To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . Though the harbor at St. Michaeldoes not freeze until some time afterthe mouth of the Yukon is closedby ice, on the other hand the icepiles up there in the spring so that the harbor is not free until longafter the river is open to navigation. At Andreaofsky the river isopen in an average year on May 28th, while Kotlik will not see aclear river until June 1st, and St. Michael is still shut in up toJune 23d. The clear water of the Swetlaretchka is in striking contrast withthe muddy Yukon, whose water is said, during the sprin
To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . Though the harbor at St. Michaeldoes not freeze until some time afterthe mouth of the Yukon is closedby ice, on the other hand the icepiles up there in the spring so that the harbor is not free until longafter the river is open to navigation. At Andreaofsky the river isopen in an average year on May 28th, while Kotlik will not see aclear river until June 1st, and St. Michael is still shut in up toJune 23d. The clear water of the Swetlaretchka is in striking contrast withthe muddy Yukon, whose water is said, during the spring freshet,to be nearly one-third mud, as can be seen when it is permitted tosettle in a glass. As has been stated, the silt is largely represented bythe volcanic ash carried down by the White and Tanana rivers,great tributaries of the Yukon, which have their sources in a vol-. A STREET IN CIRCLE CITY. canic land. And here, with the steamer well on its voyage, a fewwords of description of the second stream on all the earth will notbe out of ®®®®SXsXsXsX^^ There are no romantic tales told of Discovery of the Vukon i the ^ov7 °f *e Jukonsu? as followed the finding of theMississippi by the heroic De fact the name of the discoverer seems to be lost to history. Thegreat flats at the mouth held the early Russian and English naviga-tors at bay, while the stragglers who first penetrated to the regionof the rivers upper waters knew it as the Pelly. This name it heldas far as the mouth of the Porcupine until 1846. In that year Mr. , of the Hudson Bay Company, crossed the divide from the THE ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY 29 1 Ristory of the River Mackenzie, reached the Porcupine ami descended thai stream to thebig river which the Indians of that district called Yukon. This name Bell adopted, and it has remained Yukon to this day, though not ti
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