The Creighton Chronicle . ~y^z. m SCENES IN ALASKA—Upper—Interior Gold Camp at Midnight. Middle—Cooks Inletat high tide. Bottom—Haystack Island. OUR LAST FRONTIER 515 The strong life that never knows harness; The wilds where the caribou call;The freshness, the freedom, the farness— 0 God! how Im stuck on it all. The winter! the brightness that blinds you,The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you,The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The snows that are older than history, The woods where the weird shadows slant; The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,Ive

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The Creighton Chronicle . ~y^z. m SCENES IN ALASKA—Upper—Interior Gold Camp at Midnight. Middle—Cooks Inletat high tide. Bottom—Haystack Island. OUR LAST FRONTIER 515 The strong life that never knows harness; The wilds where the caribou call;The freshness, the freedom, the farness— 0 God! how Im stuck on it all. The winter! the brightness that blinds you,The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you,The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The snows that are older than history, The woods where the weird shadows slant; The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,Ive bade em good-by—but I cant. In the placer grounds the gold is found in nuggets and fineparticles called gold dust. At times the pay streak is followedinto the ground for depths of several hundred feet with shaftsand drifts. During the winter months the gravel and dirt isthawed by wood fires or steam and then hoisted to the clean up is made in summer when the dump is sluicedthrough troughs. Lower grade groun

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