Report on the Goldfields of the Klondike

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ounces. On Lower Bonanza a cut 30 feet by 30 feet yielded 95 ounces. On another Lower Bonanza claim a similar 30 feet by 30 feet cut yielded 580 ounces. On Upper Hunker a cut 120 feet by 12 feet gave 69 ounces. On Lower Hunker a cut 100 feet by 50 feet gave 1,800 ounces. On Dominion the few claims at work...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ounces. On Lower Bonanza a cut 30 feet by 30 feet yielded 95 ounces. On another Lower Bonanza claim a similar 30 feet by 30 feet cut yielded 580 ounces. On Upper Hunker a cut 120 feet by 12 feet gave 69 ounces. On Lower Hunker a cut 100 feet by 50 feet gave 1,800 ounces. On Dominion the few claims at work showed an average of not less than two ounces per cubic yard, over an area of gravel nowhere less than 120 feet wide. For Bear Creek and Sulphur Creek I have such returns as were available, but they are not worth giving, because they do not come from a sufficiently extensive amount of work. It will be noticed that I give only the bare yield of gold and say nothing about the cost of production. The cost of production will be found under What is ' pay ' in Klondike? We first want to know what amount of auriferous gravel exists already proved in Klondike, and how much gold that gravel contains. We can then discuss cost of extraction later; such discussion of cost need no longer be in the dark; for I watched right through several pieces of work last season, and can give the figures of cost and output by present methods. On the proved creeks (Bonanza, Eldorado, Bear, Hunker, Gold Bottom, Sulphur, Dominion) we may allow about 75 miles of auriferous gravel out of a staked length of about 120 miles on these same creeks. The 75 miles allowed are certain to yield a return even to the present methods of mining in the Klondike. The 45 miles which I do not allow must be mined, if at all, by other methods than winter drifting and summer sluicing. Of the 75 miles long of proved gravel what is the width ? The width varies from creek to creek, and from part to part of the same creek; thus high up on Hunker it may be seen to be only about 50 feet wide; so also on the higher claims in Eldorad...