Show Caaadas Puller II l CrlllfU1 On July ST the Dominion cabinet decided de-cided to demand n royally on the output out-put of the new digging of the Yukon tinder regulations previously Issued a fee of 15 1 per claim for registry and a tax ot 100 per annum wert Imposed Now In addition to tub a royally of 10 per cent of the output U to be collected l col-lected from all claims producing 5oo per month and 20 per cent on these producing mora than that amount Moreover every alternate claim on all la I to bo placer ground reserved u the property ot tho government to be sold or worked for Ita revenue The establishment ot such a system which la I wo believe without precedent on this continent since the end of Spanish Span-ish rulo In Mexico U I atartllnf to thw e who have already acquired property HI the Klondykn by right ot location ud Hiesaoelon If not by title from the Rivernment and to prospectors who are piopMlng I to go there The right of he Canadian government to mako aseh regulations Is I unquestionable tho Boiler la I doubtful Thero Is I a sunpl fen that they would not have been s < i Ki re If It were not that most at tho minces In the district were Americana aid the rush of prospectors thither promises to be chiefly American also II I was of course to bo expected that M Canadian government would tako assaauree to reimburse Itself for the rip < ni < > t of administration In tho new dlitrlit and there la I n plausible rea pert fur n departure from the policy ol liberality In granting public mineral min-eral land for Ibo purpose of developing the unsettled part of the country Mice It la I likely that tho Yukon district dis-trict hit few natural resources besides III mines and when tho latter lire ex iMtd I tho district will be abandoned Ut this looks only to the easily Irked placer deposits and falls to like Into account the lodes wlfence they originated which some day will require capital and Industrial freedom for their exploitation Tbe aeaiurea adopted however seem to ui unwise owing to the reo Urditlon In tho development of the rclieral resources of tho Canadian Yu koa which they will cause and tha lnrJ feeling they are sure to breed anMg the American prospectors who art likely to clamor for retaliatory mures These will be moreover difficult and expensive taxes to collect col-lect since It will be nearly Impossible to witch every miner and the Klon dyke li so near the American frontier Irit clandestine exportations can hardly be prevented It la I a sound priidple of government that revenue steeled should be railed In tho most Icfipenilva manner possible and many ottir system li I unjust to the people rhtbave to pay the taxes JUt I of all to bo regretted however Is < possibility of friction arising bettten two nations whose Interests are nail Identical since recent history his-tory baa demonstrated that rich gold m mi are a prolific source of lonten t iad hard feeling Engineering Ta lnlng Journal |