Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress) ALL ABOUT THE KLONDYKE GOLD MINES. [Illustration: Decoration] PUBLISHED BY THE MINERS' NEWS PUBLISHING CO., 60 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. COPYRIGHTED 1897 BY THE MINERS' NEWS PUBLISHING CO. LOCATION OF THE YUKON MINES. [Illustration: MAP OF THE YUKON GOLD DIGGINGS.] Sitka appears at the southeast corner of this map, and northeast of it is Juneau, the usual fitting out place for miners going to the Yukon. The arrows show the route of miners bound for the Yukon. Steamboats can carry them from Juneau as far as Ty-a. Then they must pack their loads through Chilkoot Pass and boat them through a chain of lakes and down the Lewis River to the Yukon. It is about 700 miles from Juneau to the Klondyke River. The two other most important centres of Yukon mining were Forty Mile Creek, where there were two big mining camps, Forty Mile and Fort Cudahy, and Circle City. All these camps have now been practically deserted in the great rush for the Klondyke. _The ever reliable and always trustworthy New York Sun publishes the map as given above._ TABLE OF CONTENTS Map of the Location of the Yukon Mine 5 Gold--The Search for It, Past and Present 9 Klondyke and California--1849-1897 9 The Geology of the Yukon 10 The "Mother Lode" and the Glacial Deposits 10 The Great Gold Discovery--How the First Authentic News Reached Us 13 The Gold Fever Spreading--The Stories of Some Miners 14 Millions of Gold Panned Out--Poor Yesterday--Rolling in Wealth To-day 16 Arrival of the Second Treasure Ship from the Klondyke 19 A Few of the Prizes Won 21 Some Grapes of Eschol Stories--Richer than Sinbad's Valley of Diamonds 22 The Stampede for the Gold--Thousands Join the Exodus 24 Where the Gold is Found--How It Is Reached and Mined 26 Some Large Nuggets--There Are More Where They Came From 29 Millions Upon Millions in Sight--William Stanley's Graphic Story 29 How to Get There--Choice of Two Routes 32 From San Francisco to the Mines--Ocean Route 34 Perils of the Trip--Encounters with Ice and Snow in the Passes 35 The Canadian Government's Attitude--An International Question 38 Dawson Not a Tough Town--The Civilization of a Mining Camp 39 Fears of Starvation--Danger of Going to the Mines Without Food Supply 41