Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — CHRISTMAS AT DAWSON. [ARTICLE]

CHRISTMAS AT DAWSON.

An Oregon M«a Expects to Make sltD©000 In Holiday Dinner*** Mr. Charles H. Vent of IVrthuid, ®**. ( ha* started for Alaska on a remarkable venture. He fntends to furnish the i*«pU> of Daweon with Christmas dinners and at the mow time make liis fortune. Mr. Vest's transportation outfit consisted of 28 dogs and 10 sleds. He has five helpers. Hi* merchandise consists of 3,843 down eggs, 1% tons of dressed poultry und SSO worth of oysters. The eggs were carefully broken and placed in cans, six to. the can, and then frozen solid. The poultry and oysters wore likewise put through the freezing process, and until the steamer sails will remain in the col.d storage warehouse. The tvlearner -lias a refrigerator room, where the stuff will oe stowed, and after reaching Dywi no precaution will be necessary. Mr. Vest, oh reaching Dawson, expects to sell his poultry for $5 a pound and the oysters for 100 times what they- cost hini. Latest Dawson quotations on eggs were $lB per dozen, nnd by Christian?; Mr, Vest believes, they will fetch $35 a dozen. He hopes to realize SIOO,OOO on the speculation. |