Show KLONDIKE AND ITS PRESENT PO C M woodworth writes n the cana dlan magazine on tha klondike and its present position from the mining point j of view he tells us that the klon dike has no longer anything good to offer to the adventurer whose capital Is in the strength of his muscles and the few simple tools that he carries that day has passed as jt passed long ago in california and in every other gold field that be world has known klondike now responds only to the machine to organized efforts and to capital kono the less ahe field is not exhausted nor Is the end of it even in sight during the early fever no claim that paid less that 8 per cubic yard was worth touching the conditions were too severe and progress was too slow but with the advent of machines the ground that was useless to the individual miner became a veritable eldorado claims that produce 3 to 4 per cubic yard arc rich and repay the cost 0 the great dredges and steam shovels and all the machinery 0 the hydraulic working mr woodworth believes that the ground still contains five or six throes as much gold as has yet been taken from it one square mile on hunker creek is estimated to produce while the klondike basin as a whole ought to respond to modern machine processes to tho tune of there is therefore oo 00 question of exhaustion and it the territory terr tory no longer invites the energy and the courage of the pioneer its welcome 0 o the capitalist and to the organizer is just as warm and lust as cheerful as ever |