DREDGES FINISH ON BONANZA AND ELDORADO
l'he last rock has been turned in
dredging the famous Bonanza and El
dorado creeks, which have a total
length of 40 miles, says a correspondent
of the Victoria (B. C.) Times. During
(he luie months the dredges of the Gug
genheim or Yukon Gold fleet which did
(he work here dismantled and hauled
to Dawson. The first of the two left
Dawson in August by steamer for Seat
tle via St. Michael, their destination
being unknown, but it is reported the
rhe Guggenheims have sent them to
Burma, India or t he Malay Peninsula to
dig in. The same company has a fleet
of other dredges still operating steadily
on Hunker. Gold Run and Bear creeks,
and one at Guggieville on the Klondike
river. They have several years of life
ahead in this field, as with the pros
pects of the new discovery of the cold
water thawing system reducing the
cost of thawing one-half, it will bring
many more miles uf low-grade proper
ties in this country into profitable op
erating range.
It is already known that 100 miles of
dredging ground remain to be worked
worked in the vicinity of Dawson. The
cold water discovery may make twice
or three times uhat mileage of low
grade properties workable which other
wise never would nave been touched.
It also will give every gold camp in the j
frozen gravel of Alaska as well as the:
Canadian Yukon similar increased acre-!
ag« and prolonged life.
'fhe yardage turned over in the Daw- :
son country by t he Yukon Gold < knn-1
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Discovery.
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'hat removed at the Panama canal.
Many hydraulic plants of gold still
are working on the high benches of
Bonanza creek and the Klondike rive*’,
and other hydraulics on numerous
Hunker creek hills are busy. The
tnree large dredges of the Canadian
Klondike Company also are operating
steadily. The upper Yukon valley's
gold yield to date has been $200,000,000,
ami it is estimated that fully that much
more will be recovered before the
camps are exhausted.
DAWSON IS NOW'DRY"
The Dawson News of August. 29 says:
The Yukon territory will go “dry” to
morrow night, when the law enacted
last spring by the Yukon legislature
abolishing the saloon will go into ef
fect. Twenty licensed bars now exist
in the Yukon, of which 14 are in Daw
son. all connected with hotels or mad
houses. Some of the proprietors an
nounce they will ciose their houses, but
there will be ample accommodations
for the traveling public remaining.
A government dispensary will be
opened here and another at Whitehorse
under the control of Commissioner Mc
Kenzie, ar which goods will be sold
only by the bottle and during limited
hours. The wholesale houses in Daw
son will turn over their stocks to the
government store.
Between now and February a plebis
cite will he held throughout the terri
torry to determine the future of the
liquor business. 'Three propositions
will be voted upon:
Sale of liquor through government
dispensaries, a bone-dry regime or re
turn to the license system which ex
pires tomorrow It is believed that
the real contest will he between the
advocates of the bone-dry and dispen
sary schemes.
The Yukon was the only district in
Canada where the sale of all kinds of
liquor in bars was permiited during the
whole course of the war.
RETURNING TO CHARLEY RIVER
Dawson, Sept. 19.—The News today
says: Ed Brown and brother have re
turned from Hammond river, in itie
Kovukuk, to Charley liver, and will
prospect there this winter. 'They
brought back with them their boiler
and other machinery which they had
used on Hammond river. Charley river
is 20 miles above Woodehopper and 75
miles above Circle City, on the left
limit, of the Yukon. Ed and his brother
prospected there 10 or more years ago.
They found the prospects so encourag
ing that they have determined to re
turn and try it again in the same lo
cality. Sandy Johnson, who is in Daw
son outfitting, will take down a lot of
food and other material for the Browns.
Sandy will have a shipment of four
to six tons for various ones in the dis.
trict. _
Old Fortymile Is Busy Camp
J. A. Kemp, merchant of Steele
creek, on the Fortymile river, while in
Dawson recently, reported much activ
ity in the old camp. He says more
than 200 men are in the valley, and are
engaged in mining chiefly on Steele,
Wade, Franklin, Chicken, and the bars
of the Fortymile.
Russ Officer Kills U.S. Soldier
Omsk, Oct. 11. An American soldier
j in Vladivostok was shot and killed yes
' terdav by a Russian officer.
LIKE "GOOD OLD DAYS '
Bozeman. Mont., Oct. 11. —After
fighting off about 200 armed citizens
for three hours, Buford Webb, who had
previously killed Deputy Sheriff Frank
Curtis and J. C. Vreland, both of Man
hattan. was shot and killed in a gran
ary where lie had taken refuge. Webb
had waylaid his employer because of
trouble over wages.
TRANSPORT REPORTED WRECKED
Archangel, Oct. 11—Two thousand i
lives were lost in the wreck of an un
named British t ransport vessel on the |
Norwegian coast, according to a wire- !
less dispatch from Helsingfors.
London, Oct. 11.—Neither the adrai- I
rally nor Lloyds have received any in- j
formation relative to the wreck of the i
British transoort on the Norwegian I
coast. The report is discredited at |
both places.
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DAVIDS SMOKEHOUSE
That allright oldtiraer, Dave Gross
man, the founder and first, lord mayor
of Otter City, who was so severely j
frozen on the trail last winter that he j
lost about half of his left, trilby and
several toes from bis right foot, has !
lately established himself at Flat City i
in an attractive cigar s and pool j
room—a place where many of his old- ;
time lillic.uras daily find their way j
when they need anything in Dave’s I
line of goods. |
KANSAS TOWN HIT BY TORNADO
Hoisington, Kan., Oct. 11.—Two per
sons were killed and heavy property
damage resulted when a tornado hit
the town yesterday.
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