YUKON TAMED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 22, 24 January 1924, Page 2

YUKON TAMED

REVOLVER SHOOTING A THING OF THE PAST. WINNIPEG, Oct. 23. Tough as a steak was Yukon Jake, Hardboiled as a picnic egg ; He washed his shirt in the river dirt And drank his rum by the keg. Those days are gone for ever, though, according to Judge C. D. Macawlay, of Dawson City, Yukon', who is in Winnipeg. Life in the far-off territory now is as placid as it is on “Main Street,” he says. No longer do dangerous Dans shoot whisky bottles off the “Nugget” bar; no longer do prospectors strike it rich overnight and spend it the next night; no longer do women whose names are Lou add the feminine touch to lawless life in the north. 1 Government liquor stores, lie explains, replace the bars of yesteryear; , prospectors work at regular, satisfactory salaries for big mining concerns, and altogether the people are as moral, contented, and quiet as any others in the world, if not more so.

Rich silver discoveries in the Mayo district, 180 miles south-east of Dawson City, have been made recently, and in future silver mining, he thinks, will be the big industry, replacing gold, the output of which, yearly is diminishing. This year’s gold output was about 1,250,000 dollars (about £280,000), compared with 22,000,000 (about £4,900,000) when he went north 23 years ago. The silver output this year is 1,750,000 dollars (about £400,000).

Two big mining concerns tire developing the silver area—the. Yukon Gold Mining Company and the Treadwell Yukon Mining Company. Some veins in the district are yielding 5000 ounces to the ton, and steady development is looked for. .• ‘

Thorp is no poverty in the Yukon, he declared. Salaries are about three times as high as here and living expenses correspondingly high. The population is healthy and contented