The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-05
THE MINING INDUSTRY
What they are Doing In the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARE REPRESENTED,
BrIenets that Are OF Interest to An
Glasses News from All Over
the Country.
The Yukon Country.

There is no possible use in news
papers in this and other mining States
belittling the gold fields OF Alaska and
Northwest Territories; presaging dis
aster to all who go; charging the origin.
alton and maintenance Of the excite
ment on the transportation and trading
companies; predicting the rapid ex-
haustion Of the placers, and generally
disparaging the country and its mines.
There is no use in this because the
gold that has come. and is coming from
the phenomenal, .placers Of the Klon-
dixie and other Yukon camps is proof
of their present richness and an earnest
OF their future yield. The mines are al.
+ tracing attention all over the world
and drawing thousands of men because
/ they are poor mems mines, and can
be worked without capital That is To
say, man once there has as good
chance as any one else and has not got
to dance attendance on capital before
he. may protitably work his claim. Ex-
cept to buy claims the capitalist is en-
tirely out of place in the Yukon cour-
try. He is not needed to work at all
Any man who can get his grub can
work his own claims and pay as he
goes. There is chance for a man to
make stake ii he can provide his food
and clothes and is willing to rough it
and do hard work 1t is for these rea-
sons that these northern placers attract
men so strongly. Rich placer fields
have always done this in any part OF
the globe. 1t was such excitement that
peopled the western coast of the United
States and Australia, the leading gold
producing sections of the world to-
day. Quartz discoveries, no matter
how rich, never create the widespread
excitement" that placers do. Ii the
one or two million dollars that came
out OF the Yukon country last year
caused the stampede which has been
going on ever since, what will be the
result when from ten to. twenty mill
ions come out this season? Joaquin
Miller estimates the Klondike Weld for
the season AT twenty-five millions, and
: sam Wall estimates it at twefity- seven
two close indepedendent estimates
from trained newspaper men on the
ground. Suppose it is only about half
, gold-and it is pretty sure to be that
much at least-who may say what the
result of the receipt of such a sum will
, b.? 1t is we'll, of course, to warn the
aged, the weak, the decrepit, or the
poor man from going to the inhospita-
BILE climate where food is scarce and
poor 1t is we'll to advise those who
cannot afford time or money in taking
chances against going. But it is use.
less, as stated, to disparage and mis-
} represent the whole country in order to
build up our own special localities.
The dangers, hardships, climatic fea-
lures, etc, have all been told and are
understood. But that the gold is there
no doubt can be entertained. There
are, OF course, exaggerations about it,
as is the case many new mining country.
This is to be expected and may be
5 reasonably discounted Whatever else
may be said OF the country TO its dis
!, arrangement may be true, but it is a
fact that the surface gold is there ready
to the hand which has the courage to
dig it out This must be realized by
! any man who has ever visited the
country.-Charles G. Yale in San
Francisco Examiner.