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Quartz Locations In Yulion Reduced To
One Dollar Per Acre - Trying To
Rring Pack Prospectors.
The Dawson Daily News of re
cent date says:
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“The Ottawa government has
j ust reduced the charges for enter
ing quartz locations to $i an acre.
This rate applies to all crown lands
of the kind in the territory. The
order was made effective March 13,
but did not arrive here until last
Saturdav.
The new order further provides
that all entries of quartz shall be
made subject to the lownsite pro
visions of the regulations govern
ing Dominion lands in the territo
ry, save in regard to coal lands,
which order was established in July,
1900.
A former order, dated March 21,
1898, provided that the price to be
paid for a mining location on va
cant lands of the crown should be
at the rate of $5 an acre and on
other lands of which the surface
rights are not available for sale at
$2 an acre.
Provisions were also made in the
same regulations of March, 1898,
that $500 shall be expended in act
ual mining operations on a loca
tion, or a like amount to be paid
to the crown in lieu of such an ex
penditure before a patent be issued
The new order sajrs that as lands
suitable for quartz mining are not
generally of any value for agricul
tural, timber or town site purposes1
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and as representations have been
made to the minister of the interior
| that the price of $5 an acre is ex
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I eessive, the price of quartz mining
locations is reduced to$i an acre.”
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Expert’s Ophiiyrs As To T]i#» Superior
Navy (>i Japan- V Generous
Man afar t a : e r.
New York, March 28. Naval
experts here have ventured the
opinion that the Japanese navy is
superior to that of Russia, and that
in case of war being declared be
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tween them some hot fighting wiil
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be seen. None, however, wiil pre
dict what the outcome of a naval
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war would be.
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Toronto, March 24. The Pres
byterian Board of Missions, now in
j session, has appropriated the sum
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| of $5000 to be used for missionary
| work along the Yukon.
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| Waterbury, Conn., March 24.
Joe Walcott, the colored champion,
. knocked out Andy McKeever this
evening in the twentieth round.
i London, March 17. Geo. Cad
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! bury, the chocolate manufacturer,
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I has presented to the city of Birm
ingham an estate of 416 acres val
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i ued at $900,000, upon which to
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build houses for the working classes
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The Ohl rock On Kldora<lo A Falv.<>
i \• <'-A Second Struck Kichcr
Than Former One.
The Dawson News of Anril s
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contains the following:
“The astounding discovery
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new paystreak on Eldorado last
week, a detailed account of which
appeared in Saturday’s News, con
tinues to be the sensation of the
hour and has set all old-timers the
orizing as to what may happen next.
The shaft in which the discovery
was made on No. 3 lies on the
right limit on ground somewhat
higher than the general level of the
creek and was started last fall. The
bedrock upon which the pay of the
creek has heretofore been found
was struck at a depth of forty feet.
Considerable pay was taken out in
drifting three ways from tiie shaft,
but finally'- gave out altogether. At
about the same time water began
troubling the laymen and they ab
andoned the hole. The excessive
cold weather had stopped the water
that had before troubled them and
returning to the abandoned hole
they proceeded drifting toward the
creek. Two feet from the hole the
bedrock they had been working on
disappeared and at that point they
continued to sink again. At a
depth of 16 feet the present bedrock
was struck. The paj^streak is five
feet in depth.