The Washington herald., 1910-10-23

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~ but most Of them, after stalking, had gone on
| down TO Forty-Mile and Circle City The few
that possessed sufficient faith To remain were
busy building log cabins against the coming winter
Carmack and his Indian relatives occupied in
building a suice box and getting ahead of wafer
The work was slow for they had TO saw their Ium-
Der by hand from the standing forest But fur
ther down Bonanza We're four men who had
drifted in from up-river Dan McCIilvary, Dave Me-
Kay, Dave Edwards and Harry Waugh. They were
quiet party, neither asking giving conf
dences, and they herded by themselves But DAY.
light, who had panned the spotted rim of Carmack's
claim and shaken coarse gold from the grass roots
and who had panned the rim at a hundred other
places up and down the length Of the creek and
found nothing, was curious to know what Law on
bedrock He had noted the four quiet men sinking
shaft close by the stream, and he had heard their
Whip-saw going they made lumber for their
sulce-bOxes. He did not wait for an invitation bur
he was present the first day they suiced And at the
ehd OF nVe hours shoyelLng for one man he saw
Them take out thirteen ounces and half Of gold IL
was coarse gold, running from pinheads to q twelve
dollar nugget, and 1t had come from off bedrock
The first fan snow flying that day and the Arctic
winter was closing down; but Daylight had no ewes
Tor the bleak-gray sadness OF the dying shortIyed
summer He saw his vision coming true and on
the big nat was upreared his golden city of the
SHOWS. Gold had been found on bedrock Thar was
the big thing. Carmacks strike was assured Day-
Hght staked claim in his own name adjoining the
three he had purchased with plug tobacco This gave
MIN block OF property two thousand feet long and
extending in width from rim-rOck to rim-rock
Returning that night TO his camp at the mouth Of
the klondke he found in it Kama the Indian he had
LEFT at Dyea. Kama was travelling by canoe bringing
tn the last mail Of the year In his possession WAS
some two hundred dollars in gold dust which DAYLIGHT
Immediately borrowed In he arranged 10 stake
claim Tor him, which he to record when he
passed through Forty-Mile. When Kama departed
next morning he carried a number IF letters for Dav.
light, addressed to all the old timers down river in
which they were urged TO come up Immediately and
stake Also, Kama carried letters Of similar import
given him by the other men on Bonanza
1T viii sure be the gOsh-dangdest stampede that
ever was, Daylight chucked he tried to vision thu.
excited populations Of FOrty-AIe and Circle CITY
tumbng into polling boats and racing the hundreds of
miles up the Yukon; for he knew that his word would
be unquestionably accented.
With the arrival Of the first stampeders Ronanza
Creek woke up, and thereupon began long distance
race between unveracity and truth wherein lie no
matter how fast, men were continually oyertaken and
passed by truth. When men who doubted Carmacks
report OF two and half to the pan themselves panned
TWO and hair they lied and said that they were get
ting an ounce And 10. the lie was fairly on its
way they were getting, ounce but five ounces
This they claimed ten ounces but when they
filled pan OF dirt TO prove the lie they washed out
twelve ounces And so 1t went They continued
yalanty TO lie, but the truth continued to outrun
them
one day in December Daylight filed a pan from
bedrock his own claim and carried il into his cabin
Here fire burned and enabled him to keep water I'M
frozen in canvas tank. He squatted over the tank
and began to wash. Earth and gravel seemed TO I'll
the pan. AS he impaired TO it a circular movement
the lighter particles washed out over the edge
AT times he cOmbed the surface with his fingers rak
ing out handouts OF gravel The contents of the pan
diminished AS il drew near to the bottom for the
purpose of ieeting and tentative examination he gave
the pan sudden sloshing movement, emIrying il Of
water. And the whole bottom showed as If covered
with butter Thus the yellow gold flashed up as the
muddy water was hirted away. 1t was gold-gold