Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-03-27

One old miner, a California 49er, said
Juneau is fully as lively as was ever
San Francisco in her liveliest mining
days. For the past week, previous to
the sailing OF the AK, the weather
had been quite warm, many heavy
snowslides being reported in the
mountains, but no damage was re-
ported.
John JOrneson who has just re-
turned to Tacoma from juneau,
where he has been residing the past
two months, says:
There must be fully 500 busted
men and women in that little town,
and OF that number one-half do no not
eat on an average one meal in 81
hours, and that, in many cases, con.
slsts OF scraps from hotel and restau-
rant tables. How to pass the night
without freezing is a problem that
very many find hard TO solve. Many
poor fellow lies out all night in this
cold region on the lee side of store
building"
MIR. JOrneson warns any one con-
templating a trip to Alaska to stay
away, II they have not sufficient means
to support themselves for a month
or 80 and enough to pay their passage
back to civilization in case they find
nothing to do. He says that, accord
ing to reports, many men have gone
north of juneau very badly provided
with provisions and clothing, and in
consequence much suffering has been
entailed. Walters and common la
borers can be obtained in Juneau for
their board, and the influx OF labor is
already being felt in the mines around
Juneau by reduction of the wages OF
the men engaged at work, caused by
many OF the unemployed offering to
work at much less than the estab-
lished rates.
ALASKAN NOTES.
Stove wood is $40 a cord at Forty
Mile.
Circle City is to have an electric
light plant this spring.
The mining season is quite short
and closes in September.
Transfers at Forty Mile and Circle
City command $25 day.
Coal oil at Circle City, Alaska, is
now selling for S. gallon.
Twelve hundred people wintered at
Circle City and Forty Mile.
1t costs you so cents for shave
and ST. for a haircut in the Yukon
river towns.
Ed. Miller, of Arcadia is preparing
to run small trading vessel on
Alaskan waters.
The Alaska-Mexican gold mining
company cleared $4,000 on its De-
cember cleanup.
A glass OF whisky or a schooner OF
beer can be had for so cents in Forty
Mile or Circle City.
A number Of placer miners have
been making wages on the TOWNSHIP OF
Juneau the past winter.
A large fleet OF schooners will leave
Puget Sound this season to carry
prospecting parties to Alaska.
January Sd was the coolest day OF
the year at Forty Mile, the thermom-
eter registering &c below zero.
1t will cost you Is cents per pound
in the winter and As cents per pound
in the summer for freight from Circle
City to the mines.
1t must be very pleasant under.
taking to stand out in Alaska on q
prospecting tour with from three to
ten feet OF snow on the ground.
Mosquitoes are pest in Alaska. For
two months in the year people are
compelled to wear masks for protec-
ton from the troublesome insects.
Two prospectors by the names Of
Hodge and McEeillis are supposed to
have been lost and frozen 10 death
while trying to go from Dyea to Forty
Mile.
The saw mill at Sixty Mile is I'M
able to meet the demand for lumber,
which it is turning out at 500 per
1000 feet for dressed and $40 per
1000 for rough.
Girls are very few at Circle City. To
q population of 400 men, there are Is
married white women, two widows and
three girls. The consequence is the
latter are in demand, and tho widows
cut wide swath. Jealousy over one
of the girls resulted in bullet-holes in
the bodies OF two unfortunate rivals.