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Show GOLD MINING IN ALASKA FOURTEEN YEARS AGO AND NOW. r " i .,wr-ry.-".v(--'"1' Picture at top shows the old wind-laFd wind-laFd which George Carrqack hoisted Us first riches 'out of the bed iock. Itolov is shown one of the Guggenheim Guggen-heim dred.e working on the same claim today. ' Sitka, Alaska, Arril 10. No 'part of the world has shown atlch marked pi'o-fres3 pi'o-fres3 as has the Alar.san country and Its tuicceiis lias been' lnrcly due to the discovery of gold nlug the Yu-Itcn Yu-Itcn by George Canyack 11 years ago. At that time I here verc only ji few j V'Lilcf, some irdla-is and the Enow - j aapped mountains nlong the Yukon. Today it is a thriving land with many hurtling cities. While the whole country shows gr'ai progress durini; the last decade roihing shows mi marked a change as the method of mining gold under Hie Guggenheim?. When George Car-ir-uek first panned his gold his system v.a-j crude Indeed Ry means of a windlass buckets were lowered into the ground and filled with gravel and IlIct washed out by hand. Now the Giig'genheim dredges scoop out the earth a wagon load at a time and by MP211S of machinery this is panned out so that one man can wash more gravel today in an hour than Geoige Car-i!:-.ck could have done in a month. |