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 . r becausefrozen ground renders traveling over the swampy, moss-covered country more easy, and the miner is thus able tobegin work with the first spring thaw. LABOR AT A PREMIUM. Whatever Alaska maybe in the future, it is not nowself-supporting agriculturally. Moose, caribou and hareare variable in quantity, abundant one time and disap-pearing from the region for twelve months at a
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 . r becausefrozen ground renders traveling over the swampy, moss-covered country more easy, and the miner is thus able tobegin work with the first spring thaw. LABOR AT A PREMIUM. Whatever Alaska maybe in the future, it is not nowself-supporting agriculturally. Moose, caribou and hareare variable in quantity, abundant one time and disap-pearing from the region for twelve months at a dollars a day is the general wage paid, twelve dollarsfor a day of ten hours being paid in some of the more re-mote gulches. In winter the pay for labor is from five toeight dollars per day of six hours. Many times the minershave been at the point of starvation, and there hashardly been a winter when they have not been put on aration basis. Universal suffrage is given, and all havean equal vote. Penalties include: For stealing, banish^ment from the country, in some cases also whipping;threatening with weapons, the same ; murders, hanging ;but there have been no murders so far. &KK:SM«V-K WMmjfm. CHAPTER VII. ALASKAN QUARTZ MINES AND MINING. The location of gold deposits on the coast of the southeast—The Great TreadwellMine on Douglass Island—The largest quartz mill in the world—Thousands ofdollars a day from low-grade ores—Other mines of the section—The quartz veinsof the Klonkike country—Large amounts of capital being gathered to workthem—The rich promise of the future—The rules which the prospector mustfollow in his search for hidden treasure—Methods employed in working thegolden veins—Processes of the rock-breaker, stamp-mill, and concentrator. THE progress made in the location of gold depositson the southeastern coast constitutes a separatechapter in Alaskan mining history. It is recordedthat Doroshin, in 1848, made small finds of gold near thepresent
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