| Summary: | Shows routes Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings Includes distance charts and notes Insets: Map of Juneau to Miles Canyon -- Key map of Alaska -- Section of sample Klondike mine. appeared in Sam. D. Dunham's report on The Alaskan Gold Fields and the Opportunities They Offer for Capital and Labor, one of the earliest reports on the gold fields (Bulletin of the Department of Labor No. 16, May, 1898). This map was photolithographed and published by Norris Peters Co. in Washington, D.C., compiled by J.B. Tyrrell and engraved by William Bauman Jr. It provides an excellent over view of the various routes to central Alaska's the Yukon. Statistical tables provide information and notes regarding the experiences of a number of the explorers who opened the routes. Some of the notes are quite colorful such as for the Copper River, Tyrrell notes "Mr. Davies the only white man who has journeyed from the source to mouth of the Copper River states that his surface prospecting failed to show traces of gold, but indications of copper were strong ." Within the body of the map are notes on the depth and navigability of certain rivers, portage information, speed of the currents in rivers, height of falls and other details for travelers. There is also an inset "Map of Juneau to Miles Canyon." -ARC- Color 1:1,584,000
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