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Identifier: alaskapanamacana00boyc
Title: Alaska and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Boyce, William Dickson, 1848-1929
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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only one year. This is an example of the way the Govern-ment has squandered money ni Alaska, and will, while itcontinues to be extravagantly and inefficiently representedin this distant Territory. Had the million dollars beenspent on the natural transportation routes—the rivers—itwould have been of practical benefit to miner and settler. The next point of importance one reaches in descending theYukon River is Fort Yukon, northwest 300 miles from Eagle. ALASKA 79 This town is within the Arctic Circle, being Gy degrees northhititude. For one month of the year the sun never sets. Itook splendid photographs at midnight. Fort Yukon is a veryold trading point, and was once in the hands of the BritishHudson Bay Company. At one time it almost caused a warbetween Russia and Great Britain. Historically, and in manyother respects. Fort Yukon was the most interesting point, tome, in Alaska. The Wells Fargo Express Company has anoffice there; in fact, this company does all the express business
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A BIG MOOSE HEAD AT MINER S CABIN, FORT YUKON. of Alaska, as well as operating 77.000 miles of railway in theUnited States. At Fort Yukon I interviewed an old Indiantrapper. He had recently sold a silver-fox skin for 0. Hehad bought two sewing machines and eight clocks and hadthem all in his one-room cabin, and was debating what to dowith the balance of the money. From Fort Yukon we passed on down the river 243 miles to 8o ALASKA Rampart, an abandoned mining camp. Some mining is donein the interior and the supphes are still taken in from thisriver port. Two interesting characters lived at Rampart in1897. One was ex-Sheriff McGraw of Seattle, who had practi-cally skipped the State of Washington on account of thedefalcation of one of his employes. He found a paying placermine near Rampart, sold it for ,000, then returned toSeattle, paid his debts and was afterward elected Governorof Washington. He was always considered an honest man.The other character referred to is Rex Beach, th
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