In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . ma road. It opened Japan to the traffic ofChristendom. Directly and indirectly, it added nearlyfour billions of dollars to the stock of the precious metals,and by giving the distinction of this vast scene to Eng-lish-speaking nations added much to their great industrialand intellectual influence. Before three years elapsed the discoveries in Californiawere duplicated in Australia. Some ye
In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . ma road. It opened Japan to the traffic ofChristendom. Directly and indirectly, it added nearlyfour billions of dollars to the stock of the precious metals,and by giving the distinction of this vast scene to Eng-lish-speaking nations added much to their great industrialand intellectual influence. Before three years elapsed the discoveries in Californiawere duplicated in Australia. Some years before SirRoderick Murchison had predicted that gold would befound in the quartz, and in 1851 Hargreaves, who hadbeen at the diggings in California, looked for it in theBathurst of New South Wales, and found what he waslooking for. His discovery was at first received withincredulity, but when Dr. Kerr found on the Turon alump of gold worth $21,000, and a nugget was taken toSydney which sold for $6,200, there could be no questionof the facts. It is interesting in this connection to know somethingof the size of the Klondike nuggets, although largenuggets are not necessarily the accompaniment of rich. RICES JUMP. ,gg fields. There were four nuggets of the size of duckeggs, and a dozen as large as walnuts, in the gold broughtdown this summer from Alaska. The bie ones areworth about $375 each, and the small ones about $ are many thousands of golden bits of the size ofwatermelon seeds that are worth $1 each, and hundredsof the size of common gravel-stones. After the news of the Australian discoveries had beencirculated workmen of all classes deserted their callingsto hunt for gold, and they were so successful that in thefall of 1851 the average earnings of prospectors rose to$5 a day. Simultaneously, all articles of commerce ad-vanced ; wheat quadrupled in value; potatoes rose from7 shillings to 21 shillings a hundred weight; and freightfrom Sydney to the mines from $12
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