Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1898, August 2

GOLD SEEKERS HEARD FROM: Frank Senters Writes to Say That His Party's Plans Are Changed.
Dr. Charles Wuest, a brother of County Clerk William P. Wuest, received a long letter yesterday from Frank Senters, formerly of 255 Throop avenue, but now believed to be in the Klondike. The letter was dated "St. Michaels, July 3," and bore the post office stamp of July 7 and was shipped July 10, taking all told twenty-one days for it to reach Brooklyn, which is believed to be quick time. Dr. Wuest is president of the Continental Co-Operative Mining Company, of which concern Senters is treasurer. Senters begins the letter by saying that when he and his companions stepped ashore at St. Michaels they found the place covered with the tents of natives. "We met a crowd of about 260 men who came from Dawson City," continued the writer, "and reported that no big strikes had been made recently. The men who came by steamer paid $250 each for their passage." The letter then states that the waters in the Yukon are very low and vessels drawing more than two feet cannot pass further than Fort Yukon. Provisions are scarce in Dawson City and the Klondike. The object of Mr. Senters and his party was to do mining along the banks of the Tenana River, but he writes that they have changed their plans, as the claims along the Tenana have paid poorly. "Eldorado Creek and the Koykuk River is where the best claims have been struck," he says, "but as all of Eldorado Creek has been staked out we will go up the Koykuk, which empties into the Yukon, from where I will send you next letter."