| Show 1 HIGH PRIC PRICED E D FOOD tobacco and gold on a rare par on an the upper illren alaska R D biffle i a recent visitor in san francisco gives the call a graphic account c of the prices cu current arent for ordinary commodities on the upper yukon river alaska iio he has acco according iding to the call just returned from froin that country where he states there were over one hundred men at work during the last summer washing gold from the river bars and gifts rifts the majority of them will winter in in that country well ill tell you I 1 am glad clad to get back to civilization agair again he said gold is plentiful in fact it is an ordinary trick for a man to wash out oat from twenty to sixty dollars a dy day but a man needs all that to live anyway comfortable for table in that country and he has but little to show after a season of hard va work rk when I 1 left that country a trader with a small stock of f goods was making hia bl way up the river from some of the coast cast bradin trading points in a canoe moe in L fact fac t he be had several of them loaded with provisions klowas lie was assisted in h his is journey by half a dozen indians well when he left kcf t after sax selling I 1 ng out his cargoes he be had about all the gold dust the miners had washed out in four or five months of steady work we ran short of provisions and had I 1 subsisted on bear meat and other game so long that we willingly parted with nearly all we had to pet get some civilized eatables well this trader his name was emmons mons s sold the asevez several sacks of spuds he had with him at the rate of from thirty to fifty cents per potato his flour sold for twenty dollars a sack eack and we were just glad enough to pay five dollars a pound for tho very poorest quality of tea he had with him ile he had several sides of bacou bacon in his stock which he disposed of at about one dollar a slice A few sacks of the tha despised bean brought one dollar a pound aund we had been out of tobacco for nearly two months and had drawn but little t 0 solace out of pipe fuls of dried leaves and moss when wh en this fellow appeared on the scene we took him to our hearts as a benefactor and gave him ounces of at gold for plugs of tobacco an gold brings sixteen dollars in alaska and a nd nineteen dollars at the mint here we bought a hundredweight of f onions for which we were assessed six ounces of gold 1 I tell you what we poured out the dust upon that fellow emmons and he had so much of it I 1 dont think I 1 would like to take the contract to pack it from here to the city hall you must not wink think from this appalling price list that we were starving ving to death we had plenty of game and fish but that kind of grub palls on the appetite the boys however appear to haver have made money on the yukon river bars bam mr miles states that all of them lave stakes and he came down to victo victoria ria with several of them who had cleaned up from twelve thousand dollars to twenty eight mo tao thousand usand d dollars apiece |
