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Title: Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1849-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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is somuch easier, and the quantity so enormous, that theaggregate results are unparalleled. The yield ave-rages from three to seven dollars to the ton. Thedust, after washing, is valued at the rate of a dollarand a half per bag of a hundred pounds. Thewhole wharf is covered with this dust, and one hasthe feeling of treading on a roadway of gold. Themanager does not object to our filling our pocketswith the dust, remarking indifferently: The com-pany can well afford these small robberies by thetourists. The thunders of the dynamite blastings are re-peated at intervals of a half hour, and resound aboutforty times in rapid succession. They may beheard miles away. Each discharge is followed bygreat clouds of smoke from the blasting pit. Thequartz thus obtained is carried in small cars directlyto the crushing mill. The wet weather whichprevails here is extremely favorable for the oper-ations of the company, as an abundant supply ofwater is required to treat the gold bearing quartzproperly.
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Juneau, and the Famous Treadwell Mine 187 So energetic are the managers of this opulentsyndicate, that the entire mountain-side has beenquarried and it will not be long before the remain-ing portion must succumb to mans insatiable desirefor gold. We are informed that these mills are oper-ated, with but two exceptions, during the whole year.The only days and nights of rest for men and ma-chinery are Christmas and the fourth of July.Twenty-eight hundred tons of quartz are mined eachday, the work being all above ground. At nightthe scene is brilliantly illuminated by electriclights. Hundreds of men are employed here, themajority of them receiving two dollars a day andtheir board. The single men live at the companysgeneral boarding-house, while those who aremarried have the advantages and comforts of theirown homes. Provisions and clothing are rather higher herethan at Seattle and the laboring element seems to bein a very unsettled state. This class is formedchiefly from the ranks of men

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