. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. t went np with the first excitement andgot three town lots. One of them he has already beenoffered $1,500 for, but will not sell. He also staked twoclaims and bought another this week for $1,500. Theseare all placer mines. I also have a claim. Pat and Ihave men prospecting on our claims. We may neverget a cent out of them, and we may get thousands. Weare running that risk. I have been writing this by lamp light, but just now,at 10 oclock a. m., the sun is just coming over the moun-tain tops, with two sun dogs accompanying it. It is 40bel
. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. t went np with the first excitement andgot three town lots. One of them he has already beenoffered $1,500 for, but will not sell. He also staked twoclaims and bought another this week for $1,500. Theseare all placer mines. I also have a claim. Pat and Ihave men prospecting on our claims. We may neverget a cent out of them, and we may get thousands. Weare running that risk. I have been writing this by lamp light, but just now,at 10 oclock a. m., the sun is just coming over the moun-tain tops, with two sun dogs accompanying it. It is 40below, with a strong wind blowing. We got your papers and clippings and passed themaround. You dont know what a treat it is to see printin here. Pat would give his head to know somethingabout the election. He sincerely hopes Bryan is presi-dent, and tries to console himself by thinking he actuallymust be the man. T am knitting socks and stockings. I only wear twopairs at a time, with a pair of Dutch socks and a pairof fur boots. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 277. CHAPTER XIX. OGILVIES REPORT ON THE YUKONDISTRICT. YUKON DISTRICT in which theKlondike placer mines are locatedwas traversed by traders of the Hud-son Bay company as far back as1840. William Ogilvie the land sur-veyor of the Dominion of Canada,commissioned by the Department of^ the Interior of the Dominion gov- ernment to survey that district, returned from there inthe early summer of 1897. In his report hedesignates the Yukon district as that part of theNorthwest territory lying west of the water-shedof the Mackenzie river, most of it being drained by theYukon river and its tributaries. It covers a distance ofabout 650 miles along the river from the Coast range ofmountains. In 1847 Fort Yukon was established at the mouth ofthe Porcupine river by A. H. ^Murray, a member of theHudson Bay company. Seven years prior Robert Camp-bell explored the upper Liard river and the Pelly riverdown to the confluence of the Lewes river. In 1848
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