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Chapter 5 MINERS' LUCK.

Word Count: 1285    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

eyond belief but the greater part of them are actual fac

at they should work on shares by each receiving half of what they could get out. The five together took out $95,000.00 in twenty-eight days. The ground dug up was found to mea

lize what a small space a mining claim is in t

and his partner, for the sum of $45,000.00. They did not have money to make the payment in cash but made a first payment of $2,000.00 with the ag

they found that they had taken out $62,000.00, and the s

e recently writes that he is taking

nd has taken up $140,000 from the winter dump alone. Peter Wiborg has purchased more ground. He purchased his partner's interest in a claim, paying $42,000. A man by the name of Wall h

ecord is the letters written by men in the Klondyke

March

earliest opportunity. My God! it is appalling to hear the truth, but nevertheless

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re worth from an ounce of gold to $25 a pair. The price of flour has been raised from $4 to $6, as it was being freighted from Forty Mile. Big money can be made by bringing a small outfit over the trail this fall. Wages have been $15 per day all winter, though a reduction to $10 was attempted, but the miners quit work.... Here is a creek that is eighteen miles long, and

to take in the machinery and to build a plant until transportation facilities are better. In time, however, quartz mining operations will commence, for the placer mines

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