The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-19

my nearest neighbor is an old In
dian woman who occupies the land
between my two quarter sections. She
is now very old and is the daughter Of
the last chief Of the Cut Head Sioux,
Chief Wanata. So she is q princess,
but she lives in the same squalor as
Is usual with the old time Indians It
makes one smile to see her In the
midst of her dirt and then to consider
that she is princess, real live prin-
cess" and here Miss Kelly smiled at
the remembrance. "She has named
my farm Wilma Tapa-' Woman's
House, in her language.
This year broke 100 acres of my
claim and sOwed the land to flax This
is the usual crop used to put newly
broken land in shape for wheat IT.
is considerably more profitable to raise
than wheat, but 1t soon destroys the
fertility of the ground If grown two or
three years In succession on one pieces
of land There is good sale for the
crop and the price is never less than
a dollar bushel. My crop from 100
acres l planted returned 80 per cent
on my original claim, the. land
bought afterward, the cost of breaking
the land, planting and harvesting the
SAOp, IllC COSI VI JllC lOul COld6C
which l built on the place, and big
barn besides what I spent for a driv-
ing horse and a buggy. planted the
crop in May, hiring the breaking and
planting done at cost of So per acre
and bought seed at $1.40 an acre.
After the crop was in I went to
camp up there, returning in time to
tho ho, Nr In,
September. By the last of October I
had the crop harvested, threshold sold
and delivered. The crop netted me
more than $500 after paying the, ex-
penses of breaking, planting and har-
vesting. This was more than my claim
originally cost me.
Fairbanks is new mining camp
in the recently discovered Tanana dis
trict," said Miss Kelly. 1T is now
a bigger camp than Dawson City ever
was and it is in Alaska instead of
Canada, as was the Klondike I had to
go to attend claim jumping case in
which l was interested and which 1
won. I got these nuggets and this
dust out of that claim"
There are about twenty five of the
nuggets and they formed a necklace
around Miss Kelly's throat. The mug
gets were Joined by short strands of
gold chain. Suspended from them
was a glass locket half full of gold
which Miss Kelly had PANIED out of
the claim over which she had the law
suit
II am interested in twenty-one
claims in that district l don't ex-
pect that every one will develop into
paying mine. l am sure of the one
over which I had the suit, however.
1t is a very rich claim. One or two
of the others expect to develop into
valuable mines in time This is
richer and better district than the
klondike. There are not pockets of
such great value scattered here and
there, but the gold is more evenly dis
tributed and runs about IS or 50 to
the cubic yard. There are a good
many cubic yards in my claim, which
sis twenty acres in extent, so I expect
to get lots of gold out of it, The
Tanana district is much bigger than
the Klondike, being 200 miles square.
The district was discovered only three
years ago, but in that time $1,000 900
has been shipped out of there to the
mints, in addition to what remained in
the country for use as currency.
The trip now is a regular pleasure
trip compared with what the trip to
Dawson was when I first made it.
There are as good accommodations on
the steamers on the Yukon as on those