Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — They Fold Big. Prizes. [ARTICLE]

They Fold Big. Prizes.

R. M. Milos, of San Francisco, lia, ju-t returned fro n the Upper Yuko t I iver, Alaska, wo re h l ' bad been mi gaged n gold mining. The inner- v from j'26 to S6O a day worth of g do t, but they have to live on game a lish and have almost no vi gctuli • ■ffr. M.les t-lle how the miners mo trader and the extraordinary prices pi for the most or iinary commoditi s vifizidlife. “We had subsisted,' i says, "on bear meat and other ga 1 e long that we willingly parted w nearly all wo had (o get some civilize eatables. Welt, (his trader—h s ra „i was Emmons—sold the several sacks <■ spuds he hud with him at the rale o from 6to 50 cents a potato. His sou old for S2O a sack, and we were i:<g ad enough to'pays"a found for 1.. very poorest quali'y of tea he hu w.th hi.a. He had several sides o a on in his stock wh eh he die oied <n at -1 a s ice. A few gaeks of tie do piee.t bean brought, $1 a pound. "Wo had been out of toboo o so nearly two moutns, and had draw.i bur little solace out of pipefuls o, dried eaves and moss. When this fellow appeared on the scene we took him to our h-ans as a benefactor and gave hl.n uu es of gold for plugs of tobacco. A n ounce of gold brings sl6 in Alaska and $lB at the mint here. "We bought a hundred-weight ■* 1 miidiis, for which we were assessed >-Y ounces of gold. “ ou mußt not think from this appalling price-list that we were starving *0 le ith. We had plenty of game and fish bu that kind of grub palls on the appetite."