Daylight mortgaged one of his Bonanza dumps with the Alaska Commercial Company, and tucked a letter of credit into his pouch.

Then he harnessed his dogs and went down on the ice at a pace that only he could travel.

One Indian down, another Indian back, and four teams of dogs was his record.

And at Forty Mile and Circle City he bought claims by the score.

Many of these were to prove utterly worthless, but some few of them were to show up more astoundingly than any on Bonanza.
He bought right and left, paying as low as fifty dollars and as high as five thousand.