. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. The silurian strata are upheaved andtwisted; the veins show marks of the action of fire, asif they had forced their way through the rocks in amolten condition. No rule can be laid down in regard tothe richness of the veins. The Kern river fever raged through the United Statesin 1855, and at least 5,000 miners went to that distantregion of the Sierra, only to find that the gold depositswere already worked out. In Australias heyday, just as the yield of the Califor-nia placers had declined to such a degree that some ofthe most famous diggi
. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. The silurian strata are upheaved andtwisted; the veins show marks of the action of fire, asif they had forced their way through the rocks in amolten condition. No rule can be laid down in regard tothe richness of the veins. The Kern river fever raged through the United Statesin 1855, and at least 5,000 miners went to that distantregion of the Sierra, only to find that the gold depositswere already worked out. In Australias heyday, just as the yield of the Califor-nia placers had declined to such a degree that some ofthe most famous diggings were given over to Chinamen,rumors, which gradually gathered strength, reached SanFrancisco that gold had been discovered in the bed ofthe Frazer river. The first finds were made in 1856; itwas not till the spring of 1858 that Frazer river goldbegan to appear at tlic money-changers establishmentson Montgomery street. An exodus set in for Xiotoria,just as now for Juneau. June, 1858, 10,000 minerswere at work between Langley and the forks of the. Y. o MXH Z oJ 5: BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 461 river, and every bar for 140 miles of the Frazers course,and along the Thompson, was being prospected. Twoflourishing towns, Yale and Hope, sprang up on the riverbanks, and before snow fell 20,000 adventurers are saidto have left California for the new camps. Of these thegreat bulk endured untold hardships and found no returned to San Francisco discouraged and penni-less and denounced Frazer river as a humbug, just assome of the unlucky Yukon adventurers may possiblybe denouncing the Klondike next year. But Frazer river was a real find, which added, in thecourse of twenty-odd years, more than twice as muchgold to the worlds supply as Spain had obtained fromthe Americas in the same space of time. Estimates ofthe yield of 1858 vary so widely tliat it is difificult toascertain the truth. Good, the Canadian minister ofmines, reckoned that the output of that year was not over$500,0
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