Klondike and the Yukon Country: A Description of Our Alaskan Land of Gold from the Latest Official and Scientific Sources and Personal ObservationH. Altemus, 1897 - 213 páginas |
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... cheering of the crowds on the two boats lying there with its hoarse whistle . The Portland and Excelsior , drawing in excess of nineteen feet of water , were obliged to lie out a mile or more from shore , but the Weare 14 KLONDIKE .
... cheering of the crowds on the two boats lying there with its hoarse whistle . The Portland and Excelsior , drawing in excess of nineteen feet of water , were obliged to lie out a mile or more from shore , but the Weare 14 KLONDIKE .
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... feet , was enabled to steam up the shallow harbor and touch the dock . As she steamed near , friends who had not met in months or years greeted one another from deck to deck , and wives and chil- Idren who had come to meet fathers and ...
... feet , was enabled to steam up the shallow harbor and touch the dock . As she steamed near , friends who had not met in months or years greeted one another from deck to deck , and wives and chil- Idren who had come to meet fathers and ...
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... feet of creek and reaching up indefi- nitely on both sides of the gulch . The creek is distant about sixty miles from Forty - mile Post , at the junction of Forty - mile Creek with the Yu- kon , and it is surrounded at short distances ...
... feet of creek and reaching up indefi- nitely on both sides of the gulch . The creek is distant about sixty miles from Forty - mile Post , at the junction of Forty - mile Creek with the Yu- kon , and it is surrounded at short distances ...
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... feet in the low bars by the creek they found dirt that carried a dollar to the pound in coarse , ragged bits of gold . Others have since found diggings ten - fold richer . As remote as their discovery was they were not long to remain in ...
... feet in the low bars by the creek they found dirt that carried a dollar to the pound in coarse , ragged bits of gold . Others have since found diggings ten - fold richer . As remote as their discovery was they were not long to remain in ...
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... feet 1.00 2.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 ..150.00 When the miners left Dawson City the follow- ing prices were in vogue : Flour , per 100 lbs . Moose ham , per lb. Caribou meat , per 1b . Beans , per lb. Rice , per lb. Sugar , per lb ...
... feet 1.00 2.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 ..150.00 When the miners left Dawson City the follow- ing prices were in vogue : Flour , per 100 lbs . Moose ham , per lb. Caribou meat , per 1b . Beans , per lb. Rice , per lb. Sugar , per lb ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALTEMUS American Arctic banks belt Birch Creek boats boundary camp Canadian cents Chilkat Chilkoot Inlet Chilkoot Pass Circle City claims Cloth coast Dawson City degrees below zero deposits diggings discovery distance district Dyea engravings exploration farther feet Fort Selkirk Fort Yukon Forty Mile Creek Forty-Mile Creek glaciers gold dust gold fields gold-bearing head hundred miles hydraulic mining illustrations inches Indians Inlet interior Island John journey Juneau Klondike River Lake Bennett land Lynn Canal Michael miners months mountains mouth Nathaniel Hawthorne natives nozzle party placer mining pounds prospectors quartz quartz mining Ralph Waldo Emerson rich rocks route Russian salmon season Seattle side Sitka Sixty Mile Creek skins snow southeastern Alaska steamer stream summer Survey Tagish temperature territory tion trade traveler United Upper Yukon veins wash winter Yukon region Yukon River
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Página 179 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Página 179 - ... point the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the...
Página 196 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Página 179 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Página 200 - A claim shall be deemed to be abandoned and open to occupation and entry by any person when the same shall have remained unworked on working days by the grantee thereof or by some person...
Página 196 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free aiid open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Página 195 - ... the laws of the United States relating to mining claims, and the rights incident thereto shall, from and after the passage of this act, be in full force and effect in said district, under the administration thereof herein provided for, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Secretary of the Interior, approved by the President...
Página 199 - Creek and river claims shall be 500 feet long measured in the direction of the general course of the stream, and shall extend in width from base to base of the hill or bench on each side, but when the hills or benches are less than 100 feet apart, the claim may be 100 feet in depth.
Página 203 - Any party of four or less neighboring miners, within three months after entering, may, upon being authorized by the agent, make upon any one of such locations, during the first and second years, but not subsequently, the expenditure otherwise required on each of the locations. An agreement, however, accompanied by a fee of $5, must be filed with the agent. Provided, however, that the expenditure made upon any one location shall not be applicable in any manner or for any purpose to any other location....