The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-04

account of ice. There will be good
many left behind, as they cannot reach
here While the rivers are open, and VIII
have TO make it on the ice after II be
comes solid for travel. 1t would require
too much time and paper to tell every
thing about this trip
Dawson City is a town of very few
log houses. As yet everything IS tents,
on account of scarcity of timber but on
the mining ground, there you find the
cabins, one corner full of supplies, an
other the mountain feather bed and the
cook stove in the next. AT present they
begin the winter mining; wages, S1.aO
per hour, but YOU must nave elsht
months supplies on hand and furnish
your candles. The gold is plentiful here,
but the short season and slow work
make it troublesome 10 make more than
a good average showing. according 10
other things. Beef is selling at 81 per
pound: flour is not here and cannot be
bought for love or money. OFFERS OF sl.o0
per pound have been refused. Parties
having it will not sell In fact, there is
nothing of any kind to be had except
sugar The n. A. 7. K T. company will
not sell single pound of anything until
al guaranteed orders are filled, which
will take every pound of everything eat
able.
"A great many persons who came here
empty-handed. expecting TO buy their
supplies here, have been compelled TO go
to Circle City and Fort Yukon, where
all the late steamers are frozen IN, and
will have to stay there until spring. Ine.
Canadian government furnishes Tree
transportation to all parties not having
sufficient supplies for over winter 20
Fort Yukon. and will feed everyone free
of charge until springtime. So you may
imagine the condition of this place. EV-
cry newspaper should warn all corners
not to start unless they have sufficient
supplies for one year and not less. Ha1
the late steamers come to Dawson OF
course such conditions would not exist,
as they had plenty of flour on board. III
supplies are here they are sold very
reasonable and not as was reported III
the states, at starvation prices. flouf IS
usually ST. per hundred; sugar, so per
| hundred: rice So. 30, oats, S12.50. Cloth
| ing is the same Reasonable prices are
| charged while the goods are at hand. IL
| the demand is too great the prices go
up high, SO only few can fedch Inc
| top. There is a company from san
| Francisco here. All their steamers We're
| frozen in here. The rivers are not frozen
| vet. but the water is so low it is impos-
| sible for any boat to come up until
| spring, which means July 10. 1879
About the gold excitement, | think
| ii is true that the gold Is here. Inc
/ richest mines, it can be said. are near
| Dawson. On the surface ground nearly
1
| less, but every foot Of il all around here
| is taken up. All newcomers have To look
| for other creeks and make efforts to find
| their expected gold fortune, and no
/ doubt there Is plenty of 1t left for all Of
/ us and a good share will be left for the
/ thousands of gold hunters who come
| after us. Talk about your hardshipss
| anyone that makes fortune in this
| country deserves the same. The long
/ travel the late hours, the intense cold,
| the packing and the mountain climbing
are all hard You cannot have a cabin
TO sleep IN every night. but may have u
| depend upon your onward journey. Tn
til you have found something which YOU
| think Is worth prospecting you may
| have to sink or 10 shafts before You
| strike the pay streak and then your sup
| plies may be exhausted and you have
| 10 90 20 Camp Dawson for new sup
| ply out of your cache. which IS built
| about IL feet of the ground, a. the
| dogs will eat Il for You while you are
| away If you store II otherwise.
II must close for this time, as the
| mail will leave to-day for the next camp
| and thence over the ice via Dyea and
| Juneau 10 Seattle. l am well eoateatad