The Washington herald., 1910-10-23

their heads and prophesed that he would lose every
ounce he had won. lie specializing they con-
tended as If the whole country was made Of gold
and no man could win who played placer strike in
that fashion.
On the other hand his holdings were reckoned as
worth millions, and there were SO SaugUne that
they held the man fool who cOpperedF any bet Day
light laid. Behind his magnificent freehandedness
and careless disregard for money hard practical
Judgment. Imagination and vision, and the daring Of
the big gambler. He foreSaw what with his own
eyes he had never seen, and he played to win much
or lose all.
There's too much gold here in Bonanza to be just
a pocket he argued. Its come from
mother lode somewhere and other creeks Will show
up. Nou-al keep your eyes on Indian River. The
creeks that drain that side the klondike watershed
are just As likely 10 have gold the creeks that
drain this side"
And he backed this opinion to the extent of grub
stalking half dozen parties Of prospectors the
Dig divide into the Indian River region Other men,
failing themselves TO stake lucky creeks he put
work on his Bonanza claims And he paid them we'll
sixteen dollars day for an eight hour shift and he
ran three shifts. He had grub TO start them and
when, on the last water the Bella arrived loaded with
provisions he traded warehouse site Jack Kearns
Tor supply of grub that lasted his through the
winter of 1896 And that winter when famine pinched
ana flour sold for two dollars pound, he kept three
shifts of men at work on all four OF the Bonanza
Claims Other mine owners paid fifteen dollars day
10 Their men, but he had been the first to put men to
WORK and from the first he paid them q full ounce
day One result that his were picked men and
they more than earned their higher pay.
One Of his widest plays took place in the early win
ter after the freeZeup Hundreds Of Sampeders after
stalking on other creeks than Bonanza. had gone on
dlSSruntled down the river to Forty Mile and Circle
City. Daylight mortgaged one of his Bonanza dumps
with the Alaska Commercial Company and tucked
letter of credit into his pouch Then he harnessed
his dogs and went down Oh the ice at pace that only
he could travel. One Indian down, another Indian
back and four teams of dogs was his record And Mt
Forty Mile and Circle City he bought claims by the
score Many of these prove utterly worthless
but some few OF them show up more astound-
lngly than any Bonanza. He bought right and left
paying low fifty dollars and as high as five thou
sand This highest he bought in the Tiyoli saloon
1t was upper claim EdOradO, and when he
agreed TO the price Jacob wilkins, old timer Just
returned from look at the pasture got up and
left the room, saying
daylight, I've known you year and you've
always seemed sensible till now. And now you're
just letting them rob you right and left That's what
It is, robbery. Five thousand for a claim on that
damned moose pasture is bunco. / just can't stay in
the room and see you buncoed that way"
Il tell you-all, wilkins Carmack's strikes so big
that weall can't it ALL It's a lottery Every
claim buy is ticket. And there's sure going to be
some capital prizes"
ITO copper-A term in faro meaning to play card
to lose.