Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-13
THE CRAVINGS OF
RETURNED MINERS
ICE CREAM AND WATERMELONS At
THE HEAD OF THE Ape
THING LIST.
YOUNG ONIONS ALSO DESIRED,
Juicy Beefsteaks and Clam Chowder
Hold. Firm Place in the
Running.
YOUNG ONIONS ALSO DESIRED,
EPICUREs WHO HAVE THE DUST.

Gold from the candle lit clefts q,
placer claims in the Tanana and Nazina
districts, from Gold Bar creek in the
Klondike and from the thousands of
lays" ON winter diggings in the Nome
district, dug out by hand and cleaned
up at the end of the sluice boxes in the
good old fashioned "sour dough" way.
has not been brought to Seattle this
spring, but is coming by the $4,000
pokeful when the first steamships arrive
from Nome, says the Seattle Times.
Later vessels arriving from Valdez
will bring the first dust from the new
country, and by fall it is estimated be-
tween $30,0O0,000 and $40,0O0,0O0 will
be added to this years Seattle gold re-
ceipts from the north.
Eleven years ago July II next there
landed from the old steamer Portland at
a Seattle dock less than hundred
rough coated, bearded miners from the
Klondike and in the "outft" there was
more than million dollars in the yell
low dust. The man with the big poke
was in command of the squad of lucky
ones who came down the Portland's
gangplank and quietly chased away in
carriages to the fashionable down town
cafes to order great thick beefsteaks and
all the trimmings.
Beginning to Come.
Its a little early yet for the big in
tiuX of miners from the north, bringing
the gold from the gulches just as they
found it, said Jack Burton at the Diller
hotel, Burton arrived Monday on the
steamship Jefferson, which brought up
wards of million dollars in gold from
the north.
1--WE had three men aboard that l
knew brought more than 100000 each,
but the money was in drafts and cur
rency. The purser's strong box carried
| more gold than half a dozen men could
| carry, and in the mail shipments, under
the protection of Uncle Sam. there was
enough to pay the salary of John D.
Rockefeller for year or more"
Old time Alaskans say that the day
of the individual miners poke is about
gone. Time was, they say. when all the
| gold that came out of the Yukon valley
was brought to Seattle in the leather
| bags of the miners and sold to the melt
| ing shops. Then United States assay
Office was established and the miners
| found it necessary to ''mush" up the hill
! to Ninth avenue. But even these I'M
provements over the old time way of
| handling the golden product of the
creeks and gulches of Circle, Birch and
Eldorado were forced to the background
when the miners began shipping their
! gold to Seattle by mail.
The Miner and His Appetite.
! When the first steamers reach here
! from Nome It is expected that the price
of ice cream and watermelons will be
! doomed considerably This is the syate-
ment of old time sour doughs," who
assert, backed by evidence, that men
/ who have lived all winter on bacon and
! beans in the north have laundering for
| ice cream and watermelons that nothing
| else can satisfy.
! Next to ice cream and watermelons
| the miners demand fresh green vege-
tables, young onions preferred, and then
later on perhaps they become learned
in the mysteries of caulitiower au gratln'
Rich and juicy beefsteaks stand at the
top of the list and clam chowder is not
| far behind.
| BY the time the men from the glacier
| bound gulches become acclimated they
turn from these enjoyments, carefully
examine their bank accounts and theh
buy a ticket on a railroad to visit the
old folks at home"