A COMPLETE ACCOUNT TO DATE OF THE YUKON VALLEY ITS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, MINERAL AND OTHER MEANS OF ACCESS BY ERNEST INGERSOLL, (Formerly with the Hayden Survey in the West) AUTHOR OF "KNOCKING 'ROUND THE ROCKIES" "THE CREST OF THE CONTINENT," CHICAGO AND NEW YORK: 1897. Bullion Safe Gold CAPITAL...$1,000,000 Shares...$1.00 each Non-Assessable Mines on the Yukon. Mines on the Blue River. This Company owns 160 acres of Gold-bearing gravel from five to forty feet thick containing many millions of value. A limited amount of the full paid, non-assessable shares will be sold at one dollar each. For prospectus and particulars, address, W. L. BOYD & CO., 6 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. Copyright, 1897, by Rand, McNally & Co. To make "a book about the Klondike" so shortly after that word first burst upon the ears of a surprised world, would be the height of literary impudence, considering how remote and incommunicado that region is, were it not that the public is intensely curious to know whatever can be said authentically in regard to it. "The Klondike," it must be remembered, is, in reality, a very limited district-only one small river valley in a gold-bearing territory twice as large as New England; and it came into prominence so recently that there is really little to tell in respect to it because nothing has had time to happen and be communicated to the outside world. But in its neighborhood, and far north and south of it, are other auriferous rivers, creeks and bars, and mountains filled with untried quartz-ledges, in respect to which information has been accumulating for some years, and where at any moment "strikes" may be made that shall equal or eclipse the wealth of the Klondike placers. It is possible, then, to give here much valuable information in The regard to the Yukon District generally, and this the writer has attempted to do. The best authority for early exploration and geography is the monumental work of Capt. W. H. Dall, "Alaska and its Resources," whose companion, Frederick Whymper, also wrote a narrative of their adventures. reports of the United States Coast Survey in that region, of the exploration of the Upper Yukon by Schwatka and Hayes of the United States Geological Survey, of Nelson, Turner and others attached to the Weather Service, of the Governors of the Territory, of Raymond, Abercrombie, Allen and other army and navy officers who have explored the coast country and reported to various departments of the government, and of several individual explorers, especially the late E. J. Glave, also contain facts of importance for the present compilation. The most satisfactory sources of information as to the geogray, routes of travel, geology and mineralogy and mining development, are contained in the investigations conducted some ten years ago by the Canadian Geological Survey, under the leadership of Dr. G. M. Dawson and of William Ogilvie. Of these I have made free use, and wish to make an equally free acknowledgment. It will thus be found that the contents of this pamphlet justified even the hasty publication which |