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DAWSON CITY (Klondyi^)
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WM. BRAID & GO.

VANCOUVER, B C.

LEADINrr

OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Direct Importers of Teas,
Coffees and 5pice5.

OOFFEES ROASTED AND GROUND ON THE PREMISES.

IMPERIAL - BANK - OF - CANADA.

HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO.
Capital Paid Up, $1,963,600 I Reserve,

$1,156 SCO

DIRECTORS:

H. S. Howland, President. T. R. Merritt, Vice-President,

Wm. Ramsay. Robt. Jaffray. (St. Catherines).

Hugh Ryan. T. Sutherland Stayner. Elias Rogers.

D. R. Wilkie, General Manager.

Branches in the Northwest and British Columbia.
Winnipeg, Man., C. S. Hoare, Manager ; Brandon, Man., N. G. Leslie, Manager ; Portage
la Prairie, Man., W. Bell, Manager; Calgary, Alta., M. Morris, Manager; Prince
Albert, Sask., W. Davidson, Manager; Edmonton, Alta., G. R. F. Kirkpatrick, Mana-
ger ; Vancouver, B.C., A. Jukes, Manager ; Revelstoke, B.C., A. R. B. Hearn, Manager.
Branches in Ontario:

Essex, Gait, Rat Portage, St. Catherines, Welland, Fergus, Ingersoll, Niagara Falls, Port

Colborne, Sault Ste. Marie, Si. Thomas, Woodstock.

Toronto Branches— Ci rner Wellington Street and Leader Lane.
Co. ner Yonge and Queen Streets.
Corner Yonge and Bloor Streets.
SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT-Dcposits of $i and upwards received and interest

allowed.
DEBENTURES— Municip.-il and other Debentures purchased.
AGENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN-Lloyd's Bank, Ltd., 73 Lombard St., London, witK

whom money may be deposited for transfer by letter or cable to anv of the above branches.
AGENTS IN UNITED STATES-New York, Bank of Montreal and Bank of America ;

Buffalo, Bank of Buffalo ; Chicago, First National Bank ; St. Paul, Second National

Bank ; Boston, National Bank of the Commonwealth ; Detroit, Detroit National Bank ;

Duluth, First National Bank ; Minneapolis, Northwestern National Bank ; Philadelphia,

Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank; San Francisco, Wells, Fargo & Co's Bank;

Portland, Ore., Bank ot British Columbia ; Seattle, Wash., Bank of British Columbia ;

Tacoma, Wash., Bank of British Columbia.

VANCOUVER BRANCH.

DRAFTS SOLD, available at all points in Canada, United States and Europe.
LETTERS OF CREDIT issued, avaiLible in any part of the world.

A. JUKES. MANAGER.

The Northern Supply Co.

LIMITED Liability,
A TRAOINC COMPANY INCORPORATED UNDER THE IMPERIAL ACT OF 1862.

Capital, $10,000, divided into Shares of $50 Each.

This Company is operating a first-class Hotel in the

Coast or Philips Arm Mining District,

and give especial attention to

VISITORS AND PEOPLE SEEKING INVEST/WENT.

In connection with the Hotel a well furnished store is conducted!, -Trrying all

necessaries for the camp and rural trade. The Motel was

the first building erected in

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INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1862.

CAPITAL (With power to Increase) £600,000 $2,920,000

EESBRVB 100,000 486,669

HEAD OFFICE, 6o LOMBARD ST., LONDON, ENGLAND.

BRANCHES:

IN TmiTISH COLUMBIA : I IN THE UNITED STATES :

San Francisco and Portland,

Victoria, Vancouver, New West-
minster, Nanaimo, Kamloops,
Nelson, Sandon and Kaslo. |

Agents and Correspondents ji-canatTI^^nadian^^

Bank, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Union Bank of
Canada. In United States— Canadian Bank of Coii'merce (Agency) New York;
Bank of Nova Scotia and First National Bank, Chicajjo. In Australia and New
Zealand- -Bank of Australasia. In Honolulu — Bishop I'c Co.

SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT

Deposits received from $i upwards, and interest allowed thereon.

GOLD DUST PDRCHASED and eyery aescriptioB of Banking Business iransacteil.

WM. MURRAY, Manager.

British Columbia

/Bbining Stocks*

A thorough knowledge of the Mining Regions of British Columbia enables
me to furnish competent and reliable information. No mines listed for sale unless
endorsed by some reputable mining engineer.

Connections in principal cities of Canada, United States and Europe. Cor-
renpondence solicited,

— v-VAODflESS .-V*—

FRANK S. TAGGART, 319 CAMBIE STREET,

V^ITCOXTVER, B. O.

Cable Address, " Ambrozine," Moreing & Neal, Clough's (new and old),
Bedford McNeill, and A. B. C. Codes,

Is Co. of B. C.

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HEAD OFFICE and:wharf. '^^VaNCOUVER, B. C.

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NORTHERN SETTLEMENTS.

S. S. Comox sails from Company's wharf every TUESDAY, at 9 a. m. for Bowen
Island, Howe Sound, Sechelt, Jervis Inlet, Froeck, Texada Island, Lund,
Hernando Island, Corlez Island, Read Island, Valc'ez Island, Shoal Bay,
Phillips Arm, Frederick Arm, Thurlow Island, Loughborough Inlet,
Salmon kiver, Port N'-^ille, and sails every FRIDAY, at 3 p. m., for
Way Ports and Shoal L y, calling at Bute Inlet every six weeks.

NASS RIVER AND WAY PORTS.

S. S. Coquitlam sails on the 8th and 22nd of each month for Naas River and
Way Ports, and will proceed to any part of the Coast should inducements
, offer.

MOODYVILLE AND NORTH VANCOUVER FERRY.

Leaves Moodyville at 8, 9.15, 10.45 a. m., 12 noon, 2, 4, 5.45 and 7 p. m.
Leaves Vancouver at 8.35, 10, 11:20 a. m., 1. 15, 3.15, 5.15, 6.20 and 7.30
p. m. Calling at North Vancouver each way, excepting the noon trip.
Late' trip .Saturday and Sunday, leave Moodyville 7 p. ni., Vancouver,
7.30 p. m.

CLONDIKE GOLDFIELDS.

Steamers to DYEA for the YUKON COUNTRY during the Season.

Freierbt Steamer " Capllano," capacity 300 tons d. w.

Tugs and scows always r.vailable for towing and freighting business
storage accommodation on Company's wharf.

Telephone 94. P.O. Box 771. H. DARUNQ, MANAamm.

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Vancouver,

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CABLE ADDRESS, GARRYOWEN.

P. O. BOX 337:

JOHN MacOUILLAN,

Mines and Mining,

609 HASTINGS STREET,

Vancouver, )B. C.

Codes Used :

A. B. C, 4th Edition.
Clough. Moreing & Neal.
Bedford McNeill.

Mining Claims bought, sold, bonded, developed and operated. A number
of partially developed claims for sale.

Correspondence Solicited from owners of Placer and Mineral Claims and other
Properties in the Yukon and B. C. >•

OFFICE OF THE DOMINION DEVELOPING AND MINING CO., Limited Liability.
THE DOMINION MINES, LIMITED.
' THE QUEEN GOLD AND SILVER MINING CO., Limited Liability.

BaDk of British North America,

ESTASLISHCO IN 1836.

1^ Incorporated by Boyal Charter in 1840. C

PAID-UP CAPITAL, -
RESERVE FUND. -

del, 000,000 Sterling
275,000

London Offioe-3 Clements Lane, Lombard St . £. C.

Court of Directors— J. H. Brodie, John J.imes Cater, Gnspard Farrer, Henr>' R. Farrer,
Richard H. Glyn, Ed. Arthur Hoare, H. J. B. Kendall, J. J. Kingsford, Frederic Lubbocks,
George D. Whatman. Secretary— A. G. Wallis.

Head Office in Canada-St. James St., Montreal

H. Stikbman, General Manager. J. Elmslv, Inspector.

Branche* \» Canada— London, Brantford. Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa,
Montreal, Quebec, St. John, N. B., Fredericton, N. B., Halifax, N. S., Winnipeg, Man.,
Brandon, Man.

The United 5Ute»-NEW York-« Wall Street-W. Lawson & J. C. Welsh.
San Franctsco — laoSansome Street — H. M. J. McMichael and J. R. Ambrose.

London Banker*— The Bank of England, and Messrs, Glyn & Co.

In Britllh Columbia. -Kaslo. B. C, Russland, B. C, Sandop, B. C, Slocin City,
B. C, Trail, B. C. (Sub-Agency), Victoria, B. C, and \'ancou\er, B. C.

GOLD DU»T PURCHASED. W- GODFREY. Manager.

MeLiai, MMf & Co.

-LIMITED,.

J22 Cordova Street,.

Vancouver, b. c.

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Miners' Outfits

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TINWARE, ETC., ETC.

Picks, Shovels, Gold Pans, Whip Saws, Axes,
Rope, Tents, Camping Utensils, Etc.

We know exactly what you require for the famous

KLONDYKE COUNTRY

and can fit you out while you wait. Call at
once on your arrival and see us.

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Mining Resdlations of the Yukon.

Following are the Regulations governing placer mining along the Yukon
Kiver and its tributaries, in the Northwest Territories, fixed by a recent Order-
in-Council of the Dominion Government :

INTERPRETATION.

" Bar diggings" shall mean any part of a river over which the water extends
when the water is in its flooded state, and which is not covered at low water.

Mines on benches shall be known as " bench diggings," and shall for the
purpose of defining the size of such claims be excepted from dry diggings.

" Dry diggings " shall mean any mine over which a river never extends.

" Miner " sha mean a male or female over the age of eighteen, but not
xinder that age.

" Claim " shall mean the personal right of property in a placer mine or dig-
gings during the time for which the grant of such mine or diggings is made.

" Legal post " shall mean a stake standing not less than four feet above the
ground and squared on four sides for at least one foot from the top. Both sides
so squared shall measure at least four inches across the face. It shall also mean
any stump or tree cut off or squared or faced to the above height and size.

" Close season " shall mean the period of the year during which placer
mining is generally suspended. The period to be fixed by the Gold Commissioner
in whose district the claim is situated.

"Locality" shall mean the territory along a river (tributary of the Yukon
River) and its affluents.

" Mineral " shall include all minerals whatsoever other than coal.

NATURE AND SIZE OF CLAIMS.

1. " Bar diggings," a strip of land loo feet wide at high water mark and
thence extending into the river to its lowest water level.

2. The sides of a claim for bar digging shall be two parallel lines run as
nearly as possible at right angles to the stream, and shall be marked by four legal
posts, one at each end of the claim at or about the edge of the water. One of the
posts at high water mark shall be legally marked with the name of the miner and
the date upon which the claim was staked.

.0?^ Pr.cif ic N. W. History DopL

V)^ PROVINCIAL. L-IBRARV

3. Dry diggings shall be ICX3 feet square and shall have placed at each of its
four corners a legal post, ujxjn one of which shall be legally marked the name of
the miner and the date upon which the claim was staked.

4. Creek and river claims shall be 500 feet long measured in the direction
of the general course of the stream, and shall extend in width from base to base of
the hill or bench on each side, but when the hills or benches are less than 100 feet
apart, the claim may be 100 feet in depth. The sides of the claim shall lie two
parallel lines run as nearly as possible at right angles to the stream. The sides
shall be marked with legal posts at or about the edge of the water and at the rear
i,oundaries of the claim. One of the legal posts at the stream shall be legibly
marked with the name of the miner and the date upon which the claim was staked.

5. Bench claims shall be loo feet square.

6. In defining the size of claims they shall be measured horizontally irres-
pective of inequalities on the surface of the ground.

7. If any person or jiersons shall discover a new mine and such discovery
shall be established to the satisfaction of the gold commissioner a claim for bar
diggings 750 feet in length may be granted.

A new stratum of auriferious earth or gravel situated in a locality where the
claims are abandoned shall for this purpose be deemed a new mine, although the
same locality shall have been previously worked at a different level.

8. The forms of application for a grant for placer mining and the grant of
the same shall Ije those contained in forms "H" and "I" in the scliedule hereto.

9. A claim shall be recorded with the gold commissioner in whose district it
is situated within three days after the location thereof if it is located within ten
miles of the commissioner's office. One extra day shall !« allowed for making
such record for every ten miles or fraction thereof.

10. In the event of the absence of the gold commissioner from his office,
entry by a claim may be granted liy any person whom he may appoint to perform
his duties in his absence.

1 1 . Entry shall not be granted for a claim which has not been staked by the
^ applicant in person in the manner specified in these regulations. An affidavit that

the claim was staked out by the applicant shall be embodied in form " H " of the
schedule hereto.

12. An entry fee of $15 shall be charged the first year, and an annual fee of
$100 for each of the following years. This provision shall apply to locations for
which entries have already l)een granted.

13. After the recording of a claim the removal of any post by the holder
thereof or by any person acting in his behalf for the purpose of changing the
boundaries of his claim shall act as a forfeiture of the claim.

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14. The entry of every holder of a grant for placer mining must be renewed
and his receipt relinquished and replaced every year, the entry fee being paid each
time.

15. No miner shall receive a grant of more than one mining claim in the
same locality, but the same miner may hold any number of claims by purchase,
and any number of miners may unite to work their claims in common upon such
terms as they may arrange, provided such agreement be registered with the gold
commissioner and a fee of five dollars be paid for each registration.

16. Any miner or miners may sell, mortgage or dispose of his or their
claims, provided such disposal be registered with, and a fee of two dollars paid to
the gold commissioner, who shall thereupon give the assignee a certificate in form
" J " in the schedule hereto.

17. Every miner shall, during the continuance of his grant, have the exclu-
sive right of entry upon his own claim, for the miner-like working thereof, and the
construction of a residence thereon, and shall Ije entitled exclusively to all the pro-
ceeds realized therefrom; but he shall have no surface rights therein; and the gold
commissioner may grant to the holders of adjacent claims such right of entry
thereon as may be absolutely necessary for the working of their claims, upon such
terms as may to him seem reasonable. He may also grant permits to miners to
cut timber thereon for their own use, upon payment of the dues prescribed by the
regulations in that behalf.

18. Every miner shall be entitkd to the use of so much of the water natur-
ally flowing through or past his claim, and not already lawfully appropriated, as
shall, in the opinion of the gold commissioner, be necessary for the due working
thereof; and shall be entitled to drain his own claim free of charge.

19. A claim shall lie deemed to be abandoned and open to occupation and
entry by any person when the same shall have remained unworked on working
days by the grantee thereof or by some person on his behalf for the space of
seventy-two hours, unless sickness or other reasonable cause be shown to the satis-
faction of the gold commissioner, or unless the grantee is absent on leave given by
the commissioner, and the gold commissioner upon obtaining evidence satisfactory
to himself that this provision is not being complied with may cancel the entry
given for a claim.

20. If the land upon which a claim has been located is not the property of
the crown it will be necessary for the person who applied for entry to furnish proof
that he has acquired from the owner of the land the surface rights before entry can
be granted.

21. If the occupier of the lands has not received a patent therefor, the pur-
chase money of the surface rights must !« paid to the crown, and a patent of the
surface rights will issue to the party who acquired the mining rights. The money
so collected will either be refunded to the occupier of the land, when he is entitled
to a patent therefor, or will be credited to him on account of payment for land.

22. When the party obtaining the mining rights to lands cannot make an
arrangement with the owner or his agent or the occupant thereof for the acquisi-
tion of his surface rights, it shall be lawful for him to give notice to the owner or
his agent or the occupier to appoint an arbitrator to act with another arbitrator
named by him, in order to award the amount of compensation to which the owner
or occupant shall lie entitled. The notice mentioned in this section shall be
according to a form to be obtained upon application from the gold commissioner
for the district in which the lands in question lie, and shall, when practicable, be
personally served on such owner, or his agent if known, or occupant; and after
reasonable efforts have been made to effect jjcrsonal service, without success, then
such notice shall be served by leaving it at, or sending by registered letter to, the
last place of abode of the owner, agent or occupant. Such notice shall be served
upon the owner or ageiit within a period to be fixed by the gold commissioner
before the expiration of the time limited in such notice. If the proprietor refuses
or declines to appoint an arbitrator, or when, for any other reason no arbitrator is
appointed by the proprietor in the time limited therefor in the notice provided for
by this section, the gold commissioner for the district in which the lands in ques-
tion, lie, shall, on being satisfied by affidavit that such notice has come to the
knowledge of such owner, agent or occupant, or that such owner, agent or occu-
pant wilfully evades the service of such notice, or cannot be found, and that reason-
able efforts have been made to effect such service, and that the notice was left at
the last place of abode of such owner, agent or occujjant, appoint an arbitrator on
his behalf.

23. (ii.) All the arbitrators appointed under the authority of these regula-
tions shall be sworn before a Justice of the Peace to the impartial discharge of the
duties assigned to them, and they shall forthwith proceed to estimate th« reason-
able damages which the owner or occupant cf ?"^'n lands, according to their several
interests therein, shall sustain by reason of such prospecting and mining opera-
tions.

{d. ) In estimating such damages, the arbitrators shall determine the value of
the land irrespectively of any enhancement thereof from the existence of minerals
therein.

(c. ) In case such arbitrators cannot agree, they may select a third arbitrator,
and when the two arbitrators cannot agree upon a third arbitrator the Gold Com-
missioner for the district in which the lands in question lie shall select such third
arbitrator.

(</. ) The award of any two such arbitrators made in writing shall be final,
and shall be filed with the Gold Commissioner for the district in which the lands
lie.

In any cases arising for which no provision is made in these regulations, the
provisions of the regulations governing the disposal of mineral lands other than
coal lands approved by His Excellency the Governor in Council on the 9th of
November, 1889, shall apply.

iS&i

Form H.— Application for grant for Placer Mining and
Affidavit of Applicant.

I, (or we), of hereby apply, under the Dominion Mining

Regulations, for a grant of a claim for placer mining as defined in the said regu-
lations, in (Here describe locality.)
and I (or we) solemnly swear :

1. That I (or we) have discovered therein a deposit of (here name the metal
or mineral.)

2. That I (or we) am (or are) to the best of my (or our) knowledge and
belief, the first discoverer (or discoverers) of the said deposit ; or,

3. That the said claim was previously granted to (here name the last
grantee), but has remained unworked by the said grantee for not less than

4. That I (or we) am (or are) unaware that the land is other than vacant
Dominion land.

5. That I (or we) did, on the day of mark out on the ground
in accordance in every particular with the provisions of the mining regulations for
the Yukon River and its tributaries, the claim for which I (or we) make this
application, and that in so doing I (or we) did not encroach on any other claim
or mining location previously laid out by any other person.

6. That the said claim contains, as nearly as I (or we) could measure or
estimate, an area of square feet, and that the description (and sketch, if any),
of this date hereto attached, signed by me (or us) sets (or set) forth in detail, to the
best of my (or our) knowledge and ability, its position, form and dimensions.

7. That I (or we) make this application in good faith, to acquire the claim
for the sole purpose of mining, to be prosecuted by myself (or us) or by myself
and associates, or by my (or our) assigns.

Sworn before me

this

day of

(Signature. )

No.

Form T. — Grant for Placer Mining.
Depart.ment of the Interior,

Agency, 18

In consideration of the payment of five dollars, being the fee required by the
provisions of the Dominion Mining Regulations, clauses four and twenty, by
(A. B.) of , accompanj-ing his (or their) application No. ,

elated 18 , for a mining claim in (here insert description

of locality. )

The Minister of the Interior hereby grants to the said (A. B.)

for the term of one year from the date hereof, the exclusive right of entry upon
the claim (here describe in detail the claim granted) for the

miner-like working thereof anil the construction of a residence thereon, and the
exclusive right to all the proceeds realized therefrom.

The said (A. B.) shall Ije entitled to the use of so much of the

water naturally flowing through or past his (or their) claim, and not already
lawfully appropriated, as shall be necessary for the due working thereof, and to
drain his (or their) claim, free of charge.

This grant does not convey to the said (A. B.) any surface rights

in the said claim, or any right of ownership in the soil covered by the said claim ;
and the said grant shall lapse and be forfeited unless the claim is continuously and
in good faith worked by the said (A. B.) or h's (or their) associates.

The rights hereby granted are Jiose laid down in the aforesaid mining regu-
lations, and no more, and are subject to all the provisions of the said regulations,
whether the same are expressed herein or not.

Gold Commissioner.

No,

Form J. —Certificate of the Assignment of a Placer Mining Claim.
Department of the Interior,

.\gency, 1 8

This is to certify that (B.C.) of has (or have)

filed an assignment in due form dated 1 8 , and accoiVipanied by a

registration fee of two dollars, of the grant to (A.B.) of

of the right to mine in (insert description of claim)

for one year from the 1 8

This certificate entitles the said (B.C.) to all the rights

and privileges of the said ,A.B. ) in respect of the claim

assigned, that is to say, to the exclusive right of entry upon the said claim for the
miner-like working thereof and the construction of a residence thereon, and the
exclusive right to all the proceeds realized therefrom, for the remaining portion of
the year for which the said claim was granted to the said (A.B.) ,

that is to say, until the day of i8 .

The said ( B. C. ) shall be entitled to the use of so much

of the water naturally flowing through or past his (or their) claim and not already
lawfully appropriated, as shall be necessarj' for the due working thereof, and to
drain the claim free of charge.

This grant does not convey to the said B. C. any surface

rights in the said claim, or any right of ownership in the soil covered by the said
claim ; and the said grant shall lapse and be forfeited unless the claim is continu-
ously, and in good faith, worked by the said (B. C.) or his
(or their) associates.

The rights hereby granted are those laid down in the Dominion Mining
Regulations, and no more, and are subject to all the provisions of the said regu-
lations, whether the same are expressed herein or not.

Gold Commissioner,

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Extracts from Mr. Ogilvie's Reports to the Dominion

Government.

contmu-
or his

William Ogilvie, of the Department of the Interior, in his report to the Sur-
veyor-General of Canada, dated November 6th, 1896, says the name Klondak,
Klondyke, or Clondyke, as it is variously spelled, is "a mispronunciation of the
Indian word or words Thron-dak or Duick, which means plenty of fish, from the
fact that it is a famous salmon stream. It is marked Tondack on old maps. It
joins the V'ukon from the east a few miles above the site of Fort Reliance.

Concerning the discovery of gold on this stream, he says: — "The discov-
ery, I believe, was due to the reports of Indians. A white man named (i. W.
Carmach, who worked with me in 1887, was the first to take advantage of the
rumors and locate a claim on the first branch, which was named by the miners
Bonanza Creek. Carmach located here late in August, but had to cut some logs
for the mill here to get a few jwunds of provisions to enable him to begin work on
his claim, the fishing at Klondak having totally failed him. He returned with a
few weeks' provisions for himself, his wife and brother-in-law (Indians), and
another Indian in the last days of August and immediately set about working his
claim. As he was very short of appliances he could only put together a rather
defective apparatus to wash the gravel with. The gravel itself he had to carry in
a l)ox on his back from 30 to 100 feet. Notwithstanding this the three men work-
ing very irregularly washed out $1,200 in eight days, and Carmach asserts with
reason that had he had proper facilities it could have been done in two days, be-
sides having several hundred dollars more gold, which was lost on the tailings
through defective apparatus. On the same creek two men rocked out $75 in
about two hours, and it is asserted that tvo men in the same creek took out
$4,008 in two days with only two lengths of sluice boxes. This last is doubted,
but Mr. Leduc assures me he weighed that much gold for them, but is not positive
where they got it. They were newcomers and had not done much in the country,
so the probabilities are they got it on Bonanza Creek. A branch of Bonanza,
named Eldorado, has prospected magnificently, and another bfanch named Tilly
Creek has prospected well ; in all there are some four or five branches to Bonanza
Creek which have given good prospects. There are about 170 claims staked on
the main creek and the branches are good for about as many more, aggregating
say 350 claims, which will require over 1,000 men to work properly.

A few miles further up Bear Creek enters Klonctek, and it has been prospected
and located on. Compared wi.S Bonanza it is small and will not afford more
than 20 or 30 claims, it is said.

About 12 miles above the mouth of (lold Bottom Creek joins Klondak, and
on it and a branch named Hunker Creek after the discovery very rich ground has
been found. One man showed me $22.75 he took out in a few hours on Hunker
Creek with a gold pan prospecting his claim on the surface, taking out a panful
here and there as fancy suggested. On Gold Bottom Creek and branches there

will prolmbly be two or three hundred claims. The Indians hnve reported
another creek much farther up, which they call Too Much (ioid Creek, on which
the gold is so plentiful that as the miners say in joke, " You have to mix gravel
with it to sluice it." Up to date nothing definite has \ieen heard from this creek.

From all this we may, I think, infer that wc have here a district that will
give l,ooo claims of 500 feet in length each. Now, 1,000 such claims will recjuire
at least 3,000 men to work them properly, and as wages for working in the mines
are from $8 to $10 per day, without board, we have every reason to assume that
this part of our terlitory will in a year or two contain 10,000 soids at least, for the
news has gom; out to the coast and an unprecedented influx is expected next
spring. And this is not all, for a large ci?ek called Indian creek joins the Yukon
about midway between Klondak and Stewart river, and all along this creek good
pay has been found. All that has stoo<l in the way of working it heretofore has
been the scarcity of provisions and the difficulty of getting them up there even
when here. Indian creek is quite a large stream, and it is probable it will yield
500 or 600 claims. Farther south yet lies the head of several branches of Stewart
river, on which some prospecting has been done this summer and good indications
found, but the want of provisions prevented developmant. Now gold has been
found in several of the streams adjoining I'elly river, and also along the Iloota-
linqua. In the line of these fmds further south is the Cassiar gold field in British
Columbia, so that the presumption is that we have in our territory along the
easterly watershed of the Yukon a goM bearing Ijelt of indefinite width and up-
wards of three hundred miles long, exclusive of the British Columbia part of it.
On the easterly side of the Yukon prospecting has been done on a creek a short
distance above Selkirk with a fair amount of success, ami on a large creek some
30 or 40 miles below Selkirk fair prospects have been found, but as before re-
marked the difficulty of getting supplies here prevents any extended prospecting.

Dalton informed me he has found good prospects on a small creek nearly
midway between the coast range and Selkirk on his route. Mis man showed me
some coarse gold, about a dollar's worth, he found on the head of a branch of the
Aetsek river, near ;!ic head of Chilcat Inlet, which is of course inside the summit
of the coast r.-rngp -nd 0' course in our territory. From this you will gather that
we have a very \af\^^. at'H all more or less gold bearing and will all yet be worked.

Good quart! h9.i been found in place just across the line on Davis creek (see
my map of the 141st sent you), but of what extent is unknown, as it is in the bed
of the creek and covered with gravel. Good quartz is also reported on the hills
around Bonanza creek, but of this I will be able to speak more fully after my pro-
posed survey. It is pretty certain from information I have got from prospectors,
that all or nearly all of the northerly branch of White river is on our side of the
line, and copper is found on it, but more abundantly on the southerly branch of
which a great deal of it is in our territory also, so it is probable we have that metal
too. I have seen here several lumps of native copper brought by the natives from
White River, but just from what part is uncertain. I have also seen a specimen
of silver ore said to have been picked up in a creek flowing into Bennet Lake,
about 14 miles down it on the east side.

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Refore cloMng I may say that every report that comcn in from Uonanza Creek
is more encouraging thari the last. I'rospecting has only begun, and up to the
date o( mailing, November 22nd, very rich prospects have been found on the few
claims prospected on. From one dollar to the pan of dirt up to twelve dollars
are reported and no bed rock found yet. This means from $1,000 (o $12,000 per
day per man sluicing. The excitement is intense, but at this .season of the
year it is naturally very local.

Writing on December 9th, 1896, Mr. Ogilvie said :

Since my last the prospects on Bonanza Creek and tributaries are increasinj;
in richness and extent, until now it is certain that millions will be taken out of the
district in the next few yeors. On some of the claims prospected the pay dirt is
of great extent and very rich. One man told me yesterday that he washed out a
single pan of dirt on one of the claims on Bonanza, and found $14.25 in it. Of
course that may be an exceptionally rich pan, but $5 to $7 |)er pan is the average
on t^r' claim, it is reported with five feet pay dirt and the width yet undetermined,
but is known to be thirty feet ; even at that figure, the result at nine or ten pans
to the cubic foot, and five hundred feet long is nearly $4,000,000 at $5 per pan.
One-fourth of this would be enormous.

Another claim has been prospected to such an extent that it is known there
is about five feet pay dirt, averaging $2 per pan, and not less than thirty feet.
Enough prospecting has been done to show that there are at least fifteen miles of
this extraordinary richness, and the indications are that we will have three or four
times that extent, if not all equal to the above at least very rich.

On January nth, 1897, he wrote :

The reports from the Klondak region are still very encouraging. So much
so that all the other creeks around are practically abandoned, especially those on
the head of Forty Mile, in American territory and nearly one hundred men have
made their way up from Circle City, hauling their sleds themselves many of them.
Those who cannot get their claims are buying in on those already located. Men
cannot be got to work for love or money, and development is consequently slow ;
one and a half dollars per hour is the wages paid the few men who have to work
for hire, and work as many hours as you like. Some of the claims are so rich
that every night a few pans of dirt suffices to pay the hired help when there is
any. As high as $204 iias been reported to a single pan, but this is not generally
credited. Claim owners are now very very reticent about what they get, so you
can hardly credit anything you hear, but one thing is certaii), we have one of the
richest mining areas ever found, with a fair prospect that we have not yet discov-
ered its limits.

Miller and Glacier Creeks, on the head of Sixty Mile River, which my sur-
vey of the 141st meridian determined to be in Canada, were thought to be very
rich, but they are poor both in quality and quantity compared with Klondak.
Chicken Creek, at the head of Forty Mile, in Alaska, discovered a year ago, and
rated very high, is to-day practically abandoned.

January 2ist, 1897. — There are applications in for about 380 acres of land on
the flat north of the Klondak, on the east side of the Yukon, while all the extent
of land available for use on it is about 200 acres. Joseph Leduc, who applied for
160, has only about no available for use in building on, the rest being steep hill-
side, and the most of the flat is a moss-covered swamp. He had laid out and dis-
posed of a few lots for building on in it, making his streets only 50 feet wide, and
the main streets along the river even less, the builders going often close to the
bank for convenience in getting water ; but ' stopped .'U that, and have the river
front at least 66 feet wide, in most place.-, much more. All streets parallel to the
river are 66 feet, and all at right angles to those I have left at 50, as Laduc had
them. It seems to me that 50 feet is wide enough in this country, as it is hardly
likely there will be much heavy traffic on them. Had I made the streets running
fiom the river 66 feet wide it would have put a good many people much inconven-
ience. I will send out by the next mail a sketch showing the position of all the
applications so far. The American Government has given a contract for four
mails this winter to Circle City, at $1,700 each mail, in and out. The mail
carriers will take out letters at $1 each.

January 22nd, 1897. — A quartz lode showing free gold in paying quantities
has been located on one of the creeks, but I cannot yet send particulars. I an
confident frorr the nature of the gold found in the creeks that many more of them,
and rich jo, will be found.

Jani'ary 23'd.--I have just heard from a reliable source tha* the quartz men-
tioner'. above is rich, as it tested over $100 to the ton. The lode appears to run
fron" three to eight feet in thickness, and is about 19 miles from the Yukon River.
I will likely be called on to survey it and will be able to report fully.

Placer prospects continue more and more encouraging and extraordinary ; it
is beyond doubt tnat three pars of different claims on Eldorado turned out $204,
$212 and $216, but it must be borne in mind that there were only three such pans,
though there are many running from $10 to $50.

I have just received a petition from the miners to attend to the survey of their
claims, they doing all the work and boarding and lodging me. I will begin at it
in about ten days, and it will likely take me upwards of two months. I am glad
to have the opportunity of doing it, for I think I can considerably, if not alto-
gether, straighten out the tangle there is there.

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HOW TO GET THERE, AND WHERE TO OUTFIT.

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George M. Dawson, C.M.G., describes Tie Canadian Yukon as bounded to
the south by the northern limit of the Province of British Columbia (Lat. 60°), to
the west by the eastern line of the United States Territory of Alaska ; to the east
by the Rocky Mountain Ranges and the 136th meridian ; and to the north by the
Arctic Ocean. The district, as above defined, has a total area of approximately
192,000 square miles, of which, according to the most recent information, 150,768
square miles is included in the watershed of the Yukon. " The superficial extent
of the district may perhaps best be realized when it is slated that it is nearly equal
to that of France, greater than the United Kingdom by 71,000 miles, ten times
the area of the Province of Nova Scotia, and nearly three times that of the New
England States."

Whether or not the whole of this vast area is auriferous r; nnot now be said,
but there is reason to hope that in all parts of it paying deposits of gold and silver
may be found. Sufficient is already known, although only a very small part of
the district has been prospected, to rank the Yukon as among the greatest placer
gold fields that have ever been discovered.

(Jold was first discovered in the Yukon Hasin in 1881, when a party went up
the Big Salmon River, a tributary of the Lewis, for a distance of t.vo hundred
miles and found gold on all its bars, many of them paying very well. During the
next few years some mining was done on the Hootalinqua, which flows out of
Teslin Lake and into the Yukon. In 1886 gold was dug out of the (."assiar bar
on the Stewart River in considerable quantities. Since then gold has been found
on Fortv Mile Creek, Sixty Mile Creek, Miller Creek, Glacier Creek, Birch
Creek, .id last, but by no means least, the creeks tributary to the Klonkyke.

Forty Mile Creek is for the most part in Alaska, that is in United Slates ter-
ritory; the head waters of Sixty Mile Creek are also in .\laska. Miller, Glacier,
and Birch Creeks were once thought to be in Alaska, but are no.v known to be in
Canada, and Stewart River and the wonderfully rich Klondyke are wholly in
Canadian territory. The laller flow into the Yukon from the eastward, and the
whole of tiie Lewis, Big Salmon and Hootalinqua Rivers are in Canada.

The Klondyke enters the Yukon near the 64th parallel of North Latitude,
As yet no paying deposits of gold have been found in the main river itself, the
rich placers, which have excited attention all over the world, being upon its
tribuluries which enter it from the south.

The Klondyke may be reached from two directions. One is by ocean steamer
to St. Michael's Island in Bering Sea, and thence up the Yukon River, the dis-
tance up the river being 1,679 miles and navigable for vessels of 400 tons. The
other is by crossing over the Coast Range of mountains to the head waters of
the Lewis branch of the Yukon and descending by boat. Th; shortest route
from Vancouver is that via the White Pass and is approximately 1,594 miles. This
journey is made up as follows : —

From Vancouver to Skag'vay Bay, near the head of

Lynn Canal (ocean steamers) 949 miles.

" Skagway Bay over the White Pass '.o Lake

Tagish (pack trail) 36 "

" Lake Tagish to Klondyke, down river 534 "

1,519 miles.

Another available route to the Lewis River is from Dyea or Tya, at the head
of Lynn Canal, r'ia the Chilcoot Pass. This distance is a slightly longer than
that via the White Pass.

A third route to the Lewis River is via the Stickeen River to Telegraph
Creek and thence overland by pack train to Lake Teslin. The distance is ap-
proximately as follows : —

From Vancouver to Fort Wrangel (ocean steamers). .. 726 miles.
" ^ort Wrangel to Telegraph Creek (river steam-
ers) 148 "

" Overland travel to Teslin Lake 150 "

" Mead of Teslin Lake to Klondyke 584 "

1,608 miles.

Still another route is from the head of Taku Inlet, a little south of Juneau,
thence overland by the valley of the Taku River to Lake Teslin. The distance
to Lake Teslin by this route is approximately the same as via the Stickeen route
To Klondyke, might be somewhat shorter, according to the point at which the
trail will strike the Lake.

THE WHITE PASS.

The White Pass route starts from .Skagway Bay, which is five miles below
Dyea, the head of Lynn Canal. The bay is a fine natural harbor with good
anchorage for vessels of any size. The largest ocean vessels can steam directly
into this bay. From the harbor the trail follows the Skagway River to its head,
which is near the summit of the Pass, a distance of 16 miles. The fust four miles
are in the bed of the river and the ascent is gradual. At four miles the canyon
is reached, and here the route becomes more difficult. For seven miles the trail
works its way along the mountain side rising steadily for almost the entire dis
tance. This is the only hard part of (he route. The next three miles is a gentle
rise, anil they carry the trail to the summit, an elevation of 2,600 feet above tlu'
sea level. The country here broadens out into a valley five miles wide, having a

gentle slope to the east. In the twenty miles between the Summit and Windy
Arm on Tagish Lake, the total descent is only 340 feet. From the summit val-
leys also extend to Lindeman Lake and Taku Arm on Tagish Lake.

As this date, July 20th, the trail has been cut through to the Summit and
work is steadily in progress eastward. A trail has been blazed through to Taku
Arm on Tagish Lake and can be used for pack animals now. In fact several
trains are preparing to start over the trail, and a large consignment of horses
has beep, sent up to be put on the regular transportation business over this route,
which is now open for business.

The final location of the trail from the Summit to the Lake has not been
decided upon, as the Company making it are seeking for the easiest route, but the
country being open and comparatively le.-el, after the Summit has been passed, the
lack of a graded trail will not be a serious impediment. A liberal allowance of
time would be two days for a pack train from Skagway Bay to Tagish Lake, of
which not more than six or eight hours would be needed to reach the Summit
from salt water.

This trail has been made by the British Yukon Company, the head ofHce of
which is in London, and of which E. E. Billinghurst, Board of Trade Building,
Victoria, B. C, is the agent in British Columbia. The Company has an excel-
lent wharf at Skagway, a hotel in course of construction, a saw mill and store.

The plans of the Co Tipany are to act as a general transportation companj'
from Skagway Bay to all points in the British Yukon, and for that purpose to
provide pack horses on the trail, and later to construct a railway, a survey for
which is in progress, and to put steamers on the Yukon and its tributaries. The
route from the Tagish Lake north has not been tinally determined upon. For the
present boats will go through Tagish Lake and down the Lewis River ; but it is
possible that the trail and afterwards the railway, will be contin"ed to the Hota-
linqua River, which is believed to afford the best and safest navigation of any of
the branches of the Yukon.

Skagway Bay and the trail as far as the Summit are in territory over which
the United States Government now exercises jurisdiction, but the final ownership
of which will depend upon the delimitation of the boundary. Beyond the Sum-
mit the trail is all in Canadian territory.

For winter travel the trail is the most available. The average snowfall on
the Summit is not more than four feet, and the company expect to be able to
keep the route open to the Lake all winter and maintain a freight train of sleighs
on the river, so that at any season of the year they can carry goods and passengers
from Skagway Bay as far north as Dawson City, at the mouth of the Klondyke.

THE CHILCOOT ROUTE.

The Chilcoot route starts from Dyea or Ty-a, at the extreme northern end of
Chilcoot branch of Lynn Canal. There is a trailing post here. Dyea is accessi-
ble to large ocean going steamers. Like Skagway Bay it is in territory over
which the United States at present exercises jurisdiction.

For six miles from Dyea the route lies up a river valley, the stream being
navigable for canoes in the summer. The canon is then reached, and here be-
gins a sharp ascent to Sheep Camp. From Sheep Camp the trail extends for
eight miles up the rugged sides of the mountain, and is impassable for horses.
From the .Summit to Lake Linderman, nine miles, there is an easy descent, that
is easily traversed when the snow is on the ground, but is very rough in the sum-
mer season. The total distance from Dyea to Lake Linderman is twenty-seven
miles. The lake is five miles wide, and at its foot a .short portage is necessary.
Lake Bennet is reached at about a mile and is twenty-four miles long. From this
point the route is by water down the Lewis River, being the same as that at pre-
sent taken from Tagish Lake by the British V'ukon Company's route.

THt STICKEEN ROUTE.

The Stickeen route, when opened, will have the advantage of being wholly
in British territory, for although the mouth of the river is in United States terri-
tory, British subjects have the same right to navigate it as American citizens.
Goods and passengers intended for this route would have to be transhipped from
ocean going steamers to river steamers at Fort Wrangel or some other point near
the mouth of the Stickeen. Of ihe river itself Dr. Dawson says : " It is navi-
gable for stern-wheel steamers of light draft and good power to Clenora, 126 miles
from Roth.say Point at its mouth, and under favorable circumstances to Telegraph
Creek, twelve miles further. The current is swift, but there are no rapids pro-
perly S')-calIed. Stern-wheel steamers for the navigation of the .Stickeen should
h.i.e good engine power, and should not draw more than four feet of water when
loaded. The river usually opens for navigation between April 20th and May ist.
The river generally freezes over before the end of November, al'hough ice runs
somewhat earlier. On the low lands there is good grazing for h rses and cattle
from April 20lh to about December 1st."

The distance from the .Stickeen at Telegraph Creek to Teslin Lake the source
of the Ilootalinqua River is about one hundred and fifty miles. The trail now in
use is considerably longer than this, but exploratory surveys are in ])rogress, and it
is confidently believed that a nearly direct route will be found, over comparatively
level country. A company has been incorporated to build a railway over this
portion of the route. Traffic going by way of Teslin Lake would reach the main
Yukon by way of Ilootalinqua River, above referred to.

OTHER ROUTES.

The Taku route has not been opened, or even surveyed. A company ha>
been incorporated to build a railway by it to Teslin Lake. Taku Inlet is an
extensive harbor, somewhat open to south-west winds, but would serve very well
for the terminus of a route into the interior.

Other overland routes by which the Yukon can be reached are the Chilcat Pass,
the trail to which leaves tide water near the beginning of the Chilcoot and White
Pass routes. It is a difficult route and is not used ; the Dalton trail, which starts
from the same point and passes overland, a distance approximately four hundred

ream being
ul here be-
jxtends for
for horses,
iscent, that
in the sum-
venty-seven
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" It is navi-
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Chilcat Tass,
oot and Whili
, which start
four hundred

miles to the Yukon waters ; and the route via Dease Lake, the Frances and Pelly
Rivers. Both the latter are easy lines. Ultimately, if the development of the Yukon
warrants, there will be no difficulty in finding an easy and all rail route from the
head of some of the inlets in northern British Columbia.

THE GOLD FIELDS ARE IN CANADA.

The great gold fields of the Yukon are in Can.tda. The earliest discoveries
were in Canada, but subsequently the principal deposits opened up were in the
United States Territory of Alaska. Mence has grown up the practice of speaking
of the Alaskan gold mines. Hence, too, the chief trade of the country has been
done with cities of the United States. The fact also that two United States trad-
ing corporations, the Alaska Commercial Company and the North American
Trading and Transportation Company, have control of the import trade by way of
the mouth of the Yukon, has also contributed to keeping the trade of the country
in the hands of merchants of the United States. Since recent discoveries have
shown that the greatest deposits are in Canada, Vancouver merchants have secured
a larger share of the trade and are controlling more and more of it from month to
month. As soon as a Dominion custom house officer is put upon the overland
route the supply of nearly the whole of the trade of the gold mines will be in
Vancouver and other Canadian cities.

TRANSPORTATION AND OUTFITTING.

Several steamers ply regularly between tue Puget Sound ports, Vancouver and
Victoria and Dyea and Skagway Bay, owned by Canadian steamship companies
having offices at Vancouver and \'ictoria, thus affording a Canadian route to these
great Canadian gold fields.

Efforts are being made in the cities of the United States to create the impres-
sion that they are the only places to outfit for the Yukon and the only places
where steamship accommodaiinn can be got. This is wrong. Everything that a
man needs to take into the Yukon can be bought in Vancouver as well as anywhere
else, and by timing his journey right the prospector, speculator or trader can g<>
directly to the ocean termini of the Passes by steamers sailing from Vancouver.

Goods of all descriptions, either for the outfit of the individual miner, or for
the trader, no matter how large his order may be, can be supplied in Vancouver as
cheaply as at any other point on the Coast, and as the goods are destined for Can-
adian territory it is a direct advantage to buy them in a Canadian city and thereby
save the duties.

The climate of the Yukon is cold in the winter and very warm in the sum-
mer. But though the thermometer registered very low in. the winter months,
there is very little suffering from cold, and not even any very great personal
inconvenience. No hardy man need be deterred from going into the Yukon by
teason of the cold. A number of women and small children have spent the winter
there without discomfort.

Law and order are strictly enforced in the Canadian Yukon by a delathment
of the Northwest Mounted Police.

Except during the months of December, January and February, and perhaps
in April, when the snow is melting, there are no serious difficulties in the way of
reaching the gold mines. When shelter houses have been erected along the
river, and the British Yukon Company propose erecting them, it will be quite
possible to maintain regular communication all the year round from Dawson City
to Skagway Bay, and from the latter point there is open navigation at all seasons
of the year.

The mines of the Klondyke, Stewart River and other Yukon points east of
the 141st meridian, or, speaking in a more general way for convenience of descrip-
tion, further up the river than Fort Cudahy are all in Canadian territory. Hence
duties must be paid on all foreign goods entering the country, the same as at other
places in Canada.

Miners purchasing their outfits in the United States or elsewhere out of Can-
ada, must pay the customs charges before taking the steamer, or at Lake Tagish,
after crossing the Pass. Attempts have been made by interested parties in the
United States to create the impression that the Canadian authorities either could
not or would not collect duties. This has already caused distress among miners
who have spent all their money buying their tickets and outfits. Goods on which
duty is not paid will lie confiscated.

To save expense, delay and risk of troublesome complications, miners should
outfit at Vancouver, B. C, where prices are as low as anywhere else.

The 1: t showing what constitutes an outfit for an individual may be curtailed
in a few respects if a man is very economically inclined. If a party go together
it would not of course be necessary to purchase as many sets of tools as there are
individuals in the party. On reaching Vancouver, the various merchants advertising
in this pamphlet may be trusted to advise miners as to what they ought to take.
They make a special business of outfitting. The supply of provisions is calculated
for one year. (See list among our advertising pages.)

Since this pamphlet was written, new discoveries have been reported frons
Stewart River. This stream is seventy-four miles further up the Y^ukon than the
Klondyke. It is reached by the same route, and all the observations made herein
apply to miners going there.

In the course of another season the transportation problem will be on a very
much more satisfactory footing than it now is. Under the treaty of 1825 with
Russia, when the boundary between Alaska and British territory was defined, the
free navigation in perpetuity of all rivers flowing across Alaska was secured to
British subjects. This right so far as the Yukon aad the Stickeen rivers are con-
cerned, has been confirmed by treaty with the United States. Canadian steamers
will b^on the Yukon route next year and will afford a means of getting in heavy
freight. But remember that the Yukon route is only open during the summer

months. It is not safe to start later than August 5th from Hrilish Columbia ports
expecting to reach St. Michael's Island and go up the Yukon, and the navigation
is not open until June. During the intervening months this route aflfords a safe,
though somewhat long way of reaching the gold fields.

Since the compilation of this pamphlet, telegrams have been
received from Ottawa stating that the Dominion Government has
made changes in the Mining Regulations under which the Govern-
ment proposes to retain every alternate claim, and to collect royalty
as follows: On the first $500 a week produced, 10 per cent. ; on any
excess of $600 a week, 20 per cent.

Look in our advertising pages for a complete list of Yukon outfit.

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BRANCH OFFICE,

VANCOUVER, B. C. ^^ VICTORIA, B. G.

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PUT UP

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IN 50 LB., 20 LB. and 10 LB. PACKAGES.

'SPECIALLY SUITED FOR-

KLONDYKE

To be had of all Merchants in British Columbia.

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TABLE OF DISTANCES.

(APPROXIMATE.)

FROM VANCOUVER TO

Fort Wrangel ^26

SkagwayBay ^^^

Lake Tagish ^g^

Fort Selkirk

Stewart River

Dawson City (Klondyke)

Fort Cudahy

Telegraph Creek g_

Dease Lake

' Teslin Lake (via Stickeen)

Tcslin Lake (via Takii )

miles.

•343
'449
I5'9
'572

1049
1004

100*4

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I lead of Tagish Lake to foot

Through River to head of Lake Marsh (,

Head of Lake Marsh to foot ,„

Foot of Lake Marsh to Canyon 2S

Through Canyon

Font of Canyon to \Vhite Horse Rapids 2

Through White Horse Rapids \/

Foot of White Horse Rapids to Tahkeena River 16

Tahkeena River to head of Lake Le Barge 14

Head of Lake Le Barge to foot •,!

Foot of Lake Le Barge to Hoolalinqua River 3 j

Hootalinqua River to Big Salmon River 34

Big Salmon River to Little Salmon River ^7

Little Salmon River to Five Fingers 62

Five Fingers to Rink Rapids 6>^

Rink Rapids to Peily River 55

Pelly River to White River 97

White River to Stewart River 9

Stewart River to Sixty Mile River 21

Sixty Mile River to Klondyke 53

Fort Reliance to Forty Mile 48

Forty Mile to Fort < 'udabv ^(

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CKPITAU - " $1.000,000»

IN 1,000,000 SHARES OF S1.00 EACH.

This Company is developing properties on the
Sea Coast and the East Kootenay Country.

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A YUKON OUTFIT.

8 Sacks Flour
ISO ll)s liaon
150 lbs. Splii Peas
100 lbs. Beans

25 lbs. Kvaporated Apples

25 lbs. Evaporated I'eaches

25 lbs. Apricots

25 Il)s. lUiltur
ic» lbs. Gramiialcd Sugar
I'A (loz. Condensed Milk

IS lbs. Coffee.

10 lb;:. Tea.

1 lb. Pepper
10 lbs. Salt

8 lbs. Uakinij I'owder
40 lbs. Rolled Oats or Oatmeal

2 doz. Veast Cakes

l/i doz. 4 07.. Beef Extract

5 bars Castile Soap

6 bars Tar Soap
I tin Matches

I gal. \'inegar

I box Candles
25 lbs. Evaporated Potatoes
25 lbs. Rice
25 Canvas .Sacks

I Wash Basin

1 Medicine Chest

I Rid)ber Sheet

I set Piick Straps

i I'ick

I Handle

J Drift Pick

I Handle

I Shovel

I Gold Pan

I Axe

I Whip Saw

I Hand Saw

I Jack Plane

I Brace

4 Hits, assorted, 3/16 to i in,

I Sin. Mill File

I 6-in Mill File

I Broad Hatchet

I 2-fit. CJalv'd Coffee Pot

I Fry I'an

I Package Rivets

I Draw Knife

3 CovM Pails, 4, 6, 8-qt. Granite

I Pie Plate

I Knife and Fork

I Granite Cup

I each Tea and Table Spoon

I 14-in. (;ranite Spoon

I Tajie Measure

I i><j-in. Chisel
10 lbs. Oakum
10 lbs. Pitch
S llis. 2od. Nails

5 lbs. lod. Nails,

6 lbs. 6d. Nails.
200 feet ;^in. Rope.

I Single Block

I Solder Outfit

I Pair Rowlocks

I I4<lt- Galvanized Pail

I Granite Saucepan

3 lbs. Candle Wick

I Compass

I Candle Stick

6 Towels

r Axe Handle

I Axe Stone

I Emery Stone

Some of the foregoing articles are omitted by some miners.
Dealers will advise if| all cases.

3f ire /Hbountain
/llbining Company,

'LIMITED.

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CAPITAL. 1,000,000 Shares of $1.00 Each.

TREASURY STOCK, 150,000.

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The Assets of the Company consist of six
mineral claims on Fire Mountain and the Town-
site of Tipella, at the head of Harrison Lake.

The Company- are now engaged in erecting a
Quartz Mill with Improved Frue Vanners, having
a capacity of 25 tons per day, and it is expected
to have the mill running full capacity on or before
the 1 5th of October.

W. H. LECKIE, Secretary,

632 GRANVILLE STREET, VANCOUVER.

Srateii Her Mill [.g.

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OPERATING THE LARGEST

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Rolled Oats, Oatmeal, Cornmeal,

PEKRL BARL-EV,

-SPECIALLY PUT UP FOR THE-

KLONDYKE TRADE

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Victoria, • VaDCOover, - WeslmiDGier - and - EdmontoD.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

BOOTS AND SHOES.

13 & 15 Cordova St., VANCOUVER, B. C.

Crack Proof Gum Boots,

Stout's Patent Gum Boots,

r*arker's Patent Gum Boots,

Lumbermen's Rubbers,

Alfiska Socks.

CHROME TANNED MINERS' AND PROSPECTORS' BOOTS
WITH LARGE EYELETS ALWAYS IN STOCK.

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