THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS.
Steamers from Alaskan ports are bringing down many miners, and the summer's clean-up of gold. The Cape Nome sent down a sum, variously stated at from one and a half to three million dollars,, by the steamer Bertha. When the vessel sailed from that port ifc was necessary to drive back, with clubs, men determined to come south in her, but willing to pay for their passage. The vessel was overloaded, but several others are to come before the season closes. Dawson City continues thriving, despite the boom of the rival districts. Since the destructive fires, Dawsoir is substantially rebuilt, and fitted with electrical appliances. Women and children are no longer strangers, and families will spend a comfortable winter about their private firesides in a region, so recently reclaimed. Te'egraphic communication is. open between Dawson and Skagway. Yukon became closed early in October. Mails will be carried overland, extensive l trails having been, made by the American . Trans-Continental Railways in conjunction I ■with the Trans-Pacific Steamship. 1
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 22 November 1899, Page 2
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171THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 22 November 1899, Page 2
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