The Nature of Gold by Kathryn Morse

Author:Kathryn Morse [Morse, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780295989877
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

These large integrated corporations fed miners well, but in consuming the capital and labor commanded by such industrial giants, the miners& connections to nature proliferated so far and wide as to become untraceable. Meals on Yukon dinner tables led back to midwestern packing plants; the connections then branched out in yet more directions, as meat-packers and food processors drew cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry from all across the American and Canadian West and Midwest, thus extending the miners' connections to those farms and ranches.27 Meats were not, however, the only heartland products to reach the Yukon. LaMont's crystallized eggs—simply powdered or dehydrated eggs—became a well-advertised Klondike novelty. They came from a St. Louis factory, which collected up to sixteen thousand eggs a day from farms along the Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers.28 Some of the miners' dinner meats extended their connections to nature even farther afield. “Australian canned meat has always stood high in Cassiar where we deal,” John Callbreath wrote from his Stikine River trading post, “and I doubt not it has a good standing in the Youcon country.”29

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