Although the business done lately in Vancouver in individual outfitting for the north is not particularly brisk, there have been many large freight shipments from Vancouver stores, and more will leave within the next few days. The Danube was in this afternoon on her way to the north, and took away a very good list of freight destined for Atlin and Dawson. The Cutch will leave the Union Steamship Company's wharf tomorrow afternoon with a couple of hundred tons of goods. Of this Kelly, Douglas & Co. will send up 25 tons tor their store in Atlin, while McLennan, McFeely & Co., and the Parsons Produce Company will also have large shipments to replenish their stocks at Bennett and Atlin. T. Dunn & Co, will send 10 tons for their store in Atlin. All these firms, as well
as others in Vancouver, are doing a very satisfactory business in the north.
Among the passengers by the Cutch will be the members of a large party of French-Canadians, who are going both to Atlin and Dawson.
A shipment of 100 toms wil be sent by the steamer Alpha on her next trip to Skaguay at the end of next week, which will be for quality one of the finest shipments that has ever left Vancouver. This will be followed by others all summer, making a total of over 1,000 tons of goods for one company, the Joseph Ladue Mining & Development Company, from this city alone, for the season. The shipments will be made from Vancouver by G. S. McConnell, who has made arrangements for the sending in of part of the amount
each month, so as to cover the whole of the 1,000 tons before the season ends. This will bring the goods to Dawson at intervals that will add materially to the general freshness of the eatables of the camp. All the goods will go in over the White Pass, and down the Yukon in steamers, and it is expected that by sending them in hundred tons lots they will
arrive in good shape for the market there. The groceries now being sent trom Vancouver have been packed by W. Braid & Co., while the butter has been specially made for the Yukon market by J. Y. Griffin & Co., of this city and Winnipeg. Hams and other goods of the packing-house sort will also come from this firm. The present shipment has a value well
up into the thousands.
