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So time galloped along, and the great Klon- 

 dike discovery set the northwestern country 

 wild, and we were sort of swept into the whirl- 

 wind of a gold-mining excitement. We gave 

 up our jobs and started for the Eldorado. 



*'We 'mushed' it from Skagway to the foot 

 of the Chilkoot Pass and packed our stuff over 

 the divide. Then we mushed it over moun- 

 tains and down canyons until we reached 

 White Horse, and oh, what a trip it was to be 

 sure! Then we got a boat to take us down 

 the Yukon River to the Klondike — the scene 

 of the great rush. We got employment at 

 once, and made money right along by doing 

 anything that we could find to do that would 

 pay us good wages. We prospered beyond 

 our expectations. When the excitement be- 

 gan to subside, we bought up a number of 

 horses at bargain prices. We took up some 

 gold mining claims on Canyon Creek near 

 Kluana Lake. These we work in the spring, 

 summer, and winter, and hire ourselves out in 

 the fall to hunting parties — Louie as a wran- 

 gler or caretaker of horses, and I as a cook; 

 at the same time we rent our horses out in the 

 fall to do the pack work. So we are prosper- 

 ing finely." 



So runs the story of the immigrant. Such 



