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Show GOLD'S SIREN LURE FOR MEN Hardship and Death Dared by Thousands Thou-sands That They May Gain Riches Quickly. It was in 189S that the rush of gold seekers to the Klondike reached its flood. The ninety -eighters probably never will know the fame of the forty-niners, forty-niners, but they have a place In the long history of the gold hunters, the men of all nations, ancient, medieval and modern. The book has a hundred chapters telling of failure and of death to every one lightened with the story of success. H. M. Cadell recently visited the Klondike and there made a study of present conditions. He describes thera and adds an. interesting account of the early day rush to the Northwest territory. terri-tory. The Smithsonian institution has put Mr. Cadell's report into print. It is an interesting document. Some of ihe happenings In the Klondike were duplicates of like happenings in California Cali-fornia and Australia during the first years of the surface washing in those fields. These duplications show that human nature is unchanging. Men went to the Klondike daring hardship and death that they might get rich quick. Some of the gold seekers were quickly successful. A large percentage of the successful ones almost literally threw their money mon-ey away. Easy come, easy go. This sort of thing has marked gold mining min-ing in all ages. The Klondike is not what it was, but human nature stays the same. The discovery of gold at the North pole would start a northern north-ern migration that would take no account ac-count of the insuperable obstacles of distance and cold. The lure is irresistible. irre-sistible. Chicago Post. |
