Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-27

| have 50O feet on the rlYer--the Bon
anza. This was the beginning of
Berry's fortune. He then began to
trade for interest in other sites. He
secured share in three of the best on
Eldorado Creek. There is no one
living who can tell how much this
property is worth. 1t has only been
worked in the crudest way, yet five
months netted him enough to make
him a rich man the rest of his life.
There are untold and inestimable mill
ions where the small sum from the top
was taken.
Berry wanted to bring his bride to
him from the settlement and he pro-
ceeded to built himself house. 1t
was of logs. He built it solid and then
sawed holes for the door and windows.
This was late last summer. The ther-
mometer was getting accustomed to
standing at forty degrees below zero
day in and out. Mrs. Berry trudged
through the nineteen miles of hard
snow and took her place in the hut
with her husband. There was no floor,
but the snow bank. 1t cost the couple
gpOOO Ii buOuoulN lOCb W BCb hlOWoot
hauled, and there was but little chance
to use fuel save to thaw out the moose
and caribou which the Indians
peddled.
This new gold king and queen made
the first strike of year ago in Novem-
ber. They were working along Ell
dorado Creek, branch of the Bonan-
"a, which empties into the Klondike
about two miles above Dawson City.
Their site was the fifth one above
where the first discovery had been
made in this particular region. 1t
took nearly month to get into paying
dirt, but when the vein was opened it
was simply awful. The first prospect
panned $2 and SO to the pan. 1t grew
suddenly to $25 and $50 pan, and
kept increasing. 1t seemed they had
tapped mint, and one day Mr.. and
Mrs. Berry gathered no less than 1896
from single pan of earth. This they
have saved in sack by itself, and the
people who have listened to the strange
stories of the young man and his
young wife have no fear that they have
been mistaken. They have left no
! room to think they are not telling the
truth-truth which seems probable in
the face of sacks and Jumps of gold
which they have not yet had time to
send to market. They have it piled
| up in their rooms in the hotel in San
| Francisco.
Berry and his men worked five
months at this claim. They thawed
and washed thirty box lengths of soil.
This brought him $130,000, out of
which he paid $4,000 for help. He
then put fifteen miners at work in his
best diggings and started home to get
some coin. He has acquired five
claims, all of which are being worked.
He has not the slightest idea how
much he is worth. He guesses that
he has at least $1,000, 900 more ready
for him by this time. 1t may be twice
or three times that amount. He has
good wagon load of the yellow stuff
in the safety deposit vault. Mr.. and
Mrs. Berry have one of the best rooms
at the best hotel on the coast. They
have leaped from poverty to wealth in
single twelve months.
Mr.. Berry is going to leave in few
days with his wife to see the farm
where he used to raise plums and
peaches. He is going to buy the place,
just for memory's sake. Mrs. Berry
wants it. She will live there the rest
of her life, The pin money she panned
out-$10, ,000-is to go for new house.
She has had enough of the Klonkike.