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Show ou KEEPING WARM IN THE YUKON. The winters In the Yukon territory aro from seven to eight months long, during at least five of which the thermometer ther-mometer ranges from zoro to 70 degrees de-grees below. The larger number of buildings are frame, and the price of wood, principally sort spruce, Is $10 to $15 a cord. Consequently different schemes have been devised in order to take advantage of as much of the heating capacity of a cord of wood as possible. The stoves used here for heating purposes, writes G. C. "Woodward Jn Consular and Trado Reports, are mado of sheet Iron and known as air tight heaters. In some cases theso are purchased pur-chased on the outside, having cast tops and bases, but they are principally principal-ly manufactured in Dawson entirely from sheet iron. The general custom has been to have the pipe run direct to tho roof, a great percontago of the heat bolng thus lost through the plpo. It remained remain-ed for a local merchant to overcome this to some extent. Shoot Iron drums from two to four feet in diameter dia-meter and from four, to eight feet In height, with a partition down the center cen-ter to within a short dlstanco of the bottom, are now used. The pipe from the stove enters the top of tho drum on one sldo of he partition, and directly on the other side the partition another pipe is connected con-nected leading to the flue; the smoke must consequently follow down ono side of the drum and up tho other In order to escape. Tho pipe where It enters the drum may be too hot to'ponnft-thc hand to rest thereon while where It leaves the drum it is' barely warm, and when tho smoke leaves tho chimney it contains verv little, if any heat. The.se drums In somo cases aro placed immediately noxt to tho stove, and in others as far as thirty feet distant, according to the size of the room. They are also placed In different differ-ent rooms from that which contains the stove, and in some cases on tho second floor -a this way a great heating surface i3 obtained, and at least 50 per cent more heat besides tho distribution of the heat throughout through-out tho houso, while the fire in tho stove need not be so hot. It haa also added to protection from fire, as the pipe is not hot where It goes through tho roof Tho one disagreeable feature is the collection of creosote, which formerly was largelv consumed by tho Intenso heat of the smoke as It left tho pipe. This has been overcome by making the bottom of the drum drain toward a hole In tho center, permitting tho creosote to run into a pan placed below be-low for that purpose. As much as from one to four gallons of this creosote cre-osote will collect in twenty-four hours, according to the size of the stovo. So far no use has been found locally for this creosote, with the exception of a small amountused by gardnerB for tho destruction of plant insects and worma. The drum, being built within six Inches of the floor, draws a certain amount of tho cold air from the floor of the room and carries It off. |