. Review of reviews and world's work. ry of the Indian River. At this verymoment the first goldshipments were reachingthe Pacific coast and theiirst seeds of the gold rushbeing sown by the news-papers. During this pe-riod and the early fall Sul-phur, Bear, and Gold RunCreeks were being stakedin a desultory fashion—asof course were manyothers which liave sincep r o V e d woi-thless. Re-gardless of glowing reportsand the ubiquitous wild-cats, and with the ex-ception of a very smallnumber of bench claims,there have been no morepaying creeks discoveredin the Klondike. And thismust be noted and ejn
. Review of reviews and world's work. ry of the Indian River. At this verymoment the first goldshipments were reachingthe Pacific coast and theiirst seeds of the gold rushbeing sown by the news-papers. During this pe-riod and the early fall Sul-phur, Bear, and Gold RunCreeks were being stakedin a desultory fashion—asof course were manyothers which liave sincep r o V e d woi-thless. Re-gardless of glowing reportsand the ubiquitous wild-cats, and with the ex-ception of a very smallnumber of bench claims,there have been no morepaying creeks discoveredin the Klondike. And thismust be noted and ejn- the newcomers succeeded in possessing one claimout of each twenty staked they did well ; andsince not one claim in twenty developed pay dirt,the amount of dust taken out by the newcomersis practically nil. Now as to the lays. In the winter of 1896the lay men did well. But at that time condi-tions were entirely different from those of thefollowing winter. The importance of the Klon-dike strike was not appreciated, the value of the. KETUUNING MINEKS WAITING FOR A STEAMER AT ST. MICHAELS. 72 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REJ/IEIV OF REKIEIVS. gold in the gravel problematical, grub was the demand gieatly in excess of the laborsupply. Under these circumstances it was easyfor men to obtain profitable lays. But in 1897these favorable conditions had disappeared. Theowners knew the true worth of their holdings,grub was plentiful, and the labor market , no mine owner was silly enough to let alay to a man which would clear that man $50,000,when he (the mine owner) could work that sameman on wages the same length of time for $2,, many newcomers, with an ignorancereally pathetic, took such lays as were offered,used their own tools and grub, worked hardall winter, and at the wash-up found tliey would havebeen better off had theyidled in their cabins. Itis a fact that hundreds oflay men on the vaiiouscreeks refused to put theirwinters dumps through thesluices. Tt i
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