.w Tl)€ • P)londtl^e A 3ouvnNm Id ^ ill 'A T J' ILLU5TnATIO>:< Qtl (iEO. Ci. CANTWELL, Photographer and Taxidermist DAW^ION, q. T. RUPU3 §UCK, A. E., i'\ember American Institatc fining Engineers For sale at all the principal stationers General Agents B. T. CARR, Seattle THO?VA5 CAWTWELL, Puvjallup, Wasfi. Mail orders promptUj attei V xsi. <^ ,<^" V T rana tr ra Oc 16 1942 Arcessions D uisim T.v. LB«/iRYo(COLMt.vi ^d SKAGUAY AT THE HEAD OF LINN CANAL. ALASKA, THE TERMINUS OF THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE THE SCENIC RAILWAY OF THE WORLD THE SUMMIT, ON THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE — DIRECT ROUTE TO KLONDIKE AND ATLIN GOLD FIELDS- 2885 FEET ELEVATION IN NINETEEN MILES a; MEMORIES OF TUB SPRING OF 1S98 — RUSH TO THE KLONDIKE — HARDSHIPS NOW FORGOTTEN, AS ONE TRAVELS IN THE WHITE PASS COACH — THE CANTELEVER BRIDGE ON THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE — OVER THE PASS IT WAS AN EASY DESCENT TO LAKE BENNETT LOWER YUKON IMOIAK* rnK EARLV PIONEERS CAMPED AT LAKE BENNETT, BUILT THEIR BOATS AND PREPARED TO FLOAT DOWN RIVER TO DAWSON MANY GOT "COLD FEET" AND TURNED BACK; THE STRONG-HEARTED ONES EMBARKED FOR DAWSON MOUhTlhO most HEAD TRIALS WERE NOT OVER — UNFORESEEN STORMS WRECKED MANY ON THE LAKES — MILES CANYON AND WHITE HORSE RAPIDS HAD TO BE RUN DAYI50N 5LEEPS JUhE Z\, 1900 in THE- KLOfiDIKd VALE the: white pass railroad has banished ali, these terrors and now connects with the river steamers AT white horse, 370 MILES FROM DAWSON Oft rue LEWIS RIVER S STEAMER LEAVING WHtTK HORSE RUNS FIFTEEN MILES DOWN THE FIFTY-MILE RIVER TO LAKE LE BARGE WHICH IS SIXTY MILES LONG. LE BARGE IS SURROUNDED BY VERY PICTURESQUE SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS LHAVlNi; rEAMEK Giir^ss CATmorsLT rsTO the thirty-m:ie stter. WATER, THE SCESK OF >IAXT W&ECSS A-NT) DISASTERS rtrrrx AXD DASGESors ; FREEZE UP in OCT 99 1 THE YUKC •• OCT OF THE THIRTY-MILE AJtD DOWS THE LEWIS NIKETY XIL^ THROrCH HELL'S GATE TO FORT SELKIRK. THE COXFLrESCE OF THE LEWIS AND PELLY RIVERS AT FORT SELKIRK FORM THE YTKOS RIVER ik HIKa'S-HTE VUiW Off DA-WSQIir i» MTLEs- sehow Foax SELsras; is the rawir of da-wsobt who^ HistaaT DA.rES skqm. the scmatEH. qf use wiui^ the Ftaisr CiHESS WKHH BtnX.T. Ef THE FAIX. OF tSBT TSE FIKSr OF THE aH^ AS-SIV KU AJSU CQiS LLSUBD THKOCCiS THE SC30IEH. OF t8a& THE TaWX HUS ITAn A SEiaVEIiaCS SHQWTff A3D IS CUSSDEKED GOOD FOR TtASX StORE YEAHS TO COME RD AVB DAWSOn THREE TIMES FIRE HAS DESTROYED THE BUSINESS PORTION OF DAWSON I SUN DOGS— MINIATURE SUNS OF RAINBOW BRILLIANCY DUE TO THE REFRACTION OF THE SUNLIGHT BY THE FROST CRYSTALS IN THE AIR ■DAWSOn- hEW FEOfRftL BUILDIMO THE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN DAWSON THE A. E. CO. DEPARTMENT STORE A SEMI-TROPICAL SrSIMER UTTH XIGHTUSSS DATS K CLOSELT FOU.OWKD BY A SHORT ArTTMS. THKX A LOXG WINTER COLD ASD PARK TSB C^iSr SHEfHESS TU 4SB1VE PANORAMAS OF DAWSON STREET SCENES IN DAWSON THE FIRST CABINS WKRK INIQUE — DISPLAYING THK INVENTIVE GENIUS OF THEIR Bl'II.UERS THE NATIVE MALAMCTE DOG — THE MOST CHEERFUL WORKER AND MOST OBSTINATE INTELLIGENT OR DENSE, BUT ALWAYS CUNNING. CRAFTY AND WISE — STEALING ANYTHING NOT TIED DOWN M '■V ^ . THE COLDEST DAY — 68° BELOW ZERO — JANUARY 18, 19U1 THE NORTHERN LIGHTS IN OCTOBER, 1900 THK TRIP DOWN THE YUKON IS ONE NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN MANY COME OUT OVER THE ICE IN WINTER IN WINTKR THE MOON PLAYS A VERY IMPORTANT PART IN FURNISHING LIGHT — THE MOONLIGHT IS REFLECTED AND INTENSIFIED BY THE WHITE CRYSTAL SNOW TO SUCH AN EXTENT AS TO PERFECTLY ILLUMINATE THE ENTIRE LANDSCAPE ^>^i¥««*^ii^ PHOTOGRAPHS BY MOONLIGHT ARK VERY SDCCESSFLLLV TAKEN UNDER THESE CONDITIONS THE "rUI.I.MAN" OF THE YUKON STAKING A CLAIM IS ONE OF THE ARTS PECILIAR TO THE YIKON ^■5& e*W*0;!((i'CJ3'J*lWJ'^* MANY COMFORTS ARE ENJOYBD IN THE DAWSON HOMES A MINER'S CABIN ^*ae*> MINING ON HIXTER CREKK m ~in | "ilH I H Bflg^ ■«J^(P«-«SS»-.v., , i..>'i<*^-U. PA no RAM A Of DAWS Oft .'901 iimi&mMig--eiMiiatftfjmim^SiSssiKffi^yeskiiSiaimsi^ «i£5l6fe' Jh"^i- WinTER IN DAVYSOn DAWSON FROM ACROSS THE YUKON PLEASURES OF SUMMER THE SOCIETY EVENT OF THE YEAR — ST. ANDREW'S BALL ^:} ■^^ I \ SWIQING rue \ DUMPS ^ ^^^^^ V-.. SLUici/^& on FOX (rULCtf ALL PLACER GOLD IS RECOVERED FROM THE GRAVEL BY SLUICING IN KLONDIKE, PREPARATORY TO SLUICING, THE GRAVEL IS MINED FROM THE CREEK BOTTOMS AND HIGH BENCHES- THE I'EAR AROUND THE GROUND IS FROZEN AND MUST BE THAWED . v= s • .laf?^ "^ ^ tI THAWING WITH FIRES WAS THE FIRST METHOD USED STEAM HAS BEEN ADAPTED TO MINING AND NOW IS ALMOST IN UNIVERSAL USE, BEING MORE ECONOMICAL THE GOLD RUNS IN STKKAKS THROVGH THE CREKK AND THE SUCCESSFUL MINER FOLLOWS THE "PAY-STREAK." V - » '15 r( *5 THIS INDERGROUND MINING IS CALLED "DRIFTING' THB OI,D yjiRSUS THE NEW METHOD -- WITH AND WITHOUT MACHINERY ^>. lFtEM<|rHA!r'-^^v- v; MINING ON THE HIOH BENCH, WHICH IS A REMNANT OF THE PRE-GLACIAL VALLEY — ELDORADO AND BONANZA CREEKS REPRESENT POST GLACIAL GORGES R0CK,iriC7 (, 4^ iimMk '.^** tt ROCKING" — A MKTHOD OF WASHING GOLD WHERE WATER IS SCARCE THE GOtD PAN IS SYMBOLICAL WITH PLACER MINING AND IS INDISPENSABLE IN TESTING THE VALUE OF GRAVEL IN THIS COUNTRY WHKRE DOGS ARE HORSES AND "DRIED FISH" HAY, MAN AND HIS CANINE KRIKND ARE INSEPARABLE — THE DOGS WORK IN THE HARNESS IN WINTER AND PACK ON THEIR BACKS IN Sl'MMER ONE WHO ENJOYS THE COLD ONE WHO LOVES THE GETTING OI' GOLD WH E.BLll^O IliTO DAVVSOM \jm'\ fi^'l rtARD TIMES r^ no PAY .>( "NO PAY" — SUCH WAS THK I.fCK OF MANY, THE FEW WERE FORTt'NATE ARRIVIfiO- FROM Sr MICHBALS "ABANDONED, AFTER MONTHS OF LABOR, SLIDING OUR OUTFIT ON THE TESLIN TRAIL" MODES OF TRAVEL ARE NOT THE EASIEST IN A NEW COUNTRY THE INDIANS TRADE THEIR GOOD FURS FOR INFERIOR GAY CALICOES AND PREFER CANNED GOODS TO THEIR GAME & WITH OOGS r SfLKm THE INDIAN GRAVES RESEMBLE MINIATURE VILLAGES START I HG FOR HOME 1600 MILtS OYER THf let ^ssmiFsmaiM^^mr'&^:'^s^*''^ THE ROAD HOUSES SCATTERED ALL OVER THE YUKON DO AWAY WITH MANY HARDSHIPS THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE PRESERVE PERFECT ORDER NEW DISCOVERIES IN NOME ATTRACTED MANY FROM DAWSON IN WINTER QUARTERS THE MAMOUTH (ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIOUS ) FOUND IN THE RECENT GRAVELS o z z o IN A MOOSE COUNTRY IN THE FOOT-HILt.S OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS It; AND 17 ELDORADO r^ — ■ — *. A." _j 4t, 45 AND 4'i, HKI.OW DISCOVERY. ON BONANZA CREEK SNAPSHOT OF A FLOCK OF PTARMIGANS ^ - ,M^ -i^sxlr'" • r "^.^ ■"^T^-^^t' ■'- SOMETHINC. TO EAT AND A PI.ACK TO SLEEP A CARIBOO HUNT ROTARY PLOW ON THE MfiJTE PASS BR THE ROTARY SNOW PLOW ON THE SUMMIT OF THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE INDIANS FROM THE McKENZIE RIVER — THROUGHOUT THE YUKON THERE ARE MANY TRIBES OF INDIANS THE INDIANS LIVE IN VILLAGES IN WINTER AND SPEND THEIR TIME HUNTING AND FISHING, OFTEN GOING A HUNDRED MILES AWAY TO HUNT IN LOOKS THE YOKON INDIANS RESEMBLE THE ASIATICS — THEIR LANGUAGE IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THK VCKON VALLHV CAN GKUW 1 INK GARDEN STLhK HALF TONES BY BOLTON & STRONG SAN FRANCISCO PRESS OF S. CROCKER COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO ^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 017 185 244 4 • '^' : ■ 'K ^ViA' --'^ ■■■■ 'K-./i-^: ^ri'^W' •x ^'^mM . ■■ ■ » . <..-. '^'' •<