Book/Printed Material Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers.
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Image 7 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. KLONDIKE FHE CHICAGO RECORD S BOOK FOR GOLD SEEKERS Profusely Illustrated MONARCH BOOK COMPANY, Publishers 302 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
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Image 8 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. fw* -K^^ Copyright, 1897 BY Thk Chicago Record Co.
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Image 9 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. PREFACE. An unknown number of men have decided to seek for- tune in the Klondike country. At this moment, thou- sands of them have their eyes fixed on the gokl placer mines...
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Image 10 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. vi PREFACE.- the United States to send a staff correspondent to the gold fields, and his letter describing the great Klondike strike was the first announcement in this country of the discovery....
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Image 11 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CllArTEK I- ClIArTER 11- Chapter III- Chapter IV- Chapter V- Chapter VI- Chapter VII- Chapter VIII- Chapter IX- Chapter X- Chapter XI- Chapter XII- Chapter XIII- Chapter XIV- Chapter...
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Image 12 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. viii TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page Chapter XXV— A Model Indian Town, 357 Chapter XXVI Game in the Klondike Country, 367 Chapter XXVII— Dogs, Indians and Reindeer, 377 Chapter XXVIII— History of Alaska,...
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Image 13 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. MAPS. Kloxdike Gold Field 13 ••All Watek Route 33, 23 •Oteklaxd Route 36, 27 Takou Rivek Route 30 Stikeen Rivek Route 34 Yukon River and its Branches 60, 61...
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Image 14 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. X MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Page Scene on Forty Mile Ceeek 284 Dog Train 300 Dawson City 316 Miles Canyon 334 Lake Bennett 350 Forty Mile Creek and Town _ 3Q4 The First...
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Image 17 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. KLONDIKE. THE CHICAGO RECORD S BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. CHAPTER I. WHERE THE GOLD IS FOUND. HE Klondike placer mines are located in the Northwest territory of British America, just east of the...
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Image 18 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 14 THE CHICAGO RECORD S proximately parallel with the Yukon, is El Dorado creek, which is from twelve to fifteen miles in length. About seven miles further up Bonanza creek is Gold...
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Image 19 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 15 also all along the Hootalincina. In the line of these finds farther south is the Cassiar gold field in British Colum- bia; so the presumption is that in...
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Image 20 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 16 THE CHICAGO RECORD S ever, is being manufactured in Seattle that is expected to expel these gases speedily. The process of placer mining in Alaska is about as follows: After clearing...
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Image 21 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 17 tinued for any length of time when it is possible to pro- cure a rocker, or to make and work sluices. A rocker is simply a box about...
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Image 22 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 18 THE CHICAGO RECORD S box. The piece of blanket is, at intervals, taken out and rinsed into a barrel; if the gold is fine, mercury is placed at the bottom of...
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Image 23 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 19 out, thus enabling the miner to work advantageously and profitably the year round. This method has been found very satisfactory in places where the pay streak is at...
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Image 24 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 20 THE CHICAGO RECORD S CHAPTER II. HOW TO GET TO THE KLONDIKE. MER MARIS, who was sent into Alaska in 1896 by the CHICAGO RECORD, and who now is on his...
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Image 25 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 21 to the mines after the river had frozen into a safe high- way. The distance from Seattle to Dawson City by way of St. Alichael and the Yukon...
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Image 27 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. ST. MICHAEL AND YUKON RIVERS.
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Image 28 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 24 THE CHICAGO RECORD S head of the inlet is called Dyea, and has a trading post, where the things that one inevitably has overlooked in the first outfitting may be purchased....
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Image 29 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 25 nett on the last stage of the trip a sail of 600 miles down stream (not counting lakes) to Dawson City, at the mouth of the Klondike. With...
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Image 31 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. DYEA, LEWES AND YUKON RIVERS.
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Image 32 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 28 THE CHICAGO RECORD S ing at Sixty Mile. All along that part of the river are many timbered islands, covered with tall, straight spruce. With such an influx of prospectors as...
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Image 33 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 29 What is known as the Back Door route to the Klon- dike, and sometimes called the Hudson Bay company s route, is by way of St. Paul to...
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Image 35 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 31 It is claimed that there are but two portages, the first forty miles from Edmonton to Athabasca Landing and the second is a sixteen miles trip at Smith...
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Image 36 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 32 THE CHICAGO RECORD S pany will also contract to take freight northward on their steamers until the close of navigation. The rush through Chilkoot pass this year has con- gested that...
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Image 37 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 33 from ]\Iay to the middle of September for canoes carry- ing from two to four tons of freight. The wind during the sununcr is from the southwest and...
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Image 39 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 35 trail to Lake Teslin and thence clown the Yukon. This route would require not over twenty days time to reach Klondike after leaving Puget sound. Distances from Seattle...
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Image 40 of Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. 36 THE CHICAGO RECORD S called Jimtown, where we camped. From this point we proposed to run over the level highland, thereby mak- ing a more direct route to the lake, but...
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