The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-19

LEhW IT, up the top ought TO ne 50 you
c7h~wiDe some Of it off. Then, little by
liltle, You throw water ia and mix it
around untn you have stopped most of
the dirt over the edge, and the stones ana
gravel and stuff are at the bottom When
you come 70 the black sand you want to
be careful, because the gold is just IN
derneath. When YOU have got that lou
are through with the painful. The whole
thing takes about three minutes.
The other way is with a rocker. That
Is an arrangement by which the muddy
water aud stuff is filtered through blank
cts. The stuff left on top Of the blankets
you put in the 'mud box. aud when the
day work is done you wash that stuff out
ia a pan until it has go- ril of most Of
the dirt. Then you pour in quicksilver
and mix it all around. The quicksilver
and the gold form a sort of dough, and
you can wash out the rest Of the dirt.
Then you take this mixture Of gold and
quicksilver and put IT In a pan over the
fire. The heat makes the quicksilverspass
away as smoke. and there's your gold.
That's all there is to it,
Henderson was the first man who ever
crossed the Chilkoot pass in the middle
of winter, and he did it for the sake of
the girl he left behind in Nova Scotia
the breadth of the country away. Here
is how he tells 1t:
you see, things had been pretty bad up
in the Yukon last summer OF course,
was running the boat and all that, but
1 wasn't making much, and the placer
mines were not panulug out as well rs
expected.
4 wandered around feeling mean, and
wishing / could see the l.ttle girl when l
runs into Johnny Reed and Hank Wright.
Reed, he's rounded up all the mail at 81
a letter, and he says he's going TO take
it through Wright allows he'll go along,
and, what with me wanting TO see the
cir ha
said I'd go along too.
THE first two days was pretty tough,
and our dogs got their feet frost bittek We
had moccasins made TO fit EN- all, br the
plaguey beasts chewod them off and ate
EN- We got 70 PeIly river at last, and
we had been getting bad weather and were
tired.
NOW, Reed had promised all those min
ers in Forty Nile that we would lay up
two months at Pel.y river. You see, we had
a lot of mail and money with US, and if we
got lost, why, the mail went, too. They
worried some about us, but they worried
lot more about those letters. When we
got into Pelly river we expected TO keep
to that agreement, but when we'd been
there two days Reed he comes to us and
says; Il guess we better get out of here,
boys. Bacons s. a pound, and it'll take all
we've got, and maibags too, to keep us
here a month.
I'VE talked it over and decided that the
best thing to do was to pull out We start
ed. but when we had cot hundred miles
II was Drettv clear we wouldn't connect
with our grub at the other end unless We
made better time. We went over our load,
and all we could find 10 leave out was the
tent andlthe stovG-aHd it 60 below, mind
you!
"WeU we dunpad the stove and the
tent and we pot as far as Lake Iebarge
nv that time we W. down to the square
noeaI a dav and bs~@gsssSzS,-zyszn in hard
hcls Asa rnatter Of foefSesA - beasts
wore most starved They alan %$~naks,.v-
thing at all 10 ear the last fvNW
"yVbol, things os,t 10 looking Ike that
yvriabt SAYS Well. there's plenty of
prub on Healev's steamer Now. that
n,oant turning hack and 7 wanted TO see
The GIRL So T saws. What do we want to
turn hack nov, for2 We're getting along
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anu tolo the O'hSFs' NIlShI came a'ons
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were Iost, ne mao Deeh prassius aH the
way OUT OF now wen ne kue" tne country.
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