The Nome nugget., 1921-10-22
SNOW TALKS OF
 kLONDYkE DAYS

Dawson recently celebrated the
 twenty fifth anniversary of the dis
 covery of the klondike, which occur
 ed on August IT. 1896. And among
 the prominent men who participated
 in the celebration was George T
 Snow. who made the pilgrimage last
 month from Seattle to the interior,
 so that he could do his bit in honor
 of the occasion. He has since return-
 ed to Juneau to spend few days
 with his daughter Mrs. Jenne. Mir
 Snow was secretary of the first lodge
 of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at
 Forty Mile. and also writer of the
 lodge ritual. At the celebration re-
 gently. in reference to the great trail
 blazers of the north. Mir Snow said;
 Twenty-Five years ago today one
 of the most startling aud far-reach-
 ing events in the history of gold dis
 coveries took place. when George
 Carmack found the combination to
 Canada s refrigerator and from Bo- nanza creek pealed forth the as
 founding cry, '$l00 to the pan That cry was heard clear across the con-
 tinent, while the echo reverberated around the entire globe and civilized mon reverted back to the primitive with snap and fought like wolves for the necessary means to take their place in the line of men who were struggling across the Chilcoot Pass. with pack burdened shoulders and bleeding feet. in nerveracking
 race over wilderness of snow and ice. for the purpose of drawing a golden sustenance from the frozen breast of Mother Earth.
 Two years prior to the Klondike discovery little band of hardy pros
 pectors. imbued with that fine spirit
 of fellowship that is to be found only together at Fortymile creek on De- cember 2. 1894. for the purpose of renewing and perpetuating those strong ties of friendship formed upon the trials of the Yukon That body of sixty-two men representing the living spirit of force of the Northland that bfazed the trails into the Yukon Valley and made easy the way for civilization to follow. Every one of those men packed their outfits across the Chilcoot Pass, built their boats and come down the Yukon river prior
 to the year 1888 with the exception Of two. great hearted Jack McQues- tion and his equally big hearted partner. Al Mayo. They crossed the Cassiar range and from Great Slave
 lake, came down the Porcupine river
 to the banks of the Yukon in 1873. When they reached the mouth of the Pelly river they were without food.
 having lived on muskrats for three days, They had eaten their last I muskrat three miles above and, as
 Al said. it tasted like mukluk stewed in assafidity'
 That was the calibre of the men ! who gathered together at Fortymile
 on that second day of December. 1894, and formed themselves into an
 organization for the mutual protec- ton of its members. They adopted
 the Cod Rule as their emblem and pledged themselves never to lead a
 brother Pioneer on a false stampede. and to do all in their power to ad- ! vance the interests of the great Yu-
 kon valley. These men lived up to
 the pledges they made on that day
 and from the single lodge at Forty l mile with it's sixty two members was born five other lodges. with a mem- bership of close to one thousand.
 with the prospect in view of having a lodge of the Y. o. o. P. in all the
 principal cities of the Pacific within three years
 "The object of today's celebration was made possible by the indomitable energy and courage of that little
 band of prospectors who met at Fnrtymile twenty-seven years ago [" Juneau Capital Sept. 4. 1921