The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-12-12
what you have to pay in the diggings

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for your supplies.
My wife and | walked into the dig
gings, distance of 60 miles. | pull
ed, with the help Of one little dog, a
sleigh with our bedding; two weeks
provisions and enough stuff to make
300 pounds. We were six days max
ing the trip and camped out one night
in the snow when the thermometer
registered 40 degrees below zero. 1t
often reaches 20 degrees below zero in
Alaska. But we came out all right,
my wife being great help to me. /
bought a claim on Davis Creek and
mined there nearly two years, only
coming to the post for provisions the
next fall, when we had dog team Of
our own.
Wages are $40 per day in the mines,
but would not advise any one to go
there expecting work at days wages,
for there is employment for limited
number only. II a strong, able bod
led man, with an unlimited amount
OF pluck went there, he would stand
a chance of taking out good stake.
But mining is very difficult, as you
have to contend with frozen ground
the year round. They have plan
now Of working In the winter season
by which they have TO thaw the
frost out of the ground with fires.
Then they hoist the gravel with a
windlass and leave it until the water
runs liz the summer, when 1t Is shoy-
eled into sluice boxes.
John Miller had twenty men at
work last wiuter and he had worked
some the winter before. He cleared
between $50, 600 and $75, 600 and gave
away the remainder of his claim.
There were other pereons who brought
away six or seven thousand dollars.
There were also persons who had
purses made up for the purpose Of
helping them out of the country.
Quite a number of men who went
to the Yukon last spring did not go
to the diggings. Some Others went
about eight miles on the road, became
discouraged and went back. The
mosquitoes are so bad that the peo-
pie have to wear mosquito bar over
their faces and gloves on their hands.
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y zen .he eoloi VI MS o,o'iilns, ens
lliosquluoes are 80 shioh. nc oiu
uisgihss az fo,hiiic are peuvy wen
been discovered which may prove
good. The country has never been
half prOspected yet but there are some
iicii "ho aie no" Vuil''"s r siio,A ao' m
.ion 10 quart1 liining. we lelo pnc
uiggines uhe lase u 'uly, came osei
uhe iilouhoains " SUMMIT eiau' eai.
lieu my peu vi my pa0A' e.oppou "V
foloy Mlle one mcch anu eheie VIC
LOOK niue poau anu url n u o.
uhe uhoh 1ov in.le W Siioie lily
ana sooppeu Vheie TWO meehs' ulu
NOT 20 10 the mines enete ouv hediu
goou reports conline ~ rom ene .,.
Clrcle Clty Is d llseiy place anu III oiic
Uhieeu States "iiiie forvy Miie - III
Cahaoa. lney nave ie" lioises
IheIe WHICH chey iet ouo' d team WIN
d driver costing 20 per eay' Doss
are the man stay ol oiie country, .
dogs comprising uedml' oi soou
uraii one oeaii Can pun ioo0 pou,ius
Inc Vaiue OIL ooes ranges ifohi Soo 70
Sioo. we Iooh onc steamer Aie.lo
from oireie lily W d. ~, uiolaei' q uie-
lance oi iooo mites, mere y wiielc
.,le ocean soeaniels iea ne supplies iol
1le uhon country. ney are elen
put on one river steamers anu uisel nv
uoeo au une posts aioiig Vne river. we
sd" 10 diierehe Urioes Vi iilulans DIS
we came down ohe river ihere Is