PERSEVERING KLONDIKER.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 13

PERSEVERING KLONDIKER.

One man we watched for awliilo with curiosity and sympathy (writes Mr, Jcromiiui Lynch in Three Yearw in tho Klotulyke). Ho wast woiking entirely alone. Down a laddor ho would descend twenlv-livo .Hops to tho bottom. Filling tho bucket, ho would then ascend the ladder. windiusH the bucket up wearily and painfully, nnd (hen down again to repeat, tho process, liko tho toils of Sisyphus. Ho did not stop to speak or ro»t t\n wo looked on, but silently nnd Steadily continued his lnbouis. Wo were told later that lie was n carpenter from St. Louis, who had a 2000-dollar mortgage on his home thoiv, whoro lived his wife and young children. If not paid in tho npiing, (he mortgngo would be lorecloned. Hcucu his fierce, tireless efforts to extract the gravel for the spiing washv up. No one would work for or wjth him, for it was doubted if that ground contained much gold. Wo wont on with a silent wish and hope for his succor. „ I never heard of him afterwards, nor of his success or failure, although I made enquiries.