Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — It Makes a Difference. [ARTICLE]

It Makes a Difference.

“I understand your uncle brought eight hundred thousand dollars back from the Klondike.” ~ “No.” “No? Why, that was certainly the report” “Yes, that was the report at Dawson City; but when he got to St Michael’s, rumor let it drop to six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.” “Well, that’s a pretty good sum.” “Of course it is; but after he had sailed we got word that the actual value of his nuggets probably wouldn’t exceed three hundred and eighty thousand dollars.” “Still, he could do the handsome thing by you if he wanted to.” “No doubt about that at all; but when he landed at Seattle the newspaper reports from there gave his fortune as only one hundred and ten thousand dollars.” “Even that is a good deal of money.” “Very true; but the next time we heard from him he was in San Francisco, and the best they could make of it there was a little less than, fifty thousand dollars.” “Pretty good pay for a year’s work, any way.” “Unquestionably; but he reached Chicago this morning with a letter of credit of thirty-five hundred and sixteen dollars, which represented the total value of the gold that he and his partner had brought down and delivered at the San Francisco mint, and they want me to board them for nothing all winter, so that they can have that for their expenses when they go back.”