The San Francisco call., 1898-12-04

Father had once befriended the Indian, and he had watched for the steamer to tell him of the find MT. Ivy, the Col lector of Customs for Alaska, and his wife, who were with us, four of the men and myself determined to stampede for the diggings.
 At Nation River. 125 miles from Cir cle City, we left the Louise, provided with supplies and the Louises lifeboat.
 We had been on the Louise almost month, and it was like leaving home second time to watch the steamboat ply steadily away from us, making straight for Dawson. We cached our belongings at Nation River and at o'clock started off for the creek. Mrs. Ivy and myself were so elated at the idea of stalking a claim that we did not mind the rough tramp to the creek.
 Fourteen claims had already been taken up. The discoverer of the creek had named it Fourth of July Creek, from the day of the discovery, and had constituted himself recorder of the claims We were in a quandary as to whom in our party should stake the first claim. Finally we decided to settle 1t by chance. Fortune favored me and I staked the first claim, 1900 by 620 feet. It was the fifteenth claim on the creek and the first staked by woman.
 .sWe peeled off the bark of tree and first cutting the date of the month-the 10th of August-then in turn scratched .on our respective claims. The recorder E took them down officially and we started back for cur camp at Nation River.
 Some of the men, instead of going back with us, started further up the creek to seek for more gold.
 MT and Mrs. Ivy and myself made for our camp at Nation River. It was dark and in some manner we lost our bearings. All that night we wandered around, and at noon next day, half dead with hunger and fatigue, we ar rived at camp. The others in the party were already there. Their search for gold farther up had been unsuccessful.
 We talked over the future of Fourth of July Creek with the half dozen min CTS who previous to us had staked claims and were waiting there until the proper time to work them. We decided that a town at least as big as Circle City was bound to s~ring up at the most desirable point as soon as the news of the discovery spread.
 The town would have to be at the nearest point on the creek to the Yukon River, whence the supplies would be obtained. At that point we staked out town lots and put up half tent the nearest approach to a house possible Nieh OdA iiiilICQ lilCdIlS l, dS lIG daughter of the Yukon, was given the honor of christening the town. I named 1t Nation City,, after Nation 2 River
 There are now couple of dozen log huts in Nation City. For the news of the richness of Fourth of July Creek has spread Some day hope to see the city of my naming as large as Circle City. which is the largest city in the world-that is, the largest log cabin city. It boasts of 375 log cabins.
 After naming the city we boarded the lifeboat with our possessions, in- tending to float down to Circle City and there await the return of the Louise from Dawson.
 We left Nation City at about 6 o'clock in the evening. At about 8 a furious storm broke, that threatened to upset our boat. Mrs. Ivy and myself held on in terror. and the men were al- most as frightened. If we made for the shore 1t would be almost as bad, for we would be without covering. But we landed and found an Indian girl watch ing our efforts to remove our bedrag- gled possessions. Lea show you said