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California (California, United States) (search for this): entry klondike
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): entry klondike
British Columbia (Canada) (search for this): entry klondike
Yukon (Canada) (search for this): entry klondike
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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 Company.
It is said that they knew of the existence of gold there, but as they did not suppose it existed in large quantities, they , with an area of 198,300 square miles, 2,000 of which is water surface.
In February, 1898, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey issued a new map of the Yukon River region.
The map includes the territory between long.
38° and 166° W., and lat. 60° to 67° N. The Yukon River is traced considerably beyond the Klondike regionYukon River is traced considerably beyond the Klondike region, and the portion within Alaska is very fully treated.
The country between Forty-Mile Post and Stewart River is also given with minute exactness.
The results of military and scientific explorations undertaken by the United States government in Alaska indicate that that Territory contains a larger amount of gold, besides other eco
Stewart (Canada) (search for this): entry klondike
St. Michael (Barbados) (search for this): entry klondike
Klondike (Canada) (search for this): entry klondike
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