The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-20
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SOLICIT
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ADVICE.


tree line. A great many logs from the
south had foated and blown in there
They are inferior material for making
heat. and besides that they were prob
ably all awaited OF long ago. little coal
and little oil We're taken there for sale.
but nothing like the quantity needed TO
keep the people comfortable. Another
year Ii will be quite different. The tents
will be succeeded by well built frame
houses and there will probably be large
supply of coal from Puget sound. 1t Is
more than likely also that provisions there
are well nigh exhausted. and the same OF
clothing tools. cooking utensils. furni-
ture stationery and the thousand other
things needed in a place like that. AT
last reports prices OF store goods were
very high, from five to ten times as high
as on Puget sound They are probably
twenty times as high now. 1t will be well
for men going there early In the season
to take along outfits good for six months
or year. BY doing they will save
paying immense profits to the Nome mer-
chants Three hundred dollars spent In
Seattle viii buy n man enough to last him
a year. The freight charge will be $40 per
ton landed on the beach, or about $40 al
together.
If he finds upon arrival that he
doesn't want to stay, he can easily sell
his goods for double and treble their cost
In the earlier Klondiks days many man
be the same at Nome. The merchants
here have done much Quitting for
Alaska miners that they know Just what
TO offer 1t is wei 10 take plenty of the
necessaries. the things that everybody
must have and but small quantities of the
luxuriea. and the articles seldom used. IL
IL also wei to have as much coin in ones
pocket as possible on landing. There is
never any question as to It's value.
there Is with gold dust. and purchases can
be more easily made with II than with
the latter. II VIII be found. too, that there
viii be plenty of places 10 put it, Things
needed will be constantly coming to view.
and coin VIII get them. Sometimes per-
son Is taken sick. and again the right kind
OF employment doesn't come at once. Peo-
pie frequently land In a strange place
without a dollar. and do web from the
start. It IL safer, however. and a whole
lot more comfortable to quit the ship with
few twenties in ones pocket
An OPEN QUESTION.
II present indication do not fail there
will he a great movement TO Nome during
tho next few months. Those up the coast
in Southeastern Alaska and the northern
Canadian possessions will go chiefly by
the Yukon river route. Probably 2,0oo men
will be on that route inside OF sixty days
They win certainly get 20 Nome FIRST n
the ocean route 90 Nome f. open no sooner
than the ocean route TO 81. Michael. H.
however the ocean route to Nome II o.cn
early In May. anticipated by many
IL will be hard to tell by which route
ihe crowd viii get there first. II is going
20 Dc great race. Ten different COM
panies are move advertising steamships In
the P0st-inteIliEencer for Cape Nome, all
10 leave between April 10 and May q
number OF sail vessels are going that are
not advertised. and new ships are being
brought out continually. Very likely dur
ing those six weeks tho vessels depart
ing from Seattle for Nome and vicinity
viii equal in number one for each dav
Of the entire period These forty odd
vessels win carry 5 0"0 passengers. They
win hurry back and go again. and n third
time An estimate Of 3o0ro people at
Nome on the Fourth o. July is a low one
Unless the present signs fail there Will
be a00a 60 the city before the summer Is
over. In thattevCn more than one-thirfi
the people IN all Alaska VII be in that
one town. Nome viii have become In
eighteen months one % the large cities
on the ga coast 81 the Pacific slope. be-
ing exceeded only by san Francisco. se-
attic and Tacoma, SIS Inhabitants equalinE
1 numbers those OF san Diego. Victoria
and Vancouver and exceeding those OF
au other places from the South American
Hne up. IL viii be a marvellous growth.
guequaled for a place IN that latitude ln
the history q the world X will be worth
a good deal 20 witness this, and 90 have
the experiences incident to such a wonder
fal change. u will not be time wasted
OF money uiy spent 70 make the trip 20
cape Nome next sumner with this object
alone tn contemplation.
THOMAS ". PROsCH.
Secretary Chamer Of Commerce.