The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-10
A BRAVE GIRL.
SHE IS JUST BACK FROM THE
KLONDIKE.
Her Return Was as UnheraIded as
Her Departure.

Miss Anna Golden, modest. hand
some and yet in the early twenties, is
a young woman Phoenix should be
proud of. She is the only daughter of
a widowed mother who resides on
South Second avenue with a younger
brother. She was in a large measure
the Drovider of the family when the
Klondike craze broke out, and having
by rigid economy saved little money
she left her mother in the care of her
brother and on March 4th. 1898. left
Phoenix for the north. She went via.
Seattle, Dyea, and the Chilkoot trail,
before the days of the railroad. to
Dawson County, remaining there and
in the surrounding mining districts
down the Yukon till July, 1900. Then
she went down the Yukon to Nome but
did not like the appearance of things
there, so in September she went back
up the long crooked river to Dawson.
Since then she has been in that region
till last September, when she felt that
she must come back to Arizona and get
little sunshine. Four Arctic winters
in succession she believes ought to
satisfy anyone.
Her return was as vulnerable as her
departure, and only through a friend
was she discovered by a Republican
reporter who called upon her yesterday
requesting an interview. She replied
that she didn't have much to tell, but
If there was anything she could say
to interest she would willingly do so.
Then followed few hundred of the
regulation questions that are asked of
every one who returns from that coun-
try. To sum the answers all up, Miss
Golden says that Dawson for the time
being Is played out. The richest dig
dings are we'll worked out and the
low-grade claims will have to be
worked by capital and machinery. She
believes, however, that the city will
| have alasting future, though hardly
| another such palmy period as in the
past The city once had probably TO-
900 inhabitants and is vel built con-
sidering it's youthfulness and the lack
of everything in the material line but
| lumber. To one who went there in the
rush 1t now looks gloomy. The cold
est weather she experienced was 6S de-
| gres below zero, but that was unus-
| ual. The few people who kept cows
and chickens had to keep a stove in
| the barn. It's not a real good country
| for the stock business, and the tin COW
is in her glory. For the other kind
enough hay had to be put up in two
months to feed them during the re-
naming ten in the year.
1 L. nj fY1
mining, she merely remarked that she
had done so to some extent and was
interested in a number of claims, as is
| nearly everybody who stays there long.
The gold fever is the life of the citizen
and the hope of wealth is what keeps
| them all there. 1t soon becomes a
second nature to them. All other vo-
cations are subordinated and followed
| only from necessity. The most of her
/ money, however, was made in keeping
| a road house on the trail to the rich
| diggings, a place where the weary
! traveller could buy meal or bed, or
find shelter from the elements. A
number of the Phoenix people who
spent one or more seasons in that
| country enjoyed her hospitality, and
are more than pleased to welcome her
home.
She has sen 1t all from Dawson to
| Nome and returned Tuesday morning
| in the best of health, pleased to be
home again and though not boasting
of fortune she has seen the world
| learned more than some girls can learn
in life time and has more money
than she could possibly have made had
she stayed there. Time too has been
kind to her and the four years of hard
ship that all must endure in that eli
mate have left no trace on her becom-
ing features. What's more, she is 60
ing back again in the early spring for
she has an lumber of good properties
from which she ought to realize some
monye. and also has in mind the RAM
part district on the American side of
| the line, which she thinks is the choice
| of the Alaskan fields at present.-Ari-