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Show BIG SILVER VEINS OPENED IN YUKON EDMONTON, Alta. March I. 81lvr 4 epo.,lt a recently dlftcovcrtd on Kcno Mil In Yukon territory in Mid to rival th famous fold placers of ths Klon-dyke. Klon-dyke. One vein of solid alena. eight feet wide, has been found, according to reports from the lar north. A ample of ore from this vein Is said to have run 14,eoc ounces to the ton. Another vein, flva fact wide, ran tv0 ounces to the ton. The gold commissioner of the Tukoa has wired to Ottawa a recommendation for the construction of an automobile road from lawaon to the new fields. Otologists have expressed the opinion that li will equal the richness of the Cobalt region. Three hundred miners are In winter quarters at Keno Ml). Provisions are scarce end frvru are reminiscent ot I the Klondyke stampede. A ton of po-: po-: tatoea recently sold for $000. j |