The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-12
Kalnchatka Now.


The excitement and iateres
caused by the recent finds of gold
in the KIondyke region are still
further stimulated by a report
coming from London to the effect
that the Peninsula of Kamchatka,
directly across from Alaska, on the
Asiatic side, is likely to prove as
rich in the precious metal as our
own fields. These statement is
create a good deal of ir terest here,
especially among those who are
following closely the enormous
gold developments of the worlu
which have recently occurred. An
examination of tbe map OF North
merica will show at glauc,
that the great gold field Of Alaska
which is now being developed is /,
part If the same general line OF
noun tains which supplied the
enormous god proc uct IN of Cali
fornia, indeed of tn. same genera.
line which produced the god OF
Peru, of Central America, of
the United States. and now of
Alsaka. Take your map of the
world and follow this mountain
range, aud you will 6nd that il
seeo to cross from the Norti
American continent to Asia at the
Behring Straits, and that tn,
extension of this general range
across into Asia covers the yer,
country into which the Russian
government is now pressing golc
Developments and the general
search for gold. The dispatc,
referred TO ABOVE states that a
Russian expedition has discovered
Twelve gold regions in the vicinity
OF the sea of Okhotsk, and 1t
believes that the western peninsula
of the Peninsula of Kamchatka
will develop gold fields which will,
as the dispatch puts 1t, when
opened, "be a second California. :"
"Whether the predictions of the
Russians that they are to devaloo
gold fields in Kamchatka which
will rival the early history of our
California gold fields is to be real
lied or not said Mr.. Marcus
Baker, of the Geologicai Survey,
talking of this subject, "certainly
there can be no doubt that the gold
of the world has enormously
increased and is now Increasing
wonderfully. There are two
distinct gold fields today which
are producing gold in very great
guam titles = South Africa and
North America. The Alaska
fields are, of course, part Of the
same general line of mountains
which developed such wonder full
gold deposits in our own territory
less than half century ago, and
whether the mountains of Kan.
chatka and Siberia ar. part Of
the same general system or not, it
would not be surprising if these
reports of large gold deposits there
should also be confirmed. The fact
is, there is a greater incentive to
the production IF gold today than
ever before. There are two or
three reasons for this: first, that
silver is so cheap that there is less
Incentive for its production, aud
the people who had formerly given
their attention to the mining of
silver are now looking for new
gold fields; second, the gold min
ing and gold production becomes
easier every year as new IL ethods
develop and new discoveries are
made. Take the great gold fields
of California, viii IN re suppps ed
to be worked out years ago; the
cyanide process now gives promise
of making them ag ,in productive,
and it is quite PROBABLE that it will
be profitable to work over all the
rejected material whlcn was thrown
away by the men who covered that
great gold field, aud proouce from
it oy this cyanide process great
quantities of gold. This is not
unlikely to be the case further
south, in Mexico, Central America
aud Peru, where such quantities
of gold were mined nany years
ago. Add to this the gold devel>