. Alaska and the Klondike. here it hasbeen sown thick enough by the hand of nature to makeit profitable to gather it. The new discoveries in the Tanana valley were begin-ning to attract some attention and led to a smallstampede in the summer of 1903. On board the Healy,the steamer which our party overtook at Nulato, on ourtrip down the Yukon, I found two Minnesota men whohad just come out of the Tanana country very much dis-appointed, and resolved that that was the last stampedein which they would ever engage. Since then six or seventhousand have gone in, most of them are there yet andthousand
. Alaska and the Klondike. here it hasbeen sown thick enough by the hand of nature to makeit profitable to gather it. The new discoveries in the Tanana valley were begin-ning to attract some attention and led to a smallstampede in the summer of 1903. On board the Healy,the steamer which our party overtook at Nulato, on ourtrip down the Yukon, I found two Minnesota men whohad just come out of the Tanana country very much dis-appointed, and resolved that that was the last stampedein which they would ever engage. Since then six or seventhousand have gone in, most of them are there yet andthousands more will no doubt go this year (1905). Felix Pedro sought for gold four summers among thehills and along the creeks of the Forty-Mile district, theKitchumstock and in the Circle City district, and finallyon the banks of the creeks which rise west of the Forty-Mile district and flow into the Tanana. Here in July,1902, he found at last the object of his search. Known asa careful and diligent prospector, his movements were. 3o6 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE closely watched by others who desired to take advantageof his Industry and his persistence. To avoid revealing thesecret of his discovery before he could secure the resultsof his labours for himself and those who had aided himin his search, he made his camp several miles from thescene of his mining operations, and going secretly each dayto his work before and after daylight, cutting his waythrough the frozen ground without fires, and carryingthe waste up a ladder in a sack, he succeeded in locatingclaims which have since made him and his friends inde-pendent of further concern with regard to the fortunesof the miner. Travellers up the Tanana from the Yukon in the sum-mer of 1903 would have found 200 miles from the mouthof the Tanana a rambling village of 150 to 200 name given to this place was Fairbanks, out of com-pliment to the present vice-president, who as a senatorhad manifested unusual interest in the District of
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