The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-04

THE KLONDIkE OFFICIALLY RE-
VIEWED.

The government Of British Columbia
authorizes the publication Of . year
book. That for 1897 gives scuae into.naa-
ton as to the Klondike gold fields.
which will probably command some At
tention as an official compilation The
estimate In made that nine out OF ten
persons going 10 the Klondike viii make
q failure Unfortunately for them. 1t
cannot be determined in advance who
are 20 form the lucky one-tenth- But
that one-tenth will. even according to
this cautious publication. have some
rich prizes.
OF the claims along Bonanza creek
100 Will yield. II is stated. s3o. ooo,o 900.
Claim No. 80 will yield si,ooo.o0o. Ten
other claims will yield 100000 each.
Pans" average from $50 to $500. al
though $40 may be regarded as the aver
age I'm rich diggings. All the ground
within miles OF Dawson has long been
.ataked off, by claimants. so that new
Corners without capital viii find nothing
In the kiondike.
The goid-bearing area Ii vast and
comprises a region of about 10000
square miles within Canadian territory.
to say nothing OF the area In Alaska.
About $4,000 square miles of the Cana
dian gold-bearing district are included
In the water shed of the Yukon river,
30 that the Canadian gold fields have
an area as large as that of France. and
larger by 10000 square miles than Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland.
Some OF the facts given are not new,
but since they have now the indorse-
ment OF a government and are attested
by seal. they may be repeated with
less trepidation. Geoiogically, the gold
field corresponds with that of CaIifcr-
mia. being In the same mineral belt and
with the Cariboo and Cassiar mining
regions. famous fifty years ago. Rich
gold prospects have been actually found
I'm an area from 10 to $50 miles wide and
Coo miles long. embracing 100000 square
miles
only a small part OF this region Is In
Guided In the Klondike basin. When the
whole field has been exploited II viii
probably be found 10 be the most ex-
tcnsise aud richest in the world This
authority says chat 1t will probably be
he
all the way srom Klondike southwark
In line roughly parallel with the coast
! ard some hundreds Of miles inland 10
toe northern border If the United
States OF course. nothing ia said In
this about the millions upon millions of
IL liars worth of gold to b. found on
the Alaskan side of this dividing line
Yet In Southeastern Alaska. on the
islands. at the mouth Of Cook Inlet. on
Copper river. almost wherever stream
comes down from the mountains To
American waters. gold Is to be found in
more or less profitable quantities.
The year book estimates the actual
yield Of gold from the creeks near Daw-
son in 1897 at about ss.5eo. oaa. II L.
added that every dollar of this gold cost
dollar or more Il croducc it, TIE
fa.oco people who went in 1897 - the Yu-
hon region spent each about $500. max
ing an outso Of $500 90. against the
s3Eea,eeo of sold mined. II. as expected.
LED. aAe persons se this year, the oxpends-
ture in Isss viii be- $50 oeo. 600. whereas
the gold to be mined IN the next ten
years In the kionaiAe country Is cstl-
mated at about So 900. 600 altogether.
Yet go conservative and well Informed
n newspaper as the baltimore sun SAYS
that II is estimated by railroad authorl-
ties that between loe. 80 and 5oaoo0 par
sons from all parts q the globe VIII this
spring and summer make Il rush Ter che
Alaskan sola fields