The gold fields of the Klondike; fortune seekers' guide to the Yukon region of Alaska and British America; . attens out considerablyand the majestic grandeur that one encounters from CircleCity up to the headwaters is seen no more. There areoccasional mountains, and some of the streams which rise inthem and feed the Tanana and other tributaries of theYukon are known to contain gold. At the mouth of theTanana is Fort Weare, a trading station of the NorthAmerican Transportation and Trading Company, andnamed after its president. Away from the Yukon, sixty orseventy miles northward in the Arctic C
The gold fields of the Klondike; fortune seekers' guide to the Yukon region of Alaska and British America; . attens out considerablyand the majestic grandeur that one encounters from CircleCity up to the headwaters is seen no more. There areoccasional mountains, and some of the streams which rise inthem and feed the Tanana and other tributaries of theYukon are known to contain gold. At the mouth of theTanana is Fort Weare, a trading station of the NorthAmerican Transportation and Trading Company, andnamed after its president. Away from the Yukon, sixty orseventy miles northward in the Arctic Circle, are mountainstreams upon which gold has been found, on the KoyukukRiver and its tributaries. About ten miles below theTanana there is a quartz claim, but from there westward The gold fields of the Klondike 77 there has been no gold discovery. The points on the lowerriver are mostly trading- posts, where the trade in furs iscarried on. There is a large business done with the nativesin skins, and prices are regulated by the standard price ofred fox or marten—called one skin—about $ A prime. WMmr
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