Mohave County miner., 1899-07-22

only from 10 y Genus aoo'o
inclusive, and the rest is no good.
Wages on Little Minook this winter
we're 6S per day, and you boarded your
self. There were some men VINO Oh
fered to work for ex-Gov. McGraw on
No. 8 this spring, in the cleanup, ior
2.5Os a day and board themselves.
There is a saw mill running on the
water front that pays $50 and board,
and the employees are compelled 10
take il out of a store that belongs to
the man that owns the mill, at MS
prices and take such stuff as he wants
them to at that. BY multiplying the
price in San Francisco by hve you
have his price. A number OF people
leaving are selling out at San iran
cisco prices, without freight added.
Beans are selling here at 3cts per
pound. bacon for 10 and 12cts, rice
15cts, dried fruit l5cts; -four - a sack,
sugar 25cts per pound; canned goods
Scots to lS.
Almost everyone is anxious for the
Yukon to break up so they can get out
after the last cake of ice. or course,
some of these transportation companies
are doing their utmost to boom the
country because they are stuck. Every
body is looking for a bunch of tender
feet--or chechocabs as they call them
hereto unload.
Whenever you hear or see in the pa
pers of fellow blowing up this coun-
try as great mining country hereafter
you can safely wager that he is either
interested in some stock company that
is trying to float some stock, or is in-
terested in some Yukon transportation
company. There is gold in this coun-
try; you can find it in almost every
little stream that flows into the Yukon
and, perhaps, there are other places
like the Klondike and those few claims
on Little Minook, and it is great
game of perhaps" too-like hunt
ing for a needle in hay NOW. l
have not seen a quartz ledge in this
country but what is barren, mostly
stratified, and like everything else
here, hungry looking.
There are about 1000 people in this
town, 60 Of whom are women. We es-
innate that they brought in on an aver
age of 1908 apiece, which would be
turned loose in coming to this country,
and am safe in saying that about l5O,-
COOS, certainly not to exceed 20O,Oo0s
land that is big will be the output.
Take this same amount of money and
direct it to some country like Califor-
mia or Arizona, in the line of mining,
and | dare say there would be far
greater success. From what can
learn of the country about Juneau it
far surpasses this. think we will stop
there on our way out, but without a
doubt this Yukon country is an exag-
Grafton of the worst kind, transpor-
tation company fake In two or three
years the Indians will be fishing in
steamboats, on the Yukon, and many a
transportation company will hit the
ceiling.
The United States has acquired sew
possessions since we came up here that
, would recommend a man to try his
luck on in preference to this.
1t is amusing to meet the various
people from different parts of the
states and notice how much difference
there is is in the manner they display
their feelings over the situation of af-
fairs; whilst most of them take it good
naturedly, they cannot help feeling
sore about coming. They call fellow
with pack on his back an A. p. A
Alaska Pack Animal Ny advice to
anyone having the Alaska fever, is for
them to go and consult phrenologist
before starting. In speaking about the
hospital l forgot to mention that the
two diseases more universal than others
are scurvey and softening of the brain
Owing to the excessive cold weather in
this country there are number of cases
of that nature. l suspect that almos
all of us who are up here are more OF
less affected that way since coming
here, or else were pretty well gone be
fore we started, SO would advise any
one who has the fever to have an exam
ination made, and abide by it and dom
come. e. j. HEALEY.
The Tacoma smelter, which now hai