PREFACE. An unknown number of men have decided to seek fortune in the Klondike country. At this moment, thousands of them have their eyes fixed on the gold placer mines in the Yukon district. There exists a widespread, insistent demand for information which will enable the prospective gold-seekers to arrange their gold-seeking plans in detail. That information will be found between the covers of this book. THE CHICAGO RECORD has undertaken to assemble all the facts, figures, and knowledge obtainable about the gold-bearing lands in Alaska and the British Yukon district. It has drawn upon its immense resources to the fullest extent, and has spared neither pains nor money to gather the sorely needed information which thousands of men are demanding. In "Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book for GoldSeekers," every known practical and contemplated route to all the gold fields in the north is fully, comprehensively and minutely described, with maps and tables of distances which are absolutely reliable. Everything which a goldseeker should know that can be placed in type is contained in this book. THE CHICAGO RECORD is particularly well-equipped for gathering this large amount of information. It was the first newspaper in |