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Show The Truth About The Klondike Gold Discovery Gold dust worth $136,000,000 has been taken from tbe creeks ot the Klondike. Although 26 years has clasped since the first discovery, that event Is recalled by the death recently recent-ly ot George W. Carmack, who panae4 h0 first high-grade gravel from Bonanza Bon-anza Creek. The details of, the discovery dis-covery are related by a writer la the Engineriag and Mining Journal-Press of, New York. Carmack was a fisherman, fisher-man, with an Indian squaw, and maintained a small trading-post oa th0 Yukoa 20 miles above the Crossing. Cross-ing. ILj was not th first to And gold la the valleys of the Klondike, for Robert Hendorson proceeded him, but he started the stampede that led to the development of he Yukon territory. terri-tory. At that time Carmack was fishing for salmon at the mouth ef tho Klondike, where It Joins the Yukon Yu-kon and where Dawson bow stands. Two miles up the valley the Kloa-dlke Kloa-dlke Is Joined by Bonanta Creek. Carmack happened to be short of, fresh meat, so he went with three Indians, one ot .them a brother-in-law;, on a hunting expedition. At that tlmo, Bonanza Creek was known as a likely plac0 for moose, therefore ho went thither. He knew that Hendorson Hen-dorson and throe other white mea were mining on Gold Bottom, oa the other side of the watershed, so he crossed the divide with his Indian companions, to see what the others were doing aad to aell them soaw fresh meat that he jvnd th0 Indians had obtained. .; Henderson and his partners were' not getting much gold, and Carmack soon returned to the camp on Bonanza Bonan-za Creek. .Having seen the mtaiaff done by the tour men oa Gold Bot-. torn, he was prompted to do a little prospecting himself; and almost at first try, found gold oa the bedrock projecting above the waters ot Bonanta Bon-anta Creek. |