The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-26
THE NEWLY RICH
OF CAPE nome.
Something About the Men Who Have
Made Fortunes There, and The
Nay They Have Made Them.

way lucy Have Made lneM.
We shall soon have many Of the sud
ienly rich in this country The return
Ing miners tell great tales of Nome and
Me money there. With luck II is posi-
BILE to get rich in season. Without II
wealth does not come in Alaska any
more than in other ends of the world.
Yet luck is easily struck
A few days ago "A we'll known man
returned from Alaska with many tales
of princely fortunes. The way the
newly made rich men up In Alaska live
and spend their money is. In some in
stances. even more interesting than the
ways they came quickly to have
princely incomes" said he.
For instance there is Sandy Fla
herty the King II the fleeers on, Dn-
minion Creek In the l<londike country.
/ suppose that any one In Dawson
would say that Sandy's wealth IS up
ward of 5000 000 aud is increasing by
$50, 600 year. Four years ago he was
ON a chain gang on the streets Of
Omaha
Suddenly the news came down the
| Yukon River that wonderfully rich
| gold digRings had been struck in the
KlOndike creeks, at the headwatcrs Of
the Yukon A score of men at St
Michael started at once In "A little skin
up the river to Dawson Flaherty, who
had left Omaha, was among them. He
had but 81 IN his pocket ana the clothes
on his back when he started for the
Klondike gold field, lie cooked for his
comrades and did general work 10 pay
his passage.
Arrived at Dawson, Sandy Flaherty
got "A Job as cook in rough sawed
pine barn that answered as boarding
house. His pay was $50 week and his
own board and lodging one OF the
men who came to the boarding house
for meals was an original klondiker.
He had two claims in Dominion Creek.
one day he was III and Sandy nursed
him to health. TO reward Sandy the
old fellow gave him the poorer of his
two claims.
Sandy gave up his job as cook and
began gold mining the next day lie
worked day and night, scarcely stop
ping to sleep two hours out of twenty
four So anxious was he to know what
sort of claim he owned, Before the cold
weather set it, In October. 1891. ne had
dug down to bedrock ON his creek
bench claim, and was panning gold at
the rate of 81 and $3.50 pan. He never
spent "A dime unnecessarily. and carly
Klondikers still toll how hard he
worked with pick and shovel and pan.
Then he got capital. put up sluiee on
his claim and built 81 900 cabin. The
old fellow who gave him the claim
urged Flaherty to buy him out for sixty
pounds Of gold. ana Fiaherty bought on
six months time Then the youfs fell
tow had two adjacent claims, and -
that time his fortune has been Using
fast. He has bought and sold alto
sether some fifteen placer mines In the
locality Of Dominion Creek, and some
~ his single deals have amounted to
$4,000.
"He bought two we'll worked claims
On Beaver Creek a year ago for $26. 900
together. Two months later. when he
had taken out ffty pounds Of gold from
them. he sold each for upward Of $40, p
900. Last June he sent 800 pounds Of
gold to the San Francisco Mint. He
carried a bank deposit at one OF the
big San Francisco banks OF between
Sl50,00 and 5000. 900, and has invested
thousands OF dollars of his surplus
cash In Yukon stock, and In Seattle
city bonds. He has a lawyer empl0yei
at s. 900 a year solely TO attend to his
In some ways Sandy Flaherty Is a
very unusual man. He invested some
$4,000 in q patent two years ago. 1t
was O swindle, and from that time he
has never been wheedled out of a dime
except for legitimate charity His bus
mess sense seemed to come 10 him as
fast as his piles Of gold He bought a
Yukon steamboat that had been
hawked about Dawson for weeks for
1900. He had he: refitted and over
hauled. lie had new boilers put Ia. and
then he sold her on her first trip UP
the river from ST. Michael for 5000
more than the raft had cost him. Fla
herty says that about two years more
OF the Klondke VIII be enough for him.
A WEALTHY MINISTER.
Then there is the Rev. Matthew 81.
Anderson, the richest man Of Cape
Nome. His life has not been 30 pictur-
esque as Flaherty's. He Is a Scandina-
Wan about Is years old He was reared
in poverty In Sweden and came TO the
United States an emgrant.
His life was a series Of adventures
until he went to Alaska az mission
airy where he worked hard and suffered
from cold and hunger for many years.
"A year ago last October Anderson's
sole worldly possessions might have
been bought for about SIS. Last Octo-