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GOLD PRODUCTION. 



The placer gold production of the Yukon from 1897 i s 

 as follows: — 



Yeor. 



I898 $10,000,000 



1899 16,000,000 



I900 22,275,000 



1901 18,000,000 



1902 14,500,000 



I903 12,250,000 



I904 10,500,000 



1905 7,876,000 



I906 5,600,000 



1907 3,150,000 



1908 3,600,000 



I909 3,960,000 



I9IO 4,550,000 



191 1 4,580,000 



1912 5,660,000 



The figures for 1912 are only approximate. The low 

 production during 1907, 1908, and 1909 was due mainly to 

 the fact that at that period placer mining was undergoing 

 a transition from the old to the new methods. The Yukon 

 Gold Company had acquired most of the ground that had 

 formerly been the most productive, and were devoting their 

 energies to installing their new equipment rather than to 

 mining. 



The figures given above are for the entire Yukon Ter- 

 ritory, but the gold production from points outside of the 

 Klondike has probably never exceeded $100,000 per year. 



QUARTZ MINING [51, 3, l6]. 



Considerable interest has of late been evinced in the 

 quartz veins of the Klondike, and special efforts are being 

 made to develop the lode mining of this district, in the hope 

 that a revenue may eventually be derived from this source 

 that will continue to foster the mining industry of this 

 portion of the Yukon when the placer deposits have 

 become exhausted, which it is thought, however, will not 

 be for many years yet to come. 



A great amount of quartz occurs in the old schistose 

 rocks that are so extensively developed in Klondike dis- 



