The daily Alaskan., 1922-02-18

l c. R. Orchard, the local agent of the c. P. R. company, on his return | from Vancouver stated that the company had reason to believe there would be an unusually large eXcur- sion traffic to Atlin this year and there is no reason 10 question this. I Atlin forms the logical finale to northern summer outing because, while memories of She famous Klon- dike still finger theNorth is the Land of Gold, and Atlin is so far north that it IS only thirty miles from the Yukon boundary.
 And in Atlin they ran see the gold in it's natural stats and watch it grow. See the miner sprinkling it ' with a giau; hose; see him wash the soil from it's roots n the sluice box | es: see him dribhlr the golden dust | into a buckskin poke and express it ! to the mint al Var rouver 10 be re- ' turned in the shape of five dollar 1 gold pieces with which to pay for the grub.
 AtIin is probably the only place on the continent where tourists can see l all the nodes of recovering gold from the aIIuvial Eravels going on lat tie same time in the one field. , Here they can see the powerful Giant removing a mountain with a stream of water, here they can see sluice boxes operated by the deviat- ed running stream; here they can see the individual miner with his rocker taking his days pay in gold ! as soon as he has earned it without asking any boss for a eQue or ever having to punch a time clock All this is very wonderful to the tour ists. and those of them to whom one Of the principal motives of the trip ! is 10 see placer mining Iu operation, . provide themselves with pretty bas- | kets and dream of sauutering along l the banks of the purliug streams and ] picking up nuggets until the bas- ! kets are filled to the brim. After a ! IUttle experience tLey determine to bring cans the next time, as some t of the nuggets are mighty small
 Notwithstanding this, that 1t takes many mickles to make a muckle is as true in Atlin as elsewhere, but enough of gold mickles were gather ed by the Atlin miners last year to amount to $l3O.5OO-more than enough to tear the bottom .out of the fancy basket Of any lady tour ist
 | But the trip to Atlin from Van couyer. as a trip. is one of the finest in the world and scarcely cOmTar- able to any other no matter in any part of the world whatsoever. That f. is. for magniacent!y iudescribable scenery.
 G You start on even keel upon the Iakelike calmness CI an inland sea. 1 Soon after the ship begins to roll and toss and you are glad to take hold of something. This only en- dures for a brief space while you are crossing a place where the walls of the inland passage are broken away and father Neptune takes up his boisterous sway; where the breezes become blasts and the wave lets angry pillows. But in a short time you are on an even keel again and all tho, Is forgotten in the soft and sylvan beauties of your sur roundings.
 Then comes a roaring river threat euing to smash your bows. and your eyes naturally rise from this to climb the wooded banks of the tor ,rcntous stream: and from there upward to mountains upon noun taius, W en your tt juEhts still trav- el upward toward the Great Archi- tect of the Universe.
 The last phase of the panorama of this great inland sea, extending practical north for over a thousand imnes, IS what is known as Lynn Canal, an estuary of the sea Of some hundreds of miles between precipitous walls ot dark but glis- teniug rock. Smooth as a lake it is in summer time, and the only reason why it is feared by marin CTS at the time of winter storms is that it is too narrow in which to mauoeuvre ones vessel to cope with the furious blasts.
 1 At the head of this canal is Skag- way. which is the CAly Alaska town you see in your journey to Atlin. This was a town ol from twenty to thirty thousand inhabitants at the ] b,{gI,+ ,F tbs L1DDdyIya hN1rD g,E gz