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illumination will lift the burden of the dark winter night. It is 

 believed, too, that an electric railroad for freight and passenger 

 service will be constructed in the course of the present year into the 



heart of the adjoining gold region. The tiresome accounts of bad 

 trails will then be a thing of the past. In its business aspects Dawson 

 does not materially differ from the majority of the boom towns of 

 the United States, though of course it has its peculiarities. In the 



