The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-02

ever known there His place was crowded
day and night. Games with stakes of thir-
ty and forty pounds of gold were played
many a time, the story runs.
His daily gross receipts for months
were from $1,000 to $1,000. On Christmas,
1898, he took in at Dawson $500. Every
thing he touched seemed to turn to gold.
He invested in patent oil heater. suitable
for thawing the frozen gravel in the Klon-
dixie placer mines. He was advised by
many men to keep out of the patent enter
prise. But it proved a success, land when
the things had sold like hot cakes he sold
the patent at a profit of $4,000 or $1S,000."
"IIe got wind that rich strikes had been
made at Nome, which is some 1900 miles
west of Dawson, and he started last March
with several dog teams and companions,
overland, across snow and ice, for Nome.
That has tripled his fortune, for he is the
king sport of Nome and he was more
than duplicating his wealth-getting at
Nome last summer. Last October he was
planning to spend some $4,000 on a NAM
moth dance hall, saloon and gambling hell
at Nome, when the summer season of 1900
opened.
woman either in Klondike or at Cape
Nome. She has made every dime of her
$15o00O or s175. 5000 in the last four years,
and with her knowledge of Alaskan min
ing ways and business methods she is
going to increase her wealth during the
next few years. She is at Dawson City
Mr.. Danyers killed in an accident on
the steamer Weare at Circle City in 1896
and Mrs. Danvers was left practically
penniless at St. Michael. She decided to
stop at Dawson and earn her living by
cooking and mending for the miners who
were docking there from all the Yukon
River camps. Her enthusiasm was infect
1ous. She got 81 200 worth of pine lumber
on credit from the saw mill for a board
ing house, and she had credit at the mer-
chandise store for food. Her boarding
house was a success from the day it
opened for business. She had three rooms
twelve feet square, ard each of the
| four walls of these rooms We're five pine
hunks in tiers. =
These weer furnished with dry moss
and blankets. Mrs. Danvers had alto-
gether sixty such hunks. Her charge for
sleeping there was 81 a night or IS a week.
For a year none was ever vacant. After
few months she added few more and
they too, We're always occupied. Her
meals generally consisted of stewed dried
fruit, dry Goldfish herring, salt pork, baz
con, bread, cornmeal and occasionally but
ter and eggs, She got 81 for each meal,
and she had more than 100 people at meal
many and many a time. She was one of
the first in that gold-crazy and impetuoas
population at Dawson that saw possibili-
ties in real estate investments She bought
several acres of marsh land from Jospeh
Ladue for 81 600 or $1,000, and she sold il
a few months later at fifteen times what
she had paid for it,
'She started the original bakery in Daw-
son, and she made thousands of dollars
there. She took two partners into her
scheme and company was organized that
has been highly profitable. Mrs. Danvers
has been sending regularly her spare capt.
tai down to a Seattle bank. 1t is said at
Dawson that she declined more than 200
offers of marriage during her first year of
widowhood and that she now has printed
| form of declination of matrimonial pro-
posals, and that she hands a printed card
to each proposer."