THE ALASKAN GOLDFIELD.
A FAMINE THREATENED.
AMAZING PRICES FOR PROVISIONS. Ottawa, September 11. Famine is threatened at D*wson City, mr the centre of the Klondyke gol«i fields. , The largest stores have closed — their stocks ,0? goods being exhausted/ — and provisions are selling at enormous prices.' ,
September 13.
The freezing pf the Yuk»n River has «topped the carriage of supplies., to the Kloadyke goldfiefd*. It la rsporfwd that SOOOdol were paid at Daweon City for a sack of flour and a little bacon.
Tne ' Canadian- Pacific Railway Companyintend to construct a line from Glenora,* via the Stikeen River, to Yukon. Sydney, September 13. The Miowera took 30 miners as passengers to Klondyke. , ' ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2272, 16 September 1897, Page 13
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111THE ALASKAN GOLDFIELD. Otago Witness, Issue 2272, 16 September 1897, Page 13
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