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Show r.f O WORK HARD. Pay Co.. ur Is Very Heavy In t.ie Klondike. "Mining In the Kl-mdlko is strenuous work and after putting In a summer thcro tho miner has fully earned a winter's rest," says an engineer who has just returned from tho Klondike to spend tho winter. "It's ten hours a day without any stop for Sundays, holidays pr anything clso, and It you can't stand tho pace, out you go. On tho dredges it is a lltt'i easier, for whllo the dredges are kept going all the time, the men work only eight hours, three shifts being used on each dredge. The pay Is good, but tho men are mighty glad when the ton-son ton-son is over. "Nearly all the mining in tho Klondike Klon-dike country Is done by big corporations. corpora-tions. Their plan Is to buy out all the mining claims on a stream in which thoy want to operate. A mining min-ing claim is COO feet along the stream and 1,000 feet on each side of tho center cen-ter line of the stream. First they dredgo out tho bars and riverbeds for tho entire length of their holdings, which may bo ten or 12 miles and even more, nnd when this work is done they wash out the benches on tho banks. They rurely do clean up everything every-thing In the gold line. "Wages are good In the mining country. coun-try. Ordinary miners and laborers receive re-ceive five dollars a day and found, and engineers seven and eight dollars a day and found. A senslblo man can put up a nice little pile In a good season." |
