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; ... . TOTEM POLE, FORT WRANGEL, wiOUSAXDS Ul ^[..\.-^- ISLAND. ALASKA STRIKE IT RICH ON KLONDIKE. 12o looks as if the gold in the loose dirt about the creeks had beenbrought down from the mountains by some great glacier. Themen who have gone in, and are going in, have no capital formachinery and the placer mining is the only kind they canundertake. The late comers and the men with money formachinery will probably searc
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; ... . TOTEM POLE, FORT WRANGEL, wiOUSAXDS Ul ^[..\.-^- ISLAND. ALASKA STRIKE IT RICH ON KLONDIKE. 12o looks as if the gold in the loose dirt about the creeks had beenbrought down from the mountains by some great glacier. Themen who have gone in, and are going in, have no capital formachinery and the placer mining is the only kind they canundertake. The late comers and the men with money formachinery will probably search for quartz veins and get biggerfortunes with but comparatively small expenditures. It isreported by government officials and everybody else that thewhole countr} is gold producing, and the work of 10,000 menwho will be able to get there within the next twelve months willnot begin to exhaust the resources. Advice of a 49er. No better words to close a chapter on the luck and experi-ences of the Klondike argonauts have been written than thesefrom a 49er who made his pile before California was a State,and who still sympathizes with each one of the thousandgold seekers in the Arctic wilds who
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