NEWS FROM KLONDYKE.
The latest news received from San Francisco regarding affairs at Nome and Dawson indicate that, the output of Klondyke will reach forty million dollars this year. The improved methods and improved machinery have caused a handsome showing, and great quantities of modern machinery will be shipped to the gold regions during the coming summer. The winter has been one of the most severe of which any record has been made in the north, and eight or nine thousand inhabitants of Nome have suffered most severely, as they are mostly unaccustomed to Arctic hardships, and have not constructed buildings calculated to keep out the cold. A number of reports of men frozen on trails, and even in cabins have been received, but, on the whole, it appears the death rate has not been larger in this wild and frozen land than in the more comfortable localities. There will be no rush of prospectors to, the north during the ooming season, as it is now pretty generally understood that the chances of success are no greater than at the gaming table, and the hardships to be endured are terrifying.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 June 1901, Page 4
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190NEWS FROM KLONDYKE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 June 1901, Page 4
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