YUKON MAY BOOM AGAIN
Reviving Interest in Silver Mining;
Mayo (Yukon). Jane 29. The Yukon, once tlie scene of the world’s most famous and most exciting gold rush, is in the news again. Interest in silver mining is reviving in this district. With the rising of silver prices, miners in large numbers are coming to this rich Yukon camp. They are arriving by air, land and water, and every available house, cabin and shack is taxed to its capacity. Even chicken-coops have been converted into temporary dwellings.
From 1922 to the end of 1933. tlie Mayo district shipped ore and concentrates to the value of approximately 22.0W.000 dollars. Since then, however, the mines have idled with the decline in prices. Now. with rising silver prices, large silver operators are tuning up their equipment preparatory to resuming operations on a larger scale, while individual claim owners have already started to got ore out for summer shipment.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 254, 24 July 1935, Page 9
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