The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-18
TOLOVANA HAS APPEARANCE 0F
 0LDT|ME CAMP
HARRY PATTERSON TELLS OF PRESENT DAY OOiNGS
 AT BROOKS.


 now has the appearance of one ot the early day mining camps which first made the north famous, is the report of Harry Patterson the Liv- engood mining man, who was recent ly here from the new diggings. Mark of industry are to be seen every where, particularly in the town of Brooks. where everybody who can do so is preparing for winter by building houses.
 Most of the town lots at Brook s are being held by tents as yet. How ever, there are more than 30 build ings up or going up, several of them being good sized structures In fact, there are now at Brooks four buildings of two stories and several very large on the ground floor, of one story. Among those who are owners of the principal buildings are Mrs. Brown and sons, George O'Brieu, Lankey & Morrison, Jack Woods, Mahan & Gillis, Ed Rust Mary Me Nelius and Tyler & Genoff
 MT Patterson states that up until the present time 1t has been practi- cally impossible to put up buildings on account of the possibility of the roads over which lumber or logs must be hauled for their construc- tion. However. it Is expected that as soon as snow falls, many more buildings will be erected
 The sawmills at Westfork now hand. This is being sold to the miners aud ,uSin.ss people as they want it. The men who worked ill the mills this summer were mostly paid for their labor in lumber. which they have traded for half in- terests in lots. etc, or have sold to builders. MT. Patterson expects that all of tte carpenters who are now in the Tolovana or who con template going, as far as he knows. will have employment all winter.
 Accommodation for travellers gen erally speaking, are very poor at Brooks just now. The accommoda- tions such as are provided by the roadhouses and restaurants are all right as far as they go, but they II people who are now headed toward the new camp. Every private cabin even is filled up with men, while accommodations for women are ar unknown quantity. One woman told MT Patterson before he started for that she had walked the streets of Brooks all of one night because she could not get a place to stay Next night, however, a man who owned a cabin gave her possession Of it while he moved into a tent
 However, several of the men who own cabins al Brooks are profitinC by the misfortune of those who do not. That is, they are putting hunks all around the walls of their cabins and renting them for s1 each per night, some of them making as high as $10 per day in such 
 MT. Patterson also states that there is considerable lawlessness in a small way in the Tolovana coun- try just now. Whereas before the first men of the Tolovana kept their doors open to all corners, they now keep them locked. for the req son that if they did not, everything they possessed would be stolen. The only theft of magnitude reported is that of s350 in money from a wo man of the underworld. Tolovanites generally have suspicion as to who stole the money, but so far have been unable to prove any thing. Several scraps and quarrels over town lots are also reported
 Although there is considerable to and fro among the miners of Livengood creek, there gre no new discoveries of note, ac- cording to MT. Patterson All ot the laymen on the various claims, however, are preparing for winter, most of them expecting to put on big plants as soon as they can haul them in over the snow.
 SNOW IN VIRGINIA.
 ELKINS. w. Va, Oct 10 A blind