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Show MIGHTY RIVER IS THE YUKON Body of Water, at Places Sixty Miles Wide, Is the Hooe of the Territory Ter-ritory z. laska. Dismiss from your mind any notion that the Y'ukou river Is a puny stream fed by eternal glaciers and trickling away to the i?a. It Is a river, so mighty that it can spread out over a width of 60 mil.s on the Yukon fiats and still have depth enough in the I main channel, to float heavil" laden ! I So-,. HICOPEE FALLS, MASSj Ta) j Thjs gve j freight steamers. From Its mouth (near St. Michael) at the P.ehring sea it is navigable all the way to White Horse, in the Yukon territory of Canada, Can-ada, an unbroken stretch of over 2.100 miles two-thirds of the distance from New Y'ork to San Francisco. Add to this the navigable water of its tributaries tribu-taries 370 miles on the Innoko river,' 320 on the Iditarod, 620 on the Koyu-kuk, Koyu-kuk, and 392 on the Tanana and you will begin to have a fair idea of what a big river we haveT. our trrcat empire, em-pire, oenea 'j the -jr iern lights. &:t ft -u.. "-.is 3.' i S 2 a(lu" - X. h.rr The valley drained by this wonderful wonder-ful river system of the north is tho hope of Alaska. The wealth of the past and of today has come from j mines and fisheries; and the lifetime of all mining regions is briefer even than human life. It has been only a few years, you remembe-, since the Klondike was the most actlvw mining camp In the world; today It is a valley val-ley long since deserted by the individual indi-vidual miner and turned ;ver to two big dredging companies, i.vhich work the low-grade tailings. TVslie'a. i Ji-L i |