The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26
A pLuoky WESTERN HEROINE.
Successful Trip of q BLACK Ellis Girl
Through the Kiondike.

Through the hionulke.
Rapid City, in the Black Hills. has re-
Gently had greatness thrust upon 1t
through the heroic exploits of one of
it's piucky daughters. Miss Edith
Howe has just returned from the Klon-
dixie. 1t is doubtful II another woman
in the world has seen as much of that
cold and practically unknown country
as she has.
Miss Howe left Rapid City in August,
1898, and reached Dawson City in Feb
ruary. She knows a great deal about
the klondike. She has been UP and
down the Yukon river several times,
both by steamer and by dog team. The
experience of her life was the trip
which she made all alone down the
dog team. t."
The thermometer was often so de-
grees below zero. and yet she never ex-
perienced a moments inconvenience
from the cold.
Miss Howe was clad warmly in
suit of buckskin, and in her sleeve she
carried silk handkerchief. She usu-
ally walked in front of her dogs, and
when she felt her face tingling with
the cold she would rub the spot yigor
ously with the handkerchief which al
ways brought back the circulation of
the blood.
She made the 400 miles in IA drives,
v
The nights she spent ct the road
houses along the way. Miss Howe al
ways met with the most cordial treat
ment wherever she went alone and her
energy and pluck We're the admiral
ton Of everyone.
AT one time she hired out to a dredg-
ing company at White Horse as cor
respondent. She was to receive $4,000
year, and her work was to write up
descriptive articles of the company's
operat tons for a boom in the papers
of the states
After being with the company for
some time she discovered that it was
fake and she quit. Purchasing deg
team, she went to Dawson City. where
she became acquainted with a woman
with whom she formed partnership
in the laundry business. They secured
the laundry contract of the Canadian
mounted police. which paid them $500
month. They were permitted to take in
work from civilians, which also brought
in a good income. @.t
After getting the laundry business
nicely started Miss Howe was taken
sick with typhoid fever, and her re-
covery being slow, she decided to re-
turn home to the Black Hills, and so
she started from Dawson on September
81.
Miss Howe Ia In love with the frigid
northern country and she expects to
return to her laundry business as soon
as her health will permit. which VIII
Dawson City is full Of sin and vice of
all descriptions, and everything is run
on the wide-open plan, Miss Howe says
that the people, men and all, are the
most sociable lot that she ever saw.
Money there Is plenty and 1t is freely
spent. s.
When Miss Howe left Dawson last
month the 400 mich cows had formed
a trust and it took q whole silver dol
lar to buy a quart. There was cons!d-
cradle sickness in the city and every BIT
of milk was fed to the patients.
Miss Howe states that the reports
sent out several months ago about The
discovery Of "a big vertical vein of
quartz ore near Atlin by the Florman
family were true. Robert Florman,
wife and two daughters, Frankie and
Florence, formerly lived in Rapid City,
too, and Mr.. F'lorman was very promi-
nent in mining affairs in the Black
Hills for several years.
While prospecting for gold near At
lin one of the Florn1an girls discovered
a 440-foot vein of quartz ore which was
rich in free milling rock 1t just so
happened that William Partridge, the
well-known mining expert, better
known to the London Mining Exchange
as Sailor Bill" name given him
around the famous Kimberley diamond
mines in South Africa. WAS n friend NJ
the Flormans, and he came to Atlin
soon after the discovery OF the quartz
vein was made. Partridge bonded he
ground Immediately for 100000 and left
for London. where he interested Lord
Hamilton. who took up the bond as
soon as he had made an examination of
the property. The recent development
of the quartz vein has shown it to be
very rich in gold. The Flormans have
the money, which fact Is gratifying to
their many Black Hills friends.
The big mining deal brought about
the acquaintance of Miss Florence Flor
man with Frank Baker, q rich mine
owner of Dawson and their marriage
was celebrated just before Miss Howe
left Dawson for the Black Hills. They
are residing at Dawson.-Chicago
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