The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-13

summer Charges 20 cents per pound
from Nome to any of the creeks, say
10 or II miles away. He has cleared go
far over $4,000 and is still at work.
This know to be fact. You can i'm
agine what it costs to feed horses when
the hay and grain has all been shipped
from Seattle. Sans long experience at
Dyea has learned him lesson and now
he is in fair way to become wealthy.
Frank Metler will remain at Nome this
winter in the employ of the N A. T.
& T. company. Mrs. Metler and Lillian
are at Healy, and will leave shortly for
Seattle and Montana. Frank has made
some money at Nome this season. Billy
Black and Nate Vestal are also at
Nome. Have not seen them.
l have been in the employ Of the N.
A. T. & T. company at Healy this sum-
mer and had charge of their store at
that place. 1t is anything but healthy
place to live. 1t rains most of the time
and the atmosphere is damp. We have
had very few pleasant days during the
summer Since my arrival / have been
throubled with the asthma, otherwise
my health has been good. am now on
my way up the Yukon river, accompan-
led by my daughter Grace, to take
charge of the company store at Circle
City. Joe Healy and Tom Finnegan
are also passengers en- route to Dawson,
where they expect to winter.
I have met several old acuuaintances
during the summer. Frank Aldrich and
John McNally came down from Dawson
and went to Nome Red Mcconnell
was down, but l did not see him. Cap
tain Simms, an old Missouri river cap
tain, Is captain Of the Hamilton. John
ny Tattan is clerking in the store at
Healy Oily Crane from Benton is
clerlSing in the company store at Nome.
Mrs diff ic bH,lEaynarar OF ho o}r1
Healy. Capt. j. J. Healy his son. T. c..
wife and little daughter, Mrs. Maggie
King and daughter Grace all came
down from Dawson a short time since
on the steamer Hamilton, and all ex-
cepting the captain will leave soon for
Seattle. The captain will return to
Dawson on the next steamer and go
thence to Seattle via Skaguay
The distance from Seattle to Healy
via the ocean is about 200 miles. From
Healy to Circle City, 1885 miles; from
Circle City to Dawson, 325 miles; from
Healy to Nome, about 1870 miles.
That you may have some idea of the
amount of business transacted in Alas
ka by the North American Transporta-
ton and Trading company I will give
you few items. The officers of the
company are Michael Cudahy, presi-
dent; John ]. Healy, general manager;
Charles A. Weare, treasurer; Uric
King, secretary; A. N Gray, traffic
manager, and +. S. Buchanan, auditor
Their stores are at Dawson, Domin-
ion, Klondike City. Peavy-Tozikakat
Fort Cudahy. Eagle City, Circle City,
Fort Yukon, Rampsrt, Weare, Hamil-
ton, Nome and Healy. About 400 men
are employed by the company during
the summer months, besides about u
men employed in their mines around
Dawson. Steamers owned by the COM
pany are the large ocean steamer Roam
oke, river steamers P. B. Weare, ]. ].
Healy, John Cudahy, Charles H Ham
iton, 7. c. Power, j. c. Barr; harhor
steamers st. Michael. Klondike, Celia
Bob and e. A. Hamil. and schooners
Marion and Edith. plying between
Healy and Nome. The ocean steamers
chartered by the company this
season are the Cleveland, Mel
son, Eli Thompson and Carrier
Dove. over 5000 tons of me.-
chandise have been shipped to Healy by
the company for their different stores
this season and more to arrive. Aside
from this they have secured some very
rich copper mines. which they consider
worth more than all their other prop
erty and of which you will probably
hear something next season.