VI. BASIC CHRONOLOGY: SEATTLE & THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH

North American Trade & Transportation Company (NAT&T) founded in Chicago, to set up trading posts along Yukon River.

Completion of Great Northern Railway from St. Paul to Seattle.

Financial panic and depression hits American economy.

NAT&T store established at Circle City, Alaska.

Considerable numbers of miners leave Seattle for Circle City, Alaska, other goldfields at Forty Mile, Sixty Mile, and Cook Inlet.

Population of Circle City reaches 5,000.

Gold discovery on Bonanza Creek, tributary of Klondike River, Yukon Territory.

News of Klondike strike reaches Circle City, miners depart for Dawson. Building begins at the new site of Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

Miners work Klondike mines, take out millions in gold.

Population of Dawson City reaches about 1,500.

Population of Dawson City reached 3,500.

Miners return to Seattle and San Francisco with news of Klondike gold and gold itself.

Miners leave Seattle and other cities for the Klondike. By September 1, 9,000 left the port of Seattle.

Thousands leave Seattle and other cities for the Klondike.

Snowslide at Chilkoot Pass, killing over sixty men and women.

Between 20,000 and 30,000 potential miners reach Dawson

Gold strike at Anvil Creek, Alaska, Nome Mining District.

Seattle begins regrade of downtown to expand commercial district.

Town site of Nome staked and established.

Discovery of gold on Nome beaches. Two thousand arrive to mine.

Steamer arrives in Seattle with Nome miners and gold aboard.

One to two thousand miners come down the Yukon to Nome.

Ships sail from Seattle for Nome gold beaches, with up to 20,000 on board.

Thousands descend on Nome beaches to dig for gold in sand.

Annual volume of business in Seattle topped $50 million.

Gold discoveries in Tanana Valley, Alaska, and founding of Fairbanks.

Founding of Alaska Club, a Seattle organization for Alaskan businessmen.

Seattle: Construction of Alaska Building, first steel frame skyscraper in Seattle, 15 stories. Financed by Jafet Lindeberg, who struck gold in Nome in 1898, along with other stockholders of the Scandinavian-American bank. Included space for Alaska Club offices.

Schwabacher Company constructs new 8-story building at First and Jackson in Seattle.

Alaska Club and Arctic Club merge in Seattle, to bring together one group of Seattle and Alaska businessmen.

Seattle: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

Statue of William Seward placed in Seattle's Volunteer Park.

Seattle's ocean-borne commerce reached new high of $154,599,947.

Alaska exported nearly $50,000,000 in gold, silver, copper, other minerals, and salmon, to the United States.

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