Complex sentence: In 1896 it was so well known that a foreign correspondent from The Chicago Daily Record came tthe end of the year it was to becom a ghost town when news had arrived about rich amounts of gold found upstream at Klondike.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1896 it was so well known that a foreign correspondent from The Chicago Daily Record came to visit. At the end of the year it was to become a ghost town when news had arrived about rich amounts of gold found upstream at Klondike.