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

! fellow who gave him the claim urged Fla
herty to buy him out for sixty pounds or
gold, and Flaherty bought Oh SIX months
time. Then the young fellow had two ad-
jacent claims, and from that time his for
tune has been rising fast He has bought
and sold altogether some fifteen placer
mines in the locality of Dominion Creek
and some of his single deals nave
amounted to $4,000.
He bought two well-worked claims on
Beaver Creek year ago for $4,000 to-
gether. Two months later, when he had
taken out fifty pounds of gold from them
he sold each for upward of $4,000. Last
June he sent 300 pounds of gold to the San
Francisco Mint. He carried a bank de-
post at one of the big San Francisco
banks of between 100000 and 100000. and
has invested thousands of dollars of his
surplus cash in Yukon stock. and in Seattle
city bonds. He has a lawyer employed at
IS, 600 a year solely to attend to his bust
ness.
, I'm some ways Sandy Flaherty is a
very unusual man. He invested some
$1,000 in a patent two years ago 1t was a
swindle, and from that time he has never
been wheedled out of a dime except for
legitimate charity. His business sense
seemed to come to him as fast his piles
of gold. He bought Yukon steamboat
that had been hawl1ed about Dawson for
weeks for $4,000. He had her refitted and
overhauled. He had new boilers put in
the river from st. Michael for $4,000 more
than the raft had cost him. F'laherty says
that about two years more of the Klondike
will be enough for him.
A WEALTHY MINISTER.
Then there is the Rev. Matthew M An
derson, the richest man of Cape Nome
His life has not been so picturesque as
Flaherty's. He is a Scandinavian about rs
years old. He was reared in poverty in
Sweden and came to the United States an
emigrant
His life was a series of adventures until
he went to Alaska as a missionary where
he worked hard and suffered from cold
and hunger for many years.
IA year ago last October, Anderson's sole
worldly possessions might have been
bought for about SIS. Last October he was
worth about $780, 600 and probably he has
real estate at Nome that Is going to rise
$4,000 higher during this year He was
one of the five original gold dggers at
Cape Nome, and he had his pick of the
richest placers in the virgin gold field
He had gone to ST. Michael to spend the
winter and do missionary work among the
whalers and Innuits, when it was whis-
pered about that the natives on Cape
Nome had found gold nuggets a few
months before. Anderson organized par
ty, and although 1t was late in the season,
and there was danger of being frozen in
the ice miles from st. Michael, several ex-
klondikers accompanied the Lutheran mis-
slonary across Norton Sound to Cape
Nome. The party found the beaches of the
Cape Nome creeks more literally streWn
with gold than they had ina gined and
they would not risk a chance location of
placer claims there when they had de-
parted for st. Michael. So Anderson and
his party stayed right on the scene of the
find all winter. They lived in tents amid
snow and ice, endured a temperature of
60 below for weeks and subsisted on
frozen, half-cooked food for six months, I'M
til spring came and they could go about
digging nuggets and flakes of gold from
the gravel of the creek beaches.
Anderson happened to claim the two
richest spots on Anvil Creek. He got over
1000 ounces of gold, worth at Nome about
$3.50 an ounce, from one claim in twenty
two days when he had the sluices in or
Grafton there last summer He claimed
seven acres OF land in what Is now the
heart of Nome, and his claim being legal
he has sold some lots, 30x70 feet for IS, 900
each, and many for $500 and $1,000 each
1t is generally understood that Anderson
will stick to Nome until he gets half
million of dollars. Then he will give lot
of it to the Lutheran Church of Sweden
for in spite of his enormous business ac-
tvity he is always religious. He will build
a $4,000 Lutheran church at Nome this
year or next.
" Jim Grady, who is the king of the
sports of Alaska, was sailor on the
United States cruiser Philadelphia three
years ago last January. His income then
was about $160 year and food. He has an
income nowadays of about $1,000 a month.
1t is difficult to guage the actual wealth
of a sport like Grady, but he must surely
be worth $4,000. He owns the sirloin of
business property at Dyea, Dawson and
Nome. Besides he has three saloons that
would sell for $4,000 each, and he owns
one-half Of Lehman mine on Snake Creek
at Nome. and that is a good gold pro-
Queer. '
GRADY came from Baltimore. When the
Klondike boom came out he got some
money and went to Alaska. Grady en-
barked with 500 in the saloon business at
Dyea. 1t is said that he introduced faro
and roulette gambling. and he had a mint
from the hour of opening. He went next,
so 1t Is told. to Dawson and opened the
most nalntinI ealoop ord gambling hall