The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-25

After the survey was made was no.
titled that the survey had been accepted
and everything was O. K SO far as
was concerned. was the only one IN
terested il 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 78
foot frontage on First avenue and 178
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 neen cooking for me
and my partner. I guess she has done
pretty WE'LL I pay her $40 a month
right aloHg. She has not found any
gold herself. She is girl perhaps 30
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 ever 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. sne conducted place there. I
don t know whether she has made any
money in mining or not. I could not
say whether she kept 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 a Mrs. Yeager there who
formerly conducted a boarding house at
Circle City. She had two or three young
ladies who boarded with her. I cannot
tell what their names were or whether
they made any money. She did not ruiz
boarding house in Dawson. She was
there with her husband, who was a
packer at Dawson. They had a packing
train. She is 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 a Mrs. Wills, who has
quite history. She went in with my
party two years ago. In the party were
Ellis Turner from Schuyler Falls, Viii
liam Lamay, George Mulligan and my
self. She joined our party at Juneau,
where she had been working in the
laundry. She is about 45 years old, a
blond, stout and rugged. She pulled her
own sled, weighing 250 pounds, from
Lake Lindeman through to Lake la
Barge, about 700 miles.
Before she came there she was stew
ardess Oh the steamer Willipaw, when
first met her She went first to Circle
City, where she started laundry AID
bakeshop. She did pretty we'll. l think
she got so cents loaf for bread-pound
loaves made from wheat four.
|, I believe the laundry prices were %
cents apiece for everything. We had no
coin less than quarter. Towels and
blue shirts were 25 cents apiece. She
went out two years ago as nurse for the
A. C. T. company agent, James Wilson.
I think she went as far as San Francisco
with him. She returned the next spring.
That time she brought in herself, with
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 of a
banana trader, brought in the first ma
chine, about 20 years before. Two years
ago suppose there were probably 40 or
so sewing machines in the country.
There were planes there. The pianos
and organs were principally in the
darcehouses and theaters at Circle City.