The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-13
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you wouldn't know II you didn't know.
Poor thingsr
Mrs Lowell in several previous letters
describes the camp" and its surround
lngs and the people gathered there. I'VE
have more saloons" she says. than any
thing else In every saloon Is a gambling
house. and they run day and night. There
IS a place of this kind on each side of
us, ana you can imagine the time we have
a man was killed in fight the other
night, and II often happens that there is
row and some one is hurt. We can hear
the chips rafting on the faro table and
the everlasting rattle of the ball on the
roulette table. Il used TO keep me awake,
but now I've got so / could sleep in
boiler factory Some of the gamblers are
very nice looking men, and l have never
heard a word or seen a look from any
of them that was out of the way while
they were in the restaurant"
In another place she says: I'VE have the
awfullest time getting provisions. Pota-
toes are from $3.50 to SO a bushel. and hard
to get at that. We have ours shipped di-
rect from Seattle, and they cost us about
81 bushel now. They are coming down,
however So is -four. The boats from Seat
tie are bringing lot of bulky PROVISIONS
flour, potatoes and canned goods-and the
price keeps coming down steadily. We
have had no trouble so far with meat. II
could he kept as shipped to us for all win
ter, but | expect it win be a different story
in the summer. We had lot of venison
and bear meat last winter; that cost us
from 20 TO 80 cents pOund-some even at
half of that. We have been keeping a lot
of fresh vegetables, fruits and apples and
there Is a great demand for them. good
sized, juicy apple brings IS or 20 cents, and
on orange is worth - cents and lemons Is
cents each. Lettuce. rhubarb, asparagus
and such things come high, but we have TO
keep them. People are afraid of scurvy out
here and fresh fruit and vegetables are
preventive. 1t is a misnomer 10 cali these
things fresh They are anything but that
mostly wlted and attacked with rot. but
they are the best we can get"
Speaking of life In the camp" as Mrs.
Lowell persists In calling Skaguay, she
says: There are about one hundred sa-
looms, four or five provision and feed
stores, fifteen blacksmith shops, two hard
ware stores two furniture stores two
daily newspapers. three clothing stores,
three hotels, tiVe or six restaurants and
several drygoods places, where they keep
millinery and do dressmaking. You've got
10 have a well-hlled pocketbook with you
if you go shopping here. l bought ten
yards of ordinary woollen cloth, plain
black, and they charged me $2.25 a yard.
That was last January. i can do better
than that now. ! can buy musins and
ginghams for from 30 to so cents a yard,
and calico for 10 and 20 cents.
THE stores are open day and night, Sun
day and all In fact, at night Is when the
biggest business is done The one main
street of the camp Is crowded all night.
The street is lit up with many kerosene
lamps, and II Is not so bad to get along
They have city government a Mayor and
so forth and vigilance committee Loren
belongs to the committe, and they come
pretty near to running the place. We had
awful times in January and February last.
The gamblers were ordered out Of town
and most Of the tough saloons and variety
show houses were closed. But the tough
element promised to do better, and, with q
company of Uncle SANS soldiers here,
they were allowed TO go on, and are keep
ing quiet now. Not many of the men that
come here bring their wives, and there are
only few here that can visit with. II
makes me wish / was i'm Milwaukee again. "
They are planning now she says In an
other letter, ito go over the pass to the
Klondtke just as 5000 as the pass in OPEN
ed although many have been going all
through the winter. The weather has not
been so awful bad. We had several bliz-
yards, but have seen just as bad In Wis
consin, and Minnesota. The thermometer
has not gone above 30 degrees and usual
ly ranges about 10 or Is below zero, but one
does not feel 1t so much. There is very
little sun, and Il begins to get dark about
! o'clock in the afternoon, and It is never
daylight before o'clock. We keep lamps
burning day and night mostly"
Concerning the Klondike regions Mrs.
Lowell Is wildly enthusiastic, and says
her husband has the gold fever bad. "Pd
like TO CO. she says, but sometimes ]
think we would miss Il If we did. We are
making money hand over fist here, and
we might lose all we had If we went ia
Dawson City But you never had the
| gold fever. ! was never so greedy to make
money in my life The more we get the
more we want. We have made over $40, 00C
| clean money out Of our business and some
side speculatlons. II Is in a safe place In
! Seattle, and IL we go to the Klondike not
a cent Of that nest egg will be talen that
l am determined on. / know there Is big
money in the Klondike. ! have seen toe
many evidences Of that to doubt It. There
is gold, and gold, and gold. l have talk
| ed with hundreds of people who have seen
| It and know of IT. But most likely we
| will conclude to stay here and work this
safe mine as long as there is anything In
| 1t and get to see you all In a year or So"
Mrs. Lowell says that the rush 10 this
Klondike is now fully i'm progress. Every
| boat arriving Is loaded with gold hunters
/ and Skaguay has not room to lodge them
| Hundreds are camped TN tents and hastily
! constructed huts between the town and
! the foot of Chilkoot Pass about fourteen