The herald., 1898-01-21
Evangelina Cisneros Signs
for Cuba
A BOOM IN THE NORTHWEST
DAILY THINKS MONTANA BETTER
THAN KLoNDIKE
The Idaho Gold Fields Are Also an
Inducement to Stay With
Uncle Sam

The Idaho Gold Fields Are Also an
Inducement to Stay With
Uncle Sam
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 14.-(Spe-
cial Correspondence to The Herald.)
Senorita Evangelina Cosio w. Cisneros
the beautiful Cuban girl who was res
cued from Spanish prison by the New
York Journal, has come to the front
again in card to the Journal, in which
she offers her time and talents in what
ever way they can be used by "one poor,
weak girl" in raising money for the
suffering Cubans. How her services can
be used remains to be seen. During her
stay in Washington Miss Cisneros has
made quite number of friends. She has
for some time been in school at the Wis
itation Catholic convent. She has been
studying hard and making faithful
effort toward the conquest of English.
In this she has not as yet made great
success. In speaking to friend the
other day she said: Il really do not enjoy
life up here much. 1 have been exhib-
tied on so many occasions to so many
people. l do not understand what SO
many of them say and l cannot talk to
them, and I am continually distressed
by the thought of my suffering people
down in Cuba. My mother is dead, my
father Is In prison and my sister Is hav-
ing an awfully hard time and difficulty
in getting enough to eat. l guess 1t is
best for me to be in this great country,
but would enjoy myself much more If
could be down in Cuba"
Miss Cisneros usually spends Sunday
with Mrs. John A. Logan or with the
Marcelles. a Spanish family with Cuban
sympathies.
DAILY ON KLONDIKE
Marcus DAILY, manager of the Anacon-
da copper mines and the copper king OF
Montana, has been in the city for sew
eral days. Mr.. Daily has passed through
all grades of mining, from handling
pick and shovel to managing the largest
mining properties in the United States.
He Is an "all-round" miner, and his
opinion on any mining question is worth
a great deal. In speaking of the great
rush to the Alaska gold fields the other
evening, Mr.. Daily said: Il think that it
is very unfortunate craze which has
taken so many people to Alaska. The
probability is there will be very little
gained and very great suffering as re-
suit. There may be great deal of gold
scattered through the Klondike coun-
try, but conditions are not such that 1t
can be profitably mined The climate OF
the country makes it an impossibility to
do successful mining. Most of the year
prospectors or miners are more apt to
freeze to death than they are to find
| gold. They have to keep every part OIL
their bodies covered in furs.
"It Is only two or three months in the
year that they can pretend to work
at all. And with the gold scattered as
it is, it is practical impossibility for
them to make a success of the mining
business. There Is gold all through the
northern part Of Montana and through
one-half dozen of the western states and
a great part of Canada, but there is not
enough of it and it is not situated that it
can be mined with profit. And so with
this Alaska gold. About the only peo-
pie who will make money out Of 1t will
be the transportation people, the hotel
people and the outfitters in San Fran
cisco, Seattle and other cities, who will
sell at big prices great loads Of out
fitting material to the people who are
going there. This line of trade is made
particularly good by the fact that every
I body who starts to the Klondike coun-
try is obliged to have a good deal of
money. 1t is not the sort of place that
a poor man can go to. Food. clothing
and steamboat tickets have to be pur-
chased with cash."
This expression by Mr.. DAILY reminds
me that Mr.. Benton, attorney for the
Great Northern railroad, said the other
day that the travel to the Klondike
country during the coming spring was
going to be perfectly enormous. He said
that the railroad and steamboat COM
panies were already beginning to make
immense preparations and that the cor
| respondence In regard to Transports
ton indicated that about the greatest
rush that has ever been made in any
part of the earth will be made this
spring for the Alaskan gold fields.
IDAHOS GOLD FIELDS
Fred R. Reed of Boise, Idaho, and ex-
Representative William H. Doolittle OF
the state Of Washington, have been in
the city for some days. They are inter-
ested in developing some new and very
attractive gold mining properties in
| northern Idaho and are negotiating with
eastern capitalists to that end. Mr.
Doolittle has been in New York for sew
eral months. In short while he expects
to be back aagin in his home in the state
of Washington. He is exceedingly en-
| thusiastic upon the mining future of the
west. In speaking on this line he said
There is no doubt that we have ths
| richest gold mining belt in the world
There Is vein Of gold which starts dowr
| in Mexico and goes northward through
Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada
Oregon and Washington and on up into
British Columbia, finally eliminating ir
Alaska and the Klondike country. Thi.
lead branches out into California and
Utah. From past experiences 1t has ap-
peared that 1t gets richer as it goes
northward. However, some of the rich.
est gold fields in the world have been
found in California, Idaho and Washing.
ton. In one place in the Boise valley, ir
Idaho, about nine miles long and a hall
or three quarters of mile wide, more
than 5000, 1000, 900 of gold has been taker
| out. This much was minted. No telling
how much was carried off in native dust
and nuggets, of which no official account
was ever received"
SPOKANE'S PROSPERITY
Mr. T. A Farrell of Snokane who fs