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Title: Wonderland, or, Alaska and the inland passage
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892 Hyde, John, 1848-1929. From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: St. Paul : Northern Pacific Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ivation forseveral years, but destined to be rewarded at last by the discovery of one ofthe richest veins of gold in the Territory, a vein that has yielded, up to thepresent time, $4,000,000 worth of gold. The tourist will find an hours chat with an old-timer an interesting andnot altogether unprofitable exercise, albeit he may find it hard to discriminate THROUGH WONDERLAND. 23 between statements that he may venture to repeat and those made for hisespecial benefit as a tenderfoot. He need not, however, discredit such stories as that a four-mule team oncehauled to Fort Benton, for transportation down theMissouri river, two and one-half tons of gold,valued at Si,500,000; nor yet, that in the earlydays potatoes were worth fiftycents per pound, and flour onedollar, or that oranges were soldat a dollar each, and small pine-apples at seven dollars. Theseare facts not more startling thanmany others that might be quoted.In the mining world, at least, truthis positively stranger than fiction.
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YELLOWSTONE RIVER,NATIONAL PARK. The annual production^ of the precio- : metals in Montana has increasedenormously within recent years,doubling itself between 1880 and1882, and trebling between 1882and 1884. The annual output now approaches $30,000,000, and the Ter-ritory stands at the head of the gold-producing regions of the world, 24 THROUGH WONDERLAND. notwithstanding that upward of $200,000,000 worth has been extracted fromits soil. Among the many famous mines on the eastern slope of the mountainsare the Drum Lumon, shipping $80,000 worth of bullion per month, ofwhich fully one-half may be set down as profit; the Gloster, shipping $50,000worth per month; the Whitlach Union, long the most celebrated gold mine inthe Territory; those of Red Mountain, said to be the most important unde-veloped mineral field in the United States; the Clarks Fork, bordering on theNational Park, and now yielding, and with no railroad facilities, 855 tons of oreper day; those of the Helena Mining and Red

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