The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-21

barkeeper, and permit the latter to
| weigh out enough gold on the scales,
which are found in every business place
in, that region, to pay the bill for the
| drinks. 4 e.
A THRIFTY QUAKER.
zone of the greatest money makers
In Dawson is q young man, Dan Flynn.
who halls from Harrisburg, Pa He is
just %, and he is a natural born busi-
ness man. He has nothing to do with
the mines, and never even saw one.
He's all business. He happened to be
at Dyea, on the coast of Alaska, last
June as a cigar agent, when the news
came there Of the Klondke gold discov-
cries. He quit his job and sent word to
his firm in Chicago that he was going
to Dawson City. lie got there early
and sold all the 10-cent cigars he had
for $I.50 each. He saw the money there
was in town lots, and took written
sixty dey options on q dozen lots, paid
$500 down, and in less than twenty days
he sold out and made $4,000 cash. He
knew that an army of gold seekers
would soon be there, so he took options
on more lots at greatly advanced
prices. Besides he bought springs Of
drinking water near Dawson City and
hired Indians to peddle water at %
cents a pail. Then he went into the
bread business. He has now over 200
pounds Of gold ready for shipment to
San Francisco when navigation on the
Yukon opens He ;will sell tens of
thousands of pals OF water in Dawson
at % cents each this coming summer
Flynn is easily worth 100000 now. and
he may double 1t in another year. He
has the Irish wit and is very popular
in Dawson. He will soon open a bank
there, backed by San Francisco mil
lionaire."
b" 80 BETTER STAY AT HOME.
what are the chances for an aver
age man who .lSnews nothing about
mining and goes TO the Klontiike now?'
"rhey are not nearly so good as they
were for the average man who came
to California N 1S49 and 1850. We have
never heard about the 100000 young
men who came poor to California in
those days and went back home or
stayed out here poorer than they came.
We have all heard Of the few thous-
ands or, perhaps, the few hundreds
who got rich. The scant score of men
who became multi-Inillionaires have
been held up as shining examples by
miners the world over for years. Well,
the same will be true Of the Klondike.
The Americam%pcople know already
! about how Joe Ladue, Clarence Berry,
| Dave Ellmont and Peter Harney have
leaped from poverty to fortune in less
than year and a half, but there's
| 4o0G men who have been in the Klon-
dixie region since last August end are
| as poor as ever and will never be any
| better off.
Il would not advise any one to go TO
| the Klondike. 1t Is a big risk for any
man.. Fer the roor man who knows
nothing about placer mining and has a
| family henendent on him it is almost
criminal folly to put several hundred
| dollars into an Arctic mining outfit
and go chasing eff to Dawson City. 1t
| would be better for his pocket to put
| his outfit money on"a gambling game
| at; home. The ,cnances of success are
| just about as good. Still, there will
be a lot Of new millionaires created by
the klondil1e gold, and you can no more
| stop the army of eager, restless men
now at Seattle, Victoria and San Fran
| ciseoyread% 10 sail to. Alaska from TAX
ing slim chances in the, race for fortune
in the north than you could bale out
the ocean,,