Klondike and the Yukon Country: A Description of Our Alaskan Land of Gold from the Latest Official and Scientific Sources and Personal ObservationH. Altemus, 1897 - 213 strani |
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Stran 13
... carried away with the news , they pulled up stakes and abandoned in a day the claims upon which they had been toiling for months . Circle City , the largest camp in the Yukon district , was desert- ed over night , and Dawson City , at ...
... carried away with the news , they pulled up stakes and abandoned in a day the claims upon which they had been toiling for months . Circle City , the largest camp in the Yukon district , was desert- ed over night , and Dawson City , at ...
Stran 18
... carried to Circle City by J. M. Wilson , of the Alaska Commercial Company , and Thomas O'Brien , a trader . They carried not only news , but prospects , and the stampede was on . Those who made the 300 - mile journey the quickest truck ...
... carried to Circle City by J. M. Wilson , of the Alaska Commercial Company , and Thomas O'Brien , a trader . They carried not only news , but prospects , and the stampede was on . Those who made the 300 - mile journey the quickest truck ...
Stran 32
... carry gold in paying quantities . Sixty Mile Creek en- ters the Yukon River from the southwest and about seventy miles above the mouth of the Stewart . It has given up excellent yields of gold , and about 100 miners have wintered every ...
... carry gold in paying quantities . Sixty Mile Creek en- ters the Yukon River from the southwest and about seventy miles above the mouth of the Stewart . It has given up excellent yields of gold , and about 100 miners have wintered every ...
Stran 35
... carried a dollar to the pound in coarse , ragged bits of gold . Others have since found diggings ten - fold richer . As remote as their discovery was they were not long to remain in sole possession of it . With the exhaustion of their ...
... carried a dollar to the pound in coarse , ragged bits of gold . Others have since found diggings ten - fold richer . As remote as their discovery was they were not long to remain in sole possession of it . With the exhaustion of their ...
Stran 36
... carry gold , but in what proportion is yet to be determined . Here also is the pioneer quartz mine of the Yukon . Captain Healy , the manager of the transportation company , located a claim on the side of 36 KLONDIKE .
... carry gold , but in what proportion is yet to be determined . Here also is the pioneer quartz mine of the Yukon . Captain Healy , the manager of the transportation company , located a claim on the side of 36 KLONDIKE .
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ALTEMUS American Arctic banks belt Birch Creek boats boundary camp Canadian cents Chilkat Chilkoot Inlet Chilkoot Pass Circle City claims Cloth coast Dawson City degrees below zero deposits diggings discovery distance district Dyea engravings exploration farther feet Fort Selkirk Fort Yukon Forty Mile Creek Forty-Mile Creek glaciers gold dust gold fields gold-bearing head hundred miles hydraulic mining illustrations inches Indians Inlet interior Island John journey Juneau Klondike River Lake Bennett land Lynn Canal Michael miners months mountains mouth Nathaniel Hawthorne natives nozzle party placer mining pounds prospectors quartz quartz mining Ralph Waldo Emerson rich rocks route Russian salmon season Seattle side Sitka Sixty Mile Creek skins snow southeastern Alaska steamer stream summer Survey Tagish temperature territory tion trade traveler United Upper Yukon veins wash winter Yukon region Yukon River
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Stran 179 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Stran 179 - ... point the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the...
Stran 196 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Stran 179 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Stran 200 - A claim shall be deemed to be abandoned and open to occupation and entry by any person when the same shall have remained unworked on working days by the grantee thereof or by some person...
Stran 196 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free aiid open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Stran 195 - ... the laws of the United States relating to mining claims, and the rights incident thereto shall, from and after the passage of this act, be in full force and effect in said district, under the administration thereof herein provided for, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Secretary of the Interior, approved by the President...
Stran 199 - Creek and river claims shall be 500 feet long measured in the direction of the general course of the stream, and shall extend in width from base to base of the hill or bench on each side, but when the hills or benches are less than 100 feet apart, the claim may be 100 feet in depth.
Stran 203 - Any party of four or less neighboring miners, within three months after entering, may, upon being authorized by the agent, make upon any one of such locations, during the first and second years, but not subsequently, the expenditure otherwise required on each of the locations. An agreement, however, accompanied by a fee of $5, must be filed with the agent. Provided, however, that the expenditure made upon any one location shall not be applicable in any manner or for any purpose to any other location....