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Show GOLD OUTPUT 07 ALASKA. The gold mines on the American side of the line In the far Northwest are this year, for the first time, producing much larger quantities of the precious metal than are being found In British territory. terri-tory. The yield for 1M6 st Nome and In the surrounding district la estimated by experts st approximately H0.fO3,000, and the Tanana valley has cleaned up $7,000,-000. $7,000,-000. Last year the total gold production for all Alaska was $3,060,000, or nearly $1,000,000 less than this year's clean-up at Nome alone,, where the principal increase in-crease took place during the lest summer. sum-mer. It is safe to assume that the entire Alaskan gold output wilV not be f.r short of $20,000,000. On the other hand the Klondike Klon-dike output for 1904. Which was klO.82S.000, will not be exceeded by its total of VMS. Tacoma Ledger. I i |