Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-23

that the miners will not stand It. Men who
go into this region, paying exorbitant du-
ties on all their implements and supplies
and having heavy license assessed upon
them, will not be willing. in addition 10
this, to surrender to the Canadian govern
ment thirty per cent of the gold they gath
er.
'Tt will be very hard with an American
miner who has panned out, say, Sl0oOoo
to give $4,000 Of that 10 the Canadian tax
collectors, especially when he believes that
the very field in which he is working is
within the boundary of the United States.
The miners are sure to resist the payment
or these heavy assessments, and with 80 =
900 men of the character who will endure
all the hardships and privations attend
ing gold hunting in this region resistance
means condition of affairs alongside of
which the Riel rebellion will appear but y
trlffing incident. A very intelligent man
whom 1 know very well was the fourth
prospector to enter the Kiondike region.
ne began prospecting i'm Alaska about four
years ago, and finally got up into the klon-
dixie region His properties there are of
immense value, and he has brought out
S2W,OoO in gold. / have talked with him
ABOUT the situation, and he predicts that
Inc output of gold next year will be very
lar beyond what the most exaggerated re-
torts that have been published indicate. He
says that statements of wealth of gold in
ane hionuike which seem TO be wild exag-
serati9ns hardly come up to reality of
what Is On prospect within the next year
inns being the case. it is the duty of this
government to take steps at once to settle
ane , boundary line between the Canadian
atiu United states posseSslons. The pros
pectorS and men who are familiar with
mat country claim that about half of The
Niono'ke gold fields is within Tie Alaskan
States" :" he oii'eu
Changed Conditions of The peo,,.
Representative Eddy has made a very in
teiiigent study of the business situation in
MS own district, which is Interesting. not
chiy on account of the situation disclosed
IN typical agricultural district, but as in
olcative of the Improvement of business
througaoat the country In his district, he
says, their principal reliance is on wheat.
cattle and flax. A year ago he made a
complete tour of his district. and found
tnat there existed an almost universal dis
content. People We're complaining OF hard
tunes and talking politics. The extent of
tllS dlScontent was shown by the district
giving Bryan majority of 600 last fall and
the silver candidate for governor 5000 Mr.
Eddy has just completed another tour of
MS district, and says that he found the
people were generally prosperous and con-
tented, getting good prices for their pro-
ducts and having scarcely ANYTHING to saw
on politics. A year ago the silver senti-
ment was strong. Now. he says, there an
pears to be hardly any that is active The
i4th OF october year ago he examined the
want column in one of the leading papers
OF the state. There Were about two col
umns of advertisements of persons seek
lrg employment, and about three stickfuls
OIL advertisements wanting help. On the
same day of the present month he made
similar examination and found mat
tiers exactly reversed. There We're two
columns of ads wanted help and less
than four sticlSfuls of those wanted situ-
atfons The general conditions I'm the
district he says account for this alum
dance OF employment. The activity in the
lumber camps and the very great increase
OF the wages paid have given employment
10 great many men, and many old lurl-
permen who had for several years aban-
doned that occupation on account of small
pay have returned to ii, the increased paw
Being from s. to SO per month above
what it was last year. The farmers in the
district are getting 80 cents bushel more
Tor their wheat. a cent and half more
a pound for their cattle, and sell their flax
Tor 81 a bushel. The demand Cor young
cattle, he says. is very great In this the
situation in his district is perhaps ey-
ceptionable, he says. since the sraZers in
iowa and North Dakota depend largely
upon that locality for their supply of
calves and yearlines, and are all buyiug
heavily now. He says that he has seen
new calves sold recently for as much as
was paid last year for yearlings.