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Title: Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Alaska Prospecting Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Monroe Book Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sy involve something of special favor, its equi-ties at last rest upon the decisions of courts without re-gard to sentiment. But a pardner glories in sentiment.He expects to give his mate all that the law requires andcall that only a beginning. i\Ien may be chums in easy,prosperous times, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat, but it is not until they pass together througha succession of dangers and hardships that theycan become pardners. Congeniality and implicit confi-dence are at the base of a pardnership; and for betteror for worse the two men stand as one under all vicissi-tudes, doubling each others joys and dividing sorrowsand failures. If one falls by the way the other gives himmore than the devotion of a brother. Gold mining eventually is a business conducted bylarge capital, but placer diggings afiford an opening toany one who can stake and work a claim. The two pard-ners begin operations on the ground floor, share theirdiscoveries, tent together, and cook for each other. Their
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< BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 93 qualities and traits are complimentary. Pardners arecloser than messmates in the army or navy. The soldieror sailor is under the care of a bountiful provider. Hisfood, clothes and shelter are furnished by the govern-ment, and his comings and goings are regulated byorders. Pardners, on the other hand, must skirmishtogether from the start for subsistence and plans of oper-ation. They fight the battle of life for two under hazard-ous conditions, far from families and friends, satisfied,for the time being, with bare necessities. Under sucha test pardners are forged as steel is forged. The literature of California is full of the pardneratmosphere. Bret Hartes tales would be tame withoutit. But pardners in that state, except as gray-beardsurvivors, are scarce now. They will be revived inAlaska, and experience far greater trials than they everknew in the first Pacific commonwealth. Freezing andstarvation were unknown in California. It is not likelythat the mini

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