Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-01

We shall soon have many of the sud-
denly rich in this country. The return
! ing miners tell great tales of Nome and
the money there. With luck it is posi-
BILE to get rich in a season. Without it
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 well-kIown 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 prince!y
incomes" said he.
For instance. there is Sandy Fla
herty, the king of the placers on Domin-
ion creek in the klondike country. |
suppose that any one IN Dawson would
say that Sandy wealth is upward OF
5000, 900, and is increasing by $50, 900 a
; 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
digsings had been struck in the klon-
dixie creeks, at the ~headwatersS OF the
Yukon. A score of men at St. Michael
started at once in a little skiff up the
river at awson Flaherty, who had left
Omaha. was among them. He had but
81 in his pocket and the clothes on mis-
j back when he started for the klondlke
gold field. He cooked for his conraues
and did general work TO pay his passage.
Arrived at Dawson. sandy Flaherty
got a job as cook in a rough sawed pine
barr that answered as boarding house.
His pay was $50 a 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 i'll and Sandy nursed him to health.
To reward Sandy the old fellow gave
him the poorer of his two claims
sCandy q 20 III his iOh as COOK ana
began gold mining the next day. He
! worked day and night, scarcely stop
e ping to sleep two hours out of "a, so anX-
ious was he to know what sort OF a
claim he owned. Before the cold weather
S set in, in October. 1897, he had dug down
to bedrock on his creek bench claim,
and was panning gold at the rate OF
SO and $3.5O a pan. He never spent a
: dikers still tell how hard he WORKED
- with pick and shovel and pan. Then ne
got capital, put up a sluice on his claim
and built a 81 900 cabin. The old FELLOW
a who gave him the claim urged Flahert,
to buy him out for so pounds of gold, ant
- Faherty bought on six months time
Then the young fellow had two ada
cent claims. and from that time his FOR
tune has been rising fast. He has boush
and sold altogether some % placer NINE
in the locality of Dominion creek, ant
some of his single deals have amountet
to s75. O00. .
He bought two ~well-worked claim
on Beaver creek a year ago for Szo'Vo
together. Two months later wher ~
had taken u so pounds of gold IRON
them, he sold each-for inward or $4o,oo'
Last June he sent 800 pounds or goid I
the San Francisco mint. He carried
bank deposit at one of the DIG pa
Francisco banks of between $150.o0c an
5000, 600. and has invested thousands @
dollars Of his surplus cash in Yuko
stock, and in Seattle city bonds he ma
a lawyer employed at $4,000 a year solei
to attend to his business. t.
.In some ways Sandy FHahertv is
very unusual He invested som
s., 600 in a patent two years ago. 1t wa
a swindle, and from that time ne ha
never been wheedled out of a dime eN
cept for legitimate charity. His pusl
ness sense seemed to come to nm d
fast as his piles of gold. He bought
Yukon steamboat that had been naWke
about Dawson for weeks for SlS'ooo' n
had her ~refitted and overhauled. n
had new boilers put in, and then he sol
her on her first trip up the river frol
ST. Michael for SC. Oo0 more than the ral
had cost him. Flaherty says that anot
two years moro of the klondlke VIII u
enough for hin
\ WEALTHY MINISTER.
Then there is the Rev. Matthew \
Anderson, the richest man OF Car
Nome. His life has not been so pictul
eSaue as Flaherty's. He is a Scandlha
Wan about Is years old. He was reare
in poverty i'm Sweden and came TO IN
United States an emiSrant.
His life was a series of adventure
until he went to Alaska as a mlsslol
airy where he worked hard and suf1ere
from cold and hunger for many years.
"A year ago last October Anderson
sole worldly possessions might max
been bought for about $75. Last Octobt
he was worth about $500. 900 and proba
: bly, he has real estate at Nome that
going to raise $15,O 900 higher during tn
year. He was one of the five origin;
gold diggers at Cape Nome. he ma
his pick Of the richest pIacers in tt