El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-05

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Canadians Have Queer TASTES.
The Yukon Gold company and the Ca
madam Klondike company as well have
great warehouses filled with every
thing needed for carrying on their op-
erations. They have a number of eacn
part OF every machine that they use,
and repairs for electrical equipment.
and every possible sort Of machine
shop and foundry for repairing broken
PARIS upon notice.
It is the same with the supplies of
food for their men, They are bought
by the ton. and that with regard for
the demands OF the miners. one has to
understand the working force to know
how TO order For instance, the first
importation of groceries was based
on the demands of the Guggenhelm
mining camps in California. The United
this was sent with the supplies by the
thousands Of pounds. II lay in the
store. These Canadian miners would not
have il. They drink tea instead of cof-
fee and have tea for breakfast and
dinner and tea for supper as well An
other popularity was the flour needed
by the baker. In the United States We
use the same flour for bread and pas
try. The Canadian wants a hard wheat
flour for bread and soft flour for
pastry and the cook: cannot do without
them.
Has Cold Storage Plant.
During my stay here 1 have gone
through the Guggenheim warehouses.
They include a number of buildings
made for the purpose. One structure
which is kept at three or four degrees
above freezing. is devoted to perishable
cream and all kinds of vegetables It
contains also rubber goods which are
affected by frost. Another building has
a temperature far below freezing. This
is the cold storage plant Meat is
bought in large quantities and the sup
f,a
the Yukon on the hoof and killed
and frozen before the winter begins.
There are no thawing spells in this
part of the world, and such meat keeps
until spring
At the same camp I visited the sta
bies of the Yukon Gold company. Thew
have stalls for so horses and are about
the largest in this part of the world.
The stables are of wood. having double
walls lined with paper TO keep out the
cold. Long rows of steam pipes run back
and forth over the heads Of the horses
and these are kept hot throughout the
winter. The horses stand upon board
floors well above the ground and ev-
Healthy conditions They have electric
lights that are turned on a part of the
day il winter.
Next to the stables is = warehouse n
which the feed for the horses is kept
They have now something like $4,000
worth of baled hay on hand and a like
quantity of oats. Hay sells from so .
500 ton and oats bring a little bit
from the outside, the native hay not
being considered as good as that from
the states.
Miners Well Treated.
The miners and other employees OF
these big dredging companies are well
treated. The lowest wages are SIS 4
day. or 81 a day and board. There are
many men who receive from 20 to 90
cents an hour. and the foremen and
superintendent get excellent salaries.
There is great competition for the best
men. and each company treats its Ia Dor
ers much better than similar organiza-
tons in the United States The labor is
scattered over the territory where the
different parts of the dredging is done.
Each little center has its own camp
with bunkhouses as sleeping quarters
nearby.
In my trip over the works with Jo-
seph W Boyle 7 visited several of his
camps The houses are lighted by cleo
tricity and heated by steam and each
has its shower bath and other cOnven-
fences The camps have club rooms
IF reading material. Each has its own
uessroom with a Japanese cook and
ne kicks come very quickly If the
food is not good
Boyle serves Fresh Vegetables.
Mr. Boyle prides himself on serving
-resh vegetables to his men through 4
tut the greater parc or the year He 1
las hot houses and gardens connected
With the camp. and he raises all sorts 4,
f things under glass In the summer I
le has potatoes. tur1ips. carrots. let !
uce. peas and beans growing out In 1
he open. and also long lines of celery.
ate and early. MANY OF the plants are
tarted in hotbeds or cold frames AMI
hen set out in the ground
The dollhouse gardens are especially
interesting. Most of them are devoted
o the raising of tomatoes and cucum-
ers. which are picked from day u
ay and served to the men The centers
( each Of these lighthouses consist of
great bed Of soil filled with tomato
lants set out a few inches apart. In
er the glass roof is a network OF
-ires and from this round iron bars
Xtend down into the soil bed. each bar
CRYING as q stake for a plant The
ower branches OF the plant are pinched
#. and the result is that the stem :
-rOws as thick as your thumb. il
limbs straight up to the roof where il
ranches out and is upheld by the wire
citing There We're a hundred such
lants in the dollhouse 1 visited. and
II were loaded with green and red ripe
omatoes. About the walls OF the same
louse. on a ledge as high as my waist
we're cucumber vines They had been
rained UP the netting along the walls,
nd the cucumbers hung down from
he roof. Just like grapes in an arbor.
have eaten some of these vegetables