Show c t J p pW W I THE LURE URE OE GOLD FORTUNE HUNTERS INVADE TERRA DEL FUEG FUEGO I Th The Most Desolate Spot on onEarth onEarth Earth Taking on H Halcy Halcyon Halcy- Halcy Halcyon lcy- lcy on on Aspe Aspect t of Frisco Fris Fris- co In The fhe world is using more gold and mining more gold than than ever ver before In its its- long history since the glitter of the yellow metal first caught the human human human hu hu- man eye eye As each new gold field has opened up it has hae found the hordes of adventurers ready leady to risk life and comfort to invade its territory and win f if possible the riches which lay hidden away way in the soil Alaska far farto farto to the north was the last Eldorado and now it is Terra del Fuego far to the south for tor it is said laid that this land south bouth of ot the southern end of South America separated only by the Straits of or Magellan is rich in gold Had j. j Ferdinand Magellan after atter whom whom the straits were named ever dreamed when his ships grated on the sh shoals als of the stormy straits that they had bad crunched into sands of gold the great circumnavigator would in all likelihood have gone no further But he knew nothing of the treasure that was under foot and it remained undiscovered red and unsuspected d until found by wretched wandering convicts con con convicts In the early eighties of or the last century After the days as a's of Popper an Anglo- Anglo Austrian who developed much of o the gold land things languished OrganIzed Organized Organized Organ Organ- labor abor ceased ceasel Chaos and th the elements elements elements ele ele- ments resumed their thell reign The count country had bad never comprehended its wealth and resources It merely had nad assumed there was gold all over the surface of the country but too thin to pay Everything lay hidden awaitIng awaiting awaiting await await- ing the man man and the man ev nutal ly appeared sin sinthe ln n t the e person ot Edson W W. a young joung Knicker Knickerbocker bocker graduate from Ann Annapolis polls in 1882 In a visit to Terra Ten a del Fuegos he got a vision of or possibilities and after awaiting his opportunities returned returned returned re re- turned thither The wonders of the new gold di dredging edg edging ing plants in New Zealand had come comeIn comein come In frequent reports leports and with the reports reports leports re- re ports a realization that these thebe same samel l methods s might avail in this bleak south land Following many preliminary prelim prelim- inary borings denouncements and sand claims the he best gold bearing lands were silently secured EverythIng thing of promise was taken in Without tion or suspicion on pioneer government govern overn govern government D ment ent minIng raining grants Sutphen buffered suffered suf suf- little competition and n no no ri ri- valry There is but one dredge as yet in InTerra inTerra Terra del Fuego but another a structural steel monster r the largest of or Its kind ev ever ever r made Is on the way under undercharge under charge and construe lion tion of Sutphen's right hand right man Capt Albert formerly of the navy This dredge has a minimum digging capacity of cubic yards of gravel per hour tour tp a depth of 40 feet fhe The Theold Theold old dredge running steadily night and day in hour eight shifts sluices through cubic yards of gravel per hour to a depth of or 25 feet teet Both machines ma ma machines chines chines are steel throughout Sutphen ran lan his dredge full tull blast all the while white and the news went tr traveling traveling trav trav- v. v eling broadcast to the gold mining fr fraternity throughout the world Word came from prospectors that all ll was velvet velvet gold gold plentiful and n more more re accessible with wood coal and md water handier th than ti elsewhere rc In Ir the mining world the Transvaal Trans and Alaska not excepted Naturally upon the heels of such tidings every ship brought throngs throng of mining experts engineers rs and capitalists and Sandy Sandy- Point resembles resembles resembles re re- now the halcyon d days 1 s of Frisco In 49 Us ts town town Punta town Punta Arenas being a booming place owning water and electric outfits and In telegraphic I touch with the outer world All the gold so far seemed secured iu III Fue Fue- 4 go by much wear weal and erosion shows Jt It t has trav traveled led far from the veins where It first cooled and set When gold goes traveling it is with the rush of of water or Ice and when gold has been traveling for tor ages in such a a. sloping country as Terra del Fuego some of it lingers on the route in nooks and crevices In river bottoms but must most from the hurry of at Ice and and water will Ill be swept along until H Jt comes to rest In a permanent pocket A Gold Gold Bearing Bearing Stream or until met by Iy the dash of or the surf of the sea at the mouth of the river Some of or the Alaskan miners now making New York headquarters until until- Alaska opens in the spring say surface sur sur- surface face race beach gold which pans out 2 50 per day which is 15 the unbroken n record of Fuego since 1880 means something something something some some- thing big below They say moreover x that nowhere on the Alaskan Alaskan coast not nol even at Nome would such sn surface race sand pan out similar sums Cause For Alarm I Maria Marla said Mr 11 what ails this roast Never mind the roast dear said Mrs Its BUlla Billiams s Im moie mor concerned I to know what ails alls you This is the first for 25 years that you haven't been able to tell exactly what ailed the I roast and everything el else so on on the table I Arent Aren't t you jou OU well day to-day John Chi John Chi Chicago I cago Tribune Reason Enough J Why are aie you jou ou late for breakfast r sir asked Bobbys Bobby's father fathe as the the- boy slid quietly into his chair Well ell you see explained Bobby when you jou OU ca called led me I r I Iwas was paving having a might mighty funny dream and I J just t slept a few minutes longer to finish It it- it f. f Puck l r A A Juvenile Juvenil Stoic I You never made made- madea a sound bound when when- your jour father whipped you said one sm small ll boyNo boy No o answered the other Father says it hurts hints him worse than Ilian It Jt does me grid arid if that's so ho he can do his own hollering Washington Washington Star Both Easy Miss Youth Its Youth Its It's the easiest thing In the world to Hatter n man Y Mad Madam Madan Dl Wise Wise Yes Yeb and its it's about J as easy for him to catch on that that's that j Free what youie youre doing too I Press Too Noisy i f First Fish You Fish You look all aU J. 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