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Identifier: inrichestalaskag00inge (find matches)
Title: In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ... together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ... and practical information for gold seekers
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946 Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930, joint author Munson, Augustus J. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Gold mines and mining
Publisher: Chicago, The Dominion company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ypicked their way down the slope and, when near thebottom, came upon an interesting spectacle. Just behinda clump of bushes, which rider and horse had crashedthrough on their way down, stood the animal, apparentlyuninjured, while on a slab of rock nearby the man wascapering like an Indian at a ghost dance. Fear seizedthe members of the rescuing party that their friend hadlost his senses, but catching sight of them he ceased hisdancing and beckoned them to come to him. Whenthey joined him he showed them several lumps of almostpure gold, hastily knocked from the ledge with a stonefor a hammer, and announced his discovery of a goldmine. The sliding horse had brought up against theledge and the restive animal in trying to rise had kickedthe moss from the stone and thus disclosed a gold-bear-ing vein of exceptional richness, which its lucky finderappropriately named the Christmas Gift. Still, pluck is often more potent than luck, and JimWhitlach, of Nevada, a famous miner, lately dead, was
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PLUCK OR LUCK. ,2~ wont to say that the man who followed prospecting fora dozen years or more was sure in the course of time tostrike it rich. The history of David Swickhimer and hiswife gives striking confirmation to Whitlachs dictum. Itwas in 1884 that Swickhimer appeared in Rico, Col., andopened a small saloon, which soon numbered among itspatrons a prospector named George Barlow. The latterwas half owner of several mines near Rico, and when, in1885, he asked Swickhimer, who by this time had foundliquor-selling a long road to wealth, to buy out his part-ner, the saloon-keeper accepted the proposition. Theprospect looked good, but the mineral was slow in com-ing in, and when the shaft was 250 feet deep Barlow gaveup in disgust and presented his half of the claim to hisnow penniless partner, whose money had all been sweptinto the hole on the side of Dolores Mountain. Swick-himers spirits had also sunk to a low ebb, and when aminer with some money and more faith offered him $500for th

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