He stated that, in addition to the rich pay-dirt we have already spoken
of, there were veins of gold in the rocks underneath, which veins
appeared to grow richer the farther they were probed. In his opinion the
gold deposits of the Yukon region form the mother vein of all the gold
in North America.
Many people are hurrying to the Klondike district from all parts, and
the excitement is intense.
San Francisco has caught the gold fever. It reached the city through
some miners from Klondike, who arrived by steamer, bringing with them
piles of shining gold to prove the truth of their stories.
Not one member of this party went up to Alaska with anything more than
his outfit and a few hundred dollars. All have brought back stores of
riches.
The smallest amount of gold owned by any of these men was valued at five
thousand dollars, while several had as much as fifty thousand dollars'
worth.
The luckiest people in this little band were a Mr. and Mrs. Lippey, who
left New York in April, 1896.
Mrs. Lippey was the first woman to go over the trail to Klondike. She
went because she did not wish her husband to undertake the journey
alone, preferring to share his hardships with him.
They brought back sixty thousand dollars' worth of gold.
Another party has just reached Seattle, Wash., having come direct by
steamer from St. Michaels, Alaska.
In this party there were sixty-eight people, who brought back with them
one and one-half tons of gold.
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