A Klondvke Experence.
Lecturing recently in London on “Through the New Goldfields of Alaska to Behring Straights,” Mr Harry de Wiudt told some interesting anecdotes of lucky miners, one heing of a Calfornian fruit-raiser named Berry, who, three years ago, determined to try his ’fortune in Alaska. He had a capital of £8 and borrowed a further £l2, from ft man who was afraid to accompany, him, at fabulous interest. He started with 40 companions, but by the lime he reached Forty mile City was alone, 23 of the others ' having deserted him, and the re mainder 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 marriel. Berry and his wife were among the first to reaeh Klondyke. They obrainod as much as £26,000 from one claim, and £l2O from a single pan of earth measuring 18 in iu circumference and sin in depth. It was anticipated, he added, by those well qualified to judge that Berry would one day be the richest man in the woild. i
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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2087, 22 March 1898, Page 2
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194A Klondvke Experence. Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2087, 22 March 1898, Page 2
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