3-085-894 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

On the Way to Klondike, 1898. '1. The Water-Front of Seattle, the Chief Starting-Point for Klondike. 2. "Sheep Camp" Station, Dyea Trail. 3. "Stone House," a large Rock on the Dyea Trail. 4. Boat-Building by Lake Lindeman. 5. A Street in Seattle. The great army of adventurers now on the way...[to] the latter-day El Dorado of the Yukon goldfields will doubtless take fresh heart from the favourable reports which have induced the American War Department to abandon, as altogether unnecessary, its projected Klondike Relief Expedition. The Secretary for War has...requested that Congress should empower the War Department to devote to some other cause the large supplies accumulated to cope with the expected starvation at the gold-fields. The reason for this..is found in the latest news from the Yukon, officially accredited by the Canadian Minister of the Interior, to the effect that there is no prospect of any such extremity in the district at present, nor likely to be, in view of the large amount of provisions now being carried thither by successive parties of gold-seekers. The news is good news, for it shows that the first scare about the horrors of destitution has begotten a salutary prudence among the hordes of voyagers now in search of fortune.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.