The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-04-09
LATEST NOME A DVICFS
Prices At Which Goods Are Selling
and Big Season Expected

Seattle, April 81. H. Gray OF the
Gray Mercantile & Trading Conn any
has letter from a friend at Nom,
dated January 10, and which is un
doubleday the latest to reach Seattle
from the gold camp. 1t came by one
of the last Juneau boats, and evidently
is the first OF the expected Nome mai
by way OF the Naldes trail Mr., CIR \
thinks the HeXt Juneau boat will bring
down considerable Nome mail
The Nome letter is one OF the b st
so far sent out from the icebounC
camp this winter 1t is exceedingly OBJ
timiStic and the writer declares that
Nome is the place for opportunities
The letter, in large part, is here given
Il wrote you about six weeks %
and will now drop you a few lines. IS
mail leaves heretomorrow
I'VE have had our shortest day. enc
the sun was in sight three hours, bur il
is light at 8 p. m. and not dark init
3 p. m. The weather so far is not as
bad as in New York at this time oi
year, and no worse than in Spokane
1t has been as low as 10 below zero
some OF the time, and about hall the
time at about Is below. The colo
spells last about one week at tine
and | wear the same clothes that did
on the Sound | do not wear IN over
coat at all. as | have no need for one
| wear but little more underwear than
| did when in Seattle Navigation
closed so unexpectedly that | had no
chance to go down there. but up to the
last | was expecting the steamer --
and did not want to leave until she
came. | was sure she was not coming
when the ice made its appearance sud
denly, and all the boats pulled out
quickly.
Il hope you have goods in the ware
houses ready to ship this spring. I
would like to have our goods IN the
first boat. | could have sold ont at
a great profit last fall Prices are
cheap now. Bacon retais at 80 cents a
pound, ham 25c, sugar G4c, butter 81 IS
per can OF pounds, cheese 4oc a
pound, potatoes Ioc. flour S. so for
sack OF 40 pounds, coal oil is selling at
ooc gallon, per case S.; best beef
steak, 75c, turkey, SOC (cold storage
Coal is down to sos a ton now but
was up to 500 soon after the seas m
closed. Lots OF driftwood is being
hauled, and is selling for~$ SIS a cord.
Skookum wreckage and firewood is $25
a cord. Good hay $3.50 ton and oats
Ioc a pound Double compressed lay
the same | tell you this the place for
us to open up a big store You can
double your money about three times Il
year, and you had better turn evc.y
dollars worth of your stuff into ca Il
and buy a big stock of goods and bring
them TIP here in the spring. | will have
a place for you to store them when
they get here Winters are not bad.
Big money can be made on ,pplcs
and potatoes and such things are e
qure warm storage.
Cream sells for $40 per case, which
would cost $3.50 in Seattle.
by digging a little cellar in the
bank of a hill one can make gort
warm place in the winter and k""p
things from freezing and sell the hnIs
for about three times thI cost in the
spring.
There is no use talking, this is III
place for good hustlers.
There is good society here, two
churches and numerous clubs
I'VE all look forward to a big spring
trade, as indications point that way
Il presume you have heard OF the big
strike that has been made on the head
waters OF the Kuskokwim. | will stick
to Nome, for it is good enough for