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or shine, through that dreary and weary haul 

 of eighteen miles. 



She told me with her own lips that she 

 averaged a clear profit of $25.00 per day while 

 the excitement continued, and this profit en- 

 abled her to pay off a large part of the mort- 

 gage on her home. 



When the summer season waned and a 

 touch of winter came, the rush dwindled 

 away, and the brave-hearted woman had to 

 look out for something else to keep the pot 

 boiling, for both she and her boys had to live. 



A restaurant was the next venture, and, 

 while attending to that, a man who had built 

 a new and then modern hotel in Skagway 

 called upon her and asked her to manage it. 

 She told him that she had no money to risk in 

 renting a big hotel, neither did she have the 

 necessary experience to run it. The man in- 

 sisted that she should go with him and look 

 it over, and he would take care of getting the 

 guests to fill it. The building and its appoint- 

 ments were carefully examined and approved. 

 It turned out that the owner had already can- 

 vassed the families who were living in Skag- 

 way and who were anxious to live in an up- 

 to-date and modern hotel and had secured 

 enough tenants to fill the house. 



