Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-08
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This time the trail was easier It was better packed. and they were not | carrying mail against time. At Forty Mile they laid over two days for the ! sake of the dogs, and at Sixty Mile | Daylight's team was left with the I trader Unlike Daylight, after the ! terrible run from Selkirk to Circle City, they had been unable to recup- ! crate on the back trail. So the four men pulled on from Sixty Mile with l . fresh team of dogs on Daylights | sled. The following night they eamped in the cluster of islands st ] the mouth of the Stewart Daylight | talked town sites, and, though the others laughed at him. he staked the | whole maze of high, wooded island. 1 Just supposing the big strike does come on the Stewart" he argued. ! 'Mebbe you-sll II be in on it, and then again mebbe you-ali won't. But I sure will. You-all d better reconsider and go in with me on it."
 But they were stubborn.
 You're as bad as Harper and Joe Ladue." said Joe Hines. They're a. ways at that game. You know that big fat jest below the Klondike and under Ioosehide Mountain? Well, the recorder at Forty Mile was tellin' he they staked that not Q month ago The Harper & Ladue Town Site. Ha! Ha! Hal"
 Elijah and Finn joined in his laugh ter; but Daylight was gravely iQ earn est.
 There she is!" he cried. "The hunch Is working! It's in the air I tell you-all, What'd they-all stake the big fat for if they-all didn't get the hunch? Wish I'd staked t."
 The regret in his voice was provoca- tive of a second burst of laughter
 Laugh, dang you, laugh Why your eyes ain't open yet You-all are a bunch of little moving kittens. tell you-all If that strikes come on Klondike, Harper and Ladue will be millionaires. And if 1t comes on Stew art, you-all watch the Elam Harnish town site boom. In them days. when you-all come around maxim poor mouths (. ." He heayed a sigh O. Resignation. Well, suppose I'll have to give you-al a grub-stake O. soup, or something or other"
 Tn the meantime there was naughl to show for 1t but hunch But it Tas coming As he would stake his las. ounce on a good poker hand, 30 ha staked his life and effort on the hugct that the future held in store Q big strike on the Upper River. So he and his three companions, with dogs, and sleds, and snowshoes, toiled up Chs frozen breast of the Stewart, toilel on and on through the white wilder ness where the intending stiffness was never 5roken by the voices of men the stroke Of an ax. or the distant crack of a rife Gold they found oD the bars, but not in paying quantities, and in the following May they re. turned to Sixty Mile.
 Ten days later. Harper and Joe La duo arrived at Sixty Mile. and Day. light, strong 10 obey the hunch that had come 10 him, traded a third iD- terest in his Stewart town site for a third interest in theirs on the Kloudike. 1 They had faith in the Upper Country, 1 and Harper left downstream. with raft-load of supplies. 10 start a small l post at the mouth of the Klondike
 Why don't you tackle Indian River, !. Dayiight?" Harper advised, at part ing. There's whole slathers Of creeks ! and draws draining in up there, and ] somewhere gold just crying 10 be ! found That's my hunch There's a i big strike coming, and Indian River l ain't going to be a million miles | away"
 And the place is swsrming with | moose" Joe Ladue added. Bob Hen derson's up there somewhere. been | there three years now. swearing l something big Is going to happen, 1 living of'n straight moose and pros Dscting around like. 8 crazys man"
 kElieht decided to go. Indian River l shsiutter. as he}ezpressed it; and lin- gsred a few days longer arranging his 1 nreager outfit. He planned to go in ] light. carrying a pack Of seventy-fve | pounds and making his five dogs pack | as we'll Indian fashion, loading them | with thirty pounds each. Depending ' Qn the rsport osl Lsdus, he intended 10