LOCATION OF THE YUKON MINES.

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J. Armoy Knox
MAP OF THE YUKON GOLD DIGGINGS

MAP OF THE YUKON GOLD DIGGINGS.

Sitka appears at the southeast corner of this map, and northeast of it is Juneau, the usual fitting out place for miners going to the Yukon.

The arrows show the route of miners bound for the Yukon. Steamboats can carry them from Juneau as far as Ty-a. Then they must pack their loads through Chilkoot Pass and boat them through a chain of lakes and down the Lewis River to the Yukon. It is about 700 miles from Juneau to the Klondyke River.

The two other most important centres of Yukon mining were Forty Mile Creek, where there were two big mining camps, Forty Mile and Fort Cudahy, and Circle City. All these camps have now been practically deserted in the great rush for the Klondyke.

The ever reliable and always trustworthy New York Sun publishes the map as given above.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Map of the Location of the Yukon Mine 5
Gold—The Search for It, Past and Present 9
Klondyke and California—1849-1897 9
The Geology of the Yukon 10
The "Mother Lode" and the Glacial Deposits 10
The Great Gold Discovery—How the First Authentic News Reached Us 13
The Gold Fever Spreading—The Stories of Some Miners 14
Millions of Gold Panned Out—Poor Yesterday—Rolling in Wealth To-day 16
Arrival of the Second Treasure Ship from the Klondyke 19
A Few of the Prizes Won 21
Some Grapes of Eschol Stories—Richer than Sinbad's Valley of Diamonds 22
The Stampede for the Gold—Thousands Join the Exodus 24
Where the Gold is Found—How It Is Reached and Mined 26
Some Large Nuggets—There Are More Where They Came From 29
Millions Upon Millions in Sight—William Stanley's Graphic Story 29
How to Get There—Choice of Two Routes 32
From San Francisco to the Mines—Ocean Route 34
Perils of the Trip—Encounters with Ice and Snow in the Passes 35
The Canadian Government's Attitude—An International Question 38
Dawson Not a Tough Town—The Civilization of a Mining Camp 39
Fears of Starvation—Danger of Going to the Mines Without Food Supply 41
Cost of Living in Dawson 43
The Climate and the Mosquitoes—Short Summer—Heat and Cold Contrasts 44
Capital Required by Miners—Some Things Indispensable in an Outfit 45
A Woman's Outfit 47
Valuable Expert Advice—A Mining Engineer's Warnings and Suggestions 47
The New York Journal Expedition to Klondyke 50
Sailors Get Gold Craze—Desert Their Ships in Alaskan Ports to Dig for Fortunes 50
Only Three Deaths in a Year—The Healthiest Region in the World Is the Klondyke 51
Canadian Mining Laws—Regulations Imposed by the Dominion Upon Placer Mining 52
Some Things Worth Knowing 55
Explanatory and Important 58

THE KLONDYKE.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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