3-085-695 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The British Columbian Gold-Fields: the Cariboo Road, near Chapman's Bar, Upper Fraser River, 1898. 'Golden Klondike. The source and secret of Klondike's wealth has been discovered, according to telegrams from Seattle, by Frank Slavin, the ex-pugilist, and a couple of other miners. These three adventurers, it seems, have alighted on what is supposed to be the mother lode of the Yukon gold-fields in a quartz vein, many miles in length, containing great quantities of ore corresponding in quality with that of South-East Alaska...Klondike itself seems to have reached quite an advanced stage of civilisation before the spring has far advanced. The latest luxury added to its growing list is a type-writing office, for which a "Remington" has just been ordered. Continuing our series of views of the British Columbian gold districts, we publish this week a scene on the Cariboo Road, the main route through the district of Cariboo on either side of the head-waters of the Fraser River, a country which includes important gold-fields'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.