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the richer claims have now been worked out, 

 but that a great deal of poorer ground still 

 remains to be exploited by means of 

 hydraulicing and dredging, with a fair 

 chance of making good profits after the initial 

 cost of erecting the necessary plant has been 

 paid for. 



As I had heard that sheep and caribou were 

 to be found in some mountain ranges not very 

 far to the north of Dawson, and as I did not see 

 how I was going to get through ten days of 

 inactivity in that town before starting for the 

 Macmillan River, I asked Tyrrell if it would 

 not be possible to get to these mountains, have 

 a day or two hunting there, and be back again 

 in Dawson by August 18th, the earliest date on 

 which he thought our party would be likely to 

 be ready. 



My friend told me that there was a trail to a 

 prospector's cabin on a spur of the Ogilvie 

 Mountains, about forty-five miles away, and that 

 he had heard that sheep and caribou had been 

 seen there a year or two ago. He feared, how- 

 ever, that the meat-hunters who shoot game for 



