The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-10-26

ountry and l think we viii take good I
money out Of our claim. lam In perfect (
|palth; In fact, my face is 80 fisshy l am
indef the impression / would be termed
round head In the States. / have q
leayy beard. but suppose will have to
part with 1t when the extreme cold
weather arrives, as old timers say that 1t
gsts full Of Ice, and nothing but a short |
beard goes. People all wear boards here |
b summer to keep of misquitoes.
Wages here $40 q day, but not much
york. When the mines all open up we
expect q boom.
In letter Steve received from home,
his mother asked were Eagle City was,
q they were unable to find It on any Of
the maps. This Is q new town on the
banks OF the Yukon. about 100 miles
north Of Dawson. II Is fifty miles north
Of Forty Mile river, and eighteen miles
south Of Seventy Nils river. It is given
Is Belle Isle on some Of the maps. II you
have seen nothing inihe papers about
Eagle City, you certainly will, later, as |
this will be q large place. The govern
ment win establish barracks here and
'ssnd some soldiers after the war is over,
As this place Is near the boundary line,
The last newspaper we saw was q Seattle
daily Of August llth. Papers sell for
30 cents each. / understand that during
last winter they had no papers here for
months; so letter written occasionally
would be appreciated very much. Write,
sure upon receipt Of this, as there Is no
telling how long letter would be In
transit during the dead OF winter.
Iwillwrite at least once month from
now on, but II you do not receive my let
ters do not worry, as ] have good health,
plenty Of good solid food, two good,
warm, log cabins and partner that is
prince. Steve Is . capital good fellow
and we have gotten along without q
lsingle quarrel. Neither Of US Is afraid
of work or hardships. We came into the
country knowing that we would have to
contend with some hardships and we are
both satisfied to stay at least q year and
more, il necessary. Hundreds Of
people have turned back and
suppose you have read their tales of woe
,LiR the newspapers. The greater part Of
these never struck q pick III the ground.
They expected to pick up nuggets in the
street.
This Is country Of enormous proper
tions, and cannot be looked over In Q
few days. This is quiet, orderly place
the miners make their own laws an(
settle all disputes, at "a miners meeting
One meets with q nice lot Of people
> sober and industrious. doctors, lawyer
and merchants at home, here with picl
and shovel. There is no class distinc
tiOn, neither has there been any theft
or shooting scrapes. have not seen
0 fight In the country.
> The post office name Of this place
' Eagle, without the CITY" I do no
; know why the word "City" was dropped
You will probably see McHardy II
+ Chicago. His home is In Michigan, bu
0 he was working In Chicago before b
came here. We bought his interests
Q There was no quarrel whatever, but
: think he was homesick.
y Steve says am 'Cracker-Jack" o
Q o cook. We have four cook books wit
Q us. can turn out some fine corn gem
}. and Johnny cake that would tickle tn
u palate OF @ Oonn0isseur. We have 70
o breakfast, bacon, potatOs. Oat meal an
y cakes or bread. For lunch we just eat
d few cold beans and bread and for suppe
u we have soup, dried beef, or bacon, beam
q rice and Occasionallys pie. We hsv
Q fruit three times day. We have n
l. butter, but make gravies each day.
IT make gravy with bacon or pork greasI
'o -four and water. with just q trife Of Q,
70 tract Of beef added, that tastes exactl
70 like the beef steak gravy one gets In Il
81 states. We have peaches, apricot
% prunes and raisins, IN the fruit lin
OF These are California evapOrated frui
10 and are about as fine as fresh. We hav
N enough evapOrated pOtatOs and onions
% last year or more. We brought abOl
~ fifty pounds Of tea, coffee and cocoa,
IN have plenty to drink, in fact, We have
ID tine outfit all the way through, with 10
N Of things ! have not mentioned, such
10 condensed soups, dried peas, condens
milk, etc. We expect to get plenty
by fresh meat this fall and winter, In t
rs game line. We have shot gun and
to Winchester rife. There Is lots Of gar
a. near our claim. A man shot two moo
nd within a mile Of our claim that weigh
ng over 400 pounds each, dressed. tn
no freeze this meat here and It keeps, Of
an side, all winter. tits hard to find lar
raj game now. but there Is plenty Of It in I
mountains and II can be tracked In I
Il. snow. There has also been several b.
shot on the creek.
We expect to winter upon our clal
II took the three Of us nearly three WEI
n hriId the cabin an nnr claim and