Daily Colonist (1897-07-31) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1897-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

MOST PERFEC'tladE.

A. pure Grape Cream of Tartar Po'wder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.

.STRICKLAND TALKS SENSIBLY.

Circle City Deserted by Everyone-Minini; Profitable but Not Over Pleaaant.

Inspector Strickland, of tbe N. W.JI.P., has just returned to Regina from the land of which all tbe world just now ia talking. Forty .Mile creek, when he reached there on .Inly 21, ISlto, waa the centre of tlie mining district. The twi'lve ineml/ers of the police who havt: taken to mining are all doing well. Tlie live wlio are now on tlieir way back did not like a miner'a life. George Cormick, alias Siwaeli Cieorgo, found golil in enormous (luantilies in a creek running into the Tliron-Diiu'k, on August 12, lSi)(i lie made it known as aoon aa he could get to Forty IMile. A atampede to the creek nt once took place, and uiiiiers jiourcd in from the United Staiea sidi: in such numbera that now not more tiian half a dozen clnima are being worked in the Circle City district. These men had to drag their kits and belongings on sleda for 300 miles over rough ice. This Btampede aet in at the beginning of January and continued all winter. The first work of the men was to build their lioiises, and very heavy work it was Mr. Strickland does not believe the story of .$200,000 having been already made there by any one man, but aaya the moat literal triitlia read like fairy tales. It ih, however, very bard to say just what is being made.

The miners are reticent about their earnings, ilo can say, however, that miuera who have come out and staked claima thia year, who number about a hundred, have taken or t-ent away already auma 'varying from $5,000 to $50,000 each, and have kept back considerable sums for development and other investment. Miners from California, Australia and South Africa eay that nothine in the world has been struck ao rich. Inapector Strickland aaya if the country lilla up »b rapidly aa it ia doing the two trading eompatiiea will not be sufficient to supply the food for them and there ia plenty of room for other companiea in this llnei Provia-ions are noteodear aa might be expected. Flour is $12 a handred, bacon 40 cents a

COMMENT AND A.UVIGE.

How the Paragrapher and Fiiilosoplier Find in the Klondyke Material for " Copy."

The press dispatches say that " experts have been sent from l^ondon to report upon the Yukon diggings." And yet;they say the iOngliahman is without an appreciation of humor.

One enterprising IClondyker, who leaves here by the Danube, does not care particularly whether he wine a fortune. He says, witli so many people going into tbe mines, there is "likely to be "jolly good fun,"

Klondyke is a word of many apellinga. It is variously printed Klondyke, Klondike, Clondike, Clondyke, Klondak, Klondach—and the man who discovered it was a alwaah, and couldn't apell bis own name, to say nothing of geographical titles.

One phase of the

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