Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-18 | Page 6 | Stampede in Yukon

Prospectors Rushing to Sixty-Mile Creek in Cold Weather Dawson, Y T., Jan. IS With tho temperature 60 below zero the stampede stam-pede to the now gold diggings at Sixty-Mile continues Prospectors are getting to work, thp low temperature being to their adva'ntngo as the wot ground Is frozen down to bedrock, making it easier to sink shafts. Tho gold commission has changed tho name of tho main south fork of Sixty-Mile river, on which the discovery dis-covery wns mado, to Matson creek, after John Matson, the discoverer, who first prospected tho ground 11 years ago. oo