The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-06
come ont very wealihv.

come out very wealthy.
In winter the ground freezss to a depth
OF one hundred feet or more, Mining is
carried on during that season by building
fires on the top OF the ground and then
tunneling As a sample of the wealth of
the EldoradO one OF the richest mines in
that locality, Mr.. Feindel stated that he
knew for a fact that ak men in ten hours
cleaned up seven gold psus fun. As each
pan is worth $4,000 the $3.50 900 fhese men
took out in one day constituted one Of the
biggest days work on record. Eighteen
millions OF dollars were reported to have
been taken out of these last spring.
Mr.. Feindeps next location was at Forty
Vile, tftN-five miles further toward The
Yukon. From there he went to Jack Wade
creek, In the latter place he found plenty
OF gold, but everything there Is staked, and
he could get hold Of nothing without going
back one hundred and seventy five miles.
Every stream from Da son City to St.
Michael's is staked back for from twenty.
five to one hundred and seventy five
miles
At Eagle City peculiar earth formation
was noticed. After going through about
eleven teet OF frost a layer OF gravel was
struck in which there was no frost, then
another ten feet of frozen earth then layer
of gravel and finally frost to the depth OF
many feet Ia the Klondike region was al
so found petriti5d wood and bones of mas
todons fit y-ive feet below the surface
From Jack Wade Mr.. Feindel went to
Steel Gulch, where he again proSpected
without success. This is an old mining
camp, and pretty well exhausted. From
this point he returned TO Dawson Civ
where he remained until the middle Of last
June. The snow goes off there about May
l, and during the next three months gar
den vegetables and potatoes are received
During June, July and August is perpetual
day, and for six weeks in the winter the
SUI is never visible. A twilight prevails
which enables miners 10 get in about seven
hours work Not cloud is to be seen in
the sky during the winter season.
The country around Dawson City is GOV
cred with small timber which reaches to
the mountain tops This is mostly spruce.
poplar and birch. Sp uce lumber sells in
Dawson city for $3.50 a thousand and for
$500 If planed on one side. Three lumber
mills at Dawson run day and night The
logs are RATED down the Yukon ior two
hundred miles or more.
The reports Of depredatons by the In.
dians at Dawson City and elsewhere are
denied by Mr.. Feindel. He says the H.
dians are honest, and personal property
every where is safe. The gambling houses
and dance halls at Dawson ity run from
seven o'clock in the evening until morning
AS a rule every thing is peaceable and the
neople are a. safe as they would be in
Mont leler. a young man, however, must
have a strong will to resist temptations he
will meet there. Thousands might have
C me out with fortunes thai were squander-
ed in Dawson City.
Prices in Dawson City soar skywsrd.
Butter is 81 per pound, sugar 81 per pound,
-four S32 per barrel, canned goods 81 per
CAP, condensed milk, piutsi 70 cents per
can, bacon 50 cents pound, coffee and tea
81 rer pound, dried fruits 80 cents per
pound, potatoes 81 per pound, eggs SO per
dozen, chickens $3.50 each, apples 40 cents
zach Ivitb n her things in prOpOrtiOu.
Mr.. Feindel went June % from Dawson
City to Cape Nome on BehrlDg sea, which
he reached July and where he struck
it," He was one of the first prospectors on
the beach and he found II rich in gold, ay.
eraging all the way from So 10 $500 day.
Prospectors have crowded in there until to.
day every thing is staked along the water
front for sixty miles and for thirty-fve
miles into the Interior. The conditions that
far back are very unfavorable for next sea-
son. The country has no timber, the
ground is covered with a moss into which
one sinks to his knees, when 1t is not
frozen Fuel is hard TO obtain, and for the
lack of this NJ. Feindel predicts trouble
this winter. When he left it was getting
very sickly there. Bilious typhoid fever is
the general complaint, and when he left
$50 were reported i'll with this disease
Mr.. Feindel says there is no lack of pro-
visions at Cape Nome, Dawson City or any
place of size. Dawson City has provisions
enough to last five years, but with coal at
$40 per ton, and drift wood picked up on
the beach $50 a cord, much suffering for
fuel is sure to be experienced this winter
Mr.. Feindel was fifteen days coming from
Cape Mona to San Francisco One died on
the boat and ~ enty-one were sick, He be-
lieves that 81 600 have been taken out
along that beach, and considers even this a
conservative estimate. Some claims there
are valued at $500 600.
Mr. Feindel landed in San Francisco with
seventeen months growth of hair and
beard and wearing the identical clothes be
wore in the mines He was shown every
attention there at one Of the finest hotels in
the city, and was besieged by newspaper
men and others for facts regarding the
country he had left. He has sold out ali
the claims he had at Cape Nome and has nc
idea of returning, He mod silly rerains
from stating the siz9 of the pile he brought
home but he evidently is confident he has
enough to keep himself and wife in ease to
the end of their days.
Mr.. Feindel has a peculiarly interesting
way of describing what he has seen and
passed through in that far away country.
Other columns Of equally interesting facts
might be written did space permit.