Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-19
Washington, was the first champion of
the Peorii. overture. but before he had
concluded his address adjournment
was taken until Monday and further
consideration OF the method OF appoints
ing standing committees was fixed for
Thursday.
ApEss1MIsrIc KLoND1KER.
II. u. McDouRal Thinks Hardship of
s Cape Nome over rbalance Its Riches.

Sioux City, May 19.-R. L. McDou-
gall, one of the earliest of the klondike
argonauts and at present the owner OF
valuable claims at Cape Nome, was a
visitor in Sioux City on his way from
Kansas City to Minneapolis where he
mas business togtransact before start-
ing for the Pacific coast. Mr.. McDou-
gall was former resident of Kansas
City and has been spending the winter
there. He expects now to return to the
northern Ell Dorado for another two or
three years stay.
Nome is very much like other Alas
kan mining camps he said. III is raw
and unfinished and will probably never
be anything else. The population Of
mining countries is shifting and what
is big city today may be deserted to-
morrow Dawson Is already on the
lwane and Nome will undoubtedly fol-
How It's example when the next rich dis.
coveries are made somewhere else.
And that they Will be made is a GER
tainty. The country has immense min
|.eral wealth and rich locations will con-
jstlnue to be struck from time to time
luntil8it has all been prospected.
The fact that 1t is rich. however,
does not make it n desirable place to
go to. have done fairly we'll there,
but had I known in advance the hard
lships ! would have to endure and the
odds against success would never
have ventnred into 1t. For every miner
who makes living wages a hundred lose
what they have invested in the trip.
And Of those who make living only
a small proportion meet With anything
like startling success. It's gambling,
/ with all the chances against the man
who makes the stake.
After a few lucky prospectors have
4 slaccumulated wealth from rich placers
one or more big companies will get pos
isession Of all the best locations and
l.reap the big harvest. In the meantime
1.-The Transportation companies. specu-
5Ilators in claims and the merchants at
d the various camps will do q big busi-
mess and rake in the money.
j ..Expenses at Nome are not higher
4 now than those at Dawson. 1t can be
reached more readily by boat than the
4 Halter place and has the additional ad-
Vantage OF a miider climate. tho the
4 sensible temperature Is even worse
\ than in the interior, owing to the
Idampness. The fact that it is on Unit
4 ed States soil also obvates the neces-
Z sity of paying duties to the Canadian
government, as the klondike prospect
J, ors were compelled to do.
z The community is of course rougf
q I3one. Still there is comparatively littl'
4 violence. AT an Alaskan mininl
! camps the vigilance committees wer
s Extraordinarily active at first. And
i Hasn't been long in any of them befor
], 1.-the United States authorities estab
!, ,lished control and put q stop to law
!. .lessness. 1t is still decidedly wide open
: However. Gambling goes on on q lars
s scale and whisky is consumed in enol
t mous quantities. presume this WI
!, always be the case. Men will never .
livery willing to take their families int
K such God forsaken country, and in
4 lhcommunity made up almost entirely 9
8 men. civilization does not make par
e ticularly rapid strides.