Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — RUSH FOR THE GOLD FIELDS. [ARTICLE]

RUSH FOR THE GOLD FIELDS.

Ten Thousund Miners Will Invade Alaska This Spring. A Seattle dispatch says that the indications now nre that the movement north this spring will surpass the boom days of the Klondike nnd will be more general in its character, taking in the Nome, Tanana, Kuyakuk, Forty Mile, Klondike and tributaries, Rampart, Stewart, Kobuk, Yakataga, Copper River nnd Cook Inlet, to say nothing of the districts in southeastern Alaska, thnt have produced their millions and will this year greatly increase their output. It is conseVvatively estimated tlint 10,000 miners will go nprth this spring. The active movement began n mouth ago and will not reach its flood until June. More prospecting, more development and actual work has been carried on in the territory during the winter than during any similar period in the history of the country, nnd the reports from all the camps and districts nre of the most encouraging nnd cheerful character. Those in position to know the situation accurately' *«y they would not be surprised to see an output of gold this season in excess of $22,000,000 from the camps and districts enumerated above. On all the Nome creeks a great deni of pay dirt is being taken out by meuna of oil thawing machines, which hnva been found effective, nnd huge dumps murk every mine of note In the camps.