Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-12-18

It was on the lItn day or August, 1896, that Kate Carmack, Indian wife of George Carmack, white man, and while washing camp dishes in the water of small stream then known as Rabbit Creek, made the discovery that added hundreds of millions to the wealth of the world and caused the word "Klondike" to assume a magic meaning throughout the req ms of civilization. On March 29th of this year at Carcross, small town in the southern part of Yukon terri tory and near the head of navigation on the mighty Yukon river, Kate Carmack died in penury and desti- tuition.
 Hunting Trip Responsible for Dis
 cOvery of Gold
 A hunting trip was responsible for the discovery of gold in the Klon- dike which later developed into the greatest placer mining camps the world has ever known. George Car llllShY WlllS, lHS law, Skookum Jim, and the latter's cousin, Dawson Charley, with their squaw wives, had established a camp on Rabbit-afterwards known as Bo- nanza-creek from which, as a cen tral point, they were securing the county in quest of moose with which to replenish their larders, meat be- ing the principal diet of the Indians of the North. It was while the three men were asleep in the camp one afternoon that Kate appeared with a handful of glistening gold nuggets she had picked up in the water of the creek where she had been washing the camp dishes. Hav- ing no ideas of her own as to what she had in her hands, she showed the nuggets to her husband, her brother and cousin in the tent. The white man had been a miner in California years before and his experienced eye quickly sensed the fact the "yellow pebbles" shown him by his wife were gold nuggets.
 All Stake Claims Before Sunset
 Before the sun had set, Carmack had staked Discovery Claim, Skook- um Jim had staked No. 1 above and Dawson Carley had staked No. 1 be- low. All three of the claims proved immensely rich, yielding approxima- tely one million dollars in gold each. At the end of four years and when the claims had been worked out, Carmack took his squaw wife and his fortune to Seattle where they oc- cupied a suite in one of that tity's best and most exclusive hotels and where the wealthy husband took pride in clothing his dusky wife in the finest silks and satins and be- decking her with diamonds and oth- CT expensive jewelry. But the city soon palled on the ebon-hued daughter of the north land, The unceasing noises of the of the north Pacific coast get on her nerves. Besides, there was no moose meat in Seattle and Puget Sound fish did not stack up in her estimation with those taken from the ice-chilled waters of the Yukon. Poor Kate evidently exper- fenced in her wealth-laden environ ments at the fashionable Seattle hotel | the same sense of loneliness express ed by Robert W. Service when he 1 wrote: "It's the great big broad land .'way
 up wonder,
 It's the forests where silence has
 lease It's the beauty that thrills me with
 wonder, It's the stiffness that fills me with
 peace. > 'Tis the strong life that never knows
 harness, The wilds where the caribou call, The freedom, the freshness, the
 farness- O God, how I'm stuck on it all." White Man Tires of Indian Wife
 Incidentally and while Kate was cultivating a dislike to Seattle that became nothing short of craze to get away, her pale-face husband was to a realization of fact that it was not recherche in aristo-