YUKON

River, along which the new Klondike goldfields have been discovered, is formed by the junction of the Pelly and the Lewis rivers and the gold deposits are about xoo miles inside; the Canadian boundary. has brought as much as 16 shillings worth of gold with it. and though such extraordinary returns are few, the richne of the field is quite beyond doubt. The gold is found not only in the bed of the river, but in great veins of quartz, from xo to 30 feet wide, which soem to be scattered all over the Klondike district. very great, and the nece ities of life are frightfully expensive. The two routes usually adopted are by the river itself, and by the Chilkoot Pa . Ocean steamers ply to the mouth of the river, where a stem wheel steamer is waiting twice in the season to carry pa engers up to the gold centres—which are about three weeks’ journey up the river. The Chilkoot Pa is reached from Juneau City, which is on the Lynn Canal, and is being neglected now in favour of its neighbour the White, which is easier, though a little longer. Whichever pa is chosen, the destination desired is a tributary of the Yukon, on which there is boat or canoe traffic for 700 miles down to the gold-field. U.S.A., has been succe fully contradicted but the equally incorrect idea that Klondike is in; British Columbia is still very prevalent. It is really in the Yukon district of the North-West Territory. Dawson of the Dominion Geological Survey, and was found to be giving from 3 to 100 dollars a day to the few scattered miners, the latter sum being got along the Stewart River and along the Forty-Mile Creek. was a miner called George Carmack, the original find being on Bonanza Creek, which gave 3 dollars to the pan. Since then much better returns nave been got, one actually exceeding 14 dollars, and 5 to 7 dollars is quite common. tically deserted for the Klondike centre, but there is very little doubt that the whole country is richly auriferous and the enterprising few who are buying up claims dirt-cheap,; especially along the Stewart ana the Ca iar, will a uredly not come out of the busine worst off.