Show HAD ENOUGH OF KLONDIKE DIKE na RALPH CONANT SAYS WHAT IS FOUND PAY thousands spend their UTO lives find and money in vain party brought out without profit 1 I dont want any more of 0 the klondike in mine bald ralph conant of 0 buffalo N T Y as a he ha affectionately patted a dog that had been with him through its ita diggings and if my friends will forgive mo me for or ever having recommended commended ro it to them I 1 will be ba content to stay at home and take chances in this country I 1 dont want to say my that the average man who ho went hunting tor for gold in alaska Is a fool but I 1 will say pay that he was foolish in not spending his time and enert energies les in this country some people have gone there ther and made it profitable but t they hey have not realized the dream with wit h ak which aich they started outs out nor will they ever realize it in the first place it requires the str strength encoh of a hercules to make the trip into the country find and aga again ilik lt it it ie quires the strength of one to let get out of the country no matter what amount of gold he be has scraped together to be candid with you continued mr conant while entering the con country tho the hardships become so severe alvere that I 1 was vlas almost almont tempted to turn ba back c if in distrust they were not hardships of weather but the food at stops became so 20 otwa as to render it absolutely re revolting v tilting I 1 came out with men who brought with theria them as much as but will vill never put the life into any one of them of w aich they were Nt stripped rIPPed in the effort effar t to get it I 1 saw twenty two men come out with ill wager everything including tills this dog that it took to get it out BO 50 that the twenty two return after nearly two years with as much so as SION profit I 1 left buffalo in march and if tho the expense that I 1 have been subjected does docs not reach WOO then the change in my pocket Is incorrect I 1 dont want to see the transportation companies perpetrate any further robbery and I 1 bellove believe it the duty of congress to present conditions there in a manner that will stop what has hag been properly and aptly characterized as the crime of a century I 1 am not one of that class to say pay thil eliat amy my time and my money have been a total I 1 loss oss on the contrary the trip has been very instructive to me and I 1 hope to make majce it profitable to friends of mine who still think of going by advising them to stay am away ammy my no I 1 shall not visit mercur at this I 1 time but having reported to my friends in new york upon the trip into the klondike will mill leave for the transvaal and returning to america come I 1 west again mr conant was among the first to enter british columbia and it was through his recommendations that a large amount of new york capital g got at into that country |