LUCK IN KLONDYKE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 13

LUCK IN KLONDYKE

JEW EMIGRANTS STRIKE GOLD. DAWSON CITY (iukon), Oct. 11. A family of poor Relish Jews who in 1898 emigrated via Liverpool, travelling steerage on the Gallia, have had the reward of their toil. After working on an unprospected piece of ground in the Kiondyke for some time, they have struck an old river-bed, and are taking out gold to the value of £-100 or £SOO a day by the primitive method of “rocking.” The lucky folk, whose name is Gimzberg, have refused an offer of £50,000 for their property. There are other people in Kiondyke who are not doing so welt. The Indians along the. Yukon are dying in great numbers. - Prospectors have found" whole villages depopulated. As for _ Dawson City, although the m. in her of steamboats visiting here with merchandise is five times as many as last ear, provisions are almost as dear. Potatoes are Is per lb, sugar Is per lb,' butter 4s, milk 2s per tin, and eggs bs per dozen. The barber still charges 2s ior a .shave. Is for a hair-cut, and the same for a bath. The Canadian Government has at last orde. eel the gambling house io close. It is quite a common sight to see several thousand dollars won or lost—generally lost—-m an hour. One prominent official lost £vO(K) one night last week. The gamb in g saloons will be closed next spring.