| Show FROM KLONDIKE translated for the deseret news b by john the following appe appeared axed in the icelandic newspaper hogberg Log berg published in winnipeg canada it is from a letter written by armann Arm aftin bjarnason dated dawson city march 8 1898 it is written by a man who has been there nearly a year I 1 am told that the greater part of the world has gone perfectly wild over tile the great gold mines in this locality and that a great many men are either on oa their way hither or are getting ready to start for klondike I 1 sincerely do advise people not to throw everything away just colget here for it is sate sarfe to say that it is not over one in a h hundred andreq of those who come here that find their their fortune here all the land has been taken up UD where there is if even the least indication that any gold is to be found and if all those who are expected here this spring do come undoubtedly the wages will become small vast numbers have been hunting here for gold but only few have found much though many newspapers have told that they shovel shove up hundreds of dollars worth of gold on every of dirt I 1 saw yesterday in a newspaper from winnipeg that a man who came here time as I 1 did had some time ago got in one of dirt worth of s gold from a mining claim he had got possession of since he came here i the truth is that he has not du dug 9 five cents worth of gold out of the ground since he came and other hO stories tories told 4 from here hem are just like this I 1 hawe haive j not as yet got g ot any mining claim and do not know that I 1 will do it ii for a worthless claim is worse than none 1 at all A great many here are sending certificates of their mining claims to different parts of america for the pur irl pose of dec elviner with the facts fact s people ought to be careful and nol purchase claims for there axe are a great many here that do not pay to work many have taken claims to work on shares they to get half of the gold that they dig out of them but more than two thirds of them have quit because it did not pay many at yf them not even had a fair days wages some however have made a good goodseal deal by working on shares those who got possession of 0 good claims the winter before last are now wealthy men bat it is not for poor men to buy these claims now n w as they cost from to each T years grub costs here and in all proba probability Wity it will be impossible to get it here next fall it has cost a great deal to live here h era last winter some of those that c could not get their provisions last sur summer have had to pay for 50 lbs of flour while the regular price Is for 10 lbs ibs of flour all other kinds of pro visions costing no less than a dollar tt pound we the Ic elanders axe are all ail la in good health but a great many are sick with scurvy and the hospital I 1 is full vt t sick people A good many have hav frozen to death and several have lost last took an fingers many suffer from rheumatism which I 1 think is caused chiefly by bi bai bad and insufficient col thing and pow poor and deficient food I 1 have been working part of the time this winter and bew paid a dollar and a half for tile the hour and worked 7 to 8 hours a day which to is the highest wages that are paid he here I 1 expect to come home to winnipeg next summer or fall if nothing hava hap pens that prevents me |
