Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-01

CHAPTER ELAN Harnish, known
all through Alaska as Burning Day
light" celebrates his Both birthday with
City TivoI. He is a general favorite, a
hero and a pioneer in the new gold fields.
The dance leads to heavy gambling in
t ti5s his 1'9r money and his mine but wins
the mail contract Of the district.
CHAPTER IT.-Burning Daylight starts
on his trip to deliver the mail with dogs
and sledge. He tells his friends that the
big Yukon gold strike will soon be on
and he intends to be in it at the start.
With Indian attendants and dogs he
dips over the bank and down the frozen
Yukon and in the gray light is gone.
CHAPTER IIT.-Harnish makes a SEN
satiOnally rapid run across country with
the mall appears at the Tivoli and there
IS another characteristic celebration. He
has made record against cold and eek
haustiOn and is now ready to join his
friends in a dash to the new gold fields.
CHAPTER IV-Harnish decides where
the gold will be found in the up-river dis
trict and buys two tons of flour, which
he declares will be worth it's weight in
gold before the season is over.
One day in December Daylight filed
a pan from bedrock on his own claim
and carried it into his cabin. Here a
Are burned and enabled him to keep
water unfrozen in a canvas tank. He
gQuatted over the tank and began to
wash. Earth and gravel seemed to fill
the pan. AS he impaired to it a cir
cular movement, the lighter, coarser
particles washed out over the edge.
At times he combed the surface with
his fingers. raking out handfUls Of
gravel. The contents of the pan di-
minished. At is drew near TO the
bottom, for the purpose Of fieeting and
tentative examination, he gave the
pan sudden sloshtng movement
emptying + Of water 4n7 The VILE
ter. Thus the yellow gold flashed
up as the muddy water was filtered
away. 1t was gold-gold-dust, coarse
gold, nuggets large nuggets. He was
all alone. He set the pan down for
moment and thought long thoughts.
Then he finished the washing, and
weighed the result in his scales At
the rate of sixteen dollars to the ounce
the pan had contained seven hundred
and odd dollars. 1t was beyond any
thing that even he had dreamed. His
fondest anticipations had gone no
farther than twenty or thirty thousand
dollars to claim; but here were
claims worth half million each at the
least, even if they were spotted.
He did not go back to work In the
shaft that day, nor the next, nor the
next. Instead, capped and mittened, a
light stampeding outfit, including his
rabbit skin robe, strapped on his back,
he was out AND away on many-days'
tramp over creeks and divides, in
specting the whole neighboring terri
tory. On each creek he was entitled
to locate one claim, but he was
chary in thus surrendering up his
chances. On Hunker Creek only
did he stake a claim. Bonanza
Creek he found staked from mouth TO
source, while every little draw and
pup and gu1ch that drained into it was
likewise staked. Little faith was had
in these side-streams. They had been
staked by the hundreds of men who
had failed to get in on Bonanza. The
most popular of these creeks was
Adams. The one least fancied was
Eldorado, which flowed into Bonanza,