The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-19
HIGH PRICES FOR DRESSES
n Scamstrcss Coming Money With
Her Needle in the New EIdOrado.

Her Needle in tho New EIdorado.
lottcr has boon received In Tu->
coma, Wash, from Mrs. Chester
Adams, scamstrcss, who went fl ON q
lumber town in tho State OF Washing.
ton last spring to klOndyko, to make q
fortune with her nocdlc. Mrs. Adams
promised before she went away to scnd
back to her friends true story Of tho
gold fields, and this is what she writes:
~ know you are anxious to learn
how wo arc succeeding and whether
the great yarns VIC had heard when
with you last winter wore true or not
| Will not exaggcrato, nor do wish to
encourage any ono to come here, for it
Is long, dangerous journey, bat we
enjoyed it very much and would not
have missed il for anything.
Ut was perfectly grand from begin
ming TO end, shedding up to tho sum
! mt, heran%Gking over, shedding to
the lake, whip saving lumber aud
building boats, sailing over lakes,
gliding down rivc-s-somctimes 100
miles in day-running the grand can
yon and lining the Whito Horse
rapids.
Our boat was Is feet long on tho top
and S fect wido. Lots Of people re-
marked on how nicely she came
| through tho canyon. Hor name is tho
| riycr. rodo through the Five
Fingers and Sink rapids. 1t was nice.
"Wcll, now about The bic stories 7
know you will not believe me If | should
tell you all the truth. don't blanc
you, but the half has mover been told
outside. There arc said to be 2 000
more people in and on the way here,
All Sixty Mile and Forty Mile and
nearly all Circle City people are hero,
yet miners wages :.io sis in the dig
gins, and thcro will not be near cnouTh
men to work
"Anson hired out for $40 tho night
nc got here, q week ago Thursday,
lie has earned $l20 already. His bust
| ness Is music. | went to work dress
| making with woman last Monday
ABOUT 5 o'clock because she had house
and sewing Smachino. She was sick
Two days, yet wei figured up $50 Sutur-
| day night-$l5 a piece, with a great
PIE OF dress dry goods stacked up
ahead Of us. ~
"Whcn got horo there was not
"omahEhcrc who could cut and fit q
dross. There are no bones, waist bind
dlng or canvas to DO had, but our prices
arc $5 for cnlico mother hubbard, Sc
Tor empires, IS for a plain woolien skirt
ana Sio Tor waist And they weigh
out the gold and most ALWAYS pav
more.
VI sold ono bracelet for S25, q cheap
pair for 50, little locket for'Sl.5O and
three livc-ccnt sacks OF candy for 81 80,
making $3G. The purchaser, a girl,
poured tho gold on the scales, saving
she would give me good weight to
bring mo luck. Whom [ weight it
there was $3.50, and that is the way it
goes. Gold is plenty!
'Chestcr went to tho mines ono dav,
Tic met mon coming down staggering
under loads OF gold, 100 pounds apiece,
which they had earned by working
mines on shares in tho last seven
months. Some left on the steamer
yesterday with fortunes. The largest
FOR one man was 300 pounds.
"Chcstcr say there was over 81, ,00O,-
600 in gold dust that went out on the
steamer yesterday. There has been
| 81, 500 taken from ono pan BY one man:
| $4,000 from what two mon shoyeled
into the sluiceDoxcs in four hours.
This Is from mino on Bonanza, the
same creek VIC have leased on.
"Tho cold did not hurt us coming,
have suffered more in two hours In
Michigan from cold than / did on the
who lc trip. They are finding new
! creeks and new mines all around u.s."