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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1897
Page
15
In a barter economy, houses are inexpensive and baths at a shop cost $1. Payments use gold dust weighed on scales, with the standard set as 17 dollars per ounce. Merchants weigh the buyer’s sack over the counter to determine value.
The account outlines routes from San Francisco to Dawson by way of Juneau, the Chilkat Pass, Lake Lindeman, and Lake Bennett, detailing creeks, tributaries, and multiple named lakes and rivers. It notes scarce heading capacity, dangers in summer and winter, and the likelihood of 6,000 men already in Dawson with 3,000 boat capacity for supplies.
An eyewitness recalls August 1896 discoveries by Robert Henderson at Gold Bottom creek near Dawson. He details panned amounts from various claims, notes the heavy and light gold float, and mentions steamship reports and the wide range of claimed sums. He asserts not all reports are exaggerated, cites specific figures and involved individuals, and confirms substantial hand-mined gold from the Klondike district.
The Yukon and Klondike districts are rich in wildlife including mice, martens, foxes, lynx, otter, beaver, mink, muskrat, bears, Siberian deer, geese and ducks. Moose are scarce, caribou plentiful, and salmon, grayling, whitefish, lake trout and ling are fished, with winter ice fishing for whitefish and pike. Timber includes spruce, cottonwood, and birch. abundant wildflowers and roses bloom in spring.
The note describes herbs like tansy and juniper and berries as abundant, with little outlook for local manufacturing. It mentions a distant Tacoma smelter two thousand miles away and envisions a Drawson smelter for silver and copper ores. Copper chunks weigh eight pounds, silver is plentiful but low grade. cinnabar, galena, and rock forms like limestonite, eliata, and granite are noted.
Describes early gold mining methods in frozen ground. Digging to bedrock 5 to 20 feet deep then locating pay streaks, drifting, thawing, and hoisting dirt with windlass. Fire thaws gravel, then sluicing recovers gold and concentrates in black sand near bedrock. pay streaks vary eight feet wide.
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