Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — To Dredge the Yukon for Gold. [ARTICLE]
To Dredge the Yukon for Gold.
The hull of the steamer Rustler oi Juneau, Alaska, built by Farlo &, Engelbrecht for the Boston Mining company, has been transferred from Lake Washington to the harbor, and is ready for the machinery now being built at the Vulcan Iron Works. The steamei is CP feet lone with a 10-foot beam, and specially constructed with a view tc work on the Yukon River. Many stories have been told about the fabulous wealth concealed in the bottom ,oi Alaska’s most celebrated river, and it is with a view to dredging that she has been built.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Ask your grocer for a dollar’s worth of Dcbbins’ new Perfect Soap, 5c a bar. If he hasn’t it he will get it. A bar is worth two bars of any other 5c soap ever made. Roswell G. Hour, who was raised in the West and went East to grow up with the country, uses the identical chair (hat Horace Greely used to sit in, and he writes for the Tribune on its founder’s favorite subject—agriculture. In 1891 there were in (his country 638,402 Freemasons and PUP,OOB Odd Fellows.
