DE WINDT.
GREAT GOLD DISCOVERY.
By Telegraph—f reaa Association—Copyright London, Sept. 17. . Mr Harry Dc Windt, who travelled from Paris to Dawson City across Siberia, has returned to England. In an interview he stated that_in traversing 11,363 miles of Siberia Boo"horses, 900 reindeer, and 97 out of 100 dogs used died. He informed the authorities at St. Petersburg that half the exiles in Siedincolynisk would die mad from solitude or fear of their sentences being suddenly extended. He states that gold was discovered in 1901 tn the village ofVitimsk, which exceeded the yield of Klondyke in its best year, hence the eagerness of Russia to complete the Irkutsh-Yakutsh railway, which would be finished in 1906.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 522, 19 September 1902, Page 3
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