The age-herald., 1900-03-11

forms," and they can be screwed up with ease against the wall at whatever height you require.
 The ring platforms are better for ring amateur work than the flat ceilings" and are not near so noisy. Hence they are bet ter for home use, especially if the people in the flat below happen to be cranks. Sash cord is the best, strongest, most durable sort of rope for punching bags. See that it Is renewed as soon as 1t shows signs of wear. If you don't the bag Is liable to fly off under some particular heavy blow and smash something.
 The apparatus needed for the platform" bag is as follows, the prices being put at the lowest possible estimate:
 One punching bag, about. .$1 .0o One platform, about. ut...................... 500 Sash cord ..... ............................ .25 One pair of striking gloves. ............. .5O
 Total cost .........,................. .$6. To
 The striking gloves Ca sort of cross be- tween leather mfttens and boxing gloves) are used to prevent the hands from be- coming sore and to obviate sprins and bruises
 As for a soctume, wear an old pair of trousers an undershirt and a pair of ruIb- ber-soled shoes with no heels. These shoes can be bought for fifty cents pair.
 
 
 material and fuel are, in consequence, very difficult to obtain. Lumber sells for $10o per thousand, and coal brings anywhere from $60 to $1OO per ton. The absence of mountains is also unique feature of this mining district.
 Seven or eight miles back from the town Is a hill of some prominence, per haps 1000 feet above the sea levef. On the summit of this hill stands lone rock about 40 feet high, which has been worn by gla- cial action into remarkable likeness to g. huge devil Whether seen from the sea or the interior, the striking resemblance Is apparent. Slsirting this hill. we soon came upon the famous Anvil Creek, where gold was first discovered in October, 1898. 'T'he strike, was made by three Scan- dinavans, who had been employed as gov- ernment reindeer herders. Winter closed down soon after these men started their claims, so that no development work was done until after the ground was thawei out last spring. When we. therefore, reached claim Mo- 1, below Discovery, the method of extracting the gold from the gravel, called sluicing. had been in opera tian less than two months. In that liit @. de- spite ali sorts of hindrances and primitive machinery, the claim had yielded upward of $1a0,000
 '"Tne camp consists of a cook tent, around which are grouped half dozen weather beaten sleeping tents. From one of these hearing our voices. the genial owner of this rich twenty-acre claim, issued, and gave us a genuine miners welcome. For open handed generosity give me the miner in lis mining camp. Invited into the tent, our astOn,shed eyes soon discovered a common milk pan heaped full of shining yellow dust, not drst. properly speaking, but granules of gold. averaging about the size of a wheat grain. This said our host, represents three and-e-fralf days run in the sluice- boxes, working seven men, There was not far from seventy-five pounds of gold dust in the pan, which would bring, perhaps sl2.- 00o st the mint Eighteen thousand dollars in forty hours was his best run - -"It was not far from the noon hour, and, of course, we were not allowed to con- tinue our Journey until the cook had done his best to Sortify us againSt the next stage