The Arizona sentinel., 1897-09-04

seclusion." 1 had every reason fo
 believing she spoke the truth.
 All around the pleasant farr
 home were the towering peak
 without cabin or cultivated field
 mark the advent of civilization.
 A nights rest on a bed so hig1
 that stepladder was needed t
 climb in and a mattress of feathers
 and hearty breakfast on the fol
 lowing morning and we were of ol
 our tortuoua journey. Here tn
 mountain sides are covered witl juniper and cedar bushes and it i. so rocky and precipitious that tho most daring would hardly venture far from the road. In among the rocks everywhere we could see the slender, white blossomed Spanish dagger lifting its head to the sun. light. It it is 3 beautiful plant tc look upon when blossoming, bat very inhospitable if you attem pt to touch it After two hours drive we came alongside trickling brook, perhaps ten feet wide, and here the miners had everywhere staked their claims for the precious metal . Many of them have here shoveled and wheeled and sifted and washed from the sand and gravel to secure the yellow metal which is worth now about s200 per pound.
 I talked with several of them and learned more about their work than l ever expected to. They are joviaI fellows, live in rude cabins alono, and most of them take life easy and are always ready to talk. They will divide their last crust even with a professional tramp. Here they live, do their own cooking, sleep on bunk, live on bacon and bread and black coffee, and shovel and wheel and ''rock" and separate the shining specks of yellow from the great body of sand. Some days they shovel and wheel 8 ton or more ot gravel and for their efforts do not recover twenty-five cents ir gold. At other times they have better luck and may pick up three ot four dollars. It is exciting And the occasional discovery of mug get of the value of seventy-fve cents CT a dollar is an incentive to delve still deeper and labor the harder. Most of them are single. Those who have families do not bring them here. The outfit for doing this work does not cost to exceed SlO. On the average I do not be lieTe these miners realize B a week the year around.
 As the people on this coast have gone wild over the gold discoveries in the Northwest Territory, will add line concerning the exodus to the Yukon. At all California points miners and business men are leaving for the Fl Dorado of the Northwest. Yesterday ! met three miners from Mexico who will sail for Dyea today. They go to Dawson via the dangerous Chileoot pass and hope to reach the land that yields the yellow metal in back etfulls before winter sets in. They have 1900 miles to walk and float on boats they will build upon reaching Lake Linderman.
 "Ahl we'll make it," said oue of them to your correspondent. We've roughed it for years under the blazing rays of 6 tropical sun. 1 know we can stand anything that lies in store for us under the Arctic circle. When we left home the mercury registered 115 degrees. A man that can stand that can weather any Arctic blizzard" The ! three men carried 2400 pounds of baggage all told, and say they will t never return until fortune laden. Every Alaskan steamer that Is leaving San Francisco harbor Is laden to the hurricane deck with the daring searchers for the welath which is locked in the icy embrace | of the Klondyke and ether tribu- taries of the Yukon. A dozen steamers are scheduled to leave 1 San Francisco during the next fey