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
,
