A trip to Alaska and the Klondike in the summer of 1905 (1906) (14780570224)

Identifier: triptoalaskaklon00keeluoft (find matches)
Title: A trip to Alaska and the Klondike in the summer of 1905
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Keeler, N. E
Subjects: Alaska -- Description and travel Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ebbert
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ame story. He and his partner had thirty-fiveclaims in the Klondike, some five years before, whenthey were so unwise as to undertake to keep eighthorses through the winter, because they had not theheart to shoot them. The cost was so great that,to quote his vernacular, It knocked our bank ac-count silly and we went broke. There was nomoney left to keep the claims good, nor to workthem. In fact, the men were ruined through theirtender-heartedness. They sold a claim for two hun-dred dollars, abandoned the rest in which there were 58 A Trip to Alaska and the Klondike. possible millions and left for the outside, never toreturn, having sacrificed all prospects of riches totheir kind-heartedness. This same miner had a happy encounter the nextday, which I was pleased to witness. As he sat atbreakfast in the dining car, up stepped a gentleman,slapped him on the back and extended his handwith an exclamation of surprised delight. It wasthe partner of five years before, whom he had notmet since.
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CHAPTER VIII. Dawson is the heart of the Klondike, and wasthe mecca of gold hunters in the rush of ninety-eight. The first thing that a cheechaca learns is thathe may stow away all of his nickles and dimes forfuture reference, as the quarter is the smallest coincurrent. I picked one up on the street the day I arrived,and felt rich till I found I must spend it for a Cin-cinnati Enquirer sixteen days old. All newspapersare the same price, whether a Dawson daily, justissued, or a Seattle daily, two weeks old. Cigars,beer, wine, whisky, soda water and bromo seltzerare two bits per; two bits for a shave and thesame to the boot-black for massaging your shoes.And the laundry prices! Thirty to fifty cents agarment for having your linen mangled. Onegentleman paid fifty cents for having a shirt washedwhich cost him only forty-eight cents when new. A lady paid thirteen dollars for a small bundleof laundry, but passed it off pleasantly by sayingthat she knew the dirt was rich around Dawson,but di