The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-29
CANADA GRASPS FOR GOLD
Yukon Miners Must Pay q Heavy
Royalty - Government Takes
Alternate Claims.

OTTAWA, Ont. July 27.--At the close
of the second sitting Of the cabinet this
evening 1t was announced that the gov
eminent decided to impose a royalty on
all placer diggings on the Yukon, in adj
dition to SIS registration fee and Si00 an
nuai assessment
The royalty will be 10 per cent. each on
claims with an output of $500 or less
monthly. and 20 per cent. on every claim
yielding above that amount yearly.
Besides this royalty. il has been decided
In regard TO all future claims staked out
on other streams or rivers, that every al
ternate claim should be the property OF
the government and should be reserved for
public purposes and sold or worked by the
government for the benefit OF the revenue
OF the dominion.
The Royalty Grab.
The announced determination of the
Canadian government TO collect royalty
on all gold taken from mines within the
Northwest Territory has caused great
sensation In this city. and may result in
Withholding some people from going
north Almost every healthy man In the
city has been vaguely planning to reach
the Clondyke. and IL is this half deter
mined class which will be deferred by the
new cabinet ruling. The Canadian gov
eminent is severely censured. and many
reciprocity schemes. all moro or less i'm
practicable. are suggested.
Jack Carr. he pioneer mail carrier OF
the Yukon, sale yesterday that undoubt-
edfy there were as rich strikes yer to be
made on the American side OF the line in
the Yukon region as had been In the
CIondyke.
The Birch ereek district is good he
said and the diggings there Will las,
twenty years. About coo miles below Cir
Gle City is ne Kuykuk river which is at
least SCI miles Ions. The Indians ON thi,
river. working with their crude rockers
are making frona SIC TO SO a day Three
different outfits left Circle city on MAY y
last - 20 prospecting on this river They
told me they believed tneir chances on the
kGykUk We're better than Clondyke As
matter % fact. the eltire territory ina.
has yet been mined In Alaska is embraced
III forty square miles, the Birch creek dis
uict The two transportation companies
Going business in The country get about
/ haf Ct the gold that has been taken out
sn3 row tia Canadian government wants
the rest Of g.
''on this side Of the boundary Inc are
many square miles OF territory the pros
rectors pick has never touched. rivers
and creeks whose waters have never be-sn
troubled by the introduction Of sluiee
boxes. There Is gold n all ot them. and
the rush Of thousands Of men. who viii
spread ont over ths country Ike the or,en-
tns ~ Il fan, will mean development %
American mines on a tremendous scale
There VII soon ia. Il there Is nos row
ose<kaGs - Dyea ard Skaxuay Psoai,
are now paying - cents per pound 90 20;
their freight over ne divide Horses viii
Pack ahoGf ~ pounds each and az aver
age load .ar Tran IS sixty pounds There
/ - bound - Re a great deal az suffering ~,
80 tran Rave seen men - he siren
est physique fsG down or the tra1 ans
Burst into tears from weakness and aA
sss&lT- believe thst x this rash continues
many days so7Ser hundreds viii be frozen
In between the pass ard the -lor9vka
A15 then, most of these gesoDle think .hn.
when they reach ths golden MECCA 49,.
can pick gold ugExets III Ike POI. .r.as
But :, = o-ly ore Of every ten men 40
strikes 4. Ths other nine struggle slon-
- sc5-vs ere country.
= newer heard 81 so many crazy s-h@r,es
/ fs- getting up TIRE river. ore rar.y ia "a.
ing 20 ;ow = large SOW wlth a stAar,
. launch. There IS a steam launch or .rs
river nov. 4 COS down river all rfshs
bit Z; has 20 De ~: CT q steamer 10 -.
taken Up"