The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-15

sey has an accountant and a lawyer en-
| pioyel by the var to attend TO his various
business and mining interests. He says
| that he will make over $4,000 this year. be-
| cause he now knows how 10 make money
I in an Arctic mining camp.
! After iifty-sevcn years Of poverty and la
boz Of all hard kinds and adventures enough
| tn fiji library III books. Jim Grady has he
come one Of the rich men of Alaska. He
| says he has more money invested I'm gam
bling houses than any man IN America He
was sailor before the mast for twenty
years. He was born in Cherry street. I'm
New York city. He has besn all over the
world. H.. rscd to think that SEQ would
make him independently rich for life Now
nc has an annual income of about sTae,o
aid he never ceases ir his work and plans
to increase il. H has about $4,000 invested
in gorgeous. Up-to-date gambling halls and
saloons at Nome. Dawson and Skasway
and has. besides. real estate and mines
, worth about sl75O'o more. He recently sent
$4,000 in gold down from Alaska to San
! Francisco to buy Oakland street railroad
stocks. Five years ago he was a motornan
in the same company In which he is now a
stakeholder.
he went TO Skasway with the crowd OF
men wtlGly ANXIOUS Ia ger TO Inc fIOnulke
diegings In the summer of 1897. with less
than siU,. and he opened saloon in a log
cabin with a pine board bar. Financially
, his success has been extraordinary. He in
vested in a patent oil heater. suitable for
| thawing the frozen gravel In the -Klondiks
placer mrcs He was advised by many
men To keep out OF the patent enterprise
But Il proved a success, and when the
things had sold like hot cakes he sold the
,, patent at profit Of $1,000 or $4,000
Peter NJ BoErs. whose costly wedding at
the St Charles Hotel In New Orleans last
April attracted wide attention, literally
leaped into the lap of Fortune after years
Of struggle and toll SO severe that. he says.
h.. contemplated suicide for weeks In 1896.
He was born in Detroit, Mich. in 1860 and
was a chopper in Michigan lumber camp
when he was ~ He was injured by fall
so ,aat he could longer work wood
chopper. He was a porter at the Genesee
Hotel in Buffalo in 1892 and went on the
Erie Canal for few seasons. He was do
ing dock work in Seattle when the kion-
dixie boom began and he started fer Daw-
son with about $50 capital. He nearly died
in Dawson, and 4 friendly miner, who took
pity on the poverty-stricken. ernaciated fell
low, paid his fare down the Yukon to st.
Michaers. There Boggs worked for seven
months in a salmon cannery. In January.
1899 he and two other gold-hungry men.
Drawing a temperature OF 10 below zero.
started to walk uo the coast from ST. Mi
chaers to Nome so to be early at the
new digGings. 1t was an awful risk. One
of Peter Boggs's companions was frozen to
death the first week of the tramp.
Peter located a claim on Snow Creek and
he got the sirloin of collaborating gravel in
that locality. He worked like fiend from
March till october. He washed out golden
nuggets and flakes to the value of $sOoo
with a rude rocker in two weeks. Then he
bought a claim on the sandy beach at
Nome for 1850 and hired men TO work Il
for him. He bought two other claims on
Snow Creek last July. and when the last
steamer came down the coast last October
Peter Boggs was aboard and he had with
him three skin sacks OF gold that he sold
for exactly $1,000 Last January he was
offered $4,000 for his beach mine alone. and
he valued that as his cheapest property He
went to Fort Worth. Tex. and renewed his
acquaintance with Miss Maggie Flynn, who
wa, employed at the Genesee Hotel In Buff
faio when he was. ,Boggs gave his sweet
heart $500 to prepare her trousseau and a
swell wedding. For six weeks the Nome
miner and his bride Travelled in lavish style
in California and down to the City Of Mex
leo. Boggs and his wife gave one dinner
at the Hotel del Coronado at San Diego
that cost $3.50. He and his wife returned
to the mines in May. expecting to be at
Nome two or three years.
The very richest person in the KIondike
il George Cammack. He Is clearly worth
from 81. 10000 to sl.5oocoo. His rentals of
ground sites at Dawson. Skagway and Dyea
alone yield him some 5000 a year. Be-