The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-04

bands mines. The two went back to the United States rich. Another wealthy woman of Puget sound turned the wind las3 and raised the bucket which car
 ried the earth out of her husbands mine. Some brought money with them and made money by investing in gold prop critics. One woman had $30,000 when she left Vancouver. and she had doubled and
 quadrupled it, when she was cheated out
 of her fortune by interruptions men. She then took In washing and baked bread
 for the miners with the flour they brought l to her. She opened a roadhouse at Sel-
 kork, and later on made money and saved 1t That woman came from Idaho. She is said to be quite well to do.
 The daughter of a former governor of Kentucky was living in Portland when
 the first news of the great finds In the klondike reached there. She had several thousand dollars and she brought this
 with her to Dawson, where she invested 1 1t all in town lots. She sold and rebought and resold property in the business part of the town, and sent back home money to the value of thousands of dollars. Lots
 for which she paid $700 were sold for $15,-
 coo and upward, and in one single trans action she is said to have made as much as s60,000
 Another woman who took in washing and made money came north from Ju- neau, where she had been working in & 1 laundry. She was blond, 45 years of age, | but so stout and rugged that she pulled 1 her own sled, weighing 250 pounds, from | Lake Lindeman through to Lake Le | Barge and made her way on down to 1 Circle City. She started laundry and bake shop and sold her bread for from | 50 cents to $1 loaf. Later on she came
 to the Klondike and staked out claim
 or Eldorado creek from which she
 realized $300,O00.
 1 The women of that time did all sorts | of things and underwent every hard ship to get to the gold mines. Many 1 were stnended at Skagway or Dyea. the ports at the foot of the mountains over
 which the trails led to the gold camps. 1 There was one old woman at Skagway
 whose story was told me by Elmer J. | White, recently American consul at White Horse. Sad MT. White:
 'The woman was over 75 years of age. | but she had enough nerve to come north with the rush. She had no money to get
 over the trail, so she started in selling
 newspapers at from 25 to 50 cents each, ! the current prices of those days. She l was so old that she aroused sympathy,
 and rich miner would often give
 her s5 for a paper and tell her to keep | the change. I knew her well. I was then | editor of a paper at Skagway and she would bring the money to me and ask me l to count it. She would sometimes have i $40 or $50 from the sales of few days. She kept her savings in a bag, and when l she left she had about 5000. All this time she was sleeping in piano box in a little cabin across the street from my newspa- per office. I feared she would freeze dur ing the winter, and l got her people in Montana to write her to come home. I sent her money there and arranged for her. passage.
 You might think that woman of that kind would be unsafe in a mining com
 munity She was not. Every one was
 ready to protect her, and soapy Smith,
 the desperado, was one of her best cus-
 toners. I remember one day she came in