Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
LETTER FROM ALASKA.

DAWSON, YUKON TERRITORY,
Sept. 9, 1899.
Editor Willmar Tribune, Willmar, MINI.
SIR:-I have received three different
packages. containing copies of the
Tribune, and the latest is of July IL,
so now am really ipatting myself on
the back for being pretty we'll up to
the times.
We are doing quite we'll here in the
summer, but only about one month
later and we will! not he expecting to
hear from the outsid world for nearly
four months. Last winter we had alb
solutely no mail from the outside
world from the 18th of October till
about the 18th of February.
will narrate brief account of the
progress OF our metropolis. We have
now daily paper which sells on the
streets or is delivered at the cabin for
25 cents copy, $40. for six months
Or s35 per anum, and the paper is On
" a G-column page. It is smaller
than the first issue was of the Tri-
bune. Then we have semi weekly
paper also selling at the same price,
25 cents per copy, and a weekly SELL
ing at 10 cents Il copy, and the fourth
is a monthly paper. This last sum-
mer has been an eventful period in
Dawson's history. When I first
landed at Dawson on the 18th of May,
'97, there was only Two log huts to be
seen and few tents; two of them were
occupied as saloon and gambling
hall. Now it is fast becoming more
like all eastern city, The small log
cabins and slab shanties which have
heretofore been occupied as saloons,
dance halls and stores are now being
torn downs>and big, three story. build
ingss put in their place. Business men
OF all classes begin to realize now that
Dawson is not to be only Il tempor-
ary camp but to last for at least 10
year to come. New and rich pay
streaks are frequently unearthed and
in time not far distant there will be
a number of quartz mines in opera
ton, and with these actual and future
promising resources business men and
miners are taking ia their wives and
children and are making their homes
as comfortable as possible or as
means and conveniences afford.
The Canadian government has had
a golden harvest in this country. Is
is reported that the large amount of
81, 500, 900 alone in revenue has been
collected as royalty on the gold taken
out for last season. The miners in
particular, as well as business men
and the "Tenderloin" fraternity, all
are dissatisfied with the obnoxious
Ind oppressive laws, aud the evident
result of the crying injustice is de-
monstrated at the departure of every
steam boat, nearly; 10, 900 souls having
left this country the time of the navi-
cation. Some good strikes have been
made on the American side. Jack
Wade Creek has as rich ground as
that of the best on Eldorado Creek.
Thousan Of people have gone to ST..
Michaels or Cape Nome, which prom
ises. if the reports are reliable, to be
the hottest mining camp ever known
of in the world. Time on my part and
space in your valuable paper will not
permit me to mention a few of the i'm
portant strikes at Nome, so I will
postpone that until my next letter:
But I will say this much, that it is a
country full of hardships and priva-
tions which. cannot be- exag-
gerated. Prospectors going to Cape
Nome this fall should 6rstof all have
good health and q big purse. .s II +
The climate on the Alaskan coast is
so d ifferent from the calm, cool and
fresh air OF the inferior that many
who were il an excellent state ol
health IN the ri ondike regi ion will find
II it%dificult to live in that severe eli.
mate on the coast Of the Behring sea.
Cape Nome Is bout 2, 900 miles from
Dawson. intend to take q trip e
1.-the new. Eld Grad 8 next summer, posi-.
bly, on my way home. /.
PROVISIONS are getting reason abs Il s
here now. will insert the last nj arke'
list: Flour, 855 IS to- per sack; beans. \
lloc to su 1se per lo:
bacon and per lb. but tter, t'e1 ], :'(ti 5Ot
Ito s. per Is. ii q; 20 70 225c per lb. ],
rolled oats, 20 tos 225c per corr corn i
Imeal s22Oc. per potatoes 25c per III y.
sourd doug S. o*tn Toe per -. milk u
4 4 40 40 "a per ca d: 50 to PEI g
loan; an 3s5 per b ri; REC
Ifrnits, onions zoe zoe per lb: b
cabbage ifor. 81 u1nner squash 55o' tl'
lper cum ber ~. 1ffor g tomatoes
75esto s1 per sweet potatoes So IS
poultr ens each agall
old ch h toss
sIpsr t lersl pork
.l 1sc elsper slllb, y