| Show NEW ROUTE TO THE KLONDYKE three hundred miles from the coast to the mines would start inland from copper river east of prince williams sound islands along line coast said to be rich in ground new york 3 A to the herald from there is a short and easy route to the rich gold fields of the klondyke according to a communication to the interior department from J M 0 lewie a civil engineer who baya he can open up at once a route from the mouth ct copper river by which the klondyke may be reached by a bourney of not much more than miles from the coast the route he proposes will start inland from the mouth of the copper river near the 20 mile glacier bome miles baet of the entrance to prince william bound he says the copper river is navigable tor small steamers or many alice beyond the oi its principal eastern tributary called on the latest maps the Chit lyna river which ie itself navigable for considerable distance from the head of navigation on mr lewis pays either a highway or a railroad could be constructed without great difficulty of heavy grades through what the natives call the low pass probably the pass from this pass the road would follow the valley of the white river to ahe point where it empties into the yukon on of the klondyke gold fields geo F beeker in an unpublished report of ins investigation in 1894 says that moat of the islands of the alexander archipelago contain gold deposits yet unworked that would probably repay very bandeo mely directed of placer mining there are deposits in the neighborhood of sitka and generally on baronoff Bar oneff and admiralty Admi rally islands and the beaches of the adjacent mainland another fairly promising region on the kanal peninsula on the southeast shore ot cook eniet and at yakutat bay and the of kadia islands these region have not been explored only to a limited degier owing to the unfavorable precipitation of the coast |
