Show IRE AD GOLD CONCESSIONS AID KLONDIKE MINERS MINERS' Governor Ross Declares Recent Government Order I Gives Ow Owners ers Powerful Financial Assistance VANCOUVER B. B C. C Feb 20 Gov Ross of the Klondike arrived here to today today today to- to day from the north by the steamer steamer Amur In an interview concerning the concession about which so much excitement has been raised Gov Ross noss said I have not seen the amended order order- order order-I I in Council c concerning the concessions I Ito to the syndicate but I did see the original nal order and unless some very material alterations have been made in the document nothing but Benefit to U e Klondike can result from front the he agreement which has been r reached ched between the government arid and the syndi syndi- cate Owing to the fact that there there- are many nany claims on the creeks In the Klondike Klon Klon- dike Ikc r region glon which cannot be successfully successfully successfully success success- I fully worked at present on account of I I the poor water supply the owners can car but await the time when some powerful powerful powerful power power- ful financial corporation or syndicate provides a generous water supply That is what the syndicate syndi cate has contracted with the government government govern govern- ment spent to do and in return for its cash outlay the government will allow It to toI work the inaccessible bench claims the titles to which have lapsed or which the owners do not care to work Owners Owners Owners Own Own- ers of claims have the privilege of working their properties with the aid of the water for which they must pay a reasonable sum to the syndicate syndicate syndicate syn syn- the amount being set by the government so that no imposition on the t part of the syndicate will take pla place e. e That is the question as I understand understand un un- un- un it and such being the case the concession cannot but be a source of great benefit to the whole region |