El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-03

Kentucky was living in Portland when
the first news OF the great finds iu
the Klondike reached there. she had
several thousand dollars and size
brought this with her 10 Dawson,
where she invested II all in town lots
She sold and rcboUght and reSold prop
erty in the business part of the town.
and sent back home money 10 the value
OF thousands of dollars Lots for winch
she paid 500 were sold for $4,000 and
upward. and in one single transaction
she is said to have made as much as
Another roran who took in washing
and made money came north from
Juneau. where she had been working
in a laundry. She was blond. - years
OF age. but so stout and rugged that
she pulled her own sled. weighing 30
pounds. from Lake Lindeman through
10 Lake lie Barge and made her way
on down TO Circle City She started 4
laundry and bake shop and sold ner
bread for from 20 cents to 81
loaf Later on she came TO the Klon-
dixie and staked out claim on Edo
RADIO creek. from which she realized
$500. 600.
Undergo Many HardshipS.
Tie women Of that time did all sorts
of things and underwent every hard
ship 10 get TO the gold mines Many
were stranded at Skagway or Dyea.
the ports at the foot of the mountains
over which the trails led to the god
q
Ska gway whose story was told me by
Elmer = White. recently American con-
sui at White Horse. Said Mr.. White:
The woman was over - years Of
ge. but she had enough nerve to come
north with the rush She had no money
90 get over the trail. SO she started in
selling newspapers at from - TO 80
cents each. the current prices Of those
iays- She was so old that she aroused
sympathy. and a rich miner would
en- give her 3 for a paper and tell
Ter TO keep the change 1 knew her
yell 1 was then editor OF a paper
at Skagway and she would bring her
money to me and ask me TO count r..
she would sometimes have $50 or $50
from the sales OF a few days. She kept
her savings in a bag, and when she
left she had about $1,000. All this time
she was sleeping in 3 piano box in
little cabin across the street from nv
newspaper office. 1 feared she would
freeze during the winter. and [ got
her people in Montana TO write her 20
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
community. She was not Every one
was ready to protect her and Soau,-
smith. the desperate. was one OF her
best customers. I remember one dav
she came and told me 4 certain man
had insulted her. 7 thereupon in :
formed the deputy marshal VINO is nov
n
he went TO the man and gave him -
hours 70 leave town He departed in
stanter.
Old Type l. Passing.
The old type OF roughly dressed E
frontier woman is rapidly passing The
mining Of the rich camps is going into
the hands Of large capital. and there
are but few women who have big min
ing Investments. / heard of none at
Dawson except Margaret Mitchell. who
- lis herself the Quartz Queen Of the
hlondike, and she is only poteutfalls-
rich Margaret Mitchell has faith that
the $50 odd million dollars worth OF
the gold that has been washed out in I
grains and dust from the creeks and
basin Of the Klondize must have ben
round off from rich veins nearby. she }
s looking for the mother lodes. and +
or years has been taking up and buy
nE quartz claims. some of her prop g
rites are now being developed and
-ew are said to carr good values
Margaret Mitchell is one OF the first
o rush to every new mining field she
Is a part OF every stampede. and in
His way has got She nickname STAN
'ede hitchel- She thoroughly under
fauds the mining laws And watches
1ut Tor claims that lapse through the
-:tSeleSsrfss Of owners in falling TO d.
ne assessment work annually required
Every now and then she picks I'd
-alua bic claim. and sometimes one ths.
,elongS TO the big capitalists. I W
ierstand that she jumped such 4 claim
'nly the other day. and that the mil