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Klondike,
A region in the Northwest Territory of Canada, bordering on the Klondike and Yukon rivers.
The first white people who visited the region went there in the interest of the Hudson Bay C 897 nearly all of the available gold had been taken out. The first reports of the wealth of the Klondike region proper were made by Indians.
The first white man to enter the region was George W. Carm and there was $250,000 more for the Commercial Company.
After an assay it was found that the Klondike gold was not as pure as that of California, there being combined with it a greater amount of ir at San Francisco, bringing sixty-eight miners, with $1,250,000 worth of gold.
Immediately the Klondike fever became general, and so large was the number of gold-seekers that the capacity of all the ong.
38° and 166° W., and lat. 60° to 67° N. The Yukon River is traced considerably beyond the Klondike region, and the portion within Alaska is very fully treated.
The country between Forty-Mile Po
Ladue, Joseph 1854-
Miner; born in Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1854.
When twenty years old he went West, where he engaged in mining, becoming an expert.
Subsequently he went to Alaska, and after remaining there about fifteen years discovered the Klondike gold-fields, which soon became famous all over the world.
On June 23, 1897, he mapped out and founded Dawson City, at the mouth of the Klondike River, on land which he had purchased from the government for $1.25 an acre.
He was also the organizer of the Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and Development Company, one of the largest in that line.
He died in Schuyler Falls, N. Y., June 26, 1901.