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Show Prospector Gone Fro-n &1 Klondike Gold Region I -'The richest gold area in Alaska was not far from the site of Carmaek's discovery, along Bonanza and Eldorado Eldo-rado creeks. The finest vein was the Eldorado paystreak, four miles long, which yielded gold to the value of SI. 200 a running foot. The whole Klondike region's highest yield was in 1900 when $22,000,000 was taken out. To 1915 the total production was about $162,000,000. Before 1900 the annual production had been greatly reduced, and by 1910 the richest gravels grav-els had all been worked out. Dawson, the next year, had dropped in population popu-lation to 3,10.'!, while the prospector :nd his pan had long since given way, as in other placer regions, to the well-organized well-organized and economical equipment or the syndicate and the corporation. |