The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-24
Official Report of Operations for
Year Ending Nov. l.
NUMBER or CLAIMS WORKED.
Data Collected by Mounted Police
Omicers show Production of Less
Than s12.0OO,O00 From 1,i0o
cIaims-ActuaI Output Known to
He Much Greater-Over Five
Thousand Men Were Employed.

snecial Correspondence Post-1nteihgencer.
DAWSON, Dec. IA report OF the placer
mining operations in the klondike our
ing the fiscal year ending NoVsnos' =,
Mai y. r. Wood commanding the Nortn-
west mounted police OF the Yukon, SHOWS
that during that period the product OF an
the collaborating creeks OF the oistrict
was 81 1875
The total number Of men employed IN
the mines of the creeks month or SIX
weeks ago when the data was collected,
was 5.3u. Claims worked In the district
during the season numbered 1,16o.
Nearly two-thirds of the total output
came from the creeks centering about
Grand Forks namely, Bonanza, Eldorado,
Quartz and Eureka The exact amount
from these creeks was E.1I4,I6l More IMAM
one-half the men employed In the klon.
dixie were on these four creeks, the e~aoe
number being 3242.
Bonanza was the banner OF the cntire
country, yielding $50, more than two
thirds OF the total output OF the hion-
dixie, and employing 2.2s6 men. or one
half all the men engaged In the hion-
dixie. The number Of claims worked on
the creeks was 26l.
Eldorado produced the second-pest
amount. namely s2.4s2so7. Only ss7 men
were employed on Eldorado.. This means
Eldorado had more than half the output
OF Bonanza, with not many more tnan
two-thirds the number of men WORKING.
IT, TO- claims wo'Ae' o. A''0'aa'
Grand Forks Leads.
Giving the Grand Forks district the first
place in all the Kondike, the other uis-
trictn designated by the police, together
with their outputs, number OF men en-
ployeG and number Of claims worked, TOT
the fiscal year, given in the order in
Don,ninn. si',sI4.sss; men employed, sT1;
number claims worked. 1870 -
Iiunker, s,s77.2ss; men employed 1885,
Gold run. ssos.ss$: men employed, 2s2;
number claims worked. 36.
Sulphur, s6sl,697. men employed. -;
number claims worked, IS.
Quartz creek. in the Grand Forks group,
yielded s0a,41g, and employed seventy men.
Eureka also in the Grand Forks group,
yielded $3603, and employed nine men
While outputs Of certain localities are
given In the foregoing, according 70 the
police scheme. under the heads OF Domin-
ion, Hunlxer Gold Run and sulphur. there
are embraced under those heads certain
well-known tributary and nearby creeks
or hillside or bench diggings
Domination yielded the bulk Of her gold.
or 81, BEGINS. from her creek claims; x2iS,-
$40 from hillsides si2.e5e from the pup at
IA Lower Discovery and &c. 9os from pup
1873, Lower Discovery. The creek claims
employed 69i out or the 81 men working
OH Dominion, and the hillsides 1850.
The Hurker district has Its honors d.
vtdcd az follows; Output of creek claims,
S79S.42l: hillsides x2S5.9sh. or this amount
Sis2401 from the creek claims was exempt
from royalty because the claims contrib
uting 70 this amount each yielded less
than $1,000. All claims In the country
yielding less than 1000 are exempt. There
were 29i creek claims exempt on Hunker.
Hillside claims exempt on Hunker num-
bercd 81, yielding all told $I04s67. Hunker
creeks and hilisides proper employed $50
men.
Gold Bottom. in the bunker division
had one creek claim Welding s5.76S, and
iifty-six creek claims which were exempt
from royalty Welding All told SIS s2t. and
only one hillside claim, with yield Of 81. 2o5.
Gold Bottom creek and hillside claims
proper employed 232 men.
Last Chance Creek. In the Hunker dlvi-
sion. was as follows. Ten creek claims
yielding s1i7,2Ss. four hillside claims Civ
Ing $26.Soi: sixty-four additional claims
which were exempt from royalty, Welding
x6t,022. sixty additional hillside claims
EXEMPT Yielding s5s,ss2 Last Chance en-
sulphur Greeks outnut was divided az
follows Thirty-elght creek claims subject
10 royalty yielded sei5 io5; forty nine
creek claims mol subject TO royalty Yield
ed sec, 2oe; one hillside exempt Welded s39l
sulphur employed ~ men,
Not "A Full Report.
Although this report shows that only
sll6s.Wh mas produced by the Klondike
for the fiscal year II lis conceded that II
" impossible 20 Get men 10 report the full
amount Of gold they take out and that
the output Of the district for the time WIS
undneNti1nably larger than shown by The
foregoing figures,
The output of the Klondike for the
cleanup season OF 1900 is popularity placed
AT S20OW.Wo 70 SIS, 900. geo, but this season
T. not 10 be confused with the tiseal YEAR
for which the police have Just reported
According to the consular invoices Is
sued here TO men going out with gold the
amount shipped during the season of nav.
igation by steamers was sonnet thing more
than Nt.oeo,u1, Every man was required
10 have consular Invoice to take on,
moro than a pocket sum The customs
house required record from steamboat
pursers and the aggregate OF their rec
ord shows Nt0p,Np Tor the season still
" is conceded everywhere that much gold
mus, have slipped through without bcing
recorded
great percentage OF the Klonaike
claims are not being worked this winter
This IS because Il has been found nors
profitable 10 work them IN the sumner.
when the earth from holes can be Throw
direct into Sluics boxes without being r.,
handled again after the cold seaSrn a
over and for other reasons Less wood
Is needed IN summer, thawng out te M
10 difficult. and men can labor 10 better
advantage.
Grand bah Xmas eve. December "a.
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