Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-25 | Page 3 | Klondike Nearly Empty of Gold

KLONDIKE DULY EMPTY OF GOLD Only twenty million dollars worth of gold left in the Klondike1 This is the report of government experts who recently went over the former Eldorado. Eldo-rado. It Is estimated that $160,000,-000 $160,000,-000 worth has been taken out The total output of the Klondike in 189S was $10,000,000, from which figure fig-ure it jumped six million annually until un-til 1900, when the high water mark was reached with $22,275,000. From that year a steady decline began until In 1908 when the output was $2,820,-131. $2,820,-131. Then hydraullcklng and dredging dredg-ing began and the total uncovered rose slowly until It was $5,018,411 in 1913. The various processes of recovering recover-ing gold in this region fall under three main heads, individuals, by washing surface gravels with shoel and pan, or by sluicing with flume and sluice box small parties, by working drift with mechanical scrapers and sluices, or drift mining in shafts and Blulcing. and capitalists, by dredging with now erful mechanical plants, hydraulic sluicing with monitors, or mining and stamping ore In mills. The flist class Includes "poor men's diggings," and thesecond requires more financial resources re-sources and mechanical ability, but a successful man in the first may become be-come a member of the second class. While the first two classes require fairly rich groundonly men with exceptional ex-ceptional ability and ample capital can reach the third class and work the low-grade placer gravels or quartz veins successfully.