The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-29
Personal EXPERIENCES.


Men Returning Prom the Gold
Fields Tell Their own
stories.
ThA following interviews were had ~ O
p Weston. tbs. POST lilEancsr corre-
spondent on the Portland. wAile or tas
way down.
Pop" Cohs's story.
Pop" Cohs Is what everybody n Sc
attic. Pert TownseEa and Up a. Dawson
Csty call F. ". cobb. Back n Bosgcn and
az Harvard college he was known As a
crack toath bail player ont on Puget sound
he fougbs many S harG-wqn 6att5e on The
grldirou field. and s one of the best known
amateur athletes. Pop cane back on
The Portlan at;irea n pair % blaze jeans
ovsrails. cusaway' co2L aeroy hat oI
the brew af 80 and other articles nf ap-
parsl equally in Keeping He also hTougat
hack with him a plump sack o. gold dust
not All OF his cleanup on tae kionGiNe
by any means. for ne vas long -head 9
ard invested most of his money at Dawson
before % left.
He went over the Dyea pass With Alex
Rsnke. Eddie Levin, George BakeF and l.
W Mndgert fn 1895. and WAS st Forty Nile
when the KlonGske strike was made. To
use his owu expression. he thought
Il was n 's.6e-play" =" ard id bot get up
with the first rush. lie first located
claim on bunker creek. Shortly after ~
secured . hall iaterest u No. Z above on
Bonanza. After prospecting x Cobb and
his rartuer worked the claim just month
and cleaned Up & SO. In Jely ~ sold his
interest in the claim for SI20a. This he re-
Invested before he came out. His hunker
creak claim Is very valuable piece of
ground. ard he has made arrangements %
have Il worked this fall ana winter.
- g. Il -
KIou6lke and they are right IN the swim"
said Mr. Cobb. You may feel assured
that the average Seattle nan who Is on
the Yukon ls & hustler, else he would not
be there
George Baker vas bookkeeper ard
manager in the Alaska Commercial Com
uanv's store where be rTAae a host cf
| friends His mining interests now take
up his whole lire. He owns interests or
nearly every creek that IS known % -
goal PAVING propositions with exception
Of Eldoraao Starring with a small cagi-
tal. he made g feT Sapoieeuie moves on
the mining chess board and acquired two
valuable interests on the strength of
which ~ has been able 20 make other
good investments. unti now. 20 use his
own words. ! have only 70 wast year
ard I viii be fixed for hfe.'"
'Curley~ Munro who fs weIl-known as
a First ward politician and business mar.
arrived on the scene late, but he hustled
from the start and displayed good business
ability with the result that be owns an tn
terest IN "A crack claim on Hunker. which
alone is geoi for q NE stake. several
claims on Gold Bottom. 10, - above on
Bonanza and a good quartz claim. lie
stands 20 make a good fortune, He =
tending strictly - mining. snd II one u
the solis naen of Dawson"
Alex Ranke since his advent on tha
49, rs-fsh wrtr
varying luck TIE first part 81 his Yu-
ken career was as boss carpenter for the
North American Trading Company 90
Forty Mile. He arrived AZ Dawson late
IN fhe spring ard succeeded IN getting
A half interest in a claim On HgnkHr.
lie VII begin work on his claim this raii-
A. rreseu4 ne Sc manage - IRE SawFatlf
FOR sha Y A st Co Alex = one of The
{ most popular men on the Yukon, and WI
i certainly make good little piie wsthia
4 the next year.
Eddie Levin. whose cigar store on Sec
orS ard Yesler vas rreaf political head
quarters three years ego. ts now growing
fat on the profits accruing % htn from
an interest IL enc of the best saloons
ard billiard balls tn Dawson lie also
has interests ~ Two ciaimz-one on 20
nanza aad one on Gold Bottcn1--cA aaaa-
/ r C.shai. well known n Seattle rail-
way circies owns a claim on Cold sot-
tom which promises welL
Rns Crawford ard Pep TTeaf came n
/ this epring ard Immediately jumped n Q
! +Na sa{rr They apened a seaa estate and
brokerage onice-the hrsf n to~p. Afa
have already negotiated some uiE asas-
( Thav own ar Interest II frst-el5ss e.a'ia
J on Fouauzs ard Rave 5aY 81 No. - "a
/ Elaarnao FOR this winter.
( <effaerou and IaHNh. who came - tRs
aprfrv vert az she Gret thing thaf Do
3 rgkaesazf success They went ~ getting out
+ lars AMI ar@w0od. ard have naAae goa
/ ming ctlf % IT,
Charfe4 ksnnaa3. formerly Mafisca
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