Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23

meekly. Il thought It was = plano. but
1t turned out to be 4 bureau"
Oh you Idiot: can't you tell . plano
from a burroT'
Il said bureau"
"Oh. well. nobody'd take You for a bu-
reau-you're an ass. plain as the moon at
midnight"
A Limpid Little Sea
AtIin lake is about 100 miles long and an
everage of six miles wide. From the upper
deck Of this little limping steamer 1 hal.
on this glorious summer morning. the
grandest widest the most imposing ave.
inspiring picture spread before me that
mine eyes have ever seen. Far to the
north. thirty miles away. Mount Mimic
rises out Of this limpid little sea. lonely and
grand as Shasta. veil Of fleecy clouds,
blown across her shoulders. hung down and
trafled In the water. This mountain marks
the boundary between British Columbia
and the Northwest territory
To the south, six miles away, another
island hill rises rugged and grand. pushing
her fce-capped crest into the clouds The
steamer Scotia has sailed around the island
and found the distance to be eighty miles.
The Town and the PrOspecturs.
The town of Atlin Is beautifully situated
on gentle slope overlooking the lake. AL
though the place was supposed to have
been dead for many moons there were many
signs OF life. man had just brought In a
slab Of copper-almost pure copper--so rich
that some men who pretended to know said
1t was worthless. 1t could not be smelted,
they said. Business was fair and living
cheap. You could send a cocktail or a tele-
phone message to a man for - cents At
the British-American Corporations big
store bacon was IS cents a pound and -four
so a hundred A telephone line was In on
Grafton to Pine City, eight miles up tho
river. where 1900 people We're pounding
away, cheerful. hopeful and happy. Here
active part in the development of the whole
northwest country were putting In n.y.
drauic machinery, which will hasten the
opening of this important mining district.
1t Is impossible to walk anywhere on the
creeks or in the hills without stumbling
over stake. and the stampeders who drove
them had no more mining sense than
ground mice have The whole career of one
OF these "prospectors'' in the Atlin dis
trict. who came In a tramp and went out
beggar. reveals about much intelli-
gence as Is displayed in the wild caperings
Of humble bee under straw hat.
Promising Region.
And these penni,ess adventures were the
gentlemen who damned the Atln country.
Half atthousand of them left good Jobs on
the White Pass grade-jobs in which there
were three meals. as many dollars and a
warm place to sleep-and trekked away to
the new diggins between the rising and
setting of the sun. These ''Cheechawkos"
have nearly all tramped out they tramp
ed In. leaving the country in the hands of
practical men. Mining companies with
arge capital are becoming Interested in
the district. The litigation which for a time
threatened the very life of the camp and
country had been greatly lessened by the
honest efforts. plain common sense and fair
ness of Judge Erving. who had been sent
out by the dominion government to try to
settle the disputes over claims which were
causing war in some of the New York pa
pers almost every Sunday. All the people
with whom 1 talked. British and Irish.
Americans and Atissourians, were loud in
had jumped on the jumpers. He pleased the
cd miners by recognizing. first of all. the
right of the discoverer and did much to re-
move the cause of the friction that was be-
coming annoying to the district as we'll
to the governments at Ottawa and WASH
fngton. CY WARMAN.