Show NAVIGATION WILL YIL OPEN THIS TillS WEEK ow ON ALASKAN RIVERS Everything Ra Re Ready ei d dy for Big Stampede Stamp de to New Idi Idi- Fi Fields FAIRBANKS Alaska May 10 The 10 Tho Thoice ice on the Chena river rl began n to break breakup up In front of Fairbanks y yesterday and before tho end of the week navigation will begin on the Tanana and the lower Yukon The Tho first boats ore scheduled to leave Fairbanks Thursday and with their departure de do- will begin the big stampede to the gold fi fields discovered late last fall Two thousand prospectors have ha already alread made arrangements to go godown godown godown down the river to the tho country and before the season Beason is well started stalled It ItIs ItIs Itis Is expected that t tills thus number will bo be largely Increased Tho The water ater front of or Fairbanks resembles rosom- rosom bieR bles a a. vast shipyard Fourteen Fourte n largo large steamers and hundreds of small craft are tied up at tho the wharves ready to sail Machinery for u use UBO e In the tho new gold fields has been I piling up on the tho docks all printer winter win win- ter and now forty big big- minim plants are f ready ady for Cor shipment With the tho openIng opening open- open Ing of or navigation at hand the excitement over o the gold discoveries along the thc arod Is Js becoming more Intense and the labor situation In Fairbanks and the ad adjoining adjoining ad- ad joining camps Is serious |