Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-22
RICH WOMAN.
Operates Big Mining interests
After Real Estate Property In
This City.


after some claims in real estate
here which she said she inherits
from a Galloway county relative.
The matter, at a later time, may
come up in the Audrain County
Circuit Court.
Mrs. Kraus is now over in the
Kingdom of Galloway" and the
Fulton Sun thus speaks of her:
Mrs. Anna Krause, of Alaska,
one of the most extensive mine
owners of the northwest. is the
guest of friends and relatives in
Fulton and Galloway county. Mrs.
Krause was formerly Miss Anna
Laura McSwain and years ago
lived about 2 miles south of this
city. Her father, Neil McSwain.
was one of Callaway's early set
tiers. Some years ago Mr.. Me-
Swain moved, with his family, to
California. There his daughter,
Anna Laura, was married to Mr..
Krause; her husband dying, Mrs.
Krause, left with a few hundred
dollars, decided to invest the same
in the gold fields of Alaska. Mrs.
Krause is not a woman to risk her
financial affairs in a cOmpany's
hands, so decided to go to Alaska
herself and manage her own in
terests. So, for the past eight
years, she has lived and worked in
the far northwest, having accumn-
lated no small fortune. In all this
experience Mrs. Krause has met
with only one accident, that being
broken arm, which she sustained
on January %, 1905, causing her
to be in hospital several weeks.
Mrs. Krause is a middle aged
woman, of medium height. pos
sessing a pleasing personality, and
is a delightful conversatiOnalist.
OF Alaska she says: "Klondyke
is not half so horrid and as full of
hardships as some try to impress
the people that it is. l have been
there since 1897 and have suf-
fered no hardships worth men,
tioning. We have our daily
papers, tho they come ia a bundle
several times a week, and as for
transportation the railroads and
dog teams make excellent time. /
have q team of Z dogs that can be
made to travel 20 miles a day.
For three years / superintendent
one of my own mines, working 9
men and meeting with excellent
success. At present l am inter-
ested in several large claims, all of
which are paying well. Eight on
Snake river, some 8 miles from
Nome, the Queen Louisa group,
being mined by myself and A. H.
Clambey, of Seattle, Wash. The
mode Of procuring the gold is by
the dredges which lift the gravel
from the bed of the river and
place it where a washing process
will separate the paying dirt from
the gravel. This is called placer
mining. / also have an extensive
interest in the Seattle Group,
consisting of 48 claims Of 20 acres
each. The Louisa group runs
from 81 to $500 to the cubic yard,
and the Seattle group 30 cents tC
$500. A dollar a cubic yard il
considered good pay dirt and wher
you have dredge that will eXca'
vate 1900 yards in "a hours the
investment is certainly a paying
one. A dredge costs S32 GOO
. including the force of men that i
requires TO run it. have real.
lied a large some of money from
my investment. but always pu
the money back to some other mini
TO develop"
Mrs. Krause has had many in
teresting experiences in her lif,
besides gold fields; has travelled
over a large portion Of the Unite,
: States and its possessions; ha
I been saleslady. hotel proprietress
stewardess for Pacific Steamer Co.
etc, but says she prefers Klondyk
life to any other, In 1900 Mrs
/ Krause led the great parade a
Seattle Washington. it being th
silver demonstration for VIM. j
Bryan, aud said to be the larges