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No estimate, naturally, can yet be put to the total gold supply 

 of the Klondike region, but to inquiry that is frequently put re- 

 garding the future existence of Dawson as an energetic mining 

 camp one can unhesitatingly answer that this existence is assured 



for many years to come, and there are indications that pomt to a 

 permanence independent of the simple supply of gold. 



The earlier conceptions of the extreme severity of the chmate 

 of the Yukon Valley forbade the hope of agricultural possibilities, 

 but a more intimate knowledge of the conditions prevailing m the 

 summer lime— a season of four to five months' duration, with day- 



