The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-21

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/ center.
/ II has the highest mountains in North
| America
II has the only <orest-coyeTed glacier IN
the world
| The Tresdweil is one o. rs greatest gold
| alines.
| 1t has The best yellow cedar in the world.
Il has the greatest seal fisheries.
No thief gets fairer trial anywhere.
| Tor any prompter execution.
All wood in The Aleutian islands grows
/ on glaciers in Alaska
some wood y beautifully polished ~
glacial action.
owing IL dryness there Is rot much suf-
fering from cold feet.
Exposed portions of the body freeze in
| three minutes.
Enough library: one Bible. one Shakes
| peare
The kionGike river i forty wards wide
/ at It's mouth. Water shallow and clear.
The hlondike fever IS net dangerous an
! less aggravated ny Chilkoot chilis-
faF%hastd IN l>n' from Russia Ter <'aT'-
"3, the purchase negotiated by William
H. Seward.
Area N square miles, 3Sl IA.
ader 3cT * congress. communities Of
miners can make taeir own laws.
ftay grows a. hlf>a as a mans head.
HAfd$ vegetables can ~ raised.
IL central ami northern Alaska the
ground Is frozen 10 a oe}th OF - feet.
II = probable that IN twelve months
Dawson viii be within four days o. ju-
neau'
In us 10" temperature gold hline in
teeth contracts and tails out. Use ANAL
gum.
Have Your teeth examined before you
GO You don't want toothache IN the
klondike
\ dogs UEnipYFHitX ~
tire result of selection and hesed!ty.
one small tribe makes S-.-a 81 year from
silver fox skins. They ase worth $50 each.
II the dark season twilight lasts six
hours, and almost any kind Of work can be
done
man standing on bank of the Yukon
l3o miles from its mouth cannot see the
other bank.
The necessary eruptve force for the
formation of great assure veins IS every
where evident in Alaska
No shelter is needed except when the
wind blows. All other times sleeping
bag answers all purposes.
Just below rapids ice forms only nine
feet thick, and there fishing is done. In
other places il will reach forty feet
II Is as large AS all the states east OF
the Mississippi and north OF the Ohio. in
Guiding Virginia and West virginia
Buy all your supplies in Seattle. The
merchants here have made ii special study
of the peculiar demands OF Alaskan cli-
mate. work and travel. They have every
tAins you need.
Agricultural experiments authorized ny
the national government. are now being
made in Alaska on scientific basis.
The Stars and Stripes We're first raised
in Alaska on june p. 1863. at st. Michael.
by company of American traders.
Gold Is said To have been discovered near
a h,a has AZ no ~ te,At
Gov, BaranoA compelled the discovery to
be kept secret under penalty or the knout.
Gold was discovered in a stream near
Sitka in 1877 by two soldiers or the gar
Fison named Haley and Doyle.
The first placer mining In Alaska was
done al oiiacEs. a mining camp seventy
miles south IF Juneau,
Gold has been found III paying quantities
on the American side OF the Yukon dis
tiIct, ana that section Is destined 10 re-
ceiNe ali increasing share Of attention.
Maj. Walsh. who is in charge Of the
Canadian mounted police in the North
west territory. is practically the police
ecutivc Of tho territory.
American regulations require that min
Ing claim in Alaska must be worked to the
amount Of 500 each year for tve years or
$9t| Tor one year IN order 10 obtain patent
or title.
Before the explorations incident TO the
recent gold discoveries in the Yukon wall
ley the following cxucditians had been
made; BY the Western Union Telegraph
Company. 1866, as far up the river as Fort
Yukon: by Capt. Raymond. L. s. A. in
1854 10 the same point. by Lieut.. Schwat-
ka. /. :. y. i>>3, from Lake Lindernan
10 the mouth OF the Yukon: by Lieut.
Allen. L. s. A 1SS5 up copper river. de-
scending the Tanana crossing from north
OK the Tanana TO the Koyukuk. exploring
a. los