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Show H Fifty thousand people started H for Klondike last year, and only H 30,000 arrived, Each man spent H a minimum "ol $500 in getting H there or failing to do so. The H cost there was $25,000,000 while H the returns were not much more H than $10,000 000. If the region H is to be exploited for all it is H worth, much more scientific met- hods will have to be adopted. H Enterprise and capital are just bc- H gining to learn the difficulties H which lie before them in unlock- H ing that mighty trcasurehouse, H guarded by winter and the spirit H that bideth by himself in the land H of mist and snow; but they will H out all i.bout them in due time. |