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- GLC#
- GLC05245.28-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1905/03/15
- Author/Creator
- Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910
- Title
- to my dear children.
- Place Written
- Nome, Alaska
- Pagination
- 8 p. :
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Politics of Reform
Reports that he quit his position at the Post because he did not want to work continuously for 12 hours. He bought a quarter interest in a mine nearby and is now "taking out a 'dump' which means that the pay streak is 30 feet under the ground and frozen so solid as a rock so that we have to thaw it with steam." [continued on 06/12] States it took three months because the mail was shut off. They finished "sluicing out" the dump but the outcome was disappointing. They want to remove one partner. Comments that the telegraph is working well and the Bering Sea is clear of ice. Written on YMCA Army Department stationery.
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