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Lecturing recently in London on "Through the New Goldfields of Alaska to Behring Straits,' Mr Harry de Windt told some interesting anecdotes of lucky miners, one being of a Californian digger named Berry, who, three years ago determined to try his fortune in Alaska. He had a capital of eight pounds, and borrowed a further twelve pounds from a man who was afraid to aooompany him, at a fabulous interest, He started with forty companions, but by the time he reached Fortymile City he was alone, twenty-three of the others having deserted him and the remainder having died of exhaustion and exposure. At his suggestion his fiancee whom he had left behind in California, went out
by sea and up the Yukon, to the Forty-mile City, where the pair were married. Berry and his wife wera among the first to reach Elondyke. They obtained as much as £26,000 from one claim, and £120 from one single pan of earth measuring 18in in circumference and oin in deptH^j It was anticipated by those. weU4_H qualified to judge that Berry would one day be the richest man in the world.
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Manawatu Herald, 26 March 1898, Page 2
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192More About Golden Klondyke. Manawatu Herald, 26 March 1898, Page 2
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