Arizona republican., 1903-09-11
ARTIFICIAL GLACIERS
A Dawson City Industry Described by
 a Phoenix Man.

D. Fl. Shultz returned home yeSter- day from Dawson City. There is. noth- ing very rem arkable about that for he returns frequently, having been one of the first to take the Alaska fever and the disease having become chronic with him. But he comes home every year or so to see how things are getting along This time he planned sur prise on his family but when he got here yesterday he found the joke was on him for his family left last month for the home of his wife's mother in Canada. He said nothing about coming home in his last letter and any letter that might have been sent to him miss ed him while he was coming out. He Is now engaged in trying to locate his family by wire and don't know whether they will join him here or whether he will go east and meet them. At any rate he will probably return to Daw- son in the spring as his farm here is rented for couple of years yet and he finds life in Alaska not unattractive and rather remunerative though he makes no boast of wealth.
 He says William Tedford, who left here some years ago for that country experienced rather bad luck at first 
 claims and is making some money. MT. Shultz made his last trip in furtherance of mining enterprise with his wife's sister and one that did not pay much in dividends, but he has had constant employment at s4 per day and board when not engaged in some enterprise of his own, so he has no fault to find. His sister-in-law in the meantime mar ried a man in Dawson named Andrew Halset who has cleaned up a compet- ence through his ventures. Mir and
 Mrs. Halset are now in Norway visit ing the relatives of MT. Halset. From there they will visit England, then | sail for Central America and when | tired of travelling will again return 1 to Dawson.
 1 Asked about the weather MT. Shultz
 said it. was not so bad as many be- lieve. The coIdest he ever saw it was | 70 degrees last winter and he worked
 right along during the time at the
 windlass. The air was dry and there was no wind. By shaving off mustache
 and beard to prevent d Judgement of i icicles. pulling a. hood over ones face, and dressing warmly otherwise, one
 found no difficulty in working. Water though, thrown into the air. would freeze into sleet before striking the l earth. so there was nothing tropical
 about the surroundings.
 Mir. Shultz says this is not the only
 country that suffers from drouth. He
 says the present year in the Dawson i country has been the dryest since the 1 big rush six years ago. Many rich ] claims cannot be worked for the simple reason there is not water enough tc 1 fill the sluice boxes and a large part
 of claims are tied up awaiting wetteI l weather. But there is one man that l has solved the water question. He was
 hunting for gold and spoiled his pros
 pect by his enterprise, but he got q
 flow of artesian water from which he will realize more money than iron
 Q gold mine The story would sound 1 like a fairy tale if told by stranger
 but MT. ShultZ has reputation fol
 veracity that is unimpeachable. Ir short the government had to restrain J this man, whose name is Thompson
 for through his enterprise he was filling