Thanks to Fort Cudahy's competition, the prices in the Fortymile area dropped drastically. For example, the price of 100 pounds of flour dropped from $15 in 1891 to $8 in 1893. Fort Cudahy also offered a larger range of goods than McQuesten.
But Fort Cudahy operated very differently. Healy refused to extend the almost unlimited credit to the miners that McQuesten offered. He also refused to sell to McQuesten's regular customers, once throwing out a miner who wanted to buy condensed milk because he had been grubstaked by McQuesten.
Fort Cudahy lasted five years, until 1898 when it was forced out of business by the stampede to the Klondike.
