and about 1500 in treasure this was transferred to ahn hely and taken to st michaels considerable amount of this will arrive in san francisco on the excelsior cel when asked why he returned leonard said 1 I found I 1 had to get out or starve there are about men in dameon and not acre than a third of them have work if you have not a stock of grub you cant beet wok at any price had provisions for three months and no one wanted me I 1 enough to work my own claim until tpring I 1 sold my stock at a good figure and will wait until jim the el dorado king hae bad worth of provisions ordered for locae but hae cot been able to obtain more than a fifth of it even with the cash pat up in advance those comine out however did not bring all their clean upa with them leonard recites numerous instances of who had cleaned up from to but bad taken away barely a third of that the men they made nothing themselves except as wages at 15 a day for a month or so F lamb of portland ie authority tor the statement that over fifty men have already lied of scurvy this summer in leeard to discoveries on stewart river ralston says that there were many rii niora 0 rich strikes but up to the time that he left datsou nothing definite hd been received the national city mado the trip in eleven days from st michaels alaska where ehe left sixty five seek era it ie wry doubtful whether any of the passengers who went up on the national city will get through abig year the small boat which some of the passengers had taken up on the deck of the steamer has proved a disappointment machin ry has eone wrong and the draws loo much water 19 enough provisions in the party low ever to winter it out and proceed up the river when spring opens ap mhd cleveland was expected to sail on abo day after the national city should depart the excelsior left st nicholas twelve hours before the national city captain andersin Ander sim reports that on aldest he passed alie steamer humboldt but did not to her and that she in all probability arrived in S michaels the following day |