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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron News-Record, 1897-11-18, Page 3t - ¢U81 NEss DIRECTORY �aukt>zg. T11 NOLSOIS BIND. Incorporated by Actof Parliament 1866, OAPITAL, - - $2,000,000 REST, - $1,500,000 Sead OIRoe, MONTREAL. WTI. MOLSON, MACPHERSON, President, ir. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, General Manager. Notes discounted, Collections made$ Drafts issued, Sterling and American ex- change bought and sold. i INTIRBBT ALLOwID ON DBPOAITB SAVINGS BANK. Interest allowed on sums of $1 and up. g•g,RD/tLRCi- Money advanced to farmers on their own notes with one or more endorsers. No mortgage re- quired as security. R. 0. BREWER, Manager, N. December. 1896. G. A McTaggart BANKER ALBERT STREET, CLINTON. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSAO'TED. f Notes Discounted. - Drafts Issued. I Interest Allowed on Deposita. Clinton, Junesth, 1891 058y �aixeD iia �e>x�. + r JOHN RIDOUT. CONVEYANCER, CoMMI§SIGNER, ETC. Fire Insurance. Real Estate, Money to lend, Office—HURON STREET, CLINTON. �e�twr�z. DR. W. GUNN, R. C. 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B.—Will visit. Blyth every Monday, and Bayfield every Thursday afternoon during the summer. Dr. Agnew, DENTIST. Office hours 9 to 5 At Zurich the second Thurs- day of each month, �teteetui�e�. J. E. BLACKALL; Veterinary Surgeon and Veterinary Inspector. ()Mee on Isaac street next New Era office. Residence, Albert St., Clinton. B. THOMLINSON, VETERINARY SURGEON, Honorary Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary Col- lege, Toronto. Treats all diseases of Domestic Animals on the ,postmodern anddcientific Principles. Day and Night Calls Pr6mptly Answered, Residenoe—Rattenbury Street, West, Clinton Ont. �eOixl. �._--- ---J. SCOTT, ^---- - Barrister, e1c., E,LLIOTT's BLOCK, - - CLINTON. Money to Loan, E. CAMPION, Q • 0, BARRISTER, - • - SOLICITOR., NOTARY, ejc., Godevielh, - Ont. otriae—Ovor Davis' Drag Store. Money to loan. _ - .- M. 0• JOHNSTON, BARRISTER, - - SOLICITOR, COMMISSIONER, ETC., Godevielt, - . - Ont. YOffice—Cor. tinmilton and St., Andrew's Stn. W. BRYDONE,, BARRISTER - - SOLICITOR. 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Having bought out the above business, we intend i conduct it on the cash principle, and will supply nr customers with the best meats at the lowest pay- ig pilose. FORD & MURPHY. AVE OGS WANTED. Highest Market Price Paid. D. CANTELON, Clinton. 708-tf. Geo. Trowhill, iorseshoer and General Blaok- smith, Llbert Street, North, - Clinton. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. Woodwork Ironed and first class material and ork guaranteed ; farm implements and machines ,built and repaired. TO THE FARMERS. Study your ,we fntero,t afid go where you can get Reliabler.w am ess, I manufacture none but the BBAT OF STOCK. Bewarr of shops that Bell cheap, as they have got to live. Ar Call and get prices. Orders by mail promply attended to JOHN $EY�L, HARNESS EMPORIUM, BLYT119 ONT GO TO THE Union Shaving Parlor For first-class Hair -Cutting and Shaving. ,math's block, opposite Post Office, Clinton ,f. EMERTON, Proprietor. PUMPS ! PUMPS! If yon want a first-class, well made pump, one tha rill give you satisfaction, send your cider to th ,ndersigned. He will dig and clean wells and do it a he closest prices. He also handles a first -alae rORCE PUMP. JAMES P'ERGUSON )pposit Queen's Hotel - High Street Clinton. 809-tf WM. N. WALKER, —the reliable— UPHOLSTERER AND MATTRESS MAKER, SEAFORTH, ONT. Parlor Furniture repaired and recovered. Carpets sewed and laid; also cleaned and re- novated at reasonable prices. tll�'Orders left at BROADFOOT & BOX'S store, Clinton or Seaforth, will be promptly at; tended to, T `- range. L. 0. L. leo. 710, CLIIVIEON, Meets sacoND Monday of every month. Hall 2nd flat, MORAY block. Visiting brethren always 0 made welcome. J. P. SUEPPARD, W. M. P. CANTELON. JR: Sec. THOS. BEACOAI, D. M �ZYl;ipttlC. CILiNTON Lodge, No. 84, A. F. & A. M. meets t/ every Friday, on or after the moon. Visit ing brethren cordialIv invited T. C. BRUCE, W. M. E. A1cLEAN, SKc. Clinton, Dec. 6, 1895. Constipation 'Cuuses lolly ball the siokness to the world. 1() reW" the dlgeated food too long in the bowek and produces blUousness, torpid Iger, IW* P Hoods gestion, bad taste, seated tongue, slot headache, 1n- vii s sotnnfa, eta. Hood's Plus owe constipation and all its results,easllyand thoroughly. 260. Aildruggiata Prepared by 0. I. Hood & Co,, Lowell, Mus. The only Plih to take with Hood's 8arespa III& Yukon Gold Fields. A VAST TERRITORY, FIVE HUND- RED MILES IN LENGTH. UN- TOLD WEALTH WAITIj`dG TO BE CLAIMED FROM MOTHER EARTH, On board the 'Quadra,' Nov. 1, 1897.— The following iview with Mr. Wdl- liam Ogilvie, astron0 er and surveyor of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, contains a very important statement, as to the gold zone, the international boundary, character of the gold diggings, includrngthe quar(z lode, and where gold is likely to be found; also an interesting and reliable description of the method of niinr•ng and of how the first discovery was made. In reply to a request, Mr. Oprilvie first gave me a sketch of the Yukon when it first attracted the attention of the Canadian Government, as fol lows:— THE BOUNDARY LINE. 'Early in the eighties considerable mining was done on the upper Yuku'h, especially on the Stewart river. Ru- t1•iors of,these finds having reached the outside, applications were made to the Ottawa Government for mining hands by parties living principally on the Pacific, mostly Alnericans. As the boundary between Canada and Alaska had never been defined, I was commis- sioned in April, 1$87, to produce the line on the 141st metidan. I went in with a party by the Chilcoot Pass. A micrometer survey was commenced at Pyramid island, in the Chileat arm of the Lynn canal, and carried through to the 141st meridian, which was reached on Sept, 14. During the win ter a series of lunar culminations were taken, fruln which the position of our observatory was inferred, and the point where the 141st meridian coru- inenced in the Yukon, determined. This finished, the party wade their way overland to the water system of the Mackenzie and to lake Athabaska• making a Continuous survey as they went. In 1889 the American Govern- ment, having leu ned that the Cana- dian party had determined the boun- dary on the Yukon, sent in an as- tronornical party in charge of Mr. Mc- Grath, wbo spent the winters of 1859, 18W and 1891 at the same points where I had wintered; and locating the boun- dary line, as he afterwards informed me, some distance down the river, or further west than I had done. This has been wiped out, and I understand now that it is officially announced that his determination was further east than mine. That his preliminary locu- tion was west of mine there is suffiel- eut evidence to asset emphatically, and in what way the computation of his observations have been revised to the extent that the latter ttatement, would warrant is incomprebensible to me. However, the difference between the two determinations is trifling, and we need not expect any international complication to (arise over it. Irl the winter of 1895-03 I obtained at the same point another series of lunar culminations which so far agreed with my former obervations that, combin- ed, the result is practically the same. PIONEER GOLD SEEKERS. 'Sometime in the seventies attempts were made to reach the Upper Yukon from the Cassiar region in British Col- umbia, most%y witbout results; but in the early eighties a few miners made their way into the ;Upper Yukon, mining in the vicinity of Hootilinqua and down to the St,ewru t river, where the bulk of the ruining was done. The Pioneer miners of the Yukon are Messrs. Arthur Harper, of the Cotinty of Antrim, Ireland; Fred, W. Hart, of the same place; Geo. W. Finch, a Canadian, born som&v'here in the vicinity of Kingston, Ontario; Samuel Wilkinson, on Englishin2.n, and a Ger- man named Kanselar. These men had been mining on the head waters of the Peace river, and Harper, having hea d much of gold being found on the Liard, a branch of the Mackenzie river, deter- mined in 1872 to tf y his luck there. Be and the others made their way down Peace river to the vicinity of Port St. John, whence they made. a winter poi tage not tbward to the small strearn known as the Sickanie Chief river, branch of the Liard. In May thev de- scended it, prospecting as they went At the confluence of the Nelson with the Liard ',hey met Mr. M. N. McQues tin now ternied in the American Pres the father of the Yukon, A rnei•u•a burn, from the State of Maine, Will: inson and Kanselar dete, mined to tr. the Upper Liard, lint -per, Hart an Kearns Tent Yo. 66, Knights of the Maccabees of tho World. ,$1,000, $1,0110 and $11,000 Policies. Metll- bership over 100,000. Assessment prineiplo—ice s, 2 nssessmcnts in n year. Cheapest . er excr.del ] never y and enfnst 1n czietouoo. Aloeta In Ornnpo Hall, Clin- ton, first and third Friday of every month. Gran(I Trunk itailway. OFFICIAL TIME TABLE. Bufralo and Goderich District: out the placer gold, as work is carried on noW t Going Nest, Mixed .................. 1015 n. in. •, ,• EXpr('MA................. 1.03 p. in. Mlxn(l...... ........... i,nb p. ni. Expross ... ... ........ 10.27 p. m. Going East, Express... ..."'".... ... 7.40 n,. m. „ 2.:15 p. in. Mixed .................. 4.3551). M. London, Huron and Bruce:— You are liable to takeanother Going South, Express .............. 7.47 a. in. . 4.30 p. nr Going North, :: ................. 10.15 a. m .......... 6.56 p . m M. C. DIdH4ox" Dia. Pass. Agent, wi a and one the k, The rest of it is all suitable for Toronto. W. E. DAvra, G. P. & T. A., Montreal. A. O. PATTisox, G. T. R., Town. The McKillop Mutual Fir insurance Company, 7 Finch made their way down stream p $ n y d e out the placer gold, as work is carried on noW t You may get over that but found nothingon the Lower Liard follow- or Mackenzie. They were ;soon The valleys of these creeks are gen. Slight Cold all right, but It ed by McQuestin, The first three made their wit h+ Lo the PorkupiUe erally wide at the bototru and Hat, be, - log seldom less than three to four I has left its mark on the mem- river, down wltich they went to the mouth, Fort Yukon, established by hundred feet. This cdvered with dense growth of underbrush and small branes lining your throat. the Hudson's Bay Company in ISO. spruce, with occasionally balsam, pop- I You are liable to takeanother Proceeding to White river they found lar or cottonwood, as it is known. good indications of gold at the mouth Much of the wood is suitable for sluice. Cold and the second One Will of Forty Mile, and determined to g0 up thin stream, but were deterred by box purpose, which I - quires boards at least ten inches inch hang on longer than the first. Indian reports of an impassable canon. wi a and one the k, The rest of it is all suitable for Scott's Emulsion It is now known that there is no such fir d,which is an important factor Is not an obstacle. After wintering they found indications in d veloping the mines of this region, ordinary, cough specific, but y g p in the sprang favorable near the mouth of the Stewart, bnt Suppose we take a claim on Eldorado. To develop it we requires considerable ' it iS c� the ounce of preven- want of provisions obliged them to continue their way. Down in Alaska amount of cordwood piled up, We clear away the moss and ice from the „ tion. It builds up the surlle five Or six hundred miles they ran across McQuestin, who had gone surface, covering eight or ten feet long by seven or eight feet wide. Then system, checks inflammation into the Alaska Commercial Company's service, where be still is. Hart made with an axe we chop the frozen mucks, decomposed nd heals inflamed mem- hie way out to California, Harper re- or vegetable natter, be- a hole some six feet lou b ginning g y branes."Slight"colds never mafning prospecting at the mouth of the Koyukuk. He was shown gold by four feet wide. Build it fire in the hole in the evening. During the night the bring serious results when it an Indian who said he found it on a mountain aide there. Harper prospec- ground is thawed to the depth of from to twelve inches. Next is promptly taken. this mountain during the winter but Next summer Har- six morning this thawed ground is gook on the subject free. found nothing. Per made his way tip the river and pitched out and the process repeated until bed -rock is reached, which jclued McQuestin, who had establishes is generally from fifteen to twenty SCOTT & SOWNB, Belleville, Out. a trading post at Fort Reliance, about feet. About ten feet down we leave five ruiles below the mouth of the the vegetable matter, thb alluvial de- Klondike. Here they traded from 1874 pogits, and enter- a stratum of coarse to 1888. The valley of the Klondike gravel, the gravel showing very little period may be extended for several was a favorite hunting ground of theirs but it never occured to theon to rounding or wearing. At the bottom of this close to bed -rock the pay streak generations to come. Other mining centres will be built up, notably one at prospect it, but even had they done so Is found, and is seldom rnure than the. rnouth of the Stewart river and they would have found nothing s wits all that was the ' three feet in depth, the best paying another up that stream about a hun- Coal in surface mining done. In 1856 Harper moved to the part being immediately on bed -rock. This Is not solid ruck, but a mass of died guiles. is abundant the vicinity of Dawson and conveniently mouth of the river. Twenty-five or anular, broken rock lying, no doubt, situated fur mining. 1 look for ward to thirty miners werq found prospecting in Its original location. In the space Dawson and several other points being on the Stewart. In that year coarse between these masses clay and fine heated by this coal and lighted by gold, the first in that country, was gravel have become embeded. Into electricity developed by the wraters of found in Forcy Miles. The news of this spread diving the winter, and in this the miner proceeds a foot or more, where the pay streak stops. No one several stretuns in the neighborhood.' the spring of 1S87 Stewart river was hay yet gone down to the solid beds of CHARACTER OF THE MINERS. deserted as only tine gold was found rock, so we cannot say what might be There is hardly a Country in Europe on its banks. round below the so-called bedrock. America which has not r MILLER ANIJ GLACIER CREEKS. to the discovery of the famous TO burn the hole requires about three weeks time and a good deal of labor, many uvea at Dawson. A great many na- ti Gives of Swedes and Nurwnk have Klondike the riches$ round known t; was at Miller and Glacier creeks, in the the wood having sometimes to behatil- ed upwards of half a mile on a hand- been very successful and think highly of our country and institutions. The headwaters of Sixty We, which is sixty miles above Fort Reliance, Forty , sled, At least three nien are required, two to work in the hole and one to ,Trost successful of those are working their way hack, not to the-. United Miles being fu ty miles above, hence forty- cook and cut wood. When bed -rock is retiched drifting is commenced. States but to their. native hand, and their names. There are about five or fifty claims on each of these Large tires are built, which thaw all will no doubt advertise Canada favor - ably. Many of the foreigners have creeks, some of which we consldei ed Ont*of a Swiss named round in a lateral direction. Much of this thawed ground is unprofitable and become Americana .but care nothing very rich. one Miller cleared about seventy thousand is shoveled to one side of the hole. for their allegiance to that country. If it were necessary they would,to- dullars, with which he has gone back The test is taken to the sur,ace and morrow renounce their allegiance and to his native land. These two creeks dumped. Drifting is continued until become British anbjPets. I have heard were found by the boundary line I pro- doted, to bi if) Canecta, about two twenty or thirty feet is obtained from shaft when another is sunk, and the there say they would du so if it was necessary to enjoy the advantages of miles east of the boundary. Anverrur that may be found in the location of d•ift continued from this. In April or Mav 1, running water enters the boleti our laws and institutions, but e%)y- ing them as it is they rernau, as thhey the boundary by the two surveys will never amount to anything like that W such an extent that fur ther drifting is stopped. The miners then begin are. I saw no single case in opposition to our laws. Even where I myself, distance• cutting places for the erection of dams, without direct authority from the In the summer of I833 a Canadian cutting ditches and other work necesa- ar'y to the pro )er sluicing of the dump. department, had to settle disputes named Robert Henderson, a native of Prince Edward Island; a Seanainavian This may take five, sax, or more n0 Objection was made to, Iny awards. Every One seemed ••e - named Swanson, and a man named week's work. As soon as the water runs freely and the sun obtains sufii- juiced that there was someone Munson determioed to prospect Indian river, now known as Dominion creek. cient force to thaw out the dump, on the ground to take chavge of natters :and do away with miners At Gold Botooin creek they strnek a sluicing is commenced. The dirt is thrown Into a series of boxes which fit meetings that were generally c•u•ried rich btreak of Klondike gold. Hander•- son having to return for provisions, into one another in telescopic fashion, by the most pnpnlnr loan. Phis feat - ore was very often discussed in away started down the Yukon agrain and at and have an inclinatio" of about three inches to the foot. What are termed very comp;iinentai v to Carinda. Good the mouth of the Mondike met an old acquaintance 'named George AV. `riffies'—a seriks of ,bars half an inch Americans declared that, they would rather urine under Canadian laws than Carmack, a native of California, or more apat;�-are placed at the bot- tom with the direction of the under their own. The majority of who was fishing for salmon. Hear- ing from Henderson of the gold find parallel boxes. A stream of water projected down miners in the country are Ainericans, either by birth or adoption, but the on Gold Bottom creelr, Carmack pros- into the boxes washes the dirt - into a , at the lower end adopted care little and sly nothing petted Bonanza c eek. On the af- the third day he struch rich yards pie termed 'tails.' The coarser gravel of about the United States. There is a good sprinkling of Canadians who ternoon of annin nut pay on Discovery claim, p g, course rat les over the rtffies into the tails, The finer particles with the Bold their own for intelligence, energy twelve dollars in a few minutes. This g old falls in between the riffle and enterprise. was on Aug. 16, or h Staking out four claims, two for himself and two bars, and are held there, and bars choked THE GOLD ZONE• €or others, he went to Forty Mile and the to incredulous min- when the riffle are the are lifted oat and the con y 'C, . you indicate the extent of terri- tory in which gold is found? exhibited gold ers. Klonkike had been prospected in tents gathered in a hos and cleaned. This is what is meant by thee•:pression 'The gold bearing zone,' replied Mr. again in 1893, without sue- •a clean-up.' In one instance an Eldo- p Ogilvie, 'extends from Cassiar, probab- cess.and cese. �icywever, a day or two saw,, Klondike and the excite- rade clean-up yielded eighty pounds of 1 Cariboo, northwestward, following rush t0 the gold, or about sixteen thousand dol- the keneral trail of the coast line meet began.' Lars, but the yield of the whole dump through the head of the Hootilinqua, WEALTH OF THE YUKON, was only one hundred and ten thous- the Pelly, Stewart, Klondike. Forty 'Has the richness of the geld fields in and dollars, ane this was the result of Mile, and on the southerly side as far Canada been exaggerated outside?' the labor of half a dozen men for sevo- as Circle City or Birch Creek •area. 'No,' replied Air. Ogilvie without 'The finds all said al weeks through the winter. From this description It will be seen that The zone is about five hundred miles long and of various widths, in some hesitation. justify thein. We have on Bonanza Creek mining on the Yukon is a more cum- places a hundred miles. Of course, of about a hundred claims which will ') plex operation than anywhere else in the world, Nowhere else fut•uie discoveries will modify these figures considerably, but only to in - yield from $'�. ),t) to $: �0 each. At Eldotado there are sorne thirty probably. does the question of firewood become The ctease thern. This statmeut is based discoveries of the metal ,and claims that will without doubt yield of $l,CJ'),0.) each, and such a prominent factor. mines could not be worked without firewood. on actual not at all on geological theory.' an average many more on Eldorado will average It is possible that in the early future be resorted to for the thaw - A ALAN IN A MILLION. large suras. Taking the two creel, together we have, say, one hundred Steam will ing of the' ground, and being more local in its thah fire, could be As Mr. Ogilvie talked I was wonder - ing if there was anotber pian in Can - and forty claims that I believe will befo)e bel exhausted close efforts confined more to the pay streak, and oda who would have stayed two years turn out ,ug on $70,0�J,(: ). The other streams in would he free front the danger of suf- firewood. I have dis in the Yukon with unrivalled oppor- tunities for nit king millions of dollars the vicinity, thoa ;h not quite so rich. rate very high compared with foc•xtion, as with cussed this with the miners to sonde and yet come out -Its poor in money as will anything ever found in that country extent, and probably nextwintersteam be tried, the only deterrent now when he went in, all because he con - ceived it to be hid. duty as an official before. As one old A merican miner it to ane, comparing these creeks will being the enormous freight charges representing Canadian authority to put with the Circle Caty district, which to be rich:— on anything like machinery. Until ' we have much better facilities for the hold himself aloof front the scralllble. He was offered at half interest in three was once thought very Why.' he said, `they're only Chinese transport of freight, an attempt at Bonanza claims for about three hund- dollars, tabs use of his mune for dtggings composed with Eldorado and I know some claims in quartz mining would involve a, very lrtrge. outlay, Wages are also excel- rail or that aniuunt of credit, and refused. Bonanza. };Idorado I would not give for the sively high, but given a few more like the Klondike and Indian He has probably accepted it given in recognition of advice and help whole Circle City district.' Gold But- its branches, Hunker creeks Creek and these things will rapidly from men who owed their finds to Mr. tom creek with and Last Chance, up to the time of my right themselves. No doubt an easy favorable route into that territory Ogilvie Land who would have given hint thousands for the advice they got free, dePPar•tilve last July had not been de- veloped to the same extent, but it is and will be determined on during the coni- These uuggets Sir. Ogilvie will keep as being well known that they are very rich. ing winter.' souvenirs, their total value per- haps one hundred dollars. Acquisi. branches of the Indian river— 'What like is Dawson City? tiveness seems to he absent fron) Mr - Dominion creek, Quartz c, eek, and Demi i Silver creek—were discovfA before niy 'The site of Dawson was located by Joseph Leduc in August, 1596. Before Ogilvie's composition. 6 p A. J. MAGURN. depai tare, but their character had not been established. Word has come out leaving there I rDade a partial survey to regulate since that they are also rich beyond of the town site, enough the erection of buildings. This had_ --- anything heretofore known though been begun in the fall of 1898 in a very n()t. to be. compared with the best A irregular manner, based on some . claims on Eldorado and Bonanza. creek known as Moo'seskin, which had trein hing nb maids by Leduc, and had things been allowed to go on we HEAD a MASS o� SCADS joins the Yukon about a mile and a -would have had another case of Forty half below Dawson, huts also turned Miles, one of the •wnrst arranged out well with deep pap. This creek places on the face of the earth will probably yield six or seven miles rile survey of Dawson has spice COULDN'T �0 NEAR THE STOVEr of rood pay dirt. Discovery, Bonn,nza Been completed by Mr. Gibbons. and Eldorada have given that district Phe flat, on which Dawson stands is it world-wide reputation. The iin- i t 210 teres Wnen I left Daw- Farm and Isolated Town Proper- ty only Insured. OFFICRats. ).ciao James r r Watt, President }In r lock P. O. ,mea 1/rondroot,Vice•1'res., S(at, rill P.O.; W. J. Shin, non, Secy. Treap., 4caf,.rth p. 0.: Allohucl Murdio Inspector' of loepos, Seaforth P. Q. DIRECTORR: Jnmcg Broadtoot, 8enforth;Michael Alnrdie,Sna• forth; George Dole, Seaforth; George Watt, ilarlock Thomas E, Ifnyo,seaf�rtb; QInx0��gqrdd�innr,Lendbury Thomas Oarbutt, Cj4nfibn;' u1i; SNXa1?), lop".. /AON,NTA; Thomns Nvilane, Hnrlock; Robert McNTIllan, Sna• forth and Jaines Cummings,Egmondville.- Parties desirous to effect insurance or trans- act other business will be promptly attend - ca to on applioation to any of the above ofllcers ad- droseed totbeir reopective poet oMoes. LESLIE'S CARRIAGE AND WAGON FACTORY, Corner Unron and Orange Streets, Clinton. Fimt-ClasR Buggt�ies on hand and made to order. PricoR to Ali the times. Repairs and repainting promptly attend to. Prices reasbn- able. petals thus give:" to prospecting in the Yukon anuot; fail to discover and develo one of l,he largest ned richest minl,lg 'Illelts in the whole world. This(area est cls south -east - wag ' 1`(1H fro rn the 14t h rile 'dita ]int o Brit- ish Columbia. Indications . mw that, it, is at least four hnn(Iced rn les long, and in places upwtu-ds of a, hundred miles wl(le. (rood indications have heen found all spots all over this vast wren, and there is noloubt, that the (liffusion of gold is gene til lu the south and east of Dawson.' 'There must, Mr. Ogilvie, be sour for all Oise loose gold?' e 'Vick bits of quartz, replied Mr. Ogilvie, 'have been picked up in the vicinity of the creeks mentioned, and it is only It question of time until the mother lode of this gold is discovered close to where it now lies, as the gold and rock associated with it ,fn the drift bear no evidence of glacilLl action or of having travelled tiny greatdis- tance from where it is now found.' TIIE METHODS UBED. 'What are the conditions of getting tt )oti i so11 last July there were sixty or seven(y houses one of them it, - tend -id fora hotel, sixty by twenty-six, and two and it half stories high, built of logs. The two large trailing coin- •r.+ � I1ClW warehouses r stores 71 tl 'es had It �)Ianl 1, 11, course of erection. The population,, therl about three thousttnd, is now pro- balliv seven thousand. As I under- st:uld the. situat;on now, there is no clanger of starvation this winter. During the summer there were s1 vera% cases of sickness and two deaths front typhoid, brought on by drinking pol- luted water. Two Scandinavian mill- ers, brothers, had favorable locations on Bonanza and Eldorado and sold out early in the spring for $60,('00, coming to Dawson to take the boat out and go back to their native hind, there to live in case for the remainder of their lives. Both took sick at Dawson with t.yl,hoicd and both died there. I+rom present indications i think Daw- srn, has an assured existence of from ten to twenty yeltrs. Add to what we already have the erection of quart - crushing mills in the vicinity and that Treated by Different Doctors. CURED BY DR. CHASE. 1 nd distressing ho a The mo et intra a h ' )def all manner of slain diseases w y treatment—even the best medical skill— are readily cured by Dr. Chase's Ointment. MILS. .JOS. QTJERIN, hotelkeeper's wife, at Ethel, Ont., was troubled with Eczema of the Head and Face for abort 9 years, and was so bad at times she could not go near the hot stove to do her cooking Her head was one mass of scabs, and although she treated with doctors it kept getting worse. On hearing of Dr. Cliase's Ointment, sire got some, and was delighted to find the first application dq ' her good. She used two more boxes of the Ointment, is now froe from disnase, can do her own cooking, and wonld not begrudge $1200 for the good A has done Der. Price 6o cents a box, at all Dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto, Ont, W V