The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-05

l NNAN'"N'i tAtAS 10 dll il6hNt bNN II Spu
 want gold, you would better go where
 there is some" Thus it was that the
 Fl Dorado diggings which have banned out so bountifully were opened with a
 scon and sheer from those who passed by on the other side. As for
 MT. Phiscator, he stayed with his claim
 and grew wealthy. For instance, he
 took one hundred thousand dollars
 royalties included) from claim No. 3 on
 Fl Dorado and forty thousand dollars
 from claim No. 13 below Bonanza. ] Another instance of striking it rich is | that of D. B. Davidson. He heard | somebody say that he had seen some
 signs of gold in dragging wood down
 hill on French Gulch, by Fl Dorado
 creek. Hundreds knew of this state | ment, but refused to try their luck in | French Gulch. MT. Davidson conclu- | ded to see what he could do on the in-
 dlcated spot, so he staked out claim | last March, and in short time he had
 taken out twenty thousand dollars and sold the claim for twenty-five thousand dollars. He secured twenty-five thou sand dollars from claim that many
 another man had refused to have any
 thing to do with, But, to show how
 utter lottery is Klondike gold mining,
 It should be said that after MT David
 son was successful hundreds of claims were staked out on French Gulch and only eight or ten of the hundreds have paid.
 The boys who make their money cas-
 fly blow it in with equal facility. An illustration of this fact is found in the
 
 opened in Dawson City a month Or two
 ago. On the first night the manage
 ment took in thirteen thousand dollars.
 One man spent three thousand dollars
 for champagne at forty dollars bottle,
 representing total of seventy-ive bot
 ties, and one of the girls, who made her
 money by percentage on the wine she
 sold received seven hundred and fifty
 dollars as her first weeks salary. But
 seven hundred and fifty dollars is not, in Dawson City, so much as it seems
 To illustrate, the first eggs received there last spring sold for eighteen dol lars dozen, while lemons and aranges were retailed at one dollar to one dol lar and half apiece, and it required eight dollars and half to buy a two pound can of butter. But prices were higher last winter than they were in the spring. For instance, a sack of flour that cost from fifty to one hnn- dred and twenty-five dollars in the winter could be bought for fifteen dol lars even before the first boat came in this spring.
 As a general proposition it may not pay to get hilariously full, but the case of Charlie" Anderson demonstrates that it sometimes pays. One night he looked upon the wine when it was red, and three of his acquaintances took ad- vantage of the occasion to sell to him for eight hundred dollars claim which 1 they considered worthless. The net l morning, while his head was still with l him, he tried to get them to retract the | contract, but they would not So, for l lack of something better to do, he l worked the claim. To sum it all up l briefly, he struck it rich and before the ! gold seekers now in town left the Klon- ! dike he had been offered and refused l seven hundred and fifty thousand dol- l lars for the claim for which he paid | eight hundred dollars. And it is sol | emn thought that he never would have | secured this bonanza if he had not | walked in the broad and easy way l which leaves ones head unduly large on the next morning.
 Another kind of luck was that of the l Lucky Kid who may have had an- | other name, but it has been forgotten. l In the first place, he staked out a claim on Fl Dorado, grew weary of working 1t very soon and sold it for one hundred | dollars. It since has yielded to it's l owner more scores or hundreds of | thousands of dollars than person with regard for his reputation for veracity would like to mention hen the Lucky Kid' went to Bear Creek. staked claim there and sold it for sixty-five hundred dollars. This sounds like pretty fair price, but when it is considered that the claim now is valued at a large fraction of a l million dollars, it will be seen that the I Kids own peculiar kind of luck still ! was clinging to him. It is confidently believed along the Klondike that a very good way to acquire wealth would be to follow along the Kids trail and pick up his leavngs at his own price, San Francisco Examiner
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