To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . THE ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANYS STORE AT CIRCLE CITY. was all they had to look forward to, had gone there and in a fewmonths amassed fortunes that rendered them independent for years Alaska has been looked upon as merely a land for thetourist and the pleasure seeker. Its glaciers and its mountains, itswealth of scenery that cannot be equaled elsewhere in the world,rendered it a wonderland that filled the beholder with admirationof its beauty and grandeur. To-day Alaska is the Mecca for thefortune seeker. When the Ex
To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . THE ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANYS STORE AT CIRCLE CITY. was all they had to look forward to, had gone there and in a fewmonths amassed fortunes that rendered them independent for years Alaska has been looked upon as merely a land for thetourist and the pleasure seeker. Its glaciers and its mountains, itswealth of scenery that cannot be equaled elsewhere in the world,rendered it a wonderland that filled the beholder with admirationof its beauty and grandeur. To-day Alaska is the Mecca for thefortune seeker. When the Excelsior steamed into the harbor of tTHE ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY San Francisco bringing nearl) one million dollars in gold that hadbeen wrested from the streams of the Klondike country, it inaugu-rated an exodus without parallel in the annals of history. Thoughthe hardy adventurers who flocked there were numbered bythousands, many decided to await the coming of spring beforeundertaking- the journey. The short Alaskan summer was already. OLD RUSSIAN FORT \T ST. MICHAEL. far advanced, and only the most venturesome were willing to encounter the rigors of the Arctic winter. ®@ Throughout the countr ythere is a demand for in-formation concerning thisnew land of promise. The man who would go there hoping, by a few years of labor, to place himself beyond the possibility of want, desires to know how to
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