Show RETURNS FROM ALASKA APPEAR FAVORABLE Increase of Gold From Klondike Klondike Klon Klon- dike Country Is Also in Evidence TWO TONS REACH SEATTLE More of or Yellow Metal on nit Hand nt at it Than ai nt at Any nr Time flute I In History S 'S S of or the spring work worl Inthe in inthe inthe the far north are beginning be to come comen In n and t the tho o usual Importance Is at attached at- at to t lem as ns being an au Index of I what n na ay tJ bo Ito expected for tho the year carThe car The evidence points to a large and substantial increase In gold recovered from all the districts In the Klondike as well as In Alaska a The Fairbanks district triet in the Tana n gold fields will uphold tho the promise of last year eal and show an Increase estimated at several several sev soy eral crab million dollars Tho The town tori of or Fairbanks ha has come corne through through the tra- tra baptism of oC lire fire with the usual l result of oC great reat activity ll and antI moro substantial sub sub- prosperity A At Seattle which Is the lie port of or entry en- en tr try Iry for most of oC the tho gold shipped from th the north It Il I is reported that about to wo tons Ions of oC refined gold Goltl have ha thus far fal been received and anti that one or l two lO O consignments per pel day will be expected expect expect- ed cd during during- the balance of or the tho sum- sum mer There is said saltI to be more gold goldon on jn hand at Nome than at an any period In n its history while from alon along the Yukon and anti its tributaries come reports reports re- re ports lorts of or successful recovery of or the yellow ellow metal matal In the realm of oC Industrial progress there here Is probably as much activity lt In Inthe Inthe the he far north as most of oC us suspect Jul July tI witnessed sed a railroad Ion out of or Dawson The run was nl a distance o of ten or twelve miles hut but Ut marked marled the lust first use of steam aa mJ motive power In that part of ur the coun- coun I j This Initial operation o of the Klondike Mines lInes railway may be re- re as the he first link In tho the lion ion o of Dawson with the outside world unless we consider telegraph wireless anti and otherwise |