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Show As if the field iu the "states" was not a fruitful ono tho professional boomer it taking in Alaska just now. It is said that they have richer gold mines there than in California, and the number of opportunities of getting a fortune there without nn effort Is unlimited. un-limited. The latest story, according to a group of western business men who have been associated with several big movements which it another name for booms is that a patch of Forty Mile creek it filled with splendid deposits of precious metal. Gold is found there in bars. It is washed down with thu laud-slides laud-slides from tho mountains. A party of Swedes who went prospecting in the creek two years ago cut out large sections of the ice, and exposed to view a lot of gold frozen solid in the bottom of the stream. Neither pick nor axe could make any impression. They had to build a lire of logs and kept it burning for days until they had thawed the ground and got some of tho quartz. But the cold was so intense and the obstructions so great that they finally gavo up their search and came home. If the climate of Alaska could be changed the work of the boomers would be considerably simplified. |