i 1 v F 1 $2 If to Beauty to 11 WHERR THH BTG RAINBOWS BURLINGTON. HERE to go la quite as much of a w question a when to go. Why has been long ago settled. It la not good for a man to work all the time, and summer affords the best of excuses for getting away' from office or business cares for a short time. For tunately for the man who starts from Omaha or anywhere In the region con tiguous to Omaha, ho Is offered at the very outset opportunities or visiting the most alluring of summer resorts by the railroads that center here. His only trouble Is tn picking out which place he Will go to. From the nearby lakes of Iowa , and Minnesota to the far away moun tains of the east, or from the wonderful array of fishing and hunting lodges In the mountains of Wyoming and Dakota, to ths stupendous panorama of Yellowstone, he has such a variety of places from which to select that his most perplexing task arises at the very outset. If he Is wise be will visit the railroad offices sumo bays In advance of the time he makes up his mind to go, and take the passenger agents Into his confidence. These men will take pleasure giving him Information enough to nil an encyclopedia and all of It valuable. He may learn the whereabouts and location of every boarding house In the Rocky mountains, or anywhere else; the cost of board, and of saddle horse hire, or any other Item he may wish to be In formed concerning, even to the cost of bait. When possessed of this information, he may digest It at his leisure, and having finally concluded as to which of the many desirable spots he will 'turn his way for his rest time, he may be sure that the railroad will do Its part with neatness and dispatch, and that he will And things at the resort very much as represented In the prospectus. Railroads All Interested. Each of the railroads takes a more or less personal Interest In the man or woman who Is hunting for a place to spend a few weeks or days in rest. This Is simply a business proposition with them, for they know that once they have gotten the tired mortal to accept the service and accom modation offered, they have made a friend for life, and so are willing to take great pains with the person In search of a place to spend a. .vacation. The Union Pacific and Burlington are offering to the publla this season the choice of some practically unexplotted fishing grounds, some trout streams that are almost virgin to the angler, and In which the fish are numerous and game. These spots are In Wyoming, the pictures here giving a good Idea of what may be expected. An Omaha man had a letter from his son, who Is up in Wyoming, during the week, telling of an flight and one-half pound rainbow trout being exposed In a butcher shop for sale. That Is enough to tako the whole colony Of fishermen to Wyoming In Itself. Both these lines take pleasure seekers to Yellow stone park, and to the great mountain retreats of the Rockies. The Milwaukee and Northwestern offer the lakes of Mlnesota and Wisconsin to the fisherman and promise much In the way of boating and bathing to all. The Wabash Is boosting for Its trip over the great lakes, Its Niagara Falls scenery, and Its St. Lawrence river and eastern coast con nections. Each of the other lines reaches some point that Is attractive, and all are ready to aid the prospective loafer In every possible way. Northwest Canada Is beckoning the man Who has seen all the mountains of the" east and is yearning for something new ") Alaska's (Copyright, 1906, by Frank O. Carjenter.) ' SEATTLE. June 28. (Special Corre si I spondence of The Bee.) I write VJ I ihm nutes In the heart of Alas i-VJ ka's great curamerclal metropolis, Seattle. I am in the Alaska club, surrounded by members from the Klondike, Caps Nome, Seward peninsula, Fairbanks. Ketchikan, Sitka and Juneau; and at my elbow is Mr. W. M. Sheffield, the secretary. Upon the walls are photo graphs showing all phases of life in our treasure land of the Arctic. Here is the picture of a railroad whose tracks lie nearer A. END OF RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED BTATE3. Photo Which Nature Calls the Weary Dweller in Healed Cities sssBassstssMJI 'THE BIO HORN ON LINE OF THH In the line of natural grandeur. It Is only within recent years that Americans havs generally come to know that the beauty and sublimity of the Alps are not only equalled but surpassed both by the Rockies of the United States and the Canadian Rockies. Of the Canadian Rockies, Whym per, one of the most celebrated of moun tain climbers, a man who has scaled the Matte'rhorn, says that they are fifty or sixty Switzerland rolled into one. The Canadian Pacific traverses the Cana dian Rockies for 600 miles from east to west, so that It Is possible to see then In their grandeur from a car window. It Is at Banff that the full beauty of these giant mountains strikes the visitor most forcibly. Here the Bow and Spray livers unite almost In the shadow of those two huge peaks, Mount Rundle and Mount Sulphur. Probably not even the Himalayas can surpass the scene here to be enjoyed. At Lake Louise Is the famous Victoria glacier, a mighty river of Ice, seamed and split in every direction. Swiss guides have been employed to look after such ad ver. urous travelers as wish to climb the mountains and they are ready to Introduce the novice to the fascinating mysteries of crag and glacier and crevasse. Trails have been cut up to the summits of the lower mountains and for the longer expeditions the bin hotels which have been established In this region will supply every thing that the traveler needs ponies, tents, outfits and provisions. The famous Toho valley Is a region of Immense glaciers, amaxlng waterfalls and cascades and huge canyons. The Takak kaw falls, for example, leap from the very forefront of a glacier and, dropping sev eral hundred foot to a lodge, shoot out 1 ,.r.j . 3 rnSHINO IN DALE Material the pole than any other on earth, and there is an automobile filled with Eskimos, puffing along on the edge of Cape Nome. About the room are specimens of wild hay, Alaskan-grown vegetables, and on the table are numerous nuggets of copper, silver and gold, locked up In glass cases. Before ' coming up I stopped in the Scandinavian bank, on the ground floor, to look at some gold which had Just come in. It was brought out from the vaults by the cashier in a plain canvas bag of the same size as those which our Virginia boys use for ohestnutting. It would hold, I judge, a V t CV, .v ; '. ..' . V L ; " If ' :' - SJ' . .' ' . ' ..'. 1- " IN THE DELLS CREEK REGION, ON LINE OF UNION PACIFIC. Development and peck, and it was half full of dust, grains, peas and great nuggets of gold. The cashier bent over as he carried it in, and he asked me to lift it. I did so, and it doubled me up like a Jack-knife. I managed, however, to get It upon the table. We untied the leather draw-string and picked out three nuggets one worth 3,SO0, another S2.300 and a third tl.bOO. Each had a bit of dirt here and there clinging to It, but aside from this was nothing but metal. The nuggets were soft and had worn somewhat In carrying. Indeed, the cashier told we that 00 cents worth of by F. H. NewsUj Copyright. 10S. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY OB" THH WISCONSIN ON LINE OS" THE M 1,t SCENE gold la rubbed away every time the bag is handled. The dust works Its way into the cloth, and the bags are eventually burned and the gold saved when the stuff is sent to the mint. Thirty Million Dollars a Year. I find these Alaskans enthusiastic over their mines. They talk big and their state ments should be taken with a few grains of salt. They are claiming now that Alaska will eventually produce enough gold to pay our national debt, and that it will soon be turning out . an annual product greater than that of Colorado. It Is claimed that I9.0U0.000 of $10,000,000 worVi has been minsd within the past year snl that the territory may at some time pr dure as much as three times this amouat. According to the latest report of 1,'nele Sam's assay office here in Seattle, it had taken In up to June 30, 1905. more than llO.ViO0.000 worth of gold. This was tho total of the receipts since the opening of the office In 1808, and It weighed altogether tons avoirdupois. Think of that! Two hundred tons of solid gold! A ton Is a good wagon load for a two-horse team, and it would take 200 such teams to drag that golden burden. Of the whole some thing like l?2.000,0i!0 of this has come from our own part of Alaska, whereas 177.000.000 was taken from the Yukon and the, British northwest. Not long ngr Mr. Roberts, the head of the mint, estimated that Alaska ' would be annually producing 19 000,000 or $10,000,000 worth of gold, and that Noma alone might yield that much m one year. Of course, a great deal of the gold goes to other mints' but it is estimated that fully M per rent of all mined in Alaska comes here to Seattle. I have before me a photograph of a thou- sand pounds of gold bricks which were made in the assay offic of the Alaska Banking and Safe Deposit compar-. The Scandinavian bank had a million dollars' worth of such bricks piled up behind Its plate glass show windows not long ago, as a sort of advertisement. It was considered a . rather dangerous experiment, and two detectives wars stationed on either side of ths window to keep back the crowd, while no one was allowed close enough to break the glass and grab ths gold. The greater part of this gold la coming from Cap Noma. Of ths above amount 1, 1006. MILWAUKEE. -; i'W. AT" ' J l., ..' ON DALE CREEK. WYOMING, ON LINE OF UNION PACIFIC How It is the assay office reports that almost $8,000, 000 liav been sent In from that point, and I should not like to quote their claims for the future. According to the Alaska club men they are yanking the gold out of the beds of the streams as well as from all along the beach. Anvil creek has pro duced more than $6,000,000 worth, and It Is said that no one can predict as to iu future until the benches have been sluiced down and the tailing rewashed. Rich dls coverlus have been made along the base of Anvil mountain, and a little over a year ago a man named Brown discovered a -' ' it A " i l V 'V.) rr- f M " ' ' lorSS'K "II i ' J-r- ' . i , . -1 ...SMi .... . .. . ' ,. ,.. . i, - ' a AUTOMOBILE FILLED WITH ESKIMOS PUFFINQ ALONO ON THE EDGE: Copyright, l0a. TROUT STREAM IN THE BIQ HORN REGION ON LINE OF THE BURLINOTOK, Into a vast burst of foam and fall no less than 1.100 feet over a fifth of a mile with out again touching the precipice. The Wapta glacier, part of the great Waputekh Ice field, guarded by Mount Gordon, Mount Balfour and the broken crags of the TrollUnderne (the Elfin's Crown), is another of the splendid sights, while the descent of the western Rockies unrolls another vRt panorama that sur prises and delights even those who have seen all the other great mountains of the world. The descent Is no slignt one. Mount Field hus an altitude of i.MO feet. To the southeast the Beaverfoot mountains, a splendid line of peaks, stretch away as far as the eye can rech, and between them and the Ottertalls rises the huge bulk of Mount Hunter. A trip through the Cann dlan Rockies exhausts adjectives, but stimulates and revivifies the man who uses them. Over the Lake to Macklnao Island. The straits of Mackinac are dotted all over with Islands, some of them broad and rugged, others scarcely larger than your dining table, and among them are many, that have attained to some degree of fame, but when one speaks of "the Island," In that part of the world, he has but one Island In mind, snys fhe St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It Is the pearl of lHlands, and one that requires not to be designated by the name the Indians gave it, "Michlll mackinac," Island of the GlnjU Fairies. No railroad train reaches this lake re sort. The nearest point of railway con tact are St. Ignace and Mackinaw City, but the boat service is regular between these points and the 'stand. . However, the most agreeable 11. ns of approach Is the great lake staaiuar. The service from '.-IS. r '.1 ' Building Up Seattle placer at its foot, the gravel from which yielded $180 per pan. The wise-acres prophesied that that mine would turn out something like $1,000,000 worth of gold in one year. All about Cape Nome gold is being washed from the streams. A mining expert recently said that standing on Anvil mountain one could look on more placer gold values than from any other point in the world.' There is a space there about six miles wide and nine miles long which is said to be one of the richest spots In northwestern Alaska. Cold has been mined on the shores of ths 1 T. St ''Vv'." . ..- - f Chicago snd from Detroit la such thai ouu can have a taste of real ocean travel, a view of countless resorts on the way, with Mackinac as a tilting climax. The trip up from Detroit is glorious. It one IS going to Mackinac, it Is worth while to Lake the longer route to Toledo and. Detroit, making the rest of the trip by water. There is nothing else In the world that can quite be compared with the SU Clair flats, and there Is no nial de nier qu.lts so beneficent and, for the time, ter rifying, as' that whicu falls upon the vic tim as his craft fights Its way through a blast out of Thunder buy. It was on one of these boats that a St, IjOuIs couple and a couple from Toledo were making the trip up to the lovely Island. As the vessel neared its destina tion, the Toledo lady culled to the darky waiter who had served tne party at table, and who happened to be passing near where she stood on the dec: "Here, waiter, is that Mack-l-nack?" "Nawl" he growled. "It's Mackinaw. Nobody evali heerd tell ob Macklnack till you Ohio folks commenced to come up heah. Now wu nevah hears nothln' bui nack, nack. Macki;iack." Another name In that part of the world that has been corrupted from Its original French pronunciation la that of Les Che neaux, the Islands a little way to the north of the Island Beautiful, which received their name because of the dense growth of pine trees. Now they are commonly spoken of as "the Snow's," and so univer sal Is the name that In a few years the old French name will have disappeared from the map and no one will understand why that particular group should be called "snow islands." Mackinac Is Interesting for so many rea sons that one can find something there to delight him, no matter what his tests may be. In the first place, It is so inti mately connected with the early history of the country, when the French, the British, and the natives were struggling for posses sion of the vast Interior of the country. There is the spot still marked as British, landing, and the guide tells how a little band of English soldiers performed won derful feats of heroism at the Inner fort, away back in the heart of the forest. Then he shows you Sugarloaf rock snd Skull cave and the arch rock, and all the other famous spots. Including the large fort that is right out in plain view from the landing, the picturesque old fort with Its two blockhouses that were used In the disastrous hand-to-hand conflicts with tho Indians. When you are throuRh with the guide and his well learned history, you, wander off into the deep forest where, every now and then, you catch glimpses of the billowy blue sea as It rolls and tosses on every side of the Island. Itnnnrt About Yellowstone Park. "Meet me In the land of the buffalo!" That Is being coined Into the great excur sion slogan of tho summer of 1906, the first summer in soma years when there sre no world's fairs cr expositions to tap tho family pocketbooks and when thOBe afflicted with the travel microbe are casting around somewhat hopelessly for somewhere to go. The land of the buffalo is the Yellowstone, which Is likewise the land of the unchained bear and of the unpenned elk; the land likewise of geysers, boiling springs, of colored formations and of a grand canyon that Is a bewildering splash of all the colors) of the rainbow or prism. One passes through this great wonderland of the na- (Contlnued on Page Seven.) sea for a distance of forty miles from Noma to the Slnuk river and has been found to pay. The first successful beach digging was done about six years ago,' when there was a great rusb from the creeks, and In a short time COO miners extracted $2,000,000 worth of dust, or an average of $4,000 per man. Much of this gold was found in layers of ruby sand. It was fine, but not scale gold. Ths bed rock lay from four to eight feet below the surface, and good pay dirt was usually found when it was reached. A little lata1 (Continued on Page Seven.) OF CAPE MOiUt" fUoto by F. VL NewelU ,