The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-28
THE ORIGINAL KLoYD1kER.
ne says tho Region II n Great rincc for Girls
who want to Get married. In n Hurry.

From the Warrington Po5t.
Tho original Klondlkcr is at the Arlington In
the person Of MIR. Hank Summers, who first
went to the northern gold fields IN 1856, and
who came out last August with enough of tho
shining metal to live comfortably for the rest
OF his days. He is owner Of some of tho rich.
est claims on Eldorudo and Bonanza creeks,
tributaries Of the Klondike.
He is n man OF stalwart physique, IN the
primo OF life. and while willing to talk about the
country and his experiences, is not in tho least
inclined to slop over. He has boon asked SO
many thousand questions about the gold fields
that II hos come to BIO rather u labor to talk
when / went up into the Yukon Valley years
ago said he. there were but fifteen other
try. ! only came out once in that time, and
don't know that I'd be hero now except for
hi soT sood TO eat eat. n ARDS iPsi "V W.T. IT, y SSn'c I
guess you might call them such. I've been Tor
. whole month with nothing to eat but dry
bread, and then Two gono just as long with no
beef sell in Circle CITY foF 1920. and it wasn't
moro than q meal FOR Lwo."
"why were tue miners SO long in finding big
'"Weil, it was slow work in the nature Of things
and tho idea Of thawing out the ground to n
ommend itself. i was convinced from the out.
that 1t would in tino prove a second Califor.
MIA. l know now that 1t will go awny ahoad
OF inc a. sJrlkG. lneTe ID an tTOIIuOub area
OF country yet awaiting Development, and just
as rich places will no doubt be found rs those
which have set tho country wild.
q Now York hotel the other day, each Of whom
had brought out considerable stuff, besides
leaving men at work in the diggings. All will
go back next spring. That reminds me that
about the most popular button now worn In tho
West has on IL the legend, I'm going next
spring Doubtless 90, people win head for
Alaska as soon as the season opens, but / hardly
think more than half that number will ever get
to the gold camps. They will got DISCOURAGE
and turn back. The plucky ones will keep on,
and q good many of them will mako their ven.
ture pay. The stuff they're hunting Is UP there,
but II takes work and hustling 10 get 1t, and
the faint-heerted will fall down, just as they do
everywhere
will there. DO much suffering in the mining
region this winterl'
my opinion is that n good many will 20 hun.
cry. in that country there Is hardly ever
enough ratiops to go through the winter;
From personal experience. know how hard II
lowance ran short every winter. There arc at
east,b 900 people at Dawson now, and great
privation and distres, are inevitable"
Would you advise young women to go to
the Klondikel"
II would II they are at TO bravo tho eli.
mate and tho conditions of a pioneer life. IL
they want to get married In n hurry, it's the
country above all others. A nice girl wouldn't
stay single up there forty-cisht hours II she
wanted a husband, and IA like as not she'd get
a good man. The boys who make for that dis
triot arc clean grit, and of tho sort, generally
speaking, that do to tie up with for fife"