56 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Production.—The ordinary creek claims in the Klondike had a 
length of 500 feet up and down the creek, and several of these yielded 
more than a million dollars, or an average of more than two thousand 
dollars to the running foot. Fraction A on Bonanza creek, at the mouth 
of Skookum gulch, had a length of 86 feet, and Richard Low, the owner, 
informed me that he had extracted gold to the value of between half 
and three quarters of a million dollars from it, giving an average yield 
of from $5,800 to $8,700 a running foot of the claim. I was present at 
one clean up on this claim, after thirty hours work by six men, and the 
clean gold recovered filled eight gold pans as full as it was possible to 
carry them without breaking. 
Up to the present time placer gold mining in the Yukon territory 
has produced gold to the value of $140,879,500, about 99 per cent. of 
which has been taken from the Klondike district. 
The following tables show the production to date. 
