A YEAR'S PROGRESS IN THE KLONDIKE. 



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cast largely upon a pure business basis, and witli a future that is 

 bound in with the product of the soil. 



The gold resource of the Klondike region seems fully to sustain 

 the anticipations which had been put forth touching the product 

 of 1899. The better-known creeks, such as the Bonanza, Eldo- 



rado, and Hunker, have kept well up with their record of the 

 previous year, and give indications of continuing as important fac- 

 tors in the calculation of output for some time to come in the 

 future. The introduction of a certain amount of mining machin- 

 ery, such as steam drills, thawers, and powerful pumps — applied 



