Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-06-16
FROM FROZEN NORTH
TO THE sunny SOUTH
A Phoenix Visitor Who is Unloading
An Eighteen Year Jag Of Rheuma-

NJ. n. Beltzhoover of Douglas Alas
la, is spending few days in the city
trying to get the best of little rheu-
matism that he has acquired during
eighteen years in the frozen north.
rambling over the white plains In
search of gold. Douglas is near to the
great Treadwell mine which is again
running. after shutdown due to
strikes and other labor troubles. The
famous Treadwell which has turned
out such quantities of gold, could not
be made to pay at all, as il is a low
grade ore, were IL not for the fact that
IL is near salt water and vessels UNI
lead at the company's wharfs. The la
Dor employed is mostly Slavonic and
natives of Montenegro. An attempt
was made to unioniZe the mine. but
il failed because of the kind of labor
ers employed. Mr.. Beltzhoover has
bren over the famous Chilkoot pass,
where hundreds persisted in the mad
rush for the Klondike. II has quieted
down now and the great rush is over
for time. But there are great re-
gions yet UNEMPLOYED and gold mines
Yet untouched, as great as have been
exploited. There are also great copper
deposits, some OF IL on the surface, in
"a native state. The coming of the
railroads which are being built rapidly
as possible considering the great OBJ
stacles will be the means Of opening
up more mines and new country The
faithful old dog. the method of trans
portation in the north. is passing out
Ct use SLOWLY. as the railroads pene-
fr.af inf ha
sacrifice OF human life will not be so
great and the terrible and indescrib-
able hardshics that were once endured
viii in & measure be ameliorated. but
there are yet wildernesses where the
harsh command Of ''mush. mush."
still breaks the primordial and lonely
silence of the plains. The "huskey"
the native dog. Is about two feet in
height and stOckily built. They have
been the burden bearers of the Indians
OF the north for unrecorded years.
Some Of them bring as high as $500.
one peculiarly Of the Indian customs
according To Mr.. Beltzhoover. is that
the squaw IS the head of the house,
hold and IL is no case there. OF father"
doing no work. The Squaw holds tho
purse and doles out the change to the
man ard the children take the name
of the mother and she sells them ana
pockets the money. In the Siwash
tribes every grievance is settled by
money. If an Indian is killed by a
white man he must be paid for In
money; II not, n white man will be
killed; any one will do. it need not be
the one that committed the crime II
two Indians are in a boat and it is
capsized and one Is about to drown.
The other viii demand a price before
he viii take him ashore. The finest
trip in the world. thinks Mr.. Beltz-
hoover. is by canoe down the Yukon
river. The Yukon has however. claim
ed many a victim of the gold fever.
many a tenderfoOt loaded with heavy
furs who could not even build a
camp fire. has died upon the White
Pass and the trackless SHOWS 4 new
railroad is being built from Valdez to
the lower Yukon and with the coming
Of the steel monster the great north
With its terrible menaces is being driv-
en- backward into Arctic seas.