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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,
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PSM_V55_D013_Lynn_canal_and_the_skagway_river.png/500px-PSM_V55_D013_Lynn_canal_and_the_skagway_river.png)
Looking down the Lynn Canal—Skaguay River, with Skaguay on the Left.
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 disappointment, brought to public notice in the early part of 1897, when intelligence was received by the outside world regarding the first