The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-09-22
BEGAN COLD RUSH
George W. Carmack Started
Stampede Into the Klondike.
Him, but Credit for the Great
"Discovery" 10 His.


Him, but Credit for the Great
"Discovery" ls His.
Gold dust worth s135, 00O,O 600 has |
been taken from the creeks Of the |
Klondike. Although twenty-five years
have elapsed since the first discovery,
that event is recalled by the death
recently of George w. Carmack. who
lpanned the first high.graie gravel
from Bonanza creek. The uetaffss Of
tia. adiaaANery=are related by = writer !
in the Engineering and Mining Jour
nal-Press of New York. Carmack was
q. fisherman. with an Indian squaw,
and maintained q small trading post
on the Youkon twenty miles, above the
Crossing. He was not the first to find
gold in the valleys of the Klondike,
for Robert Henderson preceded him.
but he started the stampede that led
to the development of the Yukon terri
tefy,s At, that time ,Carmack was fish, !
ing sfor salmon at the mouth of the
Kloqdike, where 1t joins the Yukon
and. where Dawson now stands. TIVE
miles, UP the valley the. Kondike u.s.
Joined by Bonanza creek. CsCarmAcko
happened to be short of fresh meat
so he went with three Indians, one OF
them "a brother-in-law, on d hunting
expedition. At that time, Bonanza
creek was known as likely place for
moose, therefore he went thither. He
knew that Henderson and three other
white men were mining on Gold Bot
tom, on the other side Of the water
shed, so he crossed the divide with
his Indian companions to see what the
others were doing and to sell them
| some of the fresh meat that he and
the Indians had obtained.
Henderson and his partners were
not getting much gold and Carmack
soon returned to the camp on Bonan-
"a creek. Having seen the mining
/ done by the four men on Gold Bottom
| He was prompted to do a little pros
pecting himself and almost at the
flrst try found gold on the rim Of the
bedrock projecting above the water Of
bonanza creek. This rich spot, recog-
II nized as 1.-The discovery" proved later
to be only g patch twenty feet square.
Carmack recorded his claim and the
three claiaIK located sin the names OF
his9ffends, Skookum Jim,a Indian Pete
afiR7Tagishl Charlie A quiet sfush''
began. David Mackayy Daniel Nc
J GfilNray and Harry Waugh wereG the
fifst ITO start Each of them tn.adel a
fortune. The information did ? moi
reach the "outside," meaning the
-statesy until the best ground had haes
E{mGakgtl e. tiaDne xehQz seMA1e tor 3seNfse,
with the stampede at the end of 1879
and-ia the spripg Of 1898 found tina
they were too late. They had tos blu,
\ claims or work for wages. On Jul,
IA, 1897. the steamer Excelsior
reached Sap-Erancisco with the It'd
ings of aMnaH Eldorado; in proc
thereof she brought half million dol
lars in golt. This was the first o
many treasure ships to enter the Col
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