The daily morning Alaskan., 1899-12-14
GREAI RECORD
Resume of KlOndike Mining the Last Twelve Months.
QUARTZ TO THE FRONT
uore Than ii,OOO Placer Grant, t..uea During Twelve Months Ending with December.

An important summary of the mining operations in the klondlke district Is con tsinet n the Yukon Sun of November 2S, the latest paper out from Dawson. l' was brought by oliver Lawson. who arrived night before last. In regard 10 the opera ticnS oi the last year the Sun says;
 Judging from the number of the free minss' licenses .SSued at the Dawson or ice during the past velr, theie are now ,ver ten thousand men directly and indi' rectly engaged in the pursuit of extracting the precious metal from natures store houses ln this district. The exact number of such lcenSss from November ISt, 1893, Co November ISt, 1899, was io.oIS, in- eludinS duplicates of those lost or de- S,royel. As many licenses are issued at different points, iJ Is probable that the number now ln force In tho entire district Is materially in excess of ten thousand.
 "Ouring the twelve months just ended there were issued II,34o placer mining grants, of which number 4,o67 were for original locations. s.I6I were renewal of sxlant grants and I,22I were for re-loea- tions-i. C., grants for claims which had been previously lOcated. but titles to which were declared forfeited because of failure of representative work or for other causes. There was filed a total of I,7os relocation applications, about % per cent. of which were refused because of insufficient proof as io the validity of alleged claims of for fei,ure.
 "The total number Oi quartz claims which had been granted In the Dawson district up to and including NOvember ,. 1899, Is S2S. As these grants are for I,SooNI. 500 feet each, It will be pereeivec that a vast area in the aggregate is eov- cred by these locations. As an Illustration Of the acceleratng growth Of interest in this branch of mining, it may be stated that. Of the entire number of locations made up to the 7th of the present month. nearly two.th.rdS wete made during the last three months. Ot this last number 6 were made in August, Ioz in Septem- Der, Io3 in October and 6o from November IS, to Novem,e CT 7th. No stronger eyi- dence could be afforded than this that quartz mining Is bo ming up in this field prOspe ting at least. Up 10 date annual aSse, Sment work had been performed only on 70 of these claims. whilst applications for final crown grants has been made for four only.
 "ln the matter Of hydrlult concessions there have leen filed about 24s arplica- tions, covering nearly S]o miles. No, more than $ final grants have been thus far issued. ard only two have ben formal ly refused. There are thus pending, at this date. about 200 of these applications, $ of which have been conjilionallv Irlnted.
 "An lea of the immense proportions Of the yolnme of business transacted in the recorders ofhce may be gleaned from the fat that since the Is, of May no fewer than 1850 instruments, sffeeting the title of mining claims. have been filed for re- ord. The vast majority of these were, presumably. bills of sale, but the number lneluies instruments of all kindS-mOrt gageS, contracts, etc.
 That the results of the seasons aCtiV- lty will be a largely increased outpu, of the precious metal can hardly be doubted" !"