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"n WIST, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1917 5
jobrtuciB, thousands and thousand,!, .1 A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A I A A A
MOUS DAWSUIM
IS NEARING END
jj Ntwrly Kahnuated People Are
(M. . Hrown)
D,won City mining man
ur dying on "'V ,cu:
didn't Imvo n woman nurse,
.i.Hn 't have I lie price;
. "our dough" ant boaldo him.
Hit dying ')"
'., ,i in It 1m dvlnit word
And wlc,l,,,1 wl'"8 ,,e fr0"'
Itlillko stutT Hint give tlm people
L mprl"" t,,ttl tho Klondike
skof It ox i""? '"inn 11,0 ""I
j f Hihorlu bh a country of ter-
U itorms, ' Intense cold and
,,r only the hardiest can survive,
inj I funnel tho city with a tem-
Litura of about 66 and everything
b,my aa nn Oregon numrnw.
But I arrlTfl In Dawson In itiiin-
,,r Thorn are only two seasons In
Limn winter, July and August.
The boat landed u In the night
tit ll Hlgni lieiil, iur imrw in iiiuu
LrkneM In inldHummnr north of 60.
tnt ashore at ahout 3 o'clock, and
L three hours I walkod the atrnets.
i length of one and hack tho other.
hi llkn a cemetery. And a I
Lued cabin after cabin In the real
ign wctlon, on itreot after atreet,
mllK'd that the moat of I law son
uld nr atlr aguln for there
r none to tlr It.
Cabin after cabin waa deserted,
cki of them In atrlngi. Many had
r doors and wlndowa broken, roofs
t falling In. There a big log
tel of two ntorlea atood vacant,
:h the booze algna recalling the
Id old gold mad daya. A carpen-
w iliop with the work benches a
ownnr left them; a vacant atore
HJtng. a big dmico hall where onco
i md women, drunken on both
Iwu and gold, took part In revel
's that were equaled nowhere on
Lrtb; and so on, atreet after atreet,
th abandoned home, bualnesa
jtn and shops.
I remember of hearing passengers
tho boat aay, "Dawson la very
t," "Dawson la on the bum," and
it eiprxssiona, but I had no Idea
-.on waa aa nick aa alio wua. I
iod itie waa paat help dying.
Then the nun, aftor a three bourn'
it. not back on the Job, and what
ii left alive of thla moat famoua
intng camp on eurth begun to atlr 1
i ik (or uourlaliment. Hnioko be-,
ii to come out from tho roofs of a
of tho homes; tho aaloons, res
urinls and business placea began I
to opon, nud what woh loft ,,ilv
tho gold city opened for what I.iihI
neaa wua yet brnutiilng.
Five ycura from now there will be
no Dawaon nothing ,t ,!ltnA
buildings.
Tho reaaon la the gold liua pluyed
out. The one. richest dirt evr
known bun ,een punned, rocked,
Kluleed and dredged nbout clean. A -id
when once the yellow atuff In cleared
out men leave the diguing,. Bi: rii'n
leaving a alnklng ship.
In 1896 "ToglHh Charlie," nn In
dian, while fliihlng nt the mouth of
the Klondike river, found nom largo
gold nuggetn in the amid and showed
them to a trndur. InveHtlKiitlon
allowed the vulley, the atreum bid
and the mountain aide wuro full of
tho yellow metal, and aoon tho nev.a
of tho wonderful strike went up tho
river anil to the outalde.
The men went mud. They poured
up to fikugway from Benllle by bout,
went over the White Horse pass!
thousand and thousands of them,
month after month. They came with
their outnta, very few of them know
Ing anything about the terrible White
Home and Dyea trails over tin
mountains, and the more to bo dread
od White llorso ruplda after the push
hud been made.
There were no steamers on tho Yu
kon then. If It was summer the mob
wont down In bouts and on rafts or
anything that would float. In wlnl;
'hoy went down on the Ice. Many who
went by boats wero caught by the Ice
before they reached Dawson and were
frozen In, and many who went down
on tho Ico In the winter wero caught
In the break-up and found death la
the Yukon rather thnn fortunes In
the Klondike, while the rapid
claimed many a life and outfit.
There were pilots at tho rapid i
who would taku bonis through the
whirlpool for $30 apiece, at owner's
risk, hut there were thousands ol
men who bud put their last dollar
Into outfits and they had to do their
own steering
A bualnesa man In Duwaon, one of
tho first to reach the Klondike, Waa a
passenger on our bout Into Dawson,
and he told me niuny Interesting
atorlea of the mud rush. He said In
remembered one man In particular
He came in from 8ea'tle with a bout
and a good outfit and the rapids gol
them. He got ashore and at once
started back for Seattle, for another.
The second time a pilot took the bout
through and lost It. Then the owner
put a gun to his head and ended it
all as hundreds of others did.
Hut notwithstanding tho terrlbtu
obstacles thousands and thousand,
reached the Klondike fields and went
mad with tho gold fever, (every
where along the river the ground WH.
rich with precious metal. Men fought
for it, killed fr t um, Ue( U)f u
(J')ld was rich In nlnioHf everv ,..
I f ground. Great fortunes were made
i ln n fHW WB,)1( al fabulous priced
j worn paid for claims.
Then Dawson sprang up and be
Icuino a roaring, crazy bell.
Today It Is dying a natural death.
(inly a few men ore working claims
inow-u pitiful few of those who came
too lute und who are picking the
bones. After the clulms gradually
I played out, the Guggenhelms put
j dredges In and took untold wealth
j out of the river. They ure yet work
i Ing, Just marking time for the finish.
Two and a half years ago a well
j equipped outfit went Into the un
j mapped wilds northwest of Dawson.
I They went with supplies for thr-o
I years. Nothing baa been heard nt
them since. Home figure they mum
j have made a strike or they would
j have returned, but old prospectors,
l the old "sour dough" boys, shake!
j their heads and aay the expedition Is
'either a failure or tho men have per
I lulled.
I talked with an old-timer about It
one night and he said In bis 20 yearB
In lli.ltl..l. ..!.. .1.1- li t
I'liund v.uiuiiium ami Aiusaa ne
had never known a, strike to be
hushed.
"When they muke a strike they
Blake, work It for a while, then some I
of them come In," said he. "I never j
;kncw It to fail. They want to start
. a stumpede. They want company, I
want the rush to come and a camp to
I follow. Of all the God-forsaken lives
j prospector is the worst."
There la hardly a building In all
j Dawson that sets level. When they
j wero built they were plumb and
j square enough, but they aro built on
Ice, and the succeeding summers have
heaved them and twisted them untfT
one would think an earthquake must
have jarred the whole city,
i Cnder a mid-summer sun that
, works a shift of about 20 hours a day,
vegetation springs up everywhere and
grows wonderfully fust and luxuriant,
j and one almost doubts the Ice box
, stories told of tho Klondike. Hut dig
I down three foot and the ground is
frozen solid. It has been frozen io
for centuries and It never will thaw
. until the climate of Alaska changes,
j Almost anywhere along the Yukon
I from White Horse to Nome, gold can
; he panned from the river brink. It
I can ho punned from nearly every
Hotel Barber Shop
HEWITT I1LDO.
H. T. BENNETT, Propr.
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KT. 1IKI.KN8
A ItEA h 8HOK SHINE
CHILDREN'S HAIR
CUTTING
A Hie'iulty
GEORGE
WILSON
Cattle Buyer
ST. HELENS, OREGON
Phone D-98
We Serve Only the Best
Our place has gained a reputation for serving the
best Meals and Lunches. Then, too, we handle Cigars,
Candies and Soft Drinks. Some morning try our Waf
fles ; many people tell us they are very good.
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A nice lunch at any time ; prices reasonable.
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Come around and take lunch with us. Our
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canyon and creek. It can be found
in sufficient quantities to make day
wages. Gold Beems to be almost
everywhere In Alaska. Hut places
that could and would be worked In
California or anywhere else are
worthless In Alaska, for the reason
that the expense and hardships are
too great.
One might make wages for three
months sluicing on the river, but
what Is he going to do the other nine
months? The ground is not rich
enough to pay for the expensive win- j
ter thawing process, one cannot take
out enough during the three months
to live on the other nine.
The day of the gold pan, the sluice ;
box, the rocker und the windlass and I
bucket baa said good night. The fu- j
ture mining in Alaska will be by hy-
draulic, quartz mills and dredging,:
and the outlook Is none too bright for I
even these big business propositions. 1
With the exception of Juneau, every :
mining proposition I have so far seen !
or beard about Is running out, and ;
the companies operating them are
quitting them. !
An old-time miner told me that in !
Ogilvle mountains, northeast of Daw-
son, be had some of the richest quartz
claims that laid out of doors. "I j
have had many assays made; I have
plenty more samples or I will take I
any man to the mine and let him
Dick his samules." Bald he. "It Is
j richer than the Treadwell ever was,"
! he continued, "yet It Isn't worth a
dollar. I couldn't give anyone my
' claims if they had to do the assess
t ment work on them. When I made
I the strike I thought at last I bad
! found my luck. And I can't give it
away." The reason of this is the
great expense of putting ln the neces
sary mill equipment to run bucIi a
mine.
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I vjvrir'K nw WHKItll-K'S 8AI.K
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THB
STATE OF OREGON FOR COL
! UMDIA COUNTY. ,
S. M. Mann & Co., Bankers, a cor-.
! poration, Plaintiff, !
I vs. I
Elmer 3. Smith, and Agnes W. Smith ;
hia wife, C. L. Bullard nnd Ethelyn ;
I N. Bullard his wife, Fred J. Vance ;
I and Salome Vance his wife, De-'
fendants. 1
By virtue of an execution issued i
1 out of the above entitled Court in the i
above entitled cause to me directed, I
and dated the 20th day of August, !
1 1917, upon a judgment order and de-1
croe, and order of sale, rendered and I
oniorod In snid Court on the 27th !
day of July, 1917, in favor of S. M.
Mann & Co. Bankers, a corporation,
and against the above named defend
ants, for the sum ot Twelve tiunarea ,
nniinrti with Interest thereon at the
rate of eight per cent per annum from ;
the twelfth day of Juno, 1916, and
tho further sum of One Hundred Dol-,
lar8 Attorney's fees, and the costs of !
and upon this writ, commanding me !
to make sale of the following de-
scribed real proporty, towit:
! All that portion of the Southwest I
quarter of the Northeaat quarter of
section two, township three north,
range two west of the Willamette
i Meridian, lying south and west of
', the right of way of the Portland,
Southwestern Railroad Company as
the name Is now located, excepting
therefrom the right of way of the
I said Portland and Southwestern Rail
road Company, as the same is now
I located, also excepting a strip of land
najaceni io me riBiit ui nj m iu
said railroad now owned by Gus Ru
docn as the same shall be located
after the transfor between said Gus
Rudeen and Elmer J. Smith shall be
recorded, tho sr.ld strip containing
about two acres more or loss.
Now, therefore, by virtue of said
execution, Judgment order and de
cree and order of sale, and In com
pliance with said writ, I will on Sat
urday, the 22nd day of September,
1917, at the hour of oloven o'clock
in the foronoon, at the front door of
the Court-house in St. Helens, Col
umbia County, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction (subject to redemp
tion) to the highest bidder for cash
in hand, all the right title nnd inter
est which the abovo named defend
ants or either of them had on the
6th day of June, the date of the
mortgage herein foreclooed, or since
had in or to the above described prop
orty and every part thereof to satisfy
snid execution. Judgment order and
decree, interest, attorney's fees, costs
and accruing costs.
Dated at St. Helens this 23rd day
of August, 1917.
E. O. STANWOOD,
Shorlff of Columbia County, Oregon.
I By CHAS. BROWN,
36-5 Deputy.
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