Excerpt from Report on the Goldfields of the Klondike Tiie Klondike has produced this year (1898) not less than ozs. Of gold With this output the Yukon passes out Of the hands Of the fiction-mongers and becomes worthy of serious consideration at the hands of busi ness men. Accordingly, a set Of facts concerning the conditions Of this sudden increase Of the world's stock Of gold may prove useful at a time when the attention Of the business world is being drawn to the far North-west. What yesterday were but infinite ...
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Excerpt from Report on the Goldfields of the Klondike Tiie Klondike has produced this year (1898) not less than ozs. Of gold With this output the Yukon passes out Of the hands Of the fiction-mongers and becomes worthy of serious consideration at the hands of busi ness men. Accordingly, a set Of facts concerning the conditions Of this sudden increase Of the world's stock Of gold may prove useful at a time when the attention Of the business world is being drawn to the far North-west. What yesterday were but infinite possibilities are to-day industrial facts, and deserve attention. Canada has been very slow in showing herself as she is to the investing world; it is but a little while since she lay confined to her own Eastern seaboard. Then she gathered her energies and passed the bounds away to the Western Prairies, where already she grows wheat and cattle for her self and the Old world. Then she passed the Rockies and revealed the mineral wealth Of British Columbia. To-day she is just beginning to show the gold Of the natural exten sion Of British Columbia to the North-west, called the Yukon. And all the time both the whole and each several part Of her have had to contend with prejudices innumerable within and without, prejudices which slowly disappear with lapse Of years and increasing facilities for travel and increas ing desire to use such facilities. The Englishman must travel if he would know Canada; the Englishman and the Canadian Of Eastern Canada must travel if they would know British Columbia, all three must travel if they would know the Yukon. In ignorance of the Yukon all three are alike. TO know the Yukon involves long time and trouble so harda thing it is to connect together countries separated by great natural difficulties or great natural distances. The Yukon has quite outstripped the natural order of development of territory in Canada. If we would approach it by land, whether from north, or east, or south, we must pass nearly a thousand miles 05 almost totally unexplored and uninhabited country - the nearest Hudson Bay Fort is nearly a thousand miles from Dawson City - while, if we approach it by sea, it appears literally as a transmarine possession of Canada, which we must enter through an American port and a few miles of American territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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