The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-25
Grown Claims in Klondike Bring
Lite a. Auction.
BIDS RANGE FROM sire . $50.
out of 900 Claims offered 200 Were
sold, the Government Reaiizins
e10,900--Abandoned Property NO"
sub5ect 10 observation-disclosures
Reforms Ordered From Ottawa.

ar.~t~, fvorresnondence Post-rntelirencer.
DAWSON. Oct IAN important order
In council has lust been received IN DaW-
son by the gold commissioner. IL Is
new law from OTTAWA directing that after
October 8, 1900 ALI ground which mas oeeh
staked as mining property and Is allowed
10 lapse OF abandoned shall become subject
10 relocation and entry Immediately after
its abandonment. This means that the
government has adopted new methods IN
regard to abandoned properties. Here
tofore all such properties reverted 70, the
crown and could not be relocated. and
furthermore we're held by the govern
ment until sold at auction.
The new order implies that no proper
ties revertiug after october shall be
sold. They shall simply become public
domain again. and he open TO location by
any free miner who may stake them,
Coming so soon after the orders received
a few days ago by the gold commissioner,
this order makes a record for reform In
the KlondIke district The orders re-
coivsd within the last three weeks In
Guide one throwing all reverted claims
and all that hnve-bee withheld as alter
nate blocks Of ten claims by the govern
msr.t open 20 gale by auction. This
means the offering OF perhaps 5000 claims
fos sale.
About 80 or these claims were offered
for sale here this week Two hundred
OF them were sold and brought a total
Of ef9so9. The ciaims sold we're iistrfb-
ntsd among numerous buyers. The high
sSt price paid for any piece Of property
orered wss for fraction on Gay Guloh.
which brought $3.50. claim on Last
Chance creek brought tho second hes,
sam, t1.2B French Hill claims brought
rood prices one going for $500. Among
the properties sold were claims on Little
ehoekum benches. bunker creek. Edo
rado benches. Victoria xuich, Forty-nire
suich, Stampede suich and Last Chance
Eulch. II was poor man who could not
buy claim. rhey sole as low as 81 each
and many went for from IS TO so
The remaining ciatms to be sold under
ne recent order issued before the an
be put up at auction November s. they
tncrude altsrnate reservations OF placer
cMims IN blocks OF ten claims each on
and claims that have reverted 10 the
cruWn because OF nonrepresentstion
Ihnee claims ~ a whole are scattered
,,nrogsnout sile klondihe Al claims Of
chased VIII be thrown open for relocation
thirty days after publication. which will
probably he about December rs
cred worth anything at auction are not
likeiy 10 be located soon. II may be
asid that after the opening for relocation
III.
tsnrdH Will have been cleared OF all the
hnsnperfnG regulations. and the kiondjke
VIII have practically no barriers 10 its
no more crown claims will then have fuii
sway.
fhS announcement Of all these new
policies on the part ~ the government IA
received rs glad tidings throughout the
ktcndike for X IL for such privilege. the
people q this region have long been
Iaclnded In the iasr order. from o,,a-
wa n one announcing that no hydraulic
concession shall he granted to anyone
whom 1, can BE- proved that there is gold
IN paving quantities In the ground FOR
ordinary placer operations or such az
the poor man can obtain by his capital
" muscle and Individual enterprise
Ncither shall nm hydraulic concession be
granted when n can be proved there is
valuable mineral on the property. Only
.leven concessions out OF scotes applied
for are known 60 have been granted
inciudsd ~ The ground which will be-
available for stalking after October .
and which has been reserved from loca-
uon ir that On hldorsdo and Bonanza,
which had not been staked up TO year
exn, srd which was them withdra wa
from cntry,
In addition to the grand opening OF
cissms 10 development the word comes
from Ottawa that next month the royalty
viii be reduced from 10 10 per cent
ana that an a,say once is sure Ia he
granted fer Dawson az the next sitting
% the session tn ottawa. within few
months Geld remnisstoref senkior ard
Judge rugas have just returned from OF.
tsw& with thie news The nudge saws an
export duty will b. placed on gold and
the circulation Of gold dust IS currency
prohibited AZ present Epld dust Il a..
eepteA by nearly every one Ia the camp
IN The payment 81 debts 1T the rate N
SIC an ounce All stores have soif scales
and every ono carries poke The Dust