The daily Alaskan., 1918-10-17

after being ground to oust IL IS treated and the gold, silver and lead is separated from it. The rail. road i, about three miles and runs for the greater part through tun- nel as the mine is on the other side of the mountain. Even where there Is no tunnel the road is housed in to protect it from snow and other slides. Arriving at our destination I was certainly agreeably surprsed. to find what was a few years ago bowling wilderness, inhabited by no thing except the Taku Wind and visited occasionally by stray mountain goat or sheep, a bear, an Indian or the like, had by this>time' the largest gold mining company In America if not, as far as tonnage goes, in the world, been convert ed to as modern a city, in pIopor- tion to it's size as any in the north. We arrived at noon and, of course made a bee line for the dining room. This room seats about $50 at time. We ate from the same bill of fare as the men in the mine and the food was certainly all that could be wished for, both as to quantity and quality. We had soup, cod fish with gravy "as mother used to make" roast beef, baked and mash ed potatoes, coffee and tea, bread as good. as any served nowaday in the best hotels in the States, be- sides the usual dishes, as pickles greens ,etc.
 Having finished our meal we visited the place where it had been prepared. There as well as where the food was served eVer& thing was immediately clean. It reminded. me of the fellow who one morning, as we were in a Pullman dressing room said: This Is just like home, only We here have plenty of towels.' So in this kitchen, there was plenty of every thing, it was on a large scale. Just one example, the egg beater and cake mixer had 8 capacity of about ten gallons which was worked by electricity and must have cost close to g thousand dollars. Evidently the company intended their men to have cake or they would not have invested so much money in a machine to prepare it. Like sooG' Ford 1t has three speeds-to suit the moves of the cook. The oven was the size of a small bedroom, only hotter. The dishes were wash ed, by live steam, and listen, ye, who have to wipe dishes; here IS the recipe-insist upon the use of live s:eam by the one who washes the dishes and you need not wipe them. The pantry was so full of good things that had I come there before we visited the dining room would never have used the latter place.
 The living quarters for the men, as far as l saw them, were splendid. In the building We visited there were two men in each room. The comnany furnishes the bedding. The sheets, pillows, blankets, etc., were as clean as in 8 better class hot.l. For the furnishing of bed ding, laundry, janitor etc, an extra charge of $1.50 per month is made on those who avail themselves of it. Adjoining the sleeping quarters were the dressing rooms. About fifty men could wash here at one time; thirteen could take shower baths there being that many separ- ate rooms for this purpose. Anoth- CT Tozen could wash their clothes in tuba furnished for that purpose. AS each man was done he changed his clothes. The clothes taken off, were placed on individual clothes racks and pulled up to the ceiling there to hang until needed. The locked device bringing the clothes up was then locked, the owner of them keeping the key, thus pre- venting any possibility of some one else using them while he was asleep. There were several hundred garments hanging from the ceiling when va were there.
 k the club room, the men have various kinds of amusements: nov iue pictures, billiards, etc. The reading room was we'll stocked with current literature. In both rooms everything was free to the men. At