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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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: this is no dream on mypart. At four oclock in the afternoon we are withinsight of Skagway, a city of wondrous and rapidgrowth. Its appearance is very attractive, as it liesat the foot of a lofty mountain, and is evidently awide-awake place, with much Go in it. Thetown began with a few cabins in 1897, when theKlondike excitement had just started, and suddenlysprang into a city, with a population of from 5,000to 8,000. It has good wharves and landing facili-ties, and contains churches, schools and good pub-lic buildings, as well as hotels and saloons. It isilluminated by electric lights, and has an abundantsupply of pure water from a great lake above thetown, which is fed by an enormous glacier. Sev-eral spicy newspapers, both daily and weekly, aresupported by this town. I have just purchased oneof them. It is The Daily Morning Alaskan, datedJune 29, 1900, and is evidently filled with local pride,which finds vent in bold head-lines, such as: Skagway is the Only Real City in Alaska.—
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<o o Juneau, and the Famous Treadwell Mine 197 Half a Million in One Shipment. This last is anallusion to gold dust brought in by miners from theKlondike, and shipped from Skagway.—SocialDance. There will be a social dance at ArmoryHall on Saturday evening, June 30. All are cordiallyinvited. Be assured of a good time. Messrs. Met-calf & Hooker, of the committee on Fourth of Julysubscriptions, were closing up their canvas lastnight, and were confident that the total amountwould not be under $450, which will be sufficient tocover the expenses of a big celebration. The othercolumns are filled with the usual order of odds andends, gossip, business and social news, and adver-tisements. The town manifests the inevitable crudeness ofits mushroom growth. There are many framehouses, although it is evident that the progres-sive spirit of the place is demanding more sub-stantial buildings. The modern models are stonestructures, with strong foundations, which predicta prosperous career f

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