The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-17

monen phsseu Dy, anu bonanza
Greek remained quiet. A sprinkling
OF men had staked: but most of them.
after stalking. had gone on down to
Forty Nile and Circle City. The few
that possessed sufficient faith to re-
main were busy building log cabins
against the comins Of winter. Car
mack and his Indian relatives were oc-
cupied In building sluice box and
getting head of water. The work
was slow. for they had to saw their
humber by hand from the standing for
est But farther down Bonanza were
four men who had drifted in from up
river. Dan McGilvary. Dave Mckay,
Dave Edwards. and Harry Waugh.
They were quiet party, neither ask.
ING nor giving condolences. aud they
herded by themselves. But Daylight.
who had panned the spotted rim of
Carmacks claim and shaken coarse
gold from the grass-roots, and who
had panned the rim at q hundred 9TH
or places up and down the length of
the creek and found nothing. was Gu.
rious TO know what lay on bedrock.
he had noted the four quiet men sink.
ing a shaft close by the stream, and
he had heard their whip-saw going as
they made lumber for the sluice boxes.
He did not wait for an invitation, but
he was present the FIRST day they
siuiced. And at the end OF FIVE hours
shovellng for one man, he saw them
take out thirteen ounces and a half OF
gold. ~ was coarse gold, running from
ptnheads TO a twelve-dollar nugget,
and IL had come from OF bedrock.
The first fall snow was flying that day,
and the Arctic winter was closing
dowE: but Daylight had no eyes for
the bleak.gray sadness OF the dying,
short-lived summer. He saw his Wis
aon coming true. and on the big fat
was upreared anew his golden city Of
the SHOWS. Gold had been found on
bedrock That was the big thing.
Carmack's strike was assured. Day
Hight staked claim In his own name
adjoining three he had purchased with
pius tobacco. This gave him a block
Two thousand feet long and extending
IN width from rim-rock to rim.rock.
Returning that night to his camp at
the mouth OF Klondike. he ;ound In II
Kama. the Indian chief ne had left AT
Dyea. Kama was travelling by ca
noe. bringing In the last mail of the
year. In his possession was some two
hundred dollars In gold.dust. which
Daylight Immediately borrowed. In
return. he arranged 20 stake a claim
for him. which he was TO record when
he passed through Forty Nile. When
Kama departed next morning. he car
ried number of letters for Daylight.
addressed 20 all the old.timers down
river. In which they were urged TO
como up Immediately and stake. Also
Kama carried letters OF similar import,
given him by the other men on Bo-
nanza.
1T Will sure be tho gosh-dangdest
stampede that ever was. Daylight
chuckled. as he tried TO vision the ex.
cited populations OF Forty Mile and
Circle City tumbllng into polling boats
and racing the hundreds OF miles up
the Yukon: for he knew that his word
would be unquestloniIIgly accepted.
One day In December Daylight filed
. pan from bedrock on his own claim
and carried II into his cabin. Here a
IRE burned and enabled him 10 keep
water unfrozen In a canvas tank lie
suuatted over the tank and began to
wash. Earth and gravel seemed to All
the pan. IS he impaired to II cir
cular movement. the llghtcr. coarser
PARTICLES washed out over the 2dge
At times he combed the surface with
MIS- fingers. raking out handfuls of
gravel. The contents OF the pan dl-
mInished. At Is drew near TO the
bottom. for the purpose OF fleeting and
tentative examination. he gave tho
pan a sudden slOshing movement
emptying II OF wafer. And the whole
bottom shOWed pa if covered With but-