. Alaska and the Klondike . 20 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE cause that is the home of the present governor. A changein the incumbency of the office would doubtless changethe location of that office to this very picturesque takes its name from Joseph Juneau, a prospector,who won the confidence of the Indians, and learned from. Mushing over White Pass in I 898 them where they got the gold of their ornaments. Theytook him to what is now known as Silver Bow Basin, andthen, requiring that he should become a tribesman and pre-serve their secret, it was with great difficulty that heescaped to
. Alaska and the Klondike . 20 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE cause that is the home of the present governor. A changein the incumbency of the office would doubtless changethe location of that office to this very picturesque takes its name from Joseph Juneau, a prospector,who won the confidence of the Indians, and learned from. Mushing over White Pass in I 898 them where they got the gold of their ornaments. Theytook him to what is now known as Silver Bow Basin, andthen, requiring that he should become a tribesman and pre-serve their secret, it was with great difficulty that heescaped to Sitka to report his great find. THE INSIDE PASSAGE 21 Late in the evening we approached what looked first likea small forest fire, but which we afterwards discovered tobe mosquito smudges around the tents of the men engagedin clearing the ground for the new military post at HainesMission. The Government was preparing here for a four-company post which is to be the principal military stationin Alaska. As evidence of the fact that clearing theground and improving a farm in that part of Alaska is aserious business, it cost the Government $195 an acre toclear the ground for the post. When we awoke on the morning of July 3, the Dol-phin lay at the dock in Skagway at the foot of the cele-brated White Pass, over whose rugged and ic
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