The San Francisco call., 1897-07-21
PLENTY Of
GOLD ON
OUR SIDE
All the Precious Metal
Not in British Ter
ritory.
RICH FINDS ON UNCLE
SANS SOIL.
Discoveries in Alaska That
May Soon Rival the
KIondyke.
NEWS OF GOOD PROSPECTS IN
THE NORTH.
But Better Transportation FacIIi-
ties Are Required to Develop
the Country,
Discoveries in Alaska That
May Soon Rival the
KIondyke.
NEWS OF GOOD PROSPECTS IN
THE NORTH.
But Better Transportation FaciIi-
ties Are Required to Develop
the Country.

News was brought down by the
late arrivals from the Yukon of
rich discoveries on the Alaskan
side of the National boundary line
that may rival those on the Cana
dian side.
Though on the line of Yukon
steamer travel, the boats ply SO
infrequently that as yet only
meager returns are to be had, but
the older Yukon men among the
Excelsior's passengers look for
news by the next steamer that
will make Minook and American as
familiar to the ear as Ell Dorado
and Victoria or Hunker.
There is a growing demand for
increased facilities for reaching our
northern Ophir.
| In the broad glare of achieved results on
the Klondyke two very late but i'm portant
| finds on the west side of the boundary
| have been overshadowed. Peopie's eyes
have been so dazzled by the great piles of
| the singles tandard" basis and their ears
so tuned 10 everything that sounded of
Klondyke, Bonanza, Ell Dorado, that such
mild and new names as American and
Minook have found no. lod ement except
with cooler heads, whose experience in
the vast possibilities of the great Yukon
basin has taught them that natures re-
sources were not exhausted in the north
when the deposits were made on the
British side of the boundary line and
that while Forty-miIe and other earlier
discoveries are among the lower rounds as
| far as comparative returns for work put in
goes, Klondyke is not assuredly he cli-
max of fabulous finds, or the hi h-water
mark OF the food of fortune for all time to
come.
While all steps are now directed to the
British side of the national boundary line
it is not only among the possibilities. but
we'll up and firmly fixed among the proba-
bilities, and of the very near future. too
perhaps this current season that our
hitherto almost despised-except by the
fishers and fur r-hunters-and still much
neglected Russian purchase will discover
some OF the UNREASONABLE stores of wealth
that all indications show she und btedly
holds near the surface and deeper down
in her broad bosom.
The steamer which brought down to st.
Michaels the battalion of lucky Klondyke
miners, with their tons of dust and mug
gets, also brought the news of two very
recent discoveries below Forty-mile Post,
in Alaskan territory. They were still too
young to bear comparison with the sew
eral months work in the Canadian field,
but enough had been uncovered to
hold many of the old and experienced
men who know a real good thing when
they see it. in spite Of all they heard of Ell
Dorado and Bonanza and all they saw of
their ready Weddings.
This confidence in what they had un-
der had aroused the attention of sew
eral OF the treasure laden passengers
on the steamer. and close lnvesti-
CATION leads them to believe that but
tor the good start the Klondyke had
already secured and the unwillingness of
people to hear of going anywhere else, un-
til they had seen 'bedrt OK" on some
part OF that field. the rush would have
been to American and Minook creeks
as we'll as to the Klondyke.
As it is, many have gone
there and others are stopping ON
the way up from st. Michaels, and
the next steamer that comes down will
doubtless have big news of rich returns in
those quarters. There is, however, no
telegraph to that country, not even rail-
road, though one little over half as long
as those which carry miners from the
coast to the far Transvaal fields. or from
Perth to Coolg ardIe, would take our peo-
pie from Prince Wi liam Sound, on
the Southern Alaskan coast, and land