The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-31
FREAKS OF KLoND1KE FORTUNE.
Good Luck and Hard Luck Stories from tho
Alaska Gold DiEGings.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
When Frank Phiscator, who came out OF the
klondike country with about $40 900. first
went there. not many months ago. he staked q
claim on Ell Dorado Creek. At that time Fl
Dorado Creek was unstaked. and he was the
first to try its merits or dement's. From the
first he struck gold averaging from so cents to
$3.50 n pan. For six days he had it all to him.
self. Miners would pass him and they would
say. "Howmuch are you making?" and he would
reply. truthfully enough. "Oh. from so cents
to $3.50 a pan" Then they would scoff at him
and would say. IF you want to stake a moose
pasture. you CHICAGO (which is Klondike for ten
derfootl. this is all right. but il you want gold.
you would better go where there is some"
,Thus it was that the FL Dorado, diggings which
passed by on ii the other sid dtCH A ia0f Tor S Mr'
rehif%y, f as fiSayed With h tdsk GI9 i10d aRd Irs gray
and $4,000 from claim No. 10 below Bonanza:
D. I. Davidson. He heard somebody say that
he had seen some signs Of gold in dragging
Creek. Hundreds knew Of this statement, but
refused to try their luck in French Gulch. Mr..
tSs i6Siaof fS9s sn0t 81 to 3s see s,S That o he could c ulb d do on
$1,000 and sold the claim aim for r $1,000 trAI lie S see
man had refused to have anything to do with.
But, to show how utter q lottery is Klondike
gold mining. it should be, said that after Mr.,
Davidson was successful hundreds OF claims
were SisSt st st1 tsn If PT tbo on b,1 French eaIa &c G ! and only
The boys who make their money easily blow
fact is found in the Pavilion, a dance hall which
was opened IN Dawson City q month or two
aGo, On the first night the management took
In $1,000 One man spent $4,000 for cham:
seventy-flve bottles. and one OF the girls. who
made per money ~ 2 percentage on the wine
airy. But s756is not. in Dawson CITY. som SO muc has
there last spring sold for sis q, dozen. While
$i.50 apiece. ana t required tired $50 to buy ny a S WOO %
pound can Of butter. But prices were higher
instance, a sack Of -four that % s56 70 SIS
IN the winter, could be bought for SIS even be-
As n general proposition / tmay not pay to get
hilariousiy full, but the case Of Charlie" Ander-
son S3gb dePm s InaEst that il sometimes pays; One
OF the occasion to sell to him for $500 a claim
morning. while his head was still with him. he
tried TO get them to r%etract the contract, but
ter to do. he worked. the claim, To sum it all
up briefly. he struck it rich, and before the gold
been offered and Ir refused tsit s750. 6 Ni0I Tor the ae ela naa
t or, whieh he paid $500; 4 And 1t Is a solemn
bb@9S a ff y 81 he ba de not W valid haze ~ fb secured SrGsd t and
easy way which leaves ones head unduly large
on the next morning.
Another kind Of luck was that OF the Lucky
kid." who may have had another name, but II
has been forgotten. n the first place. he
OF working it very soon and sold 1t for 500. II
since has yielded to its owner more scores or
hundreds Of thousands of dollars than a person
would like to mention. Then the Lucky Kid"
went to Bear Greek. staked q claim there and
sold it for $4,000, This sounds like a pretty
fair price. but when it is considered that tho
claim new Is valued at a large fraction Of a mil
lion dollars, II will he seen that the Kids own
peculiar kind Of luck still was clinging to him.
y i. confidently believed along the Klondlke
tnaOSa very good way to 9cguire, wealth would
his leayings at his own price.