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Show ALASKA'S MIGHTY RIVER. Dismiss from your mind and notion that the Yukon river 1b a puny stream fed by central glaciers and trickling away to the sea It is a river, so mighty that It can spread out over the width of sixty miles on the Yukon flats and will have debt'u enough In the main channel to ploat heavily laden freight steamers From its mouth (near St Michael), at the Behrlng sea is navTrable all the wav to White Horse, In the Yukon terri tor of Canada, nn unbroken stretch of over 2100 miles two-thirds of the distance frm New York to San Fran clsco. Add to this the navigable water of its tributaries 370 miles on the Innoko river, 320 on the Idltarou. 620 on the Koyukuk. and .192 on the Tanana and you will begin to hae a fair Idea of whut a big river we u;ne in our great empire beneath the northern light? The valley drained by the wonderful river system of the nonh is the hope of Alaska. The wealth of the past and of today has come from miues and fisheries, and the lilt-time of all mining regions Is briefer eicr than human life It has been only a fen years, you remeiubei, since the Klondike was the most ac-M' ac-M' t mining camp In the world, today It Is a valley long since deserted bv p i the Individual miner and turned over to two big dredging companies, which work the low grade tailings And these als must shortly pass Edgar Allen Forbes, In Leslie s. |