BEATS THE KLONDIKE
Copper Rirer Country Abound in
Gold and Other Riches.
Its G4 Oiwaaa Baataa Hlik( mt la
at ta Pavtae u Haas All
Way l ! Its r-Tfc
MIBkr llrtia WukM th
f riv Utsraatla UBlAVBaarlaa
MbbbbIbb, Bad Vtr PrBe
tra Say l Masks Cbb4bIb MT
MIIIIbbb of IWUn Ib Daat Bad
K If la tk Ualdaa Oat mi
tk Urrat Krtkwat.
Whil nlns mn out of every tn In
the United State, Canada and Great
Britain are txooming more and more
esclted over the bl( gold strikes In the
Klondike region. and thousands of per
sona are vainly trying to cross the dlf
ncult Ohllkoot Tana and the still mora
danprrous tralla from Pyea and Bka
truay. In the hope of reaching Ba-soo
City N-fore the Winter, a few hundredt
of pioneer, ignoring the ruth, are
quietly laying up for themielve treas
ure In a land far rtoher than the Vp
per Yukon country and Incomparably
easier of approach. The masses may
peril their live. If thfy like. In the ter
rIMc Journey across the snows of Prit
Ish Columbia, with Imminent death In
every canon, glacier and rapid, but the
knowing one the men who have
soupht gold and found It since the day
of '49 are directing their energies to a
district much nearer the known water
of the ruclfic. It I there thst thfy
expect to find more gold than the al
ready overcrowdod gold fields of Paw.
eon enn ever put forth, and thnt they
look to find enormous yields of silver,
coplv: and other vh!iki!V metals, ng
preir:itlnc many millions of dollars.
Tt.is district is i hi I'.ipper Kivor
country, the ri best region of the
Northwest, nccordins to the few min
ing engineers h hnve traversed 1L
It Is tm.r.y hundreds of miles nearer
the cons: than thi Klondike, for It be
gins at the mouth of the Copper Uiver
Itself, n short distance to the east of
Prince William Sound. I'nless the sci
entists he mistaken and It must be
bonu In mind tha: all their predictions
hitherto have been more than verified
it will yield during the next few year
more gold than any other part of the
great Northwest And it is all In Amer
ican territory, subject to the liberal
laws and wise administrative measures
of the Government of the T'nlted Ptatp.
o British Grabs There.
Prospectors In the Copper River re
gion need not be disturbed by the
whimsical and outrageous dlsrrimna
t!ve regulations imposed upon their
contemporaries lr. the Klondike and
other parts of British Columbia by the
Canadian Government, Uncle Sam will
set- to It that their rights are protected
and that every possible assistance U
accorded to them In their' ah-h for
gold Alaskan soil will lie as safe to
them ai Broadway or Pennsylvania
avenue, and every dollar they dig out
of the ground will be their own prop
erty, free from unjust taxation.
This statement is no mere conjecture.
It is made on the authority of Mr. John
K Weeks of Broadway. New Torn,
who has the promise of the General
Land Office to tha: effect. Purlnp a
rtf n: vis:: to the national capital. Sir.
New Tort Land Office, visit to the
nationa. raptto.. Mr Weeks made sjr
ciu, lr.uutries along that l:nt. and on
his return to th- metropolis he said
Alaska lor Americana.
'Ta G'.-tiera: Lan.! 1 'fli-i is very
r.-!ies:'V 12. favi- ot o.t:r.g everything
i: j-oseiwy cat: t" assist American citi
zen" l: o:i;a:n:r.g n.tntr.g clainiF or.
Anient ar, so... aril t:. aid tr every jkx.-s;l'i-
wav ir :mmd;at a-vrK't--
n('r.' o' .'.iasi:ar goi j rt'.tr.es- en-.'. o;hT
tctitr r-sv.urcei Americans g-jtnr to
A:asti wii: a- v. '. i. beet ::. teller.
'..!. tnv Lanu '.'S.ct and w:ti. us
:-ttr'r.'? ir tre Nortnes; g many
t"TiMin tn- tnrnh: f t- ar:vi froni
uv: ' or:n--t;o!. wi.. t. invaiuain- "
" J- V asr.:::pt gfriieru.iy ir.t-nrFt i
:r g.i J.tltif" M: TVtCKs was
i.SKe.
"Vet ;r.u-i " r- rrpiii. "I !un3
)f iossiti- great"- lniertrs: in Aiasaan
affairs trier- eet. tnar it. New York.
r-rii: parties atr outfitting n. u ca-
ta. now. ku. man? mur- will
gamsd in tfa lir future Lv-ry
ua.-r: tet.ee ; in tiie city Bppiird
n.- for inlormaiior., atit; our chief
lig.ii-'' ielre e Wasx.
.': j ut, 'U- lariy u. A.asiia. was
w i:t. ai,rJoi.a:i-.tis iy tiirn a tio
,,. , i , e.,.Hi.u!:y b,n. in;r-ft In
i; n . u.siri' . -s uvrutir.iy inerras.iig
i.e.- j.ar-. Hi- iwumry as tapidiy
is 't. tins -';,(.; unite n.
-::,u,-:t- sieju,'; n- i.ientitul in
sr. i.j-;..:. t.y it,, sj. ;,.(- ' u proB-o-iinr;:i.eriui:
wu
Vij.es ;.,. ilei ii. e.-ry walk
thai fanning In ,rthweste- tee
tlon from wbeie ex,e.to . (Ind
the head of the . e River is another
large rlvtr, with irauy trlbutci. , an-l
wher w prospected w found gold In
every gulch and nuek. but w wer not
prepared to go through the froien
ground, for we had but one pick and
on shovel. In some places we picked
and shoveled off the slush a few feet
until w struck frosen earth. Then w
quit, for we were sure that In most
places bed rock was quite deep. I now
see we might have been mistaken. We
saw some beautiful lakes ot clear water
between the headwaters of the un
known river and the White River.
I'Btol Mlllloaa Tker.
"That there are untold millions In
gold, copper and silver In the Copper
River, the Whit River and the un
known river at the ehad ot White River
Is as certain, as death and taxes. I
write this that you may have It Inves
tigated and stop the deadly rush over
the high Chllkoot Pass. A river steam
er can run up the Copepr Rl-er the
year round almost, and you can prove
It to the world."
George Stinson ha Just returned to
San Francisco from the Copper River
Region. He vlstfVd Cook's tnlet and
made his way up Matamooskl River.
to river steamers '-i.'.l wfcoU year
round. Be di. , . of navigation
I only eighty ni '. Horn the head of
navigation on t.i- Wniu River, over
the easy Scolal lrs. It will b easy
for the supply companies to keep all
the mining camrs that will b estab
lished on Its banks well stocked with
provisions, and the gold seekara will
not be, as ar the Klondlkera, snow
the deadly passe will b forgotten by
all save those whose friends shall hav
met death therein.
"Famine such as will b experienced
at Dawson this winter Is utterly Impos
sible along the Copper River. That
mighty stream Is navigable to within a
bound during the better part of the
year. The climate along the Copper
River ts much milder than that ot the
Upper Tukon, and the country la mor
generous. It will be a great thing for
the American people when th stream
of fortune hunters turns from British
to Alaskan gold fields."
A Strraat f Gold.
Th Copper River has Its source at
Mount Wrangelt. at an altitude of 17,
WO feet. In th 144th degree of longi
tude. It flows westward to the 147th
degree, whence It comes south and then
onthwest to Its confluence with the
Chlllyna River. Thence It flows south
y J .c rirA--rSrr " y-f?5: ,t,',,v
1 .&7'" v
NEW MAP OF THE GOLD FIELD
to the Gulf of Alaska.
Its mouth, protected from the water
of the Pacific by three Islands, forms
a magnificent harbor, much like New
York Ray. This harbor Is separated
from Prince William Sound on the
west by Cape Whltshed. A few miles
to the southeast, situated much as Nor
ton's Point is In relation to New York
City, lies Cape Martin.
On Its way to the Gulf, the Corper
River skirts the slopes of five enor
mous mountains, nil the wash of which
goes Into Its current. These are Mount
Banford. 1S.000 feet high; Mount Drum,
1S.3N;; Mount Ttllmar., 16.000. Spirit
Mountain. J.WXi, ar..1 Miles Glacier. Ac
cording to the experts of the Vnlted
States Survey and other scientists who
have traversed the Alaskan gold field,
these mountains should tie rich in gold,
silver, copper and other precious min
erals, and any one of them may be the
beginning of the great mother lode of
the North Amortean continent. It
Hands to reaaor. that the banks of the
mighty river which sweepF the bases of
those gian: jeaks must contain more
golti thar. any othc region yet discov
ered District f all of &ald.
The scientists say that the entire dis
trict between the Copper P-iver and the
White River, running eastward from
the 147 it to Uit 13bit degree of longi
tude is fui: cf lav yeliow znetsU. and
tha: wonderful piacer find will be
made ther during the next few years.
Already the eyes cf capitalists in Beat
tie and ether Northwestern cltie are
croslng over to Matamooskl Divide.
What he saw made a great Impression
on his mind, for he said on arriving at
'Frisco:
"There 1 found a lake 100 miles long
at least. You cannot see across it any
where. This lake Is not on any map.
"I went around the edge of the lake
and found a big river, which I fol
lowed down Into the Copper River re
gion. There are gold and copper veins
of great richness up near the head of
i Copper River. I came down Copper
I River from Its source.
The IbbIbbb Ar Frleadly.
j "The stories thus far printed about
the Copper River Indians are mostly
untrue. They are as fine a race as ever
, I saw. They are as honest as the day
s long, and will be good friends to any
1 white man w ho treats them right They
did me any number of favors.
"They are tall, and are more like
i Sioux Indians than any we have on the
: coast here. They live outdoors all the
year round, and never build any huts
only a wind break with a fire in front
; of It. They wear very little clothing,
and are strong and athletic. They will
fight If they are wronged, but will not
pick a quarrel.
"They have found one of the lost
. arm. They have a secret process of
hardening copper and welding it to
iron. I have seen numerous specimens
o? their work, and some of recent man
ufacture, too, but I never could find
out how thev made it."
Easy tv Ileach.
One point upon which all explorers
upoti St. and there is little doubt that i returning from the Copper RTvtr coun-
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...t' tfo.'l t:-.-- th je B.V fives ai.d
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V 111 IhiuI tit Klondike.
V. t. iv.iiuie, i-iincr in t:.
'..;i.r y..fT tjji.try JJ. it Mill
-r.i.r..y tcujj,: lutr K.iiOtite aetata!
oer. an-, tii'. J". L tl: tC-I.-
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j.L .uio the i,rr J'jver reg.uri uum
lj;cu'. the lujiimit'Lt l.ta'liyl fur
IAMkIi " he felu'j. ' t,ut t. Jf dwZcKS
fcre te p.uhtejf, the v'S.-Utuxtli, Who
i ar. ;i,l g j.-i a thvuaahd uiUvt aay.
Lvif 'jijzt t is t-XL.e mt yr the tide
mil hk.vt turtd twMa the Cvur
iUtr vvubUt, the luLaue rush vvtr
shrt CWto ut iU tuuvt. Lhd U vyta
a systematic exploration and prospect
ing cf the Copper Kiwr regioh will suoa
he begun.
James P.. Thompson, in a rextent let
ter to friends ir. New York City, de-
try agree is its accessibility.
Kiver steamers of light draught can
go up the Copper River from the Pa
cific almost to its source. Prospectors
then have a ehort Journey of only
ecriUts his visit to the Cupper River j eighty mlies over the fccolai or Copper
P.iver Pass to the head of navigation on
the While Kiver. There they may
board another steamer and go by water
all the way to I8weon City. If they are
rt ill prejudiced in favor of the Klondike
region, for the V.'hit River empties
Into the Yukon at a point far below
the dangerous portion of the latter
stream. The trip down the Yukon from
iif confluence with the White River is
auaoiutely aafe. for there are no rap
Ids and no waterfalls. Gold seekers
raftin down the Yukon from any point
aiKive the White Kiver encounter dan
ger a dozen times a day.
VeaaWa for the Coirr Hirer.
TLat fcealtle Uivifclois believe ill the
Copper River country if demonstrated
ty the taut that ome uf them built a
chuuher in thrte VkteJui to tarry a par
ty of pruspeclois to that region. Thin
IK the Aiuert, wiiich left fct-atile'a few
Cays 4U40 to go direct to the mouth of
the Copper River uhd aail ihehce up
Uiat stream to Its source. She is built
ut fctalvan.zed Sleel, U fyrty-two fctt
over all and can ari tv. eiity I'ji uf
fre.gut aud six pwefcei.jCiK. She has
four Mater-tiglit vouiptiimetH. The
.l.ooiitr I.uia is uiv dektined for
cru:t.g to aud from and aluh the
Copper River, the In tif'.ei n tons reg
ister, and will U- kept on the Cook's
Inlet route. It is proba le that Die
sUanailiip Queen will also ply exclu
sively between Seattle and the Copper
River after this month.
A cotnp&ny has just been organized
which has for its object the tonU ac
tion of a carroiv auge railway ficm
country in 154 t: ana his cum pan -lout
lound gold un the bars of the
Wntie and Cupper river and discov
ered that the Indmr. chills hom they
visited vkeie well supplied with gold
nuggets Air Thompson, who is a vet
etar. pivspe-ctor. eaf
"I an. at' confiu-nt that gold mines
eyua to ttie Klondike wili be found on
the Copper River that, were I nut dy
ihg siuwiy of toiihumptior: J would
i. ave oigamzcd a party for that coun
try in lwr. 1 pied.e: it will yet aslor
lh the world with the nchhea of its
iniueibit 1 pi'.i-eJ up ohe piece of
i'pper oxide on the camp ground at
itie i jut of Copper i aif Creek tiat as-ta-d
lid ouiiceti of gold per ton.
Cuiie n Oatr ttf tUe Hvrtlineat.
"Tiia: pum- is the i.atuial gateway to
the hiart of A.aiva ajid the Kioud.ke.
I w ill male, ii, y leitjijb tjr fcayilig tnii
'The White iiiver .e hav.taule from
f ac and a iiaif Vj three uioiiliis longer
tiiar. the Yu&oii River, and h nu
iapid The Copper R.ver Pass is not
i:,ore than e.ghly hil.es from the head
of iiv.ga'.ioii on the Copper River. I
iiOW we lnade only five days u.arcli
abd fur cauipe belweeo the two
po.fiU The head of hav. gallon on the
White Jitr is yuite well protected
With open pine tiinher, the trees grow.
ii. g heavier a or descend. There is
aii abuhdahce of gwd Umber on the
Whit iiiver fur build. Lg boats. The
upper part of that river reii.a.o un
frozen much lohger than the great bcud
of the Yukon.
"Awthar cibacrvaUon nuade by c.e i
tidewater, on Prlnc William Bob4.
up th valley of th Copper River and
thens across th dlvld to a point on
th Yukon River, near th boundary
line. It has a capital stock of IS, 000. 000,
Th proposed road Is to b Ul miles In
length.
Thus, even th easy tramp across
Scolal Pass may soon be unnecessary.
Gold seekers may tak a Copper River
steamer to th head ot navigation on
that stream, cross th dlvld In a train
and go up th Whit River to Ita con
fluence with th Tukon, with easy sail
Ing all along th way to Dawson City.
It will b no harder than th Journey
from New Tork to Plattsburg by way
of th Hudson River, th railroad from
Troy to Fort Ttconderoga and a steam
er up Lake Champlaln, which la on of
th most beautiful trips In America.
But It la sat to predict that fortune
hunter entering the Copper River re
gion will not go a fariorth as Daw
son. There la too much gold In th un
proapected country between th Cop
per and Whit rivers to make It worth
while to brave the rigors of th Arctic
Circle. And th gold, silver and cop
per In th Copper River country ar In
American soli, tre to all cltltens ot
th United States.
Dawson City may be all right for men
Who have leather lungs and cast-Iron
stomachs, and who hav been on the
ground for the past two years, but
those who wish to seen gold without
risking their lives every hour of th
day, without having to buy claims al
ready located, at enormous prices and
without being robbed by the con
scienceless taxes of the grasping Ca
nadian Government will do better to go
to the now Kldorado that awaits them
on American soli, where they may
prospect unmolested and enjoy, com
paratively speaking, all the comforts ot
home.
WIBK FtlOM IIAWDOSI.
It Is Within the Hnnite f linrljr
roaallilllt).
I'ncle Sam and his cousin, the Governor-General
of Canada, may both be
outgeneraled by enterprising capital
ists In the effort to control the future
telegraph business of the great North
west. While the governments of
Washington and Quebec are patting
one another on the back and writing
voluminous letters on the momentous
subject, plain, ordinary business men
are going ahead with their plana. It
Is whispered In financial circles that
several corporations already Interested
In the gold fields have set aside sums
for the establishment of private tele
graph lines between Important points,
and that one company has sent a gang
of linemen, under three electrical ex
perts, to the Northwest to string wires
In American territory.
All aorta of propositions are heard
dally In Wall street. One genius want
to have a detail of signalmen stationed
at high points along Skaguay trail to
wigwag messages with flags from sts
tlon to station. He thinks heliographs
rould be used at long range In Alaska,
and points out that 4n some parts of
the West Uncle Sam's soldiers signal
with sun-mirrors between points
eighty miles apart. Flash lanterns or
searchlights, he asserts, might be em
ployed during the lonf Arctic nigh;.
xii at a teiegrap.t. astem or aun.r
sort will be established in the Spring
goes without saying, for the news
papers themselves could better afford
to form a syndicate to stretch wires
than to pay the enormous expense ol
yetting dispatches from their corre
spondents Vy dog sledge or reindeer
express. Put there would be plenty ol
private messages, aside from the great
mass of press business, to pay the ex
penses of construction and operation,
and leave a handsome profit beside.
Soon the chief (.iterator in the West
ern Union's main operating room in
New York City may participate in the
following conversation over the North
western main wire:
-N. Y.. N. Y."
"1-1. 1 I."
This is Dawson. Give me a loop to
the Dally Moon."
"O. K. There your loop. Oo
ahead-!!
Make
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