Arizona republican., 1902-10-23
A vENTUREsOME WOMAN
Miss Anna Golden Retul ns After Four
 Years in Alaska.


 Not all the strong men and brave and pretty girls in the world who are will ing to challenge fate and take chances against everything any anything to win success. live elsewhere Phoenix has her full share of them even if their pictures are not always printed in the big illustrated papers. Miss Anna Golden. modest, handsome and yet in the early twenties is a young woman Phoenix should be proud of. not for anything she has done of a spectacular nature but just because she has achieved a fair measure Of success against greater odds perhaps than any other young lady who calls this her home and iF 9 manner that entities her to the hOnors due the brave.
 During the year. Of the present gen cration the golden promise of financial reward has lured fearless men and women to no more precarious field of operation than bleak and frigid Alaska. Many men have gone to Dawson. Forty Mile or Nome but their departure was usually we'll advertised by their friends and they usually went in parties for mutual protection. Few women were among them and they were usually ac- cOmpanied by male relatives to protect them in time of trouble. But Miss Golden went alone. Neither was her departure heralded abroad for it was against the protest of her friends and accompanied by the direst predictions of failure. hardship and not unlikely death. She realized fully that there was everything to lose, but on the other hand, there was everything to gain. and she proposed to be there when the good things were passed around.
 She has seen it all from Dawson to Nome and returned Tuesday morning in the best of health, pleased to he home again and though not boasting of a 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 here. Time too has been kind to her and the four years of hardship that all must endure in that climate have left no trace on her becoming features. Whats more, she is going back again in the early spring for she has a number of good properties from which she ought to req 'ize some money. and also has in mind the Rampant dis trict on the American idle of the line. which she thinks is tie choice of the Alaskan fields at nr -~ent. Much how ever depends on tAc building of the Copper River rail ~~5. Mi-- Golden is the only daughter Of widowed mother who resides or South Seccnl avenue with younger brother. She as in a large measure the nrovider nf the family when the KlonFike craze broke out and having V rigid economy saved a little money he left her mother provided for in fha care of her brother and on March A.. 1898 leFt Phoenix for the north. She went via Seattle. Dyea. Chilkcot trail before the lays Of the railroad. to Da City remaining there and in the ~rrrounding mining districts down -'-o Yukon to the north till July 1900. TfC- she went down the Yukon to Non ut did not like the appearance Cf tri gs there. so in Sep tember she wO- back up the long crooked river Da wson. Since then she has been i that region till last September. WI she felt that she must come back to Arizona and get a little sunshine Four Arctic winters in sue cussion she believes ought to satisfy anyone however adventurous he may be
 Her return was as unheralded as her departure. and only through a friend was she discovered by Republican re- porter 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 a few hundred of the regulation reportorial questions that are asked of every one who returns from that country. To sum the answers all up Miss Golden says that Dawson for the tin0e being is played out. The richest diggings are well worked out and the low grade claims will have to be worked by capital and machinery. She believes. however, that the city will have lasting future though hardly another palmy period as in the past. The city once had probably 10000 inha bitants and is well built considering it's youthfulness and the lack of everything in the mat line but lumber. To one who went there in the rush it now looks gloomy The coldest weather she experienced was 6S degrees below zero. but that was unusual. The few people who kept cows and chickens had to keep a stove in the barn. Its 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 iii two months to feed during the remain ing ten in the year..
 Asked if she engaged personally II; mining she merely remarked that she had done so to some extent and was in- terested in a number of claims. as is