Washington County News | 1926-07-15 | Page 3 | Prospector Gone from Klondike Gold Region

Prospector Gone From Klondike Gold Region The richest gold area in Alaska was not far from the site of Carmack's discovery, along Bonanza and Eldorado Eldo-rado creeks. The finest vein was the Eldorado paystreak, four miles long, which yielded gold to the value of $1,200 a running foot. The whole Klondike region's highest yield was In 1000 when $22,000,000 was taken out. To 1915 the total production was about $162,000,000. Before 1006 the annual production had been greatly reduced, and by 1910 the richest gravels grav-els had all been worked out. Dawson, the next year, had dropped in population popu-lation to 3,103, while the prospector and his pan had long since given way, as in other placer regions, to the well-organized well-organized and economical equipment of the syndicate and the corporation.