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Title: A trip to Alaska and the Klondike in the summer of 1905
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Keeler, N. E
Subjects: Alaska -- Description and travel Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ebbert
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nation of engines and boilers,steam scoops, shovels, baskets on trolley wires,flumes, sluice-boxes and all the paraphernalia forextracting the gold dust from the earth. There isCheechaca Hill opposite, and French Hill in thedistance. All the ground in sight has produced gold,and a spirit of covetousness stole over me involun-tarily, as I gazed at so much wealth almost withinmy grasp, and for a moment I understood the feel-ings of the miner and longed to get down and dig;to try my fortune with the pick, shovel and pan. In the first excitement there was great lack ofcare, and now the dirt here, including the tailings,is being worked over and good pay is obtained. Some miners I noticed on Gold Hill were arrang-ing for hydraulic work when a fellow miner strolledby dressed in his Sunday clothes and much the worsefor liquor. They asked him why he was not work-ing. His reply was characteristic. Pulling ahandful of greenbacks from his pocket he said, Imnot going to work as long as this lasts.
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Scene on the White Pass and Yukon R. R. A Trip to Alaska and the Klondike. 53 The mines are numbered according to their con-secutive order, up or down the creek, counting fromDiscovery Mine, as No. 6 above, or No. 20 below. No one can remain long at The Forks with-out hearing of Miss Mulrooney, a prominent andinteresting character of 98, who seems to have lefta lasting impression on all who knew her. Shecame from Scranton, Pennsylvania, bringing withher a thorough knowledge of cooking and house-keeping. This secured her the position of steward-ess on board a steamer from Seattle, by which meansshe reached Alaska, and finally landed on EldoradoCreek. People there seem never to tire of tellingof her wonderful enterprise. She kept a boardinghouse, worked a mining claim with a force of menunder her direction, became rich and finally wentthe way of all good Americans — to Paris, bymeans of a French count named Cabinair. Thegentleman was evidenty in reduced circumstanceswhen she met him,

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