The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-11
Klondike Days Returning
With Discovery of Pay
Streak in Manitoba.
N. E. A. Special to The West vlrginian.

N. E. A. Special to The West Vlrginian
TIE PAS, Man, Sept. Sake Cook
knows gold. He is Indian, with dash
of white blooa in him, blood OF adyen-
turers.
He was guiding ]. P. Gordon, former
assistant chief engineer Of the Hudson
Bay railway, the two living in a cabin
on the shore of Copper Lake, about 100
miles straight north OF the last jump
ing-off place-the end OF the Cana
dian National Railways steel.
One day Jake Cook studded his toe.
On ridge in the expanse of muskegs,
swamps, sloughs and lakes, the sure
tread Of his moccasined feet was in
terrupted. He glanced down, and the
expression in his black eyes was the
same as when he sees bull moose
over the sights Of his rifle.
Pick Splits Quartz And There 1t Is!
He hurried to his cabin and brought
back a pick. He swung that pick into
the rusty spur of quartz and presently
the dark shade Of rock and earth was
broken by tawny gleam
1t was pay streak, virgin metal, four
inches wide, several feet deep and no.
body knows how long!
Gordon, his employer, and Jake as
sailed that flinty ledge with all their
strength. The samples they took were
fire leaf" and nuggets. They dug a
test pit, three feet wide and three feet
deep. Its sides were inlaid with glow
ing patches; the bottom of it was the
hue OF the northern sunlight in Sep
TENDER.
Gordon sacked as much as he could
carry, after stalking his claim and
Jake Cooks and u others in the
names of his friends, and loaded a
canoe for the 150-mile traverse to The
Pas. His arrival here on the out
side" started a rush that may revive
the glories of Klonkide days.
1t was hard to get over White Horse
pass, but it will be harder for tender
foot prospectors to make their way
into the new gold country.
AS the wild-geese wing the distance,
1t is 65 miles from The Pas to Jake
Cooks cabin, but by winding water
ways, with back breaking portagees
and blind channels to cheat the un-
wary, it is $50 miles by canoe.
Overland, through the swamp and
muskeg country, there is no trail, ana
to tote an outfit for even the easiest
kind Of mining would be impossible.
Yet under an area about 500 miles
square, extending northward from
Copper lake into the wilds, is believed
to lie incalculable riches, not only of
gold, but OF silver, nickle platinum,
copper and less valuable ores. Other
finds have been made at Flinplon Lake
Twin Lakes, Athapaposcow, and Mandy
Pine Root, in recent years.
But none as rich as the Jake Cook
pay streak.
But Don't Start Now-Wait Till Spring
Canoe navigation will be closed in
a few weeks, when freezing weather
SOS in. Meanwhile only the hardest
and most experienced of old timers
will attempt prospecting in the new
fields. In the spring the big rush will
gather itself, and the tragedies, the
melodrama, the amazing luck, good
and bad, Of gold hunting will unfold.
An Indian started the Yukon rush
and came to no good from it. Jake
Cook is a wise woods Indian. This is
the third find uncovered as the result
Of his wisdom in the wilderness. He
piloted Frank Moore, of Winnipeg, to
a bed of quartz near Cranberry Lake
which is said to be one of the largest
on the continent. This was in 1915
Near The Pas, Cook made the Gold
Vein strike which will presently be ex-
plotted. Experts report that it will
yield millions.
Yes, Jake Cook knows gold.