Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-30
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING" JULY 80 1897

CraZcu ny tiic Solu CACitcIiieilt Has
been told "Yukon't find it," anC
the echo of the admonition will lingel
long in the memory after all hope ha.
fled.
And now crank turns up in New
York who lays claim to all the golt
fields in the Klondyke district, b.
right OF discovery, for the estate OF f
j. Glave, who headed an expedition il
1S9O-9l, organized by w. J. Arkell, o
Leslie's Weekly. Arkell is the crank
who claims that because he organized
and sustained the expedition, he ha
rights under the theory that "wher
maps are filed with the government
in undiscoved countries, as was don,
in this case, it gives the explorer Ger
tain interests that might develop"
The New York World says that ex
element has not abated in the Eas
over the Alaskan discoveries, but il
advises halt. 1t says: "Under tn,
most favorable circumstances tn,
working days in the Yukon golC
fields cannot exceed hundred in th'
year. For the other 265 days th'
earth is covered with snow, the grount
is frozen and the rivers are closed b,
ice. Anybody starting from New
York at this season would reach thu
Yukon river just about the beginning
of the long Alaska winter, and i
would be far more comfortable for hin
to remain in the States and 60 to the
new Eldorado at a more seasonable
time.
Frederick Hobart, editor of the
Engineering and Mining Journal,
said: at would be extremely foolish
for anyone to start from New York
for the Klondyke at this season, be-
cause he cannot get there in time to
do anything this year. 1t is difficult
too, to get transportation. The Alas
kan lines are not prepared to carry
many passengers. 1t is easy enough
to engage steamers and get to the
coast, but the difficulty is to get from
the coast inland. Much of the last
portion of the journey must be made
on foot. If you 60 by the Juneau
route, it is necessary to walk over the
and build a boat. The
Yukon river is only navigable during
three months of the year. 1t would
be we'll for those who do not know the
country to learn more about it before
starting for the gold fields"
P. B. Weare, Vice President of the
North American Trading Co., says OF
the intense excitement which prevails
in Chicago: People talk OF the trip
to the Yukon as if it was walking
across the street. They don't realize
what Alaska is--what the Yukon is.
They will need map to convince
them that the country of the Yukon
and its tributaries in Alaska and
British America is as large as the
whole of the United States east of the
Mississippi, that it is longer than a
trip to Europe before they reach the
Bering sea and the mouth of the
Yukon; that by the time they strike
the Yukon the Alaskan Arctic winter
will be upon them. By September
Goth the winter settles down and the
Yukon river is frozen solid till next
May. The expense of getting from
Chicago to Seattle is $50, and from
Seattle to the Bering Sea $50. There
will be thousands OF Eastern men who
will 60, but of course the Coast peo-
pie have everything in their favor
One thing must be remembered, that
the Klondyke country is in British do
main and will be governed accord,
ingly."
Charles Frederick Wright, professor
of geology at Oberlin College, author
of "Man in the Glacial Period" and
other works ON geology, says of the
gold discovery ON the Yukon
Placer mines originate in the disin.
tegration of the gold-bearing quartz
veins, or mass, like that at Juneau
Under subaerial agencies these become
dissolved. Then the glaciers transport
material as far as they 60, when floods
of water carry it on still further
Gold, being heavier than the Other
materials associated with it, lodges in
the crevasses or in the rough places al
the bottoms of streams. Nature has
stamped and "panned" the gravel
and prepared the way for man to fin
ish the work. The amount of gold
found in the placer mines is evidence
not Sc much, perhaps, of very rich
vein as of the disintegration of a very
large vein. The mother lode has beer
looked for in vain in California, and
perhaps will be in Alaska; but it ex
lists somewhere up the streams or
which placer mines are found. The
discovery of gold in glacial deposits
far away from its native place is ia
miliar to American geologists. The
general climatic conditions on the
north side of the mountains are much
better than those on the south side
On the south side, the snow fall is
enormous, but on the north side thu
air is dryer"
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