Show STREETS OF GOLD Returned Prospectors Tell of Dawson City Alaska as It la Today The streets of Duwson arc paved with Cold Two prospectors who have mat returned from time frozen north confirm Die I dinpiUchos which have been sent out from Alaskas miuilcliml gem and way that lie streets of that far northern metropolis are earpotrd with yellow lust Tho mtn arc John Jjlsclow tumid II AVool ivcr Hlpjelow Is a Denver man nnd hits bonn In the north for several yearn Wool aver has been In Alaska for clsht years hunting time precious niuliil amid ho nnyu that Ills coming bark to civilization Is l like time entrance into a strange land Thu fovurtah linpntlencc has left I < Dow yon paid Woolaver at the Cullcn hotel > catcrday Money Is plenty there litiHl ncss Is Rood and prlccu are naonabh > Except for time extremely cold weather you would scarcely know It from any pushing Western town People havo given up the dreams and excitement and settled down to business It la of course easier to set In and out of the country than formerly for-merly and we arc In closer touch with tim outsIde world When I first vent there you were locked up In a fjreat now vault thai t hail the I sky for a celling a nil time mountains for n wall It was difficult to grr In and dangerous to gt i out Gold Plenty of It New strikes arc itill being made In unexpected places but there hati been no discovery of another Klondike In my opinion there never will bo Before 1 left Intense excitement won created by the discovery that the principal street of Dawion rests upon ono of the richest placer deposits of the country A hole was being dug In front of one of the principal business houses of the city and the prospector was panning out largo pay flirt 1L has alno been discovered that the streets nro fairly lined with gold thai will pay to work The alreolH were filled In with the washings of some of the mines and then too the spring frcshcta hiring down dirt that carries gold In some place time reels have been found to be very rich and this dirt Is being taken up tn 1m replaced by other earth while the Street dirt will be wnshud In the spiiii when It JH not so hard to get water Oi courn < In the curly days they were not so particular They took out the coarsest dust and let the rest go Then other pan ins came with better machinery and I no talllngH wore gout over again Now they are again nUrscling tho t atton llon of companies who have still hotter apparatus for getting out the gold Some of tie tailings wen used for lining the streets and this dirt Is goln to be worked over again by the new companIes as fast as they can get permission There is acnrnly a foot of ground in that part of Alaska that does not carry gold Some dirt does not nov to work but tho gold Is there nevertheless There are people there that are not making money There arc wople there who are not finding gold There arc endless op portunities there Just as there are In every new country But there are men there too who are freezing hoping and starving because their pride or determination determina-tion will not let them return to the Stalls They have loved ones who are walilng for them but they will slave and freeze and starve hoping against hope for tomorrow to bring the good fortune they have been digging so long and patiently pa-tiently for They are gettIng old these men Gray ia coming Into their hair Work and exposure Is tolling on them but they are sure tomorrow will conic They know It and tomorrow comes to these men in sonic shape or other For most of them It is the longsought pocket But when it Is covered up again we put up a rough wooden headstone head-stone al one end This is life In the Klon dike |