The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-30

gold, filled the pan pretty Wen. something
more than the usual two shoyelfuls; took
1t up. washed t. dried and cleaned Il and
weighed IT, At the current rate OF A1 TO
the ounce, I found $50 in that pan, or
half years salary for many good clerk.
The time spent in doing this was about
twenty minutes. This, far as l know.
was the richest pan ever panned out in the
country.
Now. lest you get excited and want TO
drop everything and fly there, let me tell
you emphaticaiiy, yes. - emphatieally,
that all that ground is located Is taken
up and II YOU now have money enough TO
purchase an interest in any Of the 100
claims mentioned on Bonanza and forty
odd on Eldorado YOU have cosr enough TO
stay ST home. and IN all human probabu-
ity &ould increase 1t much more and en-
joy it much mere and benefit by ii
much more. socially physically and NOR
ally than by bringing Il into the Yukon
II you are young. strong. healthy, and
endowed with unlimited patience and for
utpde. founded good solid principles.
of healthy. moral, vigorous manhood and
look forward TO the Improvement OF your
self In every way as contributing 10 the
moral and physical advancement of man
kind generally, AID can command enough
means to land you at Dawson with twelve
months supplies and the necessary imple-
ments. would say that you could not DO
aAsS bNlttA statA NEIit lttSU on Tue 1 ukQk.
BUt il you are not healthy, have not the
necessary patience and fortitude 10 go
through the arduous iabors required of a
man. and If you arc viciousiy inclined |
would say most loudly stay away from IT,
Every dollar found there, IL might be said
is the product Of physical pain and misery.
In the summer there are mosquitoes innu-
merable. swamps 10 be traversed and
mountains TO climb. Now all the while
1 these internal flies are biting until some
times life itself Is thought a curse. This
/ ! know from actual personal experience.
have seen vigorous. strong, hardy men
shed tears OF impotent rage ut these innu-
merable and almost invisible enemies
Now. suppose YOU are with miners gum
boots on reaching to your thighs, which
are almost Indispensable for travelling In
that country during the summer season,
each weighing three or four pounds
I heavy suit OF wooden wear. blankets pro-
visions for ten, fifteen. twenty or thirty
days. often more; axe, pick shovel. and
I other necessary articles. aggregating in
I all fifty, sixty, eighty and often over 100
I pounds, all on your back wading through
swamps, scrambling through underbrush
! climbing steep hillsides, often in blister
1 ing sun, which really and truly hlisters
/ Ali the time perspiration pouring off of
| you In strea ms, and all the time. too the
/ ubitiquous mosquito assailing you at ev-
I cry vulnerable point, engaging the closest
attention at eyes, ears and hands and
/ HAS too often the most pronounced atten-
ton of the tongue, but all of no avail
/ Then again out of this. traversing the top
/ OF divide where the winds almost solid
/ Hy your spiration-satursted garments
I and almost chill the marrow in your
/ bones, often making your fingers so stiff
that they are almost useless. After n day
/ spent In this way fancy yourself sitting
I down in cloud Of mosquitoes TO a meal,
I the preparation OF which has cost you up
ward OF an hours work consisting OF sod
/ den bread hastily prepared and cooked on
/ the embers Of your camp Ere beans which
may be only half cooked, bacon In the
/ same condition, a poor grade Of coffee or
{ tea, badly prepared. II you Indulge in the
pipe. smoke then a roll in your blankets
and few boughs spread on the ground
I your head covered up 10 exclude the mos
+ quito. for he never rests. and such sleep
/ as those conditions afford which ] may
I tell you is usually sound and sweet
enough.
/ But you say: rs this all have to look
forward 10 In the Yukon?'
/ Wen, IL you have money and buy an in
tsrest In some place Of established repuia-
/ iion, or are lucky enough 10 be on hand
4 when a new strike Is made. you escape
/ TO a certain extent. this, but IL you have
+ 10 prospect for new ground months IL
may be seasons. OF that kind OF experience
/ 10 your lot: ana. alas. tn many eases
/ years, generations. are spent in this way
l met An old miner. an old Glasgow
Scctchman, last winter a man noted for
/ his steady, upright. moral life. / asked
/ his age. IL was g. years.
| p" How long have you been niningr
'Forty-two years he replied
| where
Everywhere in North America where
i mining has been done
/ DID you ever make A. houaeztake9'
/ never made more than a living ana
very often a scant one az that he REPLIED
J Il cite scores OF similar cases This
& man was I'm the Yukon valley for ten
years. and looked forward 70 dying and
+ being buried there. IL might be, and the
thought vas bitter. tco-his last days may
be eked out by the assistance IF his
friends, az be himself had often heioed
others Ia the same way. He was lucky
enough 10 locate claim on Eldorado IN
+ partnership with another old scotchmau
VINO had q very much similar experience
Last March they sold their claim, Tor sz9
pf0 Had they held Il twenty davs Ione.s-
hey would have got $io.oo0 as easy as
theg a4d TIE fzA.E9 Az IL was they we're
e1abisd . ieave the country win lesvgesr,
+ $ilse@ and *2.6a each ard an they are
f fefElng On three score and ten they con
{ siaered that they had enough 70 90 tbafy,
tne rest Il their days and went out %
TEST fhesa Instances might be multi
Pised again anf again but suppose that
Z would Do no good nor would In deter a
s.agie Individual from irving his luck.
s 8y experience IS. and I have had conpf4.
cradle that the man who stays al hone
ara p'osis On inc farm or I'm the shop or
& otAee, i n a vast ma )cTlty u cases better
~. hoAitnier physicaliy ard morally, has
hAo infinitely more enjoy nent Of Hfs and
80 answered the end ~ nature or God
tastiE more cornBists than the man who
dsFotss his life 20 the calling OF the every
/ cay placer geld miner. But then some
"SaF must Do Il. and let US give all honor
% tnose who DO il. as befts a man. for
can assure you IL you are yiclousIy IT,