Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-03-12 | Page 6 | Klondike Gold Find

KLOND KLONDIKE IKE GOLD FIND Pelly Riv River the New Eldorado El Eldorado El- El dorado Opened tin in FroZen Frozen Frozen Fro Fro- zen Fields of North TACOMA Wash March 12 Dawson Dawson and towns adjacent are excited over an important gold strike made in February ary aryon on a tributary of the Pelly river between that stream and Yukon forty miles from Fort Selkirk Out miners Iners say dirt running as high as as per pan was taken out When the news reached Dawson the stampede Koyukuk stopped immediately imme Imme- and scores of miners started for Pelly river The discovery was made by Dick Duck Butler an old Yukon prospector who staked stake a discovery claim and then went out to Yukon to spread the news nans Up to March 1st about claims had been staked Prospecting showed that most of them were rich in itt gold from the surface surface surface sur sur- face down