Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-03

would bring the product up to $2,OOO,OOO ant
I believe that at the least the product wa'
from 81 SOC, 900 to S2,0O0,000. They worked
nearly thirteen miles of this beach"
Confusing Medley of Big Figures.
But it is not alone in the mines that bis
figures prevail. They form the basis o.
every transaction in Nome, whether public
or private One of the papers sent by Sny'
der gives report of a meeting of the
municipal council for the purpose
of reducing the salaries of the
six patromen comprising the city's
police force to a paltry $3.50 a month
Although such action was taken, it was eX'
planned that the reduction was merely tenn
porary. This was doubtless to dsarm the
opposition, for there was opposition, and II
| is related that one councilman named Dono-
van declared that a man could not live on
$3.50 a month when he had TO pay 81 meal
He engaged in controversy with another
! councilman named Dam in relation to the
adequacy of the proposed salary.
| Policemen" said Donovan, "get $l25 a
month outside besides rake-off, which they
don't get here"
Dam-Don't they?
Donovan-No. / was policeman once for
two weeks and / didn't get any
Dam-You weren't onto your job
| At the same meeting, relates the paper,
Dr. Writ OF the hospital wanted assurance
| from the council that he should have all
! city patients at S. each per day. Another
item in the same issue showed that at DR..
Wirt's hospital there were twenty-five
patients, but as the latter are cared for at
reduced rates, it was evident that DR.. Wirt's
hospital was doing a business of at least
S125 day. Meantime, at meeting within
the week, private citizens had subscribed to
pay sums aggregating $50 a month for the
support of the hospital, and lot of trained
nurses had arrived to lend their services.
The Gold Digger gives an interesting table
OF ruling prices in Nome that easily puts
in the shade any of the fanciful stories by
pioneers in any OF the western mining
camps, where prices have always hitherto
seemed fabulous. "These prices" says Gold
Digger, may seem extraordinary to residents
OF the Pacific coast and the east, but here
most OF them do not excite any comment
The truth is that the beach mines have, dur
ing the summer, produced so much gold to
tho workers there that everybody has had
money who was endowed with the slightest
ambition to get along, 1t is only lately,
however, that flour, lumber and coal have
reached the phenomenal figures now ruling.
Some OF the present prices are
Beef. per pound .................. .75a$ 90
Wood, per cord observation-disclosures. $3j. OOd so 90
Flour per hundredweight. 1000
Butter. per pound. 100
Canned milk, per Can.......,..,.. so
California canned fruit, per can. 20
All canned meats, per can, about ,75
Maple syrup, per gallOn.....,.... 4tO
Potatoes, per hundredweight., 10. O00 loo
Cabbage per hundredweight -. 10. .OOIp IS 90
Onions per hundredweight. 10. 0OlO 15. 90
Tomatoes per can................. 80
Sweet potatoes, per can. ........... 30
Coal, per ton....................... 1910
Shingles, per bunCh.............. $50
Lumber per /, 900 feet,.........,.. 5000
Here are some of the ruling restaurant
prices:
PorterhOusc steak.....,............... so
Tenderloin steak. ....,,,,,,.,,...,..........3 800
flaln OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, LOO