MARKET PRICES IN ALASKA.
Gold may be plentiful in the Alaskan fields, but it takes a good deal of it to buy what in most places are considered common luxuries if not necessities. Whisky costs fifty cents a drink, measured out by the vendor, too, in Circle City, and a gallon of it costs 20dol or more. Beer hot from the vat costs twenty-five cents a drink, and is scarce at that. Usually it is to be had only on festal occasions, at dances and ths like. Then brewing kettles are kept going on the cook stoves, the beer is set outside a few minutes to cool a little, and then is passed steaming over the bar at twentyfive cents a drink. A brewery is now being built at Circle City.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5656, 29 August 1896, Page 6
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131MARKET PRICES IN ALASKA. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5656, 29 August 1896, Page 6
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