Show 1 r r r r rr r r r r rr rr IC m FROM < < c I THE LA itor I ITxiXGGOLt 3 SSSa s s S Sltka Alaska Letter I fire Hidden I finding I ot gold In a tilth irto unsuiperteil country has made I millionaire out of poor men In a minute from poverty they came Into affluence The United Slate will have more niuliimllllonalrei than evermore ever-more plulorrnu and more sudden rich Canada has not struck II so rich for the successful prospectors have almost without exception len United States cltltens and residents of the states In the audden making of millionaires mil-lionaires Ills I dlfllcult lo tell who has struck It richest accounts are so widely wide-ly divergent Hut all agree that no accounts ac-counts hue exaggerated the facts so far aa the finding of great iiuantltle ot gold la concerned The richest man among the new Alaska millionaires Is I Joseph tadiie the owner of Ihe town of Dawiwn and the finder of enormous gold deposits Iadun Is I a resident of rtehuyler Falls Clinton county N Y where Ills I Mid he la I soon to bo married mar-ried lo an old sweetheart whom ho could not lefure l afford to wed When the gold fever broke nut In a mild form two years ego he went to Alaska after a failure In the Hlaek Hills and found enough in tell him of greater things later la-ter on He returned to ids home but later went bark to Alaska took up n claim In the very heart of tho country paid for n certain qmnllly of land which was then for sate at a very low figure and marled In 10 look for gold His first find brought settlers there by the dozen Daw son lute place 1 was railed and aa the owner sold off small portlona of the land hla fame grow and spread lie now owns Dawson having old but little and la I so many times a millionaire that his wealth cannot be estimated lie Is I the llarnato ot Alaska Alas-ka tho man who struck It rich and 1 knowing a good thing when he saw It held on to It It It I only another lalo of I Mouth African luck but much nearer home enviously near Tho rush to tho Alaska gold fields li I inch that all outgoing out-going steamers are filled far In advance ad-vance These steamers run intermittently Intermit-tently after the cold heather sets In and there are long Intervals when fow Alaska voyages ran bo made This accounts ac-counts for tune awful haste to reach there before thn Inland waters become innavigable Thero la also an overland over-land route but this also becomes Impracticable Im-practicable after awhile owing to the lack of traveling accommodations and the long distances that must be gono over without finding n habitation Alaska haa never been settled owing ow-ing to the great cold them but ills I thought that It might In time lie made aa livable aa any of the other cold cities cit-ies I and Indeed as St Petersburg or Chrlitlanla or any of the largo North ofKuropo clllea Hut thla la quite a step ahead though not at all Improbable Im-probable At present If you want to get 10 Alaska and become a llarnstr > there are two ways of going One la by sea I and the other la overland If you take the sea route you can start by steamship steam-ship from Seattle If you have been fortunate for-tunate enoughto SMuroMaceuminoda II Uon V Mi fl raferolnic1thetliiirot Alaska touch first at Unalaska passing through the Aleutian Islands from there tho route lies directly north getting get-ting colder and colder every minute Here you will need all the arctic wraps you havo brought with you Tho ships faro will bo warm nourishing food cereals chocolate meals and apices Hut for all that you will need fur overcoats over-coats fur hoods blanket wraps woolen mittens and big warm furlined bags In which to sleep Ior one going from a very warm city Into this region the change la ao great nod ao sudden that there la aura to bo great suffering and many of tho would bo llarnatoa turn back here Tha crow on tho other I hand enjoy It being accustomed to a polar latitude for you are now approaching ap-proaching the pole In spring the weather would bo getting dally warmer warm-er aa the season advanced < but now you would find It steadily growing more biting The ateamihlp atopi at Ut Michaela and here within sight of I Retiring sea almost within hulling sits tunes of tho llohrlng alralt you leave thin steamship and start Inland to search for gold Tin llarnatoa have nearly all followed the Yukon It leads Into Klondike and one of Ita tributaries tribu-taries li I Ihe Klondyke river Dawson Joseph Ihlll l llarnaloa town lion the Yukon and Circle City another rich pot lies on Ita bunks lad la I for Mle here very cheap Or you ran do as many prospectors have done alart In hunting for gold without making too many Inquiries The find In I ao audden that there la no harp linn drawn between that which la I told and thai which belong to the United Slate and a man II free to hunt where lie will Tor your own comfort however It la well to have some definite arrangement made with the nearest oulhorlllea so ai to avoid trouble In can of n rich find Another An-other way to reach the gold Heidi la I by the overland route Many Journey limbs way In wagons as they went to IMkea Peak or buat years ago Then I The-n ute begins at Gentile and fiillowa the const north mat HltkR pest Juneau and through the Chllcoe IM And MI north through the gold fields tn Dawson The finds here are rich and when Klondyke la I reached on the oilier aide of haw nn n man toils himself In the very middle of the t gold country Tin dMlanr to be traveled la great and the Journey la I a lung lard one but notwlth landing this Ihouianda are ctnic Ing Alatknward It coat Iddiio nothing to become a I a t 4 I J AIAHKA I COMMiilCIAI < cos IIIIADQfAHTlIItH ST MICII AILS DAY Ion limN tho aum required a year ago fur traveling through the settlements of Alaska One of tho party ahould be a practical chemist or undcratand hue compiling of driigr nnd ono should lie I able tn new A woman la of the in moat aaaliitancp but row of the MX have ventured out In tho baggage which the four carry should bo pieces of tanned 1 skins hoe leather flannel and wool everything for repairing the i Alaskan wearing apparel Ono of the number should bo able to conk and the fourth should underitand the art of putting lip a quick shelter All I ahculd l be willing and ready to hare and chare alike In hardtlilp One of f r t moo l l I l JOSIUII LADUIJ Tho told KIng of Alaakda llarnato Hut those who want to follow fol-low In his footttepa will need something some-thing like 11000 In money The country la more thickly populated now and prices have guns up whereas they used to bo next to nothing At Clrclo City sou mint now pay Ito torn tor-n fur coat when you used to get one for IS And flour sugar and spices the absolute necesslllcshavo ndvancetl 1 CO per cent The luxuries tea coffee cof-fee eggs and butter uro bringing fancy prlcea ao that a man now needs = t f I f4 i T11AD1NO STATION ON TUB YUKON i n t I r t J the hardest things tho prospector hat to endure la I the sight of tho sacks ol gold dust that are being shipped from every seaport and the tons of ore that are being sent down from 81 Mlcbaeli and south from Juneau In one day there came advices from St Michaels that 1400000 worth of gold dull would bo shipped by the WelliKsrgo south and that J7C8000 In dust was awaiting transportation In one day limas cams down on the Puget Sound iteamahlp 100000 In Alaskan gold Thero la I aa usual a howl about the exaggeration In values hereabouts lint the facts are aa stated and greater great-er It was nn when gold was found In thus Vest Kocklcs and In California There really was gold and plenty of It and ao In Alaska There li a chance for twenty llarnatoi but of course among MOOOthe present number of applicants that IIMO poI pnv po-I > at the itramihlp and overland office there must bo rainy dliap pointed ones Even i without making a Harnarj for tune A man may do well here for here Is I a fine chance for Yankee Ingenuity In-genuity and the building up of line American cities In the very far north LOUIS T STOKKS |