The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-23

Northwest Territory. Mr.. Ogilvy had
been sent up there on a survey. A town
site had been applied for by a man
named O'Brien at Forty Mile. Mr..
Ogilvy told the government it would
not pay them to handle town sites in
there. He was sent out to report on this
boundary question. After he made the
survey he put it in himself as a town
site.
Dawson is laid out in square. Out
side of it there are struggling houses
around. The 100 acres have been divid-
ed into city lots. bought IS acres be-
sides this adjoining mine. between it
and the government reservation. filed
on that town site along the last of Au-
gust, 1896. l have not received patent
from the government for it.
After the survey was made was no
titled that the survey had been accepted
and everything was o. X. so far as L
was concerned. was the only one in
terested in the property in the town
Among those who have bought lots from
me are the Alaska Commercial COM
pany, who own an eight lot block, and
the North American Transportation
company of Chicago, who have rs
foot frontage on First avenue and 17S
feet on Second avenue. Besides these
there are individuals who own one lot.
Women Who Own Property.
There are women there who own
property Susie Lamar is one. She is a
single woman who came from Ger
many. She has been cooking for me
and my partner guess she has done
pretty well. / pay her $40 month
right along. She has not found any
gold herself. She is a girl perhaps 20
years old. She came there with the
Johnson party from Oakland, Cal. She
was the only woman in the party.
Lottie Barnes also owns property
| there. She came over the divide two
years ago and settled on Second avenue.
| She was formerly in Circle City. That
| is the farthest north of the mining
towns She conducted place there. /
don't know whether she has made any
money in mining or not. / could not
say whether she kept "a boarding house
at Circle City. She did not at Dawson.
She has bought up claims. She is wo
man about 40 years old and came from
Seattle.
There is Mrs. Yeager there who
formerly conducted boarding house at
Circle City. She had two or three young
ladies who boarded with her. / cannot
tell what their names were or whether
they made any money. She did not run
boarding house i'll Dawson. She was
there with her husband, who was a
packer at Dawson They had packing
train She is a woman about 40. She
came from Colorado and had been mar
ried before she married Yeager, but her
first husband died in Colorado-in Boul-
der, think.
What Mrs. Wills Has Done.
There is also Mrs. Wills, who has
quite history. She went in with my
party two years ago. In the party were
Ellis Turner from Schuyler Falls, Will
liam Lamay, George Mulligan and my
self. She joined our party at Juneau,
where she had been working in the
laundry. She is about As years old, a
blond, stout and rugged. She pulled her
own sled, weighing $50 pounds, from
} Lake Lindeman through to Lake la
Barge, about 200 miles.
Before she came there she was stew
} ardess on the steamer Willipaw, when
| first met her She went first to Circle
City, where she Started laundry and
bakeshop. She did pretty well. l thirs
she got 80 cents loaf for bread-pound
: loaves made from wheat flour
J l believe the laundry prices were %
cents apiece for everything. We had nc
coin less than quarter Towels anc
! blue shirts were 20 cents apiece. She
; went out two years ago as nurse for the
A. @. r. company agent, James wilson
, | think she went as far as San francisco
| with him. She returned the next spring
That time she brought in herself, witt
, the aid of two dogs, about $50 pounds
( including a sewing machine.
: That was not the first sewing ma
| chine brought in. Mrs Behan, wife CT ;
= banana trader, brought in the first ma
chine, about 20 years before. Two year.
s ago suppose there were probably AZ O
90 sewing machines in the country.
F, There were pianos there. The piano
y and organs were principally in th
Q dancehouses and theaters at Circle City