Show ow THE provo girl one of the pioneers IS AELLIE VINCENT YAGER saje sends her 1111 mother other a letter from hie diggings the journey rough provo has the proud P roud distinction of having the only utah person in klondyke it is nellie vincent yager daughter of mr air and mrs thomas thomaa H of the second ward nellie was born and bred here and is ia well known in the community while at creede colo she met john T yager a young man who hai followed mining all his life they were engaged and he set out for alaska last year to hunt a gold mine he located at juneau Jane iu and sent for nellie to meet maet him there she arrived there last september and the young couple were married and became quite popular in the society of that far northern seaport when tile the news lews 0 of the fortunes made on the klondyke at placer mining reached juneau early last mr and mrs hire bazer ere among the first to set out for the golden diggings the first varty party left juneau april 3 nellie accompanying her husband with male attire of furs fura to cross crosa the famous mountain passes donjune 25 the brave provo girl arrived at dawson city on the klondyke and her first letter to her folks two months en route is ia now cow given to the public it is as follows klondyke june 27 1897 dear mother well I 1 will say we are at our journy i 0 end we wa arrived here june jane and we never got our on outfit tait wet nor frozen it is a great town tile the gold they are finding here is something wonderful john is ia going out in a day or cr two and he sava he Is ia ga gone to stay atay until he gets a gold bed 0 01 1 do wish you yon were here to stay till he ha cornea comes for I 1 will be ba here all alone and it will be so BO lonesome this is ia a great graat place but I 1 would not care to take the trip again feeling as I 1 did dd at the end of the journey for all the gold in ia the world one dont know what the journey is util she is through it well ma the next letter we send I 1 hope we can send you a gold nugget from our own mine aa what were you yon doing on the of june I 1 will wil say on the esth and on the we never came so be near drowning in our lives if I 1 ever did say my prayers earnes earnestly ay I 1 did that day A storm came up with out warning in ten or fifteen minutes while we were in the middle of large lake or more like a sea and we ne could not land for so eo long lone a time I 1 never was waa so seared scared before in my life john and I 1 were all alone in a boat but bat there were six boats irl in the party I 1 wish you yoa could see eee tho the tub and washboard wash board that john has just made me they are fine for this country well ma I 1 think we will be out a year from this fall with a stake but I 1 will wih not come until I 1 ret get it talk about a cold country coun country iry why it is 90 degrees in the shade today well I 1 will close for this time please write often affectionately NELLIE |