. And at the end of five hours' shovelling for one man, he saw
them take out thirteen ounces and a half of gold.

It was coarse gold, running from pinheads to a twelve-dollar nugget,
and it had come from off bed-rock. The first fall snow was flying that
day, and the Arctic winter was closing down; but Daylight had no eyes
for the bleak-gray sadness of the dying, short-lived summer. He saw
his vision coming true, and on the big flat was upreared anew his
golden city of the snows. Gold had been found on bed-rock. That was
the big thing. Carmack's strike was assured. Daylight staked a claim
in his own name adjoining the three he had purchased with his plug
tobacco. This gave him a block of property two thousand feet long and
extending in width from rim-rock to rim-rock.

Returning that night to his camp at the mouth of Klondike, he found in
it Kama, the Indian he had left at Dyea. Kama was travelling by canoe,
bringing in the last mail of the year. In his possession was some two
hundred dollars in gold-dust, which Daylight immediately borrowed. In
return, he arranged to stake a claim for him, which he was to record
when he passed through Forty Mile. When Kama departed next morning, he
carried a number of letters for Daylight, addressed to all the
old-timers down river, in which they were urged to come up immediately
and stake.

Also Kama carried letters of similar import, given him by the other men
on Bonanza.

"It will sure be the gosh-dangdest stampede that ever was," Daylight
chuckled, as he tried to vision the excited populations of Forty Mile
and Circle City tumbling into poling-boats and racing the hundreds of
miles up the Yukon; for he knew that his word would be unquestioningly
accepted.

With the arrival of the first stampeders, Bonanza Creek woke up, and
thereupon began a long-distance race between unveracity and truth,
wherein, lie no matter how fast, men were continually overtaken and
passed by truth. When men who doubted Carmack's report of two and a
half to the pan, themselves panned two and a half, they lied and said
that they were getting an ounce. And long ere the lie was fairly on
its way, they were getting not one ounce but five ounces. This they
claimed was ten ounces; but when they filled a pan of dirt to prove the
lie, they washed out twelve ounces. And so it went. They continued
valiantly to lie, but the truth continued to outrun them.

One day in December Daylight filled a pa