ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE. 



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nanza, now a famed gold creek of the world, are located hardly twelve 

 miles distant, and the wealth of the Eldorado is discharged within a 

 radius of less than twenty miles. Over the mountains that closely 

 limit the head springs of Bonanza and Eldorado, Hunker, Dominion, 





and Sulphur Creeks thread their own valleys of gold in deep hollows 

 of beautiful woodland fascinating even to-day, but already badly 

 scarred by the work that man has so assiduously pressed in the region. 

 This is the Klondike, a land full of promise and of equal disappoint- 

 ment, brought to public notice in the early part of 1897, when 

 intelligence was received by the outside world regarding the first 



