The daily Alaskan., 1922-02-18

was shot and killed It wac a boom ing town then, where ship and rail met, and bound to be a great sea port before morning.
 Here you take the cars Of the White Pass & Yukon Rairway, ad- vertised as one of the greatest seen ic railways of the world, and when you get back you may have the ex- perience of declaring that in this , case the advertisements are both true and modest It is a somewhat marvellous railway, taking the place of the dreaded White Pass trail, on which, in the sumE.er following the great Klondike stampede, there lay no less than two thousand dead horses.
 But you see none Of these grim re- minders of the brief period when an avaricious spasn of goId-hunt- ing seemed to obsess the whole world. Instead of that you are en- toying spasms of admiration over the engineering skiU which conquer ed the heetling summit Of White Pass. and in so short a time.
 At Summit station you are again in the same country, and in the same province of British Columbia. you first started from, and so all the way to Atlin. But you have also one of the mogt cracked-up ad- vautages of foreign travel also, in ] the picturesque dress and seductive manners Of the ILiiaus. their col ored totems. their customs, and even their language-au guaranteed to be absolutely foreign and at the same time native born. and not i'm ported to meet the edgeucies Of tourist travel
 After achieving the summit Of White Pass by the winding railway, you pass through a barren country in which no gold has been found be- cause people on foot have always been in too great a hurry, and far below shines the IIacid surface of Lake Bonnet. Along this beautiful piece of water the railway winds
 (but on the IeveD until you reach Carcross. where the cry Is All out for AtIiu." Here you take a steam CT again. and pasa through sue cession or lakes. the first of which was christened the Golden Gate long before gold was discovered in the country. It is a beautiful ride through these always summer seas, with always a vieE of mountains towering one abovS the other and some of them still snowcapped. Slut in SO close by the mountains these waters are unbroEen by rip ples and present a mirror-like sur face, in their depths refecung the high. prectpitative walls which so glow with vivid coloring that the scene reminds one of BiersJsdTs wonderful paintings of the Yellow stone country.
 At the head Of Taku Arm you again take the railway, three mile portage 10 Lakt Atlin where the pretty GerryboaI you see in the . ricrure tleas you across to Atlin City.
 The dlscov.., ,f tho ,tln d'c. gins was .;6a by tVr Juneau prospectors. who made good at For tymue and Circle City digginEs be- fore those Of the Kloudike were struck It was the year after the KIondike they went into AtIiD. and made their discovery on Pine Greek. Aun City was lad out in town lots. and an attempt made to boom it: but the discovery on Pine Creek was 1 siN miles inland, and there grew up the city which now has place on the map as Discovery.
 | Pine Creek cuts deep and leaves high banks at Discovery. Among . the stampeders the first year were : two young sons Of a California min ing operator. accompanied by an old time prospeCtOr from that state. The latter pJched his tent on this high bank above the pioneer workings. A few mornings later, when he smelt the conee, he rose. lifted the
 flap of the tent. ylvned, and near by saw one boy holding the gold pan and the other sbovellinto it What you think you're doing'' | he asked.
 l Thought 'smight swell practice with the pan" replied the elder Hum Might swell swarm a tree to find gold" tEs old prospector ] growled.