. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. it would turn to the west andjoin the Stewart, but finding it still continuing north,and requiring too much volume to be any of the brancheshe had seen while passing up the Stewart, he returnedto the point of his departure, and after prospectingamong the hills around the head of the river, he startedwestward, crossing a high range of mountains com-posed principally of shales, with many thin seams ofwhat he called quartz, ranging from one to six inches inthickness. On the west side of this range he found ariver flowing out of what he call
. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. it would turn to the west andjoin the Stewart, but finding it still continuing north,and requiring too much volume to be any of the brancheshe had seen while passing up the Stewart, he returnedto the point of his departure, and after prospectingamong the hills around the head of the river, he startedwestward, crossing a high range of mountains com-posed principally of shales, with many thin seams ofwhat he called quartz, ranging from one to six inches inthickness. On the west side of this range he found ariver flowing out of what he called Alayhew lake, andcrossing this got to the head of Beaver river, which hedescended as before mentioned. It is probable theriver flowing northwards, on which he made a journeyand returned, was a branch of Peel river. Judging fromall I could learn it is probable a light draft steamboatcould navigate nearly all of Stewart river and its tribu-taries. From Stewart river to the site of Fort Reliance, sev-enty-three and one-quarter miles, the Yukon is broad. en < Q< W X H< O z H« HCO BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 77 and full of islands. The average width is between a halfand three-quarters of a mile, but there are many expan-sions where it is over a mile in breadth; however, inthese places it cannot be said that the waterway is widerthan at other parts of the river, the islands being so largeand numerous. In this reach no streams of any impor-tance enter. About thirteen miles below Stewart rivera large valley joins that of the river, but the stream occu-pying it is only a large creek. This agrees in positionwith what has been called Sixty Mile creek, which wassupposed to be about that distance above Fort Reli-ance, but it does not agree with descriptions which I re-ceived of it; moreover as Sixty Ad!ile creek is known tobe a stream of considerable length this stream wouldnot answer the description. Twenty-two and a half miles from Stewart river an-other and larger creek enters fr
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