. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. Irish-American 35,ooo Dick McNuity, Irish-American 20,000 Jake Halterman, American 14,000 Johnson and Olson, Swedes 20,000 Neil McArthur, Scotchman 50,000 Charles Anderson, Swede 25,000 Joe Morris, Canadian 15,000 Hank Peterson, Swede 12,000 There are a great many more going out with from$3,000 to $10,000 that I do not know. This is probablythe richest placer ever known in the \vorld. They took it 158 THE CHICAGO RECORDS out SO fast and so much of it that they did not have timeto weigh it with gold scales. They took steelyards andall the
. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. Irish-American 35,ooo Dick McNuity, Irish-American 20,000 Jake Halterman, American 14,000 Johnson and Olson, Swedes 20,000 Neil McArthur, Scotchman 50,000 Charles Anderson, Swede 25,000 Joe Morris, Canadian 15,000 Hank Peterson, Swede 12,000 There are a great many more going out with from$3,000 to $10,000 that I do not know. This is probablythe richest placer ever known in the \vorld. They took it 158 THE CHICAGO RECORDS out SO fast and so much of it that they did not have timeto weigh it with gold scales. They took steelyards andall the syrup cans were filled. It looks as if my timewould come about the time I am ready to die. One man received word that his wife and little girlhad died since he came in here, and now he is going outwith $25,000. Another man was here waiting for the boat to gohome, and died yesterday with heart disease, having inhis possession $17,000. Stranger things than fiction hap-pen here every day. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 16y CHAPTER X. PAN VALUES OF PAYING ORROBORATIVE evidence, which hascome in since the steamer Enterprisebrought back the first of the men whohad struck it rich in the Klondike,shows that their reports were not exag-gerated. The Alaska ^liner, of July 17,contains a long article on the Klondikeplacers, in which the results are comparedwith an analysis made last March of the pan value of thetwo richest creeks, Bonanza and El Dorado. This analy-sis was based on talks with several men who had spentmost of the winter on the creek, and saw panning beingdone on various claims. The Alaska Miner is regardedas high authority on gold in Alaska and the Yukon dis-trict. The article, which shows the extraordinary rich-ness of the placer mines in the Klondike district, readsas follows: We expressed the opinion that the El Dorado wouldprove to be the richer creek, and our surmises haveproved to be correct. How did we arrive at this result?We carefully kept a record of the panning
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