Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — FORTUNES OF GOLD DUG OUT. [ARTICLE]

FORTUNES OF GOLD DUG OUT.

Klondike Arrival Says $25,000,000 Will Come on First Boats. The latest arrival in Seattle from Dawson is J. G. Wilson. He says that $25,000,000 in gold will be brought out via St. Michael on the first boats. The bulk of it will be owned by between 100 and 125 men. Alexander McDonald alone will have nearly $3,000,000. The news of the Spanish war had not reached Dawson when Wilson left. Wilson left the northern gold city April 17. He reports that the last boat that went down Thirty Mile river was wrecked, and that all of the passengers were drowned. The identity of the vessel is unknown.