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LOST OS TIIK SUMMIT OK WHITE i ASS.

Itv Clarence Pt'llen

'"T^ HKFtE is no theme of drama or ro-
A miince that appeals more fascinatingly
to the average himian mind than that of
the adventurous search for gold. What
other story of mythology can compare
in interest with that of the Argonauts in
their search for the golden fleece? Jason
and his compwnions setting forth, brave
and conlident. are types in their purpose
and feelings of the gold-seekers in all
history, and their experiences symitolize
the haul realities that all adventurers
have found in tlieir search for golden
treasure. Following tiic shining lure the
Argonauts travel from their homes into un-
known regions, slca<lfastiy pursuing their
course though storm-clouds tiireaten and
waves roll mountain-high. Kvery anchorage
that they tind is hcset with perils. Fierce
wild hidls with tira/.en hoofs and horns,
whose nostrils emit flame and smoke, con-
front them, and from the dragons' teeth
which the voyagers are commanded to sow
there suiltlenly springs up an armored host
whicii ,Iasou must meet and slav. A

dragon guards the tree upon which hangs
the golden fleece.

Such is the allegory of the experiences
of gold-seekers in all ))eriods and in all
lands. In the more lately discovered gold
fields in Australia, in California, in South
Africa, dangers and diflicidties have barred
the way to the golden treasure, and like
dragons have guarded the hoard when its
hiding-place has been found. Land and
ocean, mountain stecjis and burning sands,
are traversed ; dangers fiom miasma, ven-
omous reptiles, wild beasts and hostile
savages are risked; hunger, thirst, fatiirue.
are willinu:ly eiiduri'd, in the cjuest of the
modern Argonauts. Now in thy recent
discovery of a vast gold field, the latest,
perhajjs the richest, that the world has
known, a dragon in new and deadly form
c(uifronts the treasure -seekers — a specter
white and chilling — the Arctic cold, the
frozen land of tlu' Klondike.

Alaska, through which lie the paths to
the Klondike, is a region in which the last
third of the centurv has seen stramre ami

" ' cif i.i N. W. History Dopt.

Pr^OVlNCIAL. LIBRARY
VICTCmiA, ■. 0.

4i8

THE ROMANCE OF THE KLONDIKE.

strikiiifj developments. At the time that
the United States bo'iffht it of liussia, in
1867, it was itnown to the world in <renerul
only as a trreen-tinted space on the atlas,
marked Russian Anierita, with Sitka, at its
northern e\tremity. desifjnated as the
"capital. " The characteristics of its native
inhabitants, as reported by explorers and
whalemen, were rather Asiatic than American
and the impression of the Orient was not
lessened by Baranoll's castle of cop])er-
riveted lo<js, and the quaint Greek church,
with its glitterinj; altar and shrines anil
mafrniHceut copy of the JIoscow madonna
and child in gold and silver settinir, at

sifted the pravel beds of streams and sank
test pits, venturinj^ as far inland as white
men at the time could go.

The fortunes of these men varied. Some
disappeared in the forest wilds never to be
heard of again — killed by wild beasts or
Indians, ])erishing through a -cident or cold
or hunger. None knew the story of their
ending — only that they went into the
wilderness and did not return. Others
came back, hungry, footsore and ragged —
some with stories of fair ])ros))ects and a
buckskin bag or two of gold dust or nug-
gets to prove their tale; more with nothing
else than stray specimens and a hard-i\u'k

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Sitka. Slowly the importance of Alaska
as an American possession has becom<'
eviileiit. The great value of the fur seal
fisheries was recognized at an early period
after the purchase; then the co<l and salmon
fisheries, and tin; limitless supi)ly of build-
ing timber on the mainland, were utilized;
and accompanying, often ])receding, theex-
))loration of our great iniknown territory
came the prospectors for valuable minerals.
Gold and silver are the minerals that the
prospector first seeks, and reports that
"colors" of gold had been found in Alaska
drew men there from the first, who. e(|uipped
with picks, shovels and wasliing pans.

story. IJut with the inherent hopefulness
of their craft. ])rospectors ciuitin\ied to come,
and in the "eighties," after the f(niii(iing
of Juneau, using that place as their out-
fitting point tlu'v made their way to Oyea.
thence across ("liilkoot Pass and down the
chain of tributary lakes and streams to the
upper waters of the Yukon. They got
more experience than gold, but they were
gaining lessons from disaster, and learning
the topography of the country and the
nu'thods by which golil-seeking there nuist
be conducted. One essential piece of
knowlet'tre they ac(|uired through bitter
hardship and hunger, the necessity of travel-

THE ROMANCE OF THE KLONDIKE.

419

in<j and working in parties of considerable
nunil)i'rs, and of taking with tlicni at least
a year's siii)i)iy of clothes antl provisions.
This obligation of forethought and of
working with others to a common end, and
the siir(( weeding out of the weak and
thriftless, resulted, thro\igh a ])roces8 of
natural selection, in the survival of a class
of miners, working about the up])er Yukon,
who in stalwart ])h\si(iue and honesty of
character have not been excelled in the
annals of gold-seeking. Over the Dalton
and Dyea trails, through the ("hilkat and
Chilkoot Passes and \ip the Yukon River,
prospectors continued to come until in lHi)3

twenty -five po\inds, potatoes sixty-five
dollars a hundred pounds and a villain-
ously concocted whisky fifty cents a drink,
(he cost of living was higli. For the
cheapest kind of fiannel shirt the miner
had to |)ay sixteen dollars, and for a |)air
of rubber boots, indispensable to his
business, forty dollars. Men owning rich
claims went huiigry, and scurvy often ap-
peared in the camps toward s])riiig. but the
communities on both sides of the boundary
were orderly, with few of the personal
affrays so common in most mining camps
and a complete absenceof robbery and theft.
Through the cold and snows of the long

TIIK Ari'ROACU TO CHILKOOT TASS

it was estimated that they numbered one
thousand, and Circle ("ity on the American,
antl Dawson on the British Columbian side
of the Canadian boundary had assumed the
ini])ortance of organized mine camps.
Yearly the Alaska Commercial Company's
steanuM" came up the Yukon bringing the
mail. an<l miners' sui)plies, and an accession
of fresh members to the camps. Hy this
time there was a regular and considerable
output (>f gold, which the steamer took
back mainly in the form of the price paid
for su|>plies. With Hour at from sixty to
one hundred dollars a sack, driid fruits a
dollar a pound, jar eighteen dollars for

Arctic winter, and the heat whicli generated
the plagues of gnats and flies throughout
the short summer, the miners toiled and
prospected and hoped. Their hope and
constancy at last were justified. The good
genius who turned everything to gold was
the old man McCormick, who hunted and
fished along the upper Yid<on. the joys of
liis h_\ jierborcan Arcadia enhanced by the
conipanionshij) of an Indian wife. When
in the early summer of ISOO tlie Yukon
miners were toiling through the long hours
of daylight to wash out the iiuriferous earth
dug from their claims during the winter,
McCormick was not toiling tb any great

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THE ROMANCE OF THE KLONDIKE.

AT Till-; KNTRANCK

extent, or botlierinsif himself iiooiit jfold in
the earth. With sonu- Indians alonj? to
pnll his boat and liaul his nets, he had
gone a-fishintr up the river. At the mouth
of the Klondiite River lie spread his nets
and then, as the salmon had not hcs^un to
run, he took u trip up the stream by way
of killinj^ time until the tish should ffet
along. Twenty-five miles from the stream's
mouth McCormick, thinking of salmon,
came plump upon a gravel plaeer stuffed
w^ith gold, the gold of the Klondike.
McCormick did not mind his fishing after
this discovery. He slaked out a couple of
claims, tilled his pockets with s])('cimen
dust and nuggets and came back, with the
news of what he had found, to Circle City.
Then the stam])e<le to the new diggings
l)cgan. Everybody was ready and waiting
for just such an announcement and in thiee
d.iys Circle City was a deserted camji.
The treasure-seekers were not rushing to
disappointment; for once diggings had
been discovered that bettered the first
accounts received, and of a richness that
could not be overrated. The gold was
not to be obtained without toil and trouble.

OF SKAdUAV CANON.

A layer of frozen earth that never thawed
extended from tlie surface of the ground
fifteen to twenty-five feet downward, almost
or (piite to betl-rock, where the richest
gol<l deposits were. Hut the miners wanted
only to know that the gold was there. Of
all difticidties that interposed at that stage
they made light. Working through the
heats of summer days twenty liours in length
but all too short for their wishes; i)lasting
the fro/en earth with dynamite and gun-
])owder, or thawing it downward by surface
tires; washing out the precious earth in
pans and rockers; taking scarcely time to
cook and eat tlieir scanly nu'als, these men
lived in a sustained happiness that it is
given to few mortals to know — the joy of
triunipli. the grasping of the golden reward
of success in the discovery of a long-sought -
for Kl Dorado.

For the first year the rush to tlie Klondike
comprised only the miners already in the
country, and iheeompurativelyfewarrivalsof
men who had started for the upper Y(d<on in
the spring, when, of course, the "find" had
not as yet been macw-. There were claims
enough for all. t'nknown to the outer

THE ROMANCE OF THE K'LOND/h'E.

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world, the Kloi^likc iniiicrs were washing;
out ciirtli tliiit yii'ldt'il Homi'tinics five
liundrcd dolliii's to tlie pun, and twenty
rlioustind dollars to the ton, storinj^ the
|ir('t'ioiis dnst and nii<;<i('ts in hajj^s and
lioxcH, in fruit cans, oil cans, tcakfttlcs —
anyfliin;^ that would scrvts as a rcccpt.iclc
safe from Icakajfr. Loss by theft was not
taken into aeeount in this ( !im|) of Midas
where yold was less teniptin<^ to men's
present needs tliun flour and baeon and
|>otat()es. With tlu' shutting down upon
them of the Arctic winter the work of
minin<i did not cease althoujfh the miners,
with the streams looked in ice, no lonfjer
could wash out the fjold. They kept on
sinkinjf their shafts to bed-rock, layinjif the
valuable earth aside to be washed out in
the sprintr.

It was early in the next July, in 1897,
that the riches of the Klondike became
known to the world, and the announcement
was as dramatically unexpected as the
lindinji of the treasure fields had been. A
steamer from tlie Yukon warped in and
was moored at a wharf in San Francisco
and it brought as passengers forty unkempt
nvn in tattered clothes, fresh from the

Klondike. They had a story to tell like
that of Aladdin and they had brought gold
to the value of a half-million dollars in
earnest of its truth; and they liad taken
only a little from the richness of the claims
they had left behind. Besides the treasure
that they had brought, there was on the
steamer a <|uarter million dollars in Klondiki;
gold belonging to the Alaska Commercial
Company.

There was no lack of information and of
warning as to what lay before the ailvent-
urers who wouhl follow the paths of these
successful miners from the Yukon head-
waters. Only a limited number could take
the h)ng. but safe and easy route, by boat,
by way of St. Michaels and the Yukon.
The great majority must risk the mount-
ain passage from Dyea and Skaguay,
through one of the five passes that, once
traversed, led to a comparatively open route
by land an<l water over the five hundred
miles of wilderness that intervened between
them and the Klondike. Few were rash
enough to think of a winter journey there,
but many hastene<l their start so as to get
to the Klondike before cold weather set in,
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THE ROMANCE OF THE KLONDIKE.

the nearest point for depart tire to the \i,n\({
flt'Uls as soon as s|)rin;i sliouUl open. Tlie
stories of the C'liiikat and Ciiiikoot Passes
have ])een told an<l retold, with many 11-
Instrations. in the last twelve months. The
bowlder-strewn eleft of the ("hilkool. risinii
twenty-live hundred feel in two miles, a
terrible pathway over which unloaded ani-
mals can be driven only witli the f>:realest
dilticulty and men must bear all burdens
\ipon their shoulders, is. as a choice of
«vils, the preferred route of the cmiiirants.
Some typical scenes — the steep, narrow
defile filled with toilinfj men, and slippinj,'.
fri;jhtened horses urifed on toward the sum-
mit ; the abandoned outfits ami the men
and animals fallen out by the way — are
familiar to all readers of the current illus-
trated i)eriodicals. Of the disappointments,
liomesickness. <lespair. the weariness and
smarting under unramiliar toils, that the
walls of this mountain jtass liave seen, but
little lias been told to conii)aie with the
reality. With the worst ditliculties encoun-
tered at the very outset of the journey, and
the |)romise of five hundre(l inili's of
wilderness to be traveled beyond, it is
little wonder that many of the jfold-seekers
(piit at this point, and that the traders of

Dyea and Skatr'iay should be be9ou<,'ht by
hosts of discoura>.'cd prospectors to buy
their outfits at half the cost to provide tlie
means of return.

Tlie written history uf this pass, so re-
cently exploited to llie world, opens with
a traireily. It was here, in 1MS7, that the
miner Williams, who had traveleil si.v hun-
dred miles, from Forty .Mile Creek on the
Yukon, bearini"- letters and a ba^ of ffold
specimens, perished of liunj,' /r and expos-
ure. His truide, a younir Iiuliaii, succeed-
eii ill ffcttii.^ to a t.radinir station, briiif^inj^
the h.'lters and pild with his story of dis-
aster. In the last year the route throuirh
Ciiiikoot to the Klcuidike has been marked
by similar happeninp(s. some of which have
been trauedies on a far ureater scale. Of
these may be mentioned parlicularly the
disaster that occurred last spriiif^ near Cra-
ter Lake. Twenvy-two men. hauliiifj sleds
in sinyie tile over the fro/en surface of a
stream, were inu'ull'eil by the breakiiifx of
the ice and sunk from siirht before the eyes
of their comrades, who were powerless to
s:ive them. A recent tratfcily was that of
.luiie last, when sixteen men and women
bound lor the Klondike were diuwned in
Lake Tiindeniaiin. Tlicv had constructed

ON THK SUM.MIT OK WHITE PASS,

THE ROMANCE OF THE KLONDIKE.

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l.KitS'^IN*'.

-KACIAV KIV

a sfow ill wliicli to iiavijriUc flic lake
and had ciiiliarkcd uj)!)!! it with sixteen
liorses and the entire outfit of the comiiany.
At a point in the lake known as Windy
Arm tile waves deniolislieil the scow, and
all on board were lost In such events as
these on the Klondike route there is no
time for niourniiiif, or for ellort to recover
the bodies. If the waves cast them u|)
they are decently hut hurriedly buried by
the first party that finds them; the names,
if known, are scrawled upon a headboard
or on a bla/ed spot on some near-by tree.
Survivors hasten on lest disaster overtake
them lingerinff.

Once at the Klondike, they find that
there comes with the winter a time that
tries men's souls. The twilijiht ji'l"""'
of the short day when the sun at
noon haiiits low above the liorizon ;
the still, <leadly. unrelentinir cold which,
nijiht and day. waits for him who vent-
ures outside the circle of his fireliiiht,
rea<ly to bite limb and feature that may
chance to l)e exposed, and to numb to
•dcauness the center of life if the wanderer
strav too far bevond the hearth: vairue

IK ciN AN UI-; iiHini.i;.

fears of want and famin(? arisinj; from the
sense of remoteness from civili/ed commu-
nities — all these weijjh on the soul of the
new-comer, and briny weariness and lon-j-
in<js even to the old-timer. To make the
interior of his house of Iolts. chinked with
arctic moss, more cheerful, he pastes jiictures
cut from newspapers, and lithojiiaphs from
calendars and soap-boxes, apiinst the walls,
an<l he reailsand rereads the much-thumbed
books and maiia/.ines that drift from man to
man about the camp. To some in silent
moments come memories of wife and
cliild. and to others the thoiijjhts of sweet-
hearts far away. It was an Argonaut of
the Klondike that told me the story of
Happy Tom's love romance.

"You may call him Tom ^lurfree if yon
te'l the story after me." he said. "It
sounds near enoujjh like and he mijfht not
care to be talked about under his resd name.
He was one of an outfit of a dozen of us who
drifted tofiethcr and stayed toircther for
three years in the up])er Yukon — two years
at Circle City and a year at Klondike.
We all knew that Tom had a sweetheart
named Kittv; that she lived itr San Fran-

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THE ROMANCE OF IIIE KLONDIKE.

cisco iiiid I lull it lm<l liccii iiLficcd ltd wren
tlicni when lie stiirtcd away for Alaska, lliat
as Kiidii an lie made his pile In- was to coiiir
Imck and marry lici'. One day he jfot a
letter frdiii Kitty and wlieii lie liad read it
he sat. hiildiii^ it Ix-fore him in his haiui.
with tlic look on his face of a man who has
just heard his deatli sentence ])rnn()un<'ed.
Kitty liad tliiown him over. Sin told him
that she wiiH tired of waitiiiir. and wasjioin;;
to marry a man whom she could sec once
in a while, and who could support iier.
It was a cruel thini;. and 'I'oin was so cut
up over it that we were all afraid for him
for a time. As luck would have it Old

■■ "."^lie's a pretty Lfirl and a ;;oo(| jrirl if
she tlocsn't liclie her picture.' I said.
'You're jfoinj,' with the rest of us to Frisci
next Mununer. with more j^old tiian you can
carry in a liainhiu't. and leavinir a million
dollars more in yourclaim hehind you. Why
(h)n'l you marry the sister wlule you'ii-
there;'

'■\Vi' said notliiii;,' further then. l»ut I
could see that he was thinking'. We all
otiservc<l in the course of a day or two
after, that his old lau^di had come hack,
and it slayeii to the spring,'. We cleaned
up tlie (lilt tliat we had diiir throii^jh the
winter, and then we took passa^'c on tlie

SSlN<i THi: SCMMIT OK WII.TK I'ASS.

McCormiek came to the camp next day
with his story of new disflinjrs and all Cir-
cle City fifot up and moved to th<' Klondike.
We took Tom aloiiji' with us. ami when lie
saw the ifold that was to be had for the
di<jffin<; he brightened up and set to work
at his old stroke.

"One day. when Tom and I ha])pened to
l)e alone toLCether in the .shack, in over-
haulinir his kit he by accident dropped a
photograph to the floor and I picked it up.
" 'You still keep her picture, I see.'
"He looked at the ])hotoirraph. 'That's
not she.' he said. 'It's her — Kilty's — I
mean Mrs. Browulow'.s — sister.'

lirst steamer for Frisco. We were a ragged
regiment when we landed, but we Inul the
stuir to buy goofl eiotlies and we lost no
time in getting oullitted fo'- the city. I saw-
that Tom liad put on a frill or two ..lore than
the rest of us, and then I lost sight tif him
for a week. When I saw him again he told
me that he had been to see Kitty.

" 'She married a clerk in a retail cloth-
ing store,' he said. 'They are keeping
house in three rooms. I've seen her sister,
and — do you remember the adv'i< ; ,iii
gave me about her? — \>c are to be .'..nrried
next Tiiursday morning. I w;uir yo.. lo
come to the wedding.' "

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