Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1899 — Down Dawson’s Main Street. [ARTICLE]

Down Dawson’s Main Street.

Along the thawing bog called the main street, littered and odorous from sanitary neglect, were two rows of saloons and gambling halls, with mining brokers’ offices and the stores of shrewd speculators In food supplies, who always had one can of condensed milk for $2.50, one can of butter for $5, and one pound of sugar for $1.50, and assured you that they were the last in the country. To look out across the flat toward the mountains was to see scattered cabins and piles of tin cans, which at once let one into the culinary secrets of an isolated community, composed largely of men. At the restaurants bacon and beans and coffee cost $2.50.—“A Winter Journey to the Klondike,” in Scribner’s.