The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19

family, or I should like 1t better than 1 do 10 I
knew that my family had ali tho necessarieB Of
lifo, which they have not They cannot rough
meat like I can. but II thoy all live through this
winter. I hope to be able to do something for
Three years have elapsed since Mr.. Dull re.
ceivsd tho letter from which these extracts
his SHVs old Sr0 ad %Ss' f Il i. 'G sStsd iSsISs SGn gSl 5FG GS,
1897, and was received on April ~ last. He
F b6T ! IN Top opening InS to a letter ttSTo received tE9% Mr. 4:
back 6SSSSk to d1ES when wa: Just : little hsRpior
were the, days. ,ho adds. when money had no
value for him; that since he had tried to aocu:
mulato money he had seen more worry and
II have no reason TO complain now. What, I
have accumulated within the last ten months
$4,000, but IT has brought care with ~. l am
kept busy looking after my interests, but my
mining ground Is all winter diggings, and real
ly, 1 don't know how much or how little my
ground 10 worth. ! am located on Bonanza and
die gold. 1 have seen one dog packing forty
pounds OF gold and strlngS OF men with nfty
TO to tSosgs II m,I ITuSn ssoS Spi Sec,,, 1t Lock- 90 doT nov
etize gold and remonetize silver. as there has
hardly been a starter made in taking It out. No
there were lots Of dumps that cleaned up over
100000 and 500. 900 10 common. Men who
had to hire men to pack their gold. to town for
f hSd o6 shlI as SpTing FOB but oa ! wSS nSi . &c 66ortpT Tari,d /
on a dump which cleaned up sos, 600. We
worked about three months. expect to have a
dump OF my own next spTing."
Jones says tho river Klondike 10 spelled sew
erel ways, among others Conedike and Iron
dixie. 1t is full Of salmon, and he writes Of the
Of shooting moose by attracting them to q
",liok" e. midnight, when 1t 10 light enough to
mosquitoes which have come down from the
Klondike have evidently not been oyerdrawn:.
1t seems" he says, that all the little devils
from the middle Of June until the middle of
August. l have q sack made of cheese cloth
collar with a small piece of mosquito bar set in
over my eyes to see through, and still they get
in TaSd in d iptso Of e s Sp mo 10. ! 1892 sS7 DO he writes: we
hay haze put up % , Las 800 , worth % q hay and Killed and
pounds" He, tells of killing two large moose
the river. On the way down he was swept
out OF the boat BY a log projecting oyer the
water and submerged trees and logs making il
water, He finally. saved himself after an awful
whose branches whipped the stream. The meat
Of the two moose cows was sold at Dawson.
on the hillside back Of DSwson; one was the
hrst buried and the Other, the last, making
1 pTinoiBai reason sln Sine la' Sy s JGn q for q Tf fesli IL tS %
homesickness. He complains that the absence
or civil officers works a great injustice to the
through invasion of their rights. He has this to
say OF Dawson City:
Il have spent some time around town whore
one secs sights that only seeing Is believing;
but ono thing l will say-a Quleter or better dis
posed lot of men I never Jaw. One can go into n
dance hall with probably two or three hundred
people and lots OF DRINKS, both male and female.
whooping. singing. cursing, dancing and gam
bling for big money, but all is good nature.
Grub is scarce. and many of US will go hungry
before spring. must take to the hills or starve.
had what was called a guaranteed order; that
Is, l put up nv money last spring and headed
my order with 500 pounds OF -four ana every
thing else in proportion: When ! went for it, all
that l could get was 80 pounds of flour and
other articles IN proportion. A few capitalists
got In last fall and have bought millions Of
dollars worth Of property. Hundreds of claims
will be sent out and put on the market. Tho
$4,000. Most of us original stakers will sell
this winter. My claim is nfty-eight miles be-
low discovery on Bonanza. The best property
lies on the creeks as name them: First. and
best Of all 10 Eldorado; next and almost as good,
is Bonanza. These two taxi the lead. Then
comes hunker, Gold Bottom, Bear. Sulphur and
Dominion. with innumerable gulches and side
hill claims. Some Of these are worry rich"