Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . < u Xu < cu,D O z w. SPREAD OF THE KLONDIKE FEVER. 45 In my opinion there arc just as good placer diggings to befound at Cooks Inlet as in the Klondike region, There is not a foot of ground in all that country that doesnot contain gold in more or less appreciable quantities. There is room there for thousands of men, and there is cer-tainly no better place in the world for a poor man. There is good reason for believing from th
Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . < u Xu < cu,D O z w. SPREAD OF THE KLONDIKE FEVER. 45 In my opinion there arc just as good placer diggings to befound at Cooks Inlet as in the Klondike region, There is not a foot of ground in all that country that doesnot contain gold in more or less appreciable quantities. There is room there for thousands of men, and there is cer-tainly no better place in the world for a poor man. There is good reason for believing from the reports of menwell acquainted with the whole region that there is gold to befound anywhere in Alaska. The streams flowing into the greatsalt channel which bounds the coast below Sitka bear manyauriferous evidences, and several of them, as for example in theneighborhood of Fort Wrangel, have been worked successfullyheretofore. Some, indeed, have been literally washed out, J. W. McCormicks richest gold placers in the upper Yukon were discoveredby a white man in August, 1896. The find was due to thereports of Indians. J. W. McCormick, a Scotchman, who hadbeen in the employ o
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