Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-02-08
CHAPTER IV.-Continued.

In the meantime there was naught
TO show for it but bunch. But it was
coming. AS he would stake his last
ounce on good poker hand. so he
staked his life and effort on the bunch
that the future held in store a big
strike on the Upper River. So he and
his three companions. with dogs, and
sleds. and snowshoes, toiled up the
frozen breast of the Stewart, toiled
on and on through the white wilder
ness where the unending stiffness was
never broken by the voices of men.
the stroke Of an ak, or the distant
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
due arrived at Sixty Mile, and Day
light. strong TO obey the bunch that
had come to him. traded a third in
terest in his Stewart town site for
third interest in theirs on the Klondike.
They had faith in the Upper Country.
and Harper left downstream, with a
raft-load of supplies. to start small
post at the mouth of the Klondike.
Why don't you tackle Indian River.
Daylight" Harper advised. at part
Ing. There's whole slathers of creeks
and draws draining in up there, and
somewhere gold just crying to be
found That's my bunch There's a
big strike coming, and Indian River
amt going to be a million miles
away"
And the place is swarming with
moose" Joe Ladue added Bob Hen
derson's up there somewhere. been
there three years now. swearing
something big is going to happen,
living off'n straight moose and pros
pecting around like a crazy man."
Daylight decided to go Indian River
a futter. as he expressed it; and lin.
gered few days longer arranging his
meager outfit He planned to go IN
light carrying a pack of seventy-five
pounds and making his five dogs pack
as we'll. Indian fashion. loading them
with thirty pounds each. Depending
on the report of Ladue. he intended &c
follow Bob Hendersons example and
live practically on straight meat
When Jack Kearns' scow. laden with
the sawmill from Lake Linderman
tied up at Sixty Mile. Daylight bun
died his outfit and dogs on board
turned his townsite application ovel
to Elijah to be filed. and the same day
was landed at the mouth OF lndiai
River He continued down Hunkel
to the Klondke. and on to the sum
mer fishing camp Of the Indians oil
the Yukon.
Here for a day he camped with Car
mack. a sQuaw-man. and his lndlal
, brother-in-aw. Skookum Jim, bough
: a boat. and, with his dogs on boaro
drifted down the Yukon to Forty Mic
Then Il was that Carmack, his broth
erin.law. Skookum Jim, and Cultu
Charlie. another Indian. arrived IN
canoe at Forty Mile. went straight I
the gold commissioner. and recorue
three claims and discovery claim o
: Ronanza Creek. After that, In the Sou
dough Saloon. that night, they eXhibi
ed coarse gold to the skeptical GROVE
DAYLIGHT too. was skeptical. and I'M
DESPITE his faith in the Upper Coui
try. Had he not. only few days d.
fore. seen Carmack loafing with h'
Indians and with never thought
nrospecting? But at eleven that nlgn
sitting on the edge of his punk an
, unlacing his moccasins, thousi
came to him. He put on his coat an
l. hat and went back to the Souruous
. Carmack was still there, flashing n
= coarse gold in the eyes of an uhp
II Having generation. Daylight range
+ alongside of him and emptied Ga
u r,ocl.s sack into a blower. This
studied for long time. Then' ITO
/ his own sack. into another blower
It omntied several ounces of Circle u
e and Forty Mile gold. Again, for loi
4 time. he studied and compared fih'
S l., bo nocketed his own gold, return
r Carmacks. and held up his mana
" silence.
Of "povs. want to tell you-all son
Id ching no said. shes sure COME
up.riyer strike. And tell you'a
e cIeor and forcible, this is it, The
y. oirt never been gold like that in
y blower in this country before
m now gold It's got more silver In
70 w Wv oil can see II by the color. G
h mack's sure made strike Wno,"'
D.. cot faith to come along with me-
No one volunteered. g..
K "Then who-all II take a loo IN
I'd ma casn wages in advance, to pole
a thousand pounds of grubY
W Curly Parsons and another,
" a,.han accented. and. with MS