The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-21

ing from $40 to SIS a day. Aside from the
TWO stores, three or four barber shops,
half a dozen laundries, five or six restau-
rants, a secondhand store or two, two
sawmhls, three butcher shops, two jewelry
stores, dozen physicians and dentists.
and a couple of real estate offices, the
principal business engaged in is whisky
and gambling. Compared with prices in
the states the prices at first glance seem
exorbitant, but when the prevailing late
Of wages of from $40 to SIS a day is taken
into consideration, the changes
appear more reasonable. Meat
brings 70 cents pound;
goldfish, 40 cents; a shave costs 50 cents,
and hair cut 81 five gallons of kerosene
sell for $50; meals at the Chinese res
taurant cost cents in the United States
bring 80 cents in Dawson, and once last
winter they were at $1i bread IS worth 81
loaf, ard rubbed boots absolutely nee
essary in working in placer gold mines)
sell at Dawson for S25 a pair
The biggest money lender in Dawson
is Brooklyn man named James p. Nc
Cauley. He made a lot of money In Grip
pie Creek by lending money on first-class
securities at the rate of 2 per cent.
month, and compromising every thirty
days. He happened to have a large wad
of money in a Denver bank, and he was
looking about for an investment when the
news came from Seattle of the returning
Klondikers and their golden boards Mr.
McCauley started Immediately for Seat
tie. There he assured himself of the gen.
uiueness of the reports from Alaska, and
when he had drawn his cash he started
for Dawson on the first steamer north
He has made a great fortune In the nine
months he has been doing business. He
gets per cent, on all loans and he has
city lots in Dawson and gold dust as Sc
curity for his money. l never knew a
money lender to have the cinch that Mr.
McCauley has. Halsey W.tPutnam is one
of the richest miners in the Klondike. He
IS a native and was for years a resident
of Brooklyn also. He came down to San
Francisco in March, and is now on his
way back to Dawson for two, years more
of work. He is worth fully $250,000. He
is about 81, was born iR Williamsburg.
N. Y, and lived for years at the corner
of Keap street and Division avenue. His
father ran the engine on tugboat in
New York bay for twenty-five years.
Young Putnam was printer, then a
laborer for the Park Department of BROOK
lyn and few years ago he was a black
smith in Portland, ore. He got to Dawson,
a week after the first discovery of god
was made. He had about an ounce of gold
between himself and starvation then. OF
course, he had the cream of the new dig
gings in which to select his
claim. He mined and sold
about 10000 worth of gold in the first year,
or from August, 1896. to August, 1897.
New jerseys most notable representa-
tive in the Klondike is George Wetmore,
who deals faro and runs the Golden Arc
tic Saloon and gambling place. He was
born in Newark, and he lived there and in
New York for thirty years, when he went
to Helena Mont. He has always been
professional gambler, and no doubt he is
remembered by hundreds of men in New
ark along in the seventies and in New
York from 1880 to 1888. His gambling pal
ace is not so gorgeous as one might infer
from the name, but it is a wonderful
money maker 1t is a low, one-story af-
far of log walls half the way up and
rough-sawed pine boards for the upper
walls and roof. It's interior area is thirty
by forty feet. Mud and moss a foot thick
coat the roof for the sake of warmth with
in the structure. Earth is heaped five feet
high about the log walls. The bar and
tables are of implanted pine. The glass
ware back of Georges bar is the most daz-
zlng in all Dawson. 1t consists Of two
cheap mirrors and about three dozen COM
mon bar glasses. The whole could be
bought anywhere in the states for about
s.. The rent of the establishment is 800 a
week. or sixteen ounces of gold and the
landlord has been lamenting all winter
that ne had foolishly given a lease for
such a beggarly sum. George has made
money right along. Some people say he
took $500 to Dawson last year and has
1,2C0 ounces of gold ready to ship to the
mint next summer. You can reckon that
gold at about SIG 50 an ounces"