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IDEAL COUNTRY FOR HISINC
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SKAOWAV , Sept. 16 , 1808. The course of
Yukon travel appears to bo glutting. Tbo
source of this greaj river , and not Us mouth ,
seems likely soon to bo the principal port
of entry. Dennett lake , Taginh and Atlln
arc all connected and form ono Irregular
body of water much rnoro extensive than
any printed map shows. These lakes spread
among the mountains like giant bands. They
lay hold of scores of creeks and touch the
most promising gold fields. Once on this
scries of lakes the prospector has In com
mand the whole upper valley of the Yukon.
Foreseeing this , the Pacific & Arctic rail
way Is chiselling and blasting Its determined
way over the grim , blood-stained White
1'ass and on down to the head of the Windy
Arm of Taglsb lake. A few months more
and travel to the Yukon will be easy and
rapid and a new town will rise at the rail
way's end. The land boomer will have an
other chance. This the Bennett City people
clearly percclvo and all building there Is
Impermanent because of this feeling. It Is
Btlll n town of shanties , tents and boats.
It Ib , notwithstanding , a busy place. Down
over the cruel rocks trains of heavily laden
pack animals : crawl to discharge their
freight. Boats of all sorts are constantly
building on the beach. Steamboats of the
size of mudturtlcs toot to and fro , and pros
pectors of all ages and conditions bustle
about ; even whllo lh steamboats arc In
motion carpenters on board go on cleaning
nnd hammering uninterruptedly. Soon it
will bo easy mid cheap to rldo to any part1
of the new diggings.
Himlu * Itiinli I
The spring rush to Bennett had fallen off
glaciers and over unexplored swamps.
Kvery conceivable folly was manifested.
Scarcely ono man In ten of nil this host
could nropcrly pan a shovelful of dirt , and
not a few of them were the nc'r-do-wells
of the country.
The experienced mnn was In less haste ,
Ho took three months' grub , together with
proper tools and clothing , and went In for
a careful study of the country. Bennett
lake was the shipping point for most of
these men who had precaution and means
enough to properly provide for themselves.
Many of the hasty-pudding prospectors ,
however , tried other ways , and met with
disaster. iloro than two hundred who
tried the overland trail failed to cross the
stern barriers of Ice and granlto which Ho
between the coast and the head of Atlln
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water and were forced to return ragged ,
snow blind , lank and dejected.
Locution of ( lie Neir Field * .
The strike was In a region little known
to the boatmen of the lakes. Pine creek
lies far cast of the Yukon travel. No one
knew how extensive Taglsh water was and
Atlln lay In a Btlll more completely unex
plored region to the cast. Toward this
land the mob cheerily voyaged , mainly by
small boats from Bennett. After packing
over the forty-four miles of trail , four or
five of these weary nnd footsore adventur
ers would spread sail In n boat and ga
swooping down the long , sparkling pea-
green drift of the lake , their caps ex
ultantly In the air.
But when Taglsh water was reached the
songs lost something of their resonant
major. The wind forever roars down
Taglsh lake and Its Windy Arm as It docs
through the granlto groove In which lies
Bennett lake. There was no more sailing ,
then work began. It was an Inch by Inch
struggle with the strong and lusty waves
against a head wind. It was the work
of days to drive the boat up the seventy
or eighty miles of water between Caribou
Crossing and the Toku arm of Taglsh ,
From there the way was easier , with a
little sailing , maybe , to the landing of
Taku City. From Taku City n short and
easy portage of two miles leads to Atlln
lake.
AH this sailing and rowing was on one of
ho most superb and splendid Inland waters
In America. Far to the south the lofty
glaciers of the savage coast range shone like
MAP OF ATLIN GOLD FIELD.
to a quiet and sleepy trade , when , one Au
gust morning , the news of a strike near by
tilled the town again with floods of gold
peckers from Juncaii , Skagway and Talyo.
The cause was simple. Placer gold had
been discovered on the shore of Atlln lake ,
less thnn fifty miles away.
As early as 1892 a man by the name of
Miller had discovered good colors on an un
known stream running Into Atlln lake from
the southeast. Ho returned to Jun'eau after
making a visit to the lower Yukon , but did
nothing further with the Atlln prospect ,
except to talk about It to his friends. In a
number of Instances ho drew rough dia
grams of the country as ho remembered It ,
and allowed them to remain In the hands of
his friends.
Knrly In the present year a party of young
men came Into possession of ono of these
maps and set forth In the determination to
llnd the creek and the placer. They crossed
Atlln lake and began to prospect the stream ,
which Is.now celled Pine creek. As they
mndo their way up the valley they came
upon Miller at work. After some years of
ventures ho had returned to his early dis
covery and was busily sluicing. He believed
himself to bo In the Northwest territory ,
nnd to avoid royalty and for other reasons
had kept his mining quiet. The newcomers
readily agreed to bo silent also , and they
too net to work. After some weeks , how
ever , It was considered safer to record , and
a man was sent to Taglsh House for that
purpose.
Tlio 31o < l T C'riMvil of I'roniicctnrii.
Major Strickland , the commissioner of the
upper Yukon , also believed the mines to
bo In Northwest Territory and made record
of the claims. He afterwards visited Pine
creek and the claimants staked In ac
cordance with Northwest Territory laws ,
reserving ten claims for the queen and
claiming 250 feet each. When this visit
of Major Strickland became known rumors
of Miller's rich mine began to sift about.
Soon the facts of his location became
known and the rush bccan from Bennett ,
Skagway and other towns down the coast.
The news moved out serially like circles
on the water. The crowds of men which
this wave touched melted away from the
ptrcot corners like heaps or sand on the
beach. In parties of threes nnd fours they
"hit the trail" nnd In a couple of days
these nearby towns are well nlch empty
of men. Barbers , merchants , mechanics ,
professional men every man who eould get
nway. pulled out for the gold fields , or
tent some ono to represent him , The hands
on the steamboats leaped ashore. The rail
way praders deserted In hundreds , and
nlong every trail these two-legged beasts
of burden poured as If some vast plague
of stranco beetles had set In from the
coast.
Some went In with ten days' provisions ;
fnme with more , but the larger part ot
these "tenderfoot miners" wcut "with cl-
earctto and a sandwich. " They covered
the hillsides of Bennett lake with tents ; they
set rude masts Inrail boats , and at the
risk of life crowded Into clumsy barges ,
others sought short cuts across the
Onpt. \ \ II. Dunlap , Ohatta-
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causing me great troubln and pain.
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give 8. S. 8. n trial. I improved at
once , and after taking six bottles ,
thoboiUandcarbunclesdisappeared
entirely. "
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glass and the bases of the peaks were pur
ple with distance. Near at hand pleasant
grassy slopes with fine streams and meadows
reached to the water's edge.
The first great rush was joyous , but as
the gold fields neared the gold grow more
elusive. The locations near discovery were
already staked and those who came after
wore driven to less inviting ground were ,
Indeed , forced to prospect for themselves.
This they had not planned to do. Their
hope had been to profit by the skill nnd
toll of some other man , and after to sell
at a high price as. the excitement grow.
Being shut out of Pine creek , on which the
discovery lay , they waited sullenly , swearIng -
Ing at every soul but themselves , until Borne
other actual miner made n strike , then they
rushed after. Ono such rush had already
taken place , a mad midnight frantic scram
ble took place about August 10 , a rush
which resulted In very little to most of
those who took part. For whllo they staked
claims for themselves and others they never
returned to look upon their stakes again.
They only succeeded in confusing the actual
miner and blocking the game. Ultimately
their meager store of grub vanished and
then profane , sullen and vituperative they
started for home , loudly proclaiming the
Inlquitv of the officials nnd the utter worthlessness -
lessness of the gold fields.
The boundaries ot Atlln lake are even yet
untroced upon the map. For nearly 100
miles Its position among the mountains can
bo traced from the hills nhove the clump
of tents celled "Taku City. " It reaches
from the coast range just back of Juncau
to the range of mountains which walls Tcs-
lln lake on the south. Its shores are low
hills , with alluvial terraces reaching to the
water , with immense peaks In the back
ground at the south , west and north. A
powerful stream , which takes Its rise In
the glaciers of the coast range , enters at
the southern end and a smaller stream
called Pine creek , which takes Its source In
another and superb lake , flows In at the
southeast some thirty miles from the south
ern end. This creek Is the ono on which
the first discovery was made. Other creeks
enter along the shore on both sides , whllo
far to the north a big dome-like mountain
seems to divide the northern lake into two
diverging arms. Pine creek rising In Lake
Surprise ( which Is said to bo nearly sixty
miles In length ) , flows down through a
series of wooded terraces Into the lake and
Is about eighteen miles long.
Some two or three miles from the mouth
of Pine creek a small creek which has been
named Spruce enters from the southeast
and Birch creek comes down from the hills
and enters Pine not far from ten miles
above the lake. The entire region shows
That it Is shot with gold throughout all Its
wash is pretty well determined , but whether
In paying quantities or not remains to be
seen.
Not IIUc Klondike Conntrj- .
This thing Is certain , the whole region Is
utterly different In contour and formation
from the coast range. It opoears dryer nnd
much moro alluvial. Its peaks resemble
those of Montana and Colorado. There Is
scarcely a trace of the cold , gray
granite of the coast range. They all 1 I
are Iron stained , "rotten , " as the miners
say , and covered with "slides. " Small I
fissures still In volcanic action are re
ported from the valleys.
On Its face It Is an ideal mining country.
Should tbo camp develop It wilt bo a city
served by boats. Even now , twenty days 1
after 'tho first rush , boats come and go In 1
shoals. The beach before "Atlln City" is 1
fringed with water craft like the wharf of
a New England fishing village. It Is neces
sary to bo n sailor or at least a boatman as
well as a prospector If one wishes to bo
successful In < ho Atlln lake gold country.
When I arrived trails were already beaten , i
sluiceways were being dug , lumber was being t
ripsawed by most awkward but determined t
men. The feeling was buoyant. A permaj j
nent camp was being established. "The c
gold Is here , " said those be t Informed , "but
In what quantities no one can tell. " During
my stay pans yielding as high as $3 In 1
coarse gold were taken from the bench I
claims , which only u few days before had I
been considered of no account. c
The best results came from the dry I
benches high above rlrle creek. ThU
would seem to Indicate that the placers
were due to quite other causes than the
, flow of this meager stream. If this should
. turn out to be true then an Immense placer
field requiring extensive systems of hy-
draullc mining will be opened next year.
The country Is not only most beautiful ,
It Is fairly accessible. It may be entered
by way of the White Pass or Chllkoot
routes , thence by water Sown Bennett lake
and through the Taku arm of Taglsh to
the Atlln portage. There Is a second route
already ( called "tho Brooks trail" ) which
runs overland In a short cut to Taglsh
water , thence by boat to Atlln portage.
This route , as soon as the lakes freeze nnd
snow falls , will undoubtedly be the shortest
and easiest. A third route IB reported
whereby Lake Surprise may bo reached
from the Tcslln lake trail by boat to
Wrangle , thence up the Stlckccn river to
Glenoro by river boats. From Olenora the
Tcslln lake trial can be followed for 100
miles. From a point at the head of Long
ake , or near there , the divide way bo
crossed without much trouble , probably with
pack animals. This , however , Is only re4
lorted to be practicable. No one has yet
actually gone In by that way.
TrnIN nml Water
The routw likely to bo most traveled , how
ever , Is by way of Bcnnott and Tnglsh , for
t Is possible < to line a boat through Atlln
river , a strong swift river which connects
Atln lake with the Taku arm of Taglsh
lake. Thus the Argonauts who reach this
spread of water with a good boat will be
n command of at least 300 miles ot lake
shore , with wide areas of good prospecting
round on which 'to ' land.
A trail leads up Spruce creek as well as
the fuir length ot Pine creek to Lake Sur-
irlse , and on these two trails men are rnck-
, ng to and fro with tents , stoves , sacks of
flour , picks nnd shovels , boots and boxes
on their backs , walking swiftly and in trains
ike some new variety of pack animal.
The camp on the lake was swarming with
men in. h'ot discussion on the evening that
[ pitched my tent among them. The ma-
lorHy believed the camp to bo a failure
and their loud cursings resounded among
: he trees. Boats were setting off on the
return trip filled with sour nnd sullen voy
agers. Wo who were Incoming were greeted
with Jeers , "What In h 1 do you Chink you
arc doing here ; come to hunt or flsh ? " In the
face ot such universal dejection late comers
made very llttlo statement of their pur
poses In reply. The town slto men were
nervous. The camp was decreasing In popu
lation and the general feeling was one of
foreboding.
At night In the camps men sat grumbling ,
and swearing about their camp fires. Almost
every party was In division. There was al
ways some enthusiastic Individual who had
made a "flnd" or had seen some one else
who had. This man was set upon , ridiculed ,
abused or upheld according to the tempera
mental difference of his hearers. The noise
of the discussion reached other groups and
out of the dark , hulking figures loomed to
listen or throw a hot missile of profanity.
Phrases multiplied , mingling Inextricably ,
Bench claims , 30 cents to the pan. " "A
good creek claim. " "His sluice is about
ready. " "Cleaned up last night. " "Oh , I
don't believe it ; I wouldn't give $100 for
the whole d n moose pasture. " "Well , It's
good enough for me. " "It is rotten , the
whole d n cheese. " "You have got to
stand in with the authorities or you can't
get a thing" and so on and on endlessly and
without sequence.
Gradually the camp thinned out. The
faint-hearted ones who had not the courage
or the skill to go dig and sweat for gold
sailed away. Others went out upon their
claims to build cabins and lay sluice boxes.
Others still busied themselves with packing
their goods up tbo trail or scoured the coun
try for now Indications.
Slowly the voices of the men who meant
business began to predominate. They were
cheerful and confident ; moving about quietly
they began to buy more tools and provisions.
To their friends they showed gold not
much , but enough to demonstrate that there
was a real basts for their hope. Thereafter
each day the news grew more encouraging.
Each noon ut Discovery and each night at
the lake men came In swarms to exchange
reports of finds on this or that creek , and
at last came the- surprising richness ot the
bench high above the creek.
Ilciich nml Quartz Kind * .
An old man was digging on a ridge just
above Discovery. The passerby had his
jests j , "Hello , uncle , what are y.ou doing up
there , dlgglu' your grave ? "
The old man remained studiously quiet
and continued to sack the dry dirt and
"pack" It down to the creek , where he
washed It out In a , pan. The Jester began
to stare. Strange to say , gold came out of
,
this loam. The old man panned dollars
,
from his ridge. Everybody began to "rub
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berneck. " The old man was embarrassed
to flnd a pathway to his place of washing.
Then the rush for bench claims becan.
The possibilities of the camp widened. In
stead of being a "creek proposition , " it be
came a big "hydraulic proposition. " Nug
gets appeared from some mysterious source
and ' passed from hand to hand. The faces
of claim holders broadened. The voice of
the doubter was whelmed In the rush of
confident boasting.
And then on the last day of August came
the news of the discovery of the quartz
beds , for which the experienced minors had
been searching from the moment of land
ing. Of these discoveries little can be said
ns yet. There was a quiet passing of the
word among friends on this last night In
August , and on the following morning both
camps were nearly deserted. It was said
that fine pieces of quartz containing lumps
and seams of gold had been found , and the
townslte boomers were as Jubilant as the
miners.
The returning boat carried men whose
certainty of tone Indicated their conviction
that ; the country was rich and that they were
"In It. " Some of them felt their need of
getting drunk over the glorious prospect.
Others were hastening homo with samples
of gold In llttlo boxes nnd bottles. They
were not prepared to develop their claims
this year ; they were satisfied merely with
a test of their ground. Others had men at
work taking out paying quantities of gold
nnd would therefore remain until the closing
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ing ! of winter. The character of those com
ing In had also changed. They came on
private "tips , " bringing rockers , pieces of
"grizzly" and plenty of nrovlslons.
Tinllcniitlfx of Atlln.
The weather was very beautiful , llko mid
die September In northern Iowa. The vividly
blue sky was filled with soaring masses of
fleecy clouds , and over the hills and athwart
the mountains long clouds of smoke
streamed like graceful drapery. The climate
utterly different from that ot the coast.
As wo sailed down Taglsh water and up
Bennett and came into that remorseless
blast which ceaselessly sweeps over the
Whlto Pass and Chllkoot Summit as It from
some sunless and dreary Inferno we shivered
with cold.
No words can exaggerate the beauty of
Atlln lake and Its shores , The water , so
clear one seems on wing rather than afloat ;
the gleam of enormous glaciers , the gold
and purple of the high slopes covered with
grass and shrubs , the copper stained cliffs
jutting forth Into the water , the sweeping
lines of forest fires climbing the mountain
sides at night , the wondrous pathway of
the setting nun , the windless sheen of the
lake at morning these form a picture that
once &een can never bo forgotten.
Terror * of theTroll. .
To return from this country to the Chll
koot pass Is like entering upon a landscape
In hell delineated by Dore , All day 'J ' '
faced the roaring wind filled with rain , all
day I climbed , slipping , balancing , descend
Inc. wadlne streams , climbing Iocs , bur
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horses. Mud was everywhere , greasy ,
treacherous , slimy. About mo was a wclrrt
half-light , walled by formless gray clouds ,
out of which the rain fell In slashes. The
mist set the Imagination free. The pinnacles
were llko those which top the enormous
walls of the Black canyon of the Gunnlson. t
. We scorned each moment about to plunge '
Into canyons , ladderless and abyssmnl. Noth
ing In Doro could bo moro singular and
demoniacal than this summit under such
ft light in such darkness. It would servo
as ' the scene for nn exiled devil. The picture
of Beelzebub , perched upon one of these
dripping crags , with dimly seen and gapIng -
Ing culfs of space below and around his
menacing form , silhouetted on the mist , ,
would shako the heart. I thought of "Peer
Gynt" wandering in the high home of the
Trolls. All was crags , descending walls
dimly seen , nnd wild waters roaring In oh-
scure deeps. There was no sky , no levet
place , no growing thing , no bird or beast ,
only crates of bones to show where some
heartless driver had sent a faithful horse
to his death. This Is a fair Impression
of the Chllkoot pass on a rainy day. Ot
the White pass It remains merely to say
that when one has taken the Chllkoot pasi
ho wishes ho had taken the Whlto pass ,
and when ho has walked the Whlto pass
with Its thousands of rottinc bodies ot
horses. Its poisonous water and its dreary
miles , he resolves never again to take
either. They are grim and devious ways ,
but they possess a certain value in that
they throw Into fadeless and powerful re
lief the calm , the golden warmth and the
proud beauty of Atlln lake.
Chronic Ularrliorn UureA.
This Is to certify that I have had chronlo
diarrhoea over since the war. I got so weak
I could'hardly walk or do anything. Ono
bottle of Chamberlain's Colic , Cholera and
Diarrhoea Itemedy cured me sound an-1
well. J. ft. Glbbs. Flncastle. Va.
STOIUI2S AHOUT NOTAIJMSS.
William Smith O'Brien , the leader of the
National party of Ireland , who was trans
ported In 1S49 , had none of the gifts which
attract the multitude , relates Youth's Com
panion. Ho was not an orator , his manners
were not winning , and he made few Intlma-
oleg.
oleg.But
But hlj character and his well-poised head
put him at the head ot the Nationalists ,
whose purpose was to secure the Independ
ence ot Ireland. An anecdote related In
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's book of remi
niscences , "My Life In Two Hemispheres , "
shows the chivalry of the man.
Ho had a duel , In the days when that
savage method ot settling disputes was the
custom , nnd the two men were placed oppo
site to each other.
Just as the signal , One , two , three fire ! "
was about to be given , O'Brien cried ;
"Stop ! No signal , 1 pray. "
His opponent's second stepped forward
and said wUh asperity , "This Is very Ir
regular , sir. What do you wish to say ? "
"I wish , " answered O'Brien , "to call your
attention to the fact that the gentleman op
posite mo has let the cap fall oft his pistol. "
Congressman Lcntz removed his coat in
the midst of a political speech , reports the I
Ohio State Journal. He had warmed up i
with his subject. "Fellow slaves , " he yelled ,
"how much moro Depression will you en-
dura before you rise as ono man and de-
rnand your rights under the constitution
and laws of your country ? Your country , !
did I say ? It Isn't your country any more !
It belongs to the plutocrats ! They own it ! !
They control it ! They have their fat fin
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the press , the courts of injustice , the pri
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wires , everything , In fact , but the air you
breathe , pays tribute to some monopolist !
And the latest thing is that the air Itself is'
about to bo bottled up and sold to swell ths
colossal fortunes that "
At that moment the gas that had lit up
the street In 'Marlon grew suddenly dim ,
flickered feebly and went out , leaving the
audience nlono under the light of the moon.
The opposing pressure was too strong and It
gave It up.
Ex-Governor Proctor Knott and a dis
tinguished professional genMcman of Dan
ville were discussing the claims ot Samp
son and Schley to the credit of smashing
Ccrvora at Santiago , relates the Loulsvlllo
Times. The professional gentleirmu took the
ground ( that nil the honor of that memorable
conflict , belonged to Admiral Sampbou , and
was Inclined to Ignore entirely Commodore
Schley's part In the affair. T'ie ' governor
listened | until his companion had finished
and then with that characteristic twinkle In
bis eye said :
"My dear Blr , It Is exceedingly giatlfylng
to me to hear you take the position you
have In this matter. It Is like a balm to
my conscience and settles a point that has
worried me many n day.
"I was walking through the woods with
n boy friend of mlno when wo saw a rabbit
run Into a sinkhole. We stood around the
bole awhile ; then I told the boy to keep
watch whllo I went to ijct nome fire to
smoke the rabbit out. When I retained.
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Friday Evening Ak-Sar-Ben Ball.
Saturday , Oct. 8 , New York Day.
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the boy bail tliu rabbit. I promptly took
It away from him , claiming that It be
longed to mo because I had told him to
catch him If be came out ,
"That was over fifty years ago , and you
nro Uio Oral man ho boa over acrced vita
mo that the rabbit was mine. I feel now
that I was right In taking it and my con
science Is at rest. "
The gentleman looked solsmn for a feir
moments , then smiled a feeble imllo and
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