The herald., 1898-01-29
CORONA AND
COQUITLAN
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and an annual fee of SIS for each of the
! following years A royalty of ten pc,
cent on the gold mined shall be levied
and collected on the gross output'of each
claim. The sum of $25O0 shall be de.
Quoted from the gross annual output of
a claim when estimating the amount
upon which royalty is to be calculated
but this exemption shall not be allowed
unless the royalty is paid at banking
office or to the gold commissioner oil
mining recorder
Regulations have also been adopted
for the issue of leases to persons or COM
panies who have obtained a free miners
certificate to dredge for mines other
than coal in submerged beds or bars of
rivers in the provisional district of Yu-
kon in the Northwest Territory. They
provide that:
The lessee shall be given the exclusive
right to sub-aqueous mining and dredg-
ing for all minerals with the exception Of
coal in and along an unknown extent of
five miles of a river No more than six
such leases will be issued in favor of an
individual or company so that the maxi
mum extent of river in and along which
any individual or company shall be
given the exclusive right above men,
toned shall under no circumstances ex-
ceed thirty miles. The lease shall be
for term of twenty years, renewable In
the discretion of the Minister of the In
terror. The lessee shall have al least one
dredge in operation upon the five miles
leased to him within two seasons of the
date of his lease and if, during one sea-
son when operations can be carried on,
he fails to efficiently work the same to
the satisfaction of the Minister of the In
terror the lease shall become null and
void unless the Minister of the Interior
shall otherwise decide. Provided, that
when any company or individual has
obtained more than one lease, one dredge
for each fifteen miles thereof shall be
held to be compliance with this regula-
ton.
The lessee shall pay a rental of 100 per
annum for each mile of river so leased
to him. The lessee shall also pay to the
crown a royalty of 10 per cent on the out
out in excess of 15000.'
RATES BY RAIL
CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-The Western
roads continued their meeting today for
he purpose of considering the arrange |
ments to be made regarding the sale of
Klondike tickets. Nothing but routine
matters in relation to the sale of the
ticket was considered today. The roads
we're informed that the Canadian Pa
,ific would meet with them on Thurs
lay of next week, and the matter of
will then be taken up. The
western roads are very anxious to re-
tore and maintain passenger rates, and
t was announced at the meeting today
hat they would make every effort to
'ome to an agreement with the Canadian
'acific. 1t is going to cost $40 for
very Klondike dog that is sent from
chicago to Seattle So many of these
lnimals have been brought to the rail-
oads for shipment of late that they have
Deen forced to make through rate on
logs to the Northern Pacific coast
points. OF the total charge the roads
vest of st. Paul will absorb SO. and the
ines between Chicago and st. Paul will
emand 20 cents for every dog destined
o the Klondike regions.
A NIIDWINTER EXPEDITION
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Edward ].
md, Or. to take charge of a midwinter
AptuItlull 4pl lllt INIOLuIhG. Ilt tN- l.,
ects to get into Dawson City before
Iarch 18th with a supply of provisions
lrge enough to relieve any existing dis {
ress.
His plan is to go from Portland to
laska, landing at Haines Mission,
'yramid HarbOr, about Sc miles inland
rom Juneau. He will then go over the c
'hilkoot Pass and Dalton trail to Fort z
elkirk and up the Yukon river to Daw- e
on He is the general manager of the a
now and Ice Transportation Company, a
'hich proposes to establish a perman- h
mt line from Dawson to the ocean for f
xpress. freight and passenger traffic.
Mr.. Rosenfeld has contract with e
citing Secretary of War Meiklejohn for s
he transportation of the government i
elief expedition to Klondike. He will c
axe with him fifty soldiers under the /
ommand of Captain B. L. Branard, i
no was an officer in the Greeley expe- 7
itiOn. The government will send 80
ons Of provisions. agreeing to pay Mr.. +
;osenfed $500 a ton from Lynn canal. q
I'VE will use snow traction engines q
aid Mr. Rosenfeld. 1--WE have six of r.
hese engines, each with 300 horse power 3
i've will be called upon to pull seven
ars each, while the other one will be
Sht for the purpose of breaking the
bad. In addition to the government
'oops and supplies we will carry 200 s
assengers, with about 100 tons of mis- o
allaneous freight belonging to them o
nd 100 tons of our own for our trading c
tore. We will take half a dozen Indian V
uides, who are thoroughly familiar n
18th the country, and several couriers 7
18th dogs to send back with reports of h
le expedition. We will take no women" t
FUTURE SUPPLIES G
OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 2S.-The Can l
dian government has just received a
port from Major Walsh. written on
hristmas eve at Big Salmon river, in
hich he discusses the food problem as
will have to be faced after the territory /,
filled up with the new population that {
ill go in next spring. He calculates f.
lat the river boats will not be able to q
md more than one-half the supplies q
acessary to sustain the estimated pop n
lation next summer. He does not be- Il
eve that 10000 people can get in. One n
art of his report contains an important /,
arning, of which the public should take I,
otice He says: n,
II am informed that fifteen or twenty :,
gents and brokers have come out from
aWson City, carrying with them some
y hundreds, some say thousands of
rtificates for entries of mines on all the
reams in the neighborhood of the Ii
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