Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . FLOWERS AND ICE, STIKINE RIVER, ALASKA. JUNEAU, THE CAPITAL OF ALASKA GOLD DISCOVERY IN YUKON TERRITORY DIFFERENT persons are credited with the discoveryof gold in the Yukon Territory. Mr. WilHam Ogil-vie, Canadian Commissioner, stated that a missionarywho died at Fort McPherson two generations ago while labor-ing among Indians found gold in Birch Creek. He also statedthat young pioneers from Toronto traveled five thousandmiles in the Northland in 1859, prospecting
Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . FLOWERS AND ICE, STIKINE RIVER, ALASKA. JUNEAU, THE CAPITAL OF ALASKA GOLD DISCOVERY IN YUKON TERRITORY DIFFERENT persons are credited with the discoveryof gold in the Yukon Territory. Mr. WilHam Ogil-vie, Canadian Commissioner, stated that a missionarywho died at Fort McPherson two generations ago while labor-ing among Indians found gold in Birch Creek. He also statedthat young pioneers from Toronto traveled five thousandmiles in the Northland in 1859, prospecting. Their namesare not disclosed, although he mentions the McKenzies,McPherson, McDonalds and Campbells, which shows thatScotchmen had all the good jobs even in those days, in theHudson Bay Company. Many claims returned from half toone million dollars. Mr. Ogilvies conclusion was that therewere sixty claims on Bonanza Creek and forty on Eldorado,that would average not less than $100,000 per running foot. The very rich discoveries in the Klondyke district (Yukon)were credited to George Washington Cormac and his twoIndian mates, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, in the
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