A Klonduke Experience.
Lecturing recently in London on 'Through the new Goldfields of Alaska to the Behring Straits,' Mr Harry de Windt told some interesting anecdotes of lucky miners, on 9 being of a Cdlifornian fruit-raiser named Berry, who, three years ago, determined to try his fortune in Alaslra. He had a capital of £&, and borrowed a further £12 from a man who was afraid to accompany him, at fabulous interest. He started with 40 companions, but by the time he reached Forty-mile City was alone, 23 of the others having deserted him, and the remainder having died from exhaustion and exposure At his suggestion, his fiancee, whom he had left behind in California, went out to him, travelling by sea and up the Yukon, to Forty-mile City, where the pair were married. Berry and his wite were among the first to reach. Klondyke. They obtaiaod as much as £26,000 from one claipj, and £120 from a single pan of earth measuring 18 inches in circumference and 5 incnes in depth. It is anticipated by those well qualified to judge that Berry will one day be the richest man in the world.
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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9027, 26 March 1898, Page 4
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