Identifier: bookofroyalblue24balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of the village bastile, in-its entirety, to some souvenir-hunting tour-ist as a curiosity. When the Klondike mines were first NORTH OF PARALLEL FORTY-NINE opened a route led to that region by way ofthe Stikine River, which empties into thesea near Wrangel, across Lake Teslinand down the Hootalinqua River to theYukon. The town then experiencedanother boom and was the scene ofmuch activity and excitement, but the port-ages between the rivers and lakes were toolong and difficult to be practicable and itwas soon abandoned in favor of the shorterbut more difficult route via the Chilkoot or and in Upper British Columbia, and forthis reason we had several hours at our dis-posal in which to visit the town, purchaseIndian baskets, moccasins, miniaturetotems, raw furs, berries or Alaskandiamonds. These latter deserve special mention, asthey number among the surprises and dis-appointments of this very surprising coun-try. They are in reality immense garnets,and when the mine was first discovered
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.JUNEAU, THE CAPITAL CITY OP ALASKA White Pass and the town fell back to itsformer quiet existence. Wrangel is now a town of some 800 to1,000 inhabitants and is a Paradise fortourists and big-game spoitsmen. Its cli-mate is delightful and the growing of fruitand berries, particularly the latter, is a muchmore profitable occupation than mining,although there are some paying gold, silverand copper mines in the vicinity, likewisevaluable timber and fine fishing grounds. A considerable amount of freight is heretransshipped for points on the Stikine River it was thought it would double discountin value any gold mine in Alaska, for thestones were the largest ever found, rangingin size from a small pea to a hickory nutand the shale foundation was thicklystudded with them, but, alas, never a clear,unclouded, flawless crystal has as yet beenfound, and the stones are, therefore, prac-tically valueless, except as curiosities orcabinet specimens. Very recently a company, composed ofSt. Paul and M

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