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Show H MINKHS IN THE KLONDIKE. H Quiet, Provident and Anxious to Get H Away as Soon as Possible. H Lack at water Is tho groat drawback H to mining In the Yuknu, Buys Leslie's M Weekly. There Ih Utile rain during H the sutmncr iind the miner must do- B Pn,l "pon the melting snows to swell !thn streams for Ills Hiinnner sluicing. Villages have Hiniing up near tho er9eks and living Ih a Khailo higher ' than In Dawson owing to the extra H freight. Sending noitventr post cards B from these points becomes an expen- H slvo rcmenihrnneo, as tho plain uncol- H orcd ones bcII for $1 r0 a dozen. Tho H picturesque swagger miner of Cripple H Creek, Crccde and Tonopah is not H found hero. The cost of getting "In" H. Is heavy, iiiojcj Is not always easily Hi made, and tho winters nre hlttor cold H ani1 depressing on aeconnt or the long Ht darkness. So the minor saves lilii Hj earnings until hr leaches u more eon- K gencal clime To ho mire, thcie are V ' men on tho c-ceks who drink whiskey ! and tho lr ileit kind of whiskey H iind gambling roes on: yet, on tho 1 whole, tho Klondike miner Is a (Ulet, provident lu.llviilunl, wlio devoutly H hopes that the gold fields ate not B to bo Ills permanent homo. H A man who works for a company H or Individual mine ownor receives from four dollars to six dollars a day H and his board. Many of them do their own cooking and live in cnblns near H tho crooks. Plap-Jneks (pan cakes), H bacon and cotfro nro their chief diet during the winter, and In midsummer It requires a dexterous hand In turn H 3 tho tlap-Jarl:H heforo tho mosquitoes B c can settlo n lite unbaked side. Tho H old-tlinor who has seon tho ice como H and go Is known as a "sour dough," fl . an(1 t,ICRu nion nro tho aristocrats of H the camp. The nowcomor, or tho man B i r who upends his winters outside, In nl- H wnyB known as a "chccchako." If people in the states know how let- H tors from homo are appreciated by tho H rabtn dwellers of the Yukon they H would tend roum messuso every day H I havo seen miners bit In front of their cabins and rend and reread old tat- H I tcred Icttors. At some particular pas- H . sago their faceu would light up with H a stnllo and tho entire letter would H lx gone over again |
