SIBERIANS HAVE
ABUNDANCE OF
RUSSIAN MONEY
Victor Jacobson, better known as
the “Scurvy Kid,” has arrived in Ne
nana with a team of fifteen dogs and
a sleigh load of old ivory and curios
which he gathered during the past sea
son along the North Alaska and Si
berian coasts, where he was engaged
in trading during the greater part of
the summer. He was accompanied
on the trip by A1 Nostrum, also an
old-timer of the Interior country, «and
they wrere sixty days en route.
Jacobson, who spent a large part
of last winter in the government hos
pital with a broken leg, left for the
lower country in a small boat shortly
after the opening of navigation, and
upon arrival at Nome signed on as a
member of the gas schooner Arctic,
a mail boat plying between St. Michael
and points in the far North, beyond
Deering. Later he transferred to the
trader Alaskan and crossed over to
the Siberian side, where he did con
siderable trading with the Russians
at Anadir, East Cape, Blubber Bay
and other points. He was at Anadir
when the news came of the founder
ing of the Belvid8re.
There are three Americans at Ana
dir, he says, one of them being Prof.
Lampe, formerly a violinist of Nome,
who is now in charge of a large trad
ing post and doing well. The Rus
sians he met along the coast were
very friendly and hospitable and easy
to traclfc with. They do the trading
with the natives of the interior and
sell to the trading schooners which
visit the coast.
Arrivals on the Siberian coast are
discouraged from going into the in
terior, because of the unsettled con
ditions arising from an unstable gov
ernment.
Jacobson says he saw all kinds of
Russian money on the coast, and that
none of it has much value. Eighty Si
berian rubles, for instance, have the
value of one American dollar; Keren
sky rubles exchange on the basis of
about 38 for a dollar; the czar rubles,
20 for a dollar, and the Kolchak
money has no value at all. Money
is very plentiful at Anadir, and the
200 people there seem to be very
prosperous—in real money. They
like gold, and have considerable of it.
The summer population of Anadir is
about double that of the winter.
Much of the ivory which Jacobson
obtained on the American coast he
took to Siberia to have it made into
novelties, the natives on the Russian
side being much more skillful in cut
ting. He says that many of the old
natives who formerly cut ivory in the
Nome district were killed off by the
influenza epidemic.
Liquor on the Siberian side is very
plentiful, Jacobson says. A^l kinds of
booze is obtainable, from lager beer
to the best Scotch, there apparently
being no restrictions against the traf
fic.
Jacobson plans to return to Bering
sea in the spring, and says he will
sail on a boat of his own during the
coming summer.
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