NEW YUKON RUSH
FOR SILVER-LEAD
NEW YORK, July.—More Ilian a
hundred adventure-seeking New York
ers have started for the Yukon with
in the past few days in a new rush
for the once famous gold region. This
time, however, not gold but silver
and lead ore are the metals they
are seeking.
The spell of the Yukon, broken by
the lost of its novelty, and the ad
vent of medern machinery, is wind
ing itself tight about those who are
hunting treasure, according to Dr.
W. E. Thompson, of Dawson City,
here for a fewT days’ vacation and
business trip.
The fortune hunters who are jour
neying into the northland are expect
ed to stay. They’ll have to if they are
to get rich, for while there is said to
be silver and lead in quantities to
make many fortunes, they cannot be
mined as easily or as speedily as
gold, which was washed from the
sand. It will take time to unearth
a fortune.
“The Yukon is coming back into its
own,” says Dr. Thompson, who 27
years ago left his practice in Mani
toba to follow trail, and has remain
ed north ever ince. “It is coming
back, not with the hysterical spirit
of boom days, but along more sub
stantial lines. Hundreds of men are
going there now that quartz depos
its containing silver and lead have
been found in <the Mayo district,
about 150 miles southeast of Daw
son.
“They are big deposits and unques
tionably with development the camp
will become one of the most import
ant mining centers of the world.”
But mining for silver and lead is a
slow process compared to mining for
gold. “Therefore,” Dr. Thompson be
liever, “the new mining activities of
the Yukon will not be made over
night as in 1898. But the men who
put in their capital and wait for
their profits will get them. Dawson
son City, which has dwindled to less
than 2,000 residents from 20,000 dur
ing the rush, is going to be rebuilt
with permanent residents, I think.
“Some of the miners pouring in
now are men of 27 years ago com
ing back to seek a new start, hav
ing spent fortunes they made then.
Others are typical boom chasers.
But most of them are practical min
ers, who will settle down and dig.”
Dr. Thompson had a flourishing
practice as a physician before he
followed the lure of gold into the
North. Even now he looks more
the medical man than the miner. He
has a professional goatee and a man
nerly demeanor. He visited the Yu
kon Territory first before the rush
began, when he helped build the Ca
nadian Pacific Railway between 18S2
and 1886. Then he returned to Mani
toba, practiced medicine, heard the
reports of the Klondike gold strike,
sent out a “scout” to find how much
truth there was in reports—and set
out for the North.
“Those were exerting days,” he
says now. "And it is a great coun
try—safer than any city—with few
murders, few crimes and every of
fender punished.”
It’s funny how few homely girls
buy mirrors and compacts,” remark
ed the dealer.
Blinks—I wish they’d find some
I easy way to make money.
Jinks—Well, if they did I want
’em to find some easy way of hold
ing onto it, too.
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Boston Resident
Formerly of Seward
Here for a Month
On his first visit to the Territory
since his departure from Seward sev
en years ago, Allen McIntosh, accom
panied by Mrs. McIntosh, arrived in
Seward Saturday on the steamship
Northwestern, and according to pres
ent plans, he anticipates remaining in
this district for a period of a month.
They are guests of the Hotel Sexton.
Mr. McIntosh, who has been quite
busy greeting numerous old acquain
tances, brought their automobile north
with them instead of putting it in cold
sto:*ge in Seattle while the Alaska
trip was being made. With the car
they expect to note the many changes
in this vicinity since the seven years
have rolled by. Since he became a
resident of Boston, Mr. McIntosh has
become quite prominent in the city’s
affairs. He is engaged in the automo
bile manufacturing business and is re
ported to have made a small fortune.
They motored across the continent
from Boston.
“Seward looks fine,’’ Mr. McIntosh
said yesterday, “and the solid sub
stantial buildings that have been
erected since I left are certainly a
gauge to the prosperity of the towrn.”
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MILK IS APLENTY
FOR DR. HAINISCH
JAUERN, Austria, July 28. (jP)—Dr.
Michael Hainisch, president of Aus
tria, has the honor of owning the
champion milk-producing cow of his
country. Bella of his herd from
May 7, 1924 to May 6, 1925, produc
ed 2,683 gallons, an average of more
than seven gallons a day.
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