The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

is 80 cents. The combine of the res
taurants to hold the price of meals VI
to $3.50 is broken, and the price is
now 81.
The BARRIERS are just as miserable as
the restaurant-keepers They make sad
reflections to their customers about the
degeneracy of the camp. You can now
get shave for % cents, a haircut for
so cents, and bath for 81. And, what
is still greater boon, the miners think,
you can buy drink of whisky for 20
cents Even at this price the saloon
keepers are making bigger profits than
they did year ago at 90 cents a drink.
Then they had to pay $50 gallon for
their whisky, and now they can buy all
they want for $3.50.
Kerosene is Is cents a gallon, as
against SIS last winter; candies, 10
cents, as against 81 apiece; oatmeal, 20
cents pound, as against 81; nails, 80
cents a pound, as against IS; cigars, 20
cents apiece, as against 80 cents; con-
densed milk, so cents a can, as against
$3.50; champagne, $25 a bottle, as
against SIS (when obtainable last win
teri; bacon, 30 cents a pound, as against
81; shoes and boots, $40 a pair, as
against $25; mulklukS, $40 a pair, as
against $50; Undertaking, S. a suit, as
against SIS; coffee, 70 cents a pound, as
against 81. so. and wages from So to So,
as against $40 to SIS a day. In fact,
matches are about the only thing that
is as high as last winter during the
famine. Every man always brings
enough matches. The terrible straits
of having nothing with which to light
a fire in frigid country appeals to the
simplest mind in selecting supplies.
GOLD OUTPUT FOR 1898.
Though half the pilgrimage of last
summer will go out with less money
than they started with, their coming
to the Klondike means that $4,000, 900
more of gold will be put in circulation
in the United States next year than if
they had stayed at home. The output
of this year will be at least $25, 0e1 geo,
every ounce Of it being taken out by
hand. There are thousands of quartz
claims staked, but no development
work has been done as yet. All the in
geniouS machines for thawing dirt
brought in last summer have been fail
ures Most Of the schemes for l1y-
draulicS have also fallen through. Peo-
pie on the outside who have put money
into absurd enterprises for dredging
the dust of the submerged bars of the
river during the summer months must
be sad if they have heard of the results
In the neighborhood of Dawson at least
not $1,000 has been taken out in this
way.
But for the royalty probably the out
put of gold this year would be $35, 000,-
600. Last year it was certainly So, 000,-
600, though the government was able
to collect royalty on less than S.. 900, 000
Instead of blowing about how big the
returns are from their claims. as is the
rule in most placer mining camps, the
miners are blowing about how small
they are. When the police discovered
$4,000 which one miner had buried so
that no royalty could be collected on it,
he said that he was saving it up to pay
his royalty next year.
Aside from the card sharpers, the
INDECENT, and the lazy, who swarm in
the saloons, and the sick. there are
probably $4,000 men in the country who
are hard at work day after day. You
meet as many people passing back and
forth on the trail in the valley of Bo- |
nanza as in the main street of a good
sized town. This is the route to the
creeks in the Indian river district,
which have their origin in the Dome
and are supposed TO be rich.
As soon as the Shedding was good the |
men who are going to work claims on
creeks that We're staked a year ago |