Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-02-16
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when ] arrived also Two small stores. In
the past three months it has changed and
there are now ten large general stores six
teen Saloons, eight restaurant, seven
bakeries three dance houses, two hospi-
tails, That it properly termed would be
called slaughter houses, two drug stores,
five doctors aud 5000 white men. Even
now every kind Of business is at stand.
still. You ask why business is dull IN
a country which the daily papers tell you
contains sue. a great abundance of gold
1t is simple enough, there are hundreds
Of people that have come in here expect.
ing they could gather up gold the same
way that farmers scoop up wheat III their
granaries. Then some come here expect
lnx to make u fortune working for others
They are also disappointed and can barely
exist ON the present wages Of IS day.
Flour is $36 barrel, tea and coffee 81
Ter pound, tutter $1.5O. rice beans oat
meal aud corn meal IS cents a pound,
tobacco $3.50 per pou d, canned goods of
all kinds 81 per can, kerosene sells at
$3.50 per gallon aud all articles are pro-
por,ionateIy high. bought so pounds
of potatoes, for which paid $3.50 and
felt that 1t WIS pretty hard on The Irish.
Judging from these quotations you can
easily see that a man can barely live on
IS, where he has to work by candle light
all the tir1e, with candles costing SIP for
box of 100. have plenty of all kinds
of provisions and clothing to last me for
solid year. Winter set in here in dead
earnest Oh September 18th, on that day
we got nine inches of snow, then the
slush ice began to run and by the 21st
the Yukon was frozen over and now the
ice is Ia inches thick. The thermometer
stands at 16o with clear weather and a
very light atmosphere. could not adj
wise any one to come to this part of the
world as it is hard trip and harder OK
perlsnces after getting here. In the
summer you are met by swarms of mos
quitoes that are thirsty for white mans
blood and they range in size from teal
duck to a Thanksgiving turkey, with
diamond drills for beaks. You can go
int your CABIN and cover up your head
81 they cannot get at you, then they will
enjoy themselves by carrying of your
cooking utensils. while others stand
guard and see that you don't take your
head from under the blankets. The
other day friend of mine told mo that
he had tried to fool the mosquitoes by
II
but this seemed to make them more
savage than ever aud they drilled holes
in the stove, trying to get at him d
stove and rolled it out of the cabin and
down the hill towards the Yukon. See-
ing the turn things had taken he thought
rather than drown, Now the stove is III
fkao Ia nd ho to1
where two doctors are kept busy pump
ing blood into him. On the other hand
have been told by some of the old timers
that it gets so cold here in January that
they freeze the blaze of their candle and
break it up in small chunks and sell for
strawberries; also that the COWS give ice
cream instead of milk. It takes an i'm
mense amount of capital to open up any
kind of business here. What would
you think of two story log buildings 30 x
GO costing $4,000 each and there are four
buildings of that slze and price here also
three saw mills and lumber yard at
which lumber is sold at Is cents foot.
Native dogs are III great demand at a
ST. 600 pair AS dogs from outside can
not stand he cold. Another OF the big
drawbacks lie the scarcity OF big game
and wild fowl In fact fish is the only
food out here. have not tasted beef
steak since May End. I suppose Morris
Orion gave the boys all the Klundike
news. I think he did wise thing by GO
ing out when he did. Many others can
now regret not having taken a similar
step. AS favor I would ask that you
look after those collections that I had to
leave behind and with the proceeds see
that my dues to the Woodman and Ca
tholic Forester orders are paid up for
year. I send my best wishes to all the
boys and be sure and don't forget the
COURIER DEMOCRAT and W. j, Mooney.
OF course you have my best wishes as
we'll as my sincere thanks for past favors
and those aekedlfor the future.
FRANK j. BRADY,
Better known as, "The Great Noun
tain Climber and Explorer of Alaska"
P.S.-Dlrect all letters to F. J. Brady
Rampant City Alaska, care of the Alaska
Commercial Company.
MANY LIvER:-Has turned with dis