Show THE KLONDIKE S ranch is being told of the fabulous fortunes to be made on the yukon and fc tuch an organized is being put forth id certain quarters to boom the land of gold that the following from the anaconda standard ie worthy of wide circulation and should care fully read by those who are ing a trip into the arctic regions the is the standard says in large proportion the men who made up ahe klondike stampede were adventurers from of the country where little ie known about prospecting i it waa baeier to start alaskan excite c ment in philadelphia than in bulte or in boston than in denver the throughout the mining ejection pre dieted that who shared in lad headlong rush would starve to death before spring junices they became the of public clarity cb arity the alternative bae forced it belf Oon greag bae felt compelled to vote appropriation which necee canet be epen in an extravagant way in order to ret cooj to bose wio inconsiderately went north the boom loe ol 01 alaska ia kept up in spite of the nn toward experience of recent month the cry now ie that the springtime ia bs abt season and all that binate advertising can do is being done in order to tempt the largest possible num IE ler of men to embark in the yukon meanwhile nothing napp eneil to give the semblance of truth to the wild edories beet in circulation thie year ns to the new re giona resources it ii ae true today as it was laet summer that the vast of men who permit abie mining to lure them make a mistake and one for which in moat there wll be no adequate atoning the most trustworthy reports that can be obtained make it catain that the yield of gold for the klondike region during 1897 lid not exceed two million dollars colorado does ten times better than eliat gold output io many times greater yet the spirit of adventure od venture is euch that ool teti men will bead for the distant alaska diggings with as much eo ae if a reasonable portion ot what ie told about the country were the truth men will leave be klondike alone the bubble 1 the bg et one ever blown in all the history of i lid venture A W afi |