In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . THE INTRUSION. --,, men. Protests naturally followed, and Georgia sent alarge police force to keep back the invaders, but it wasof little avail. Reckless, dissipated men from all quartersof the country flocked in, prowled about the woods, setup log huts and shanty groceries on all the streams, andeven the Federal troops were powerless to keep the law-less hordes west of the Chestatee. The
In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . THE INTRUSION. --,, men. Protests naturally followed, and Georgia sent alarge police force to keep back the invaders, but it wasof little avail. Reckless, dissipated men from all quartersof the country flocked in, prowled about the woods, setup log huts and shanty groceries on all the streams, andeven the Federal troops were powerless to keep the law-less hordes west of the Chestatee. These days are knownas the period of the Intrusion —one of the two datesfrom which the mountaineers reckon all events, the otherbeing the late war. Finding that no protection of theIndians by police measures was feasible, the State in1830 adopted the Indians, reservation and all, and consti-tuted the region a county. Then the mineral lands weredivided up into forty-acre lots, and put up at lottery bythe State. It soon came to be found here, as elsewhere,that gold was not to be picked up in lumps every worthless, lazy and dissolute majority of the earlyhorde of invaders gradually drifted away, w
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