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The Yukon Territory CONTENTS ALBERTA FRoVINCIAL LIBRARY The Yukon Territory CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Historical Sketch .... .. ... .. ... ... ........... ..... .... .. .. .... .. 7 II. Constitution and Government... .. 19 Ill. Placer Deposits . 21 (1) Gold .. .. .... ... .. ........ ... .... ... ........... .. ..... 21 (2) Copper. 24 (3) Tungsten . 24 IV. Placer Mining Methods and Operators... 27 (1) Sinking and Drifting.. 27 (2) Ground Sluicing. ?:l (3) Hydraulicking. 27 (4) Dredging. 27 (5) Thawing.. 27 (6) Individual operators ...... ......... '. 30 (7) Yukon Gold Company. 30 (8) Burrall and Baird.. 34 (9) North West Corporation.. 35 V. Lode Deposits. 37 (1) General Information. 38 (2) Mayo-Keno District. 38 (3) Upper Beaver District... 47 (4) Klondike District . .. .... ... :. 48 (5) Whitehorse District . ... .... .. .. .. .. '. ' . 50 (6) Wheaton District. 52 (7) Windy Arm District. 54 VI. Water:-powers.. .. ... ..... .. ..... ... ... .. .... ... ......... .. .. .. 59 VII. Agriculture....... 63 VIII. Game, Fur and Fish.. 67 IX. Transportation.. ... .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. ... .. .... .. ... .. .. 71 (1) Rail and water; freight-express ... ... .... .. .... : . 71 (2) Roads and trails... .. 74 X. Communication.... ......... .. 77 (1) Telegraph, Telephone and Wireles~ . 77 XI. General Information. 79 (1) Climate ... .... ... .... .. .... ....... .. .. .. ... , . 79 XII. Aborigines.... .. .. ... .. .. .. 81 XIII. Churches and Hospitals... 83 XIV. Education.... .. ............ ... .... .. ... .. .. .. ....... .. .. 89 XV. Appendices.. .. .... .. ... .... .... ...... .. ..... ..... ... .... ..... .. .... 91 (1) Federal and Territorial Officials. ... 91 (2) Synopsis of Mining Laws. .. ... .. .. 92 (3) Table of Gold Production Statistics. 95 (4) Table showing roads and distances in Yukon Territory... 96 (5) Passenger and freight rates. 98 (6) Population (extract from Census, 1921) ..... '. 99 4 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE George Mercer Dawson, C.M.G., etc . .... .. .. ... .. ... ... .... ......... .... 6 Tagish (Skookum) Jim ..... ..... ..... .. .................. ...... ......... 11 Facsimiles of the recorded applications of George Washington Carmack Tagish (Skookum) Jim and Tagish Charlie for discovery on Bonanza Creek. Thisl started the Klondike gold rush ......... ............ .. ..... .. .......... ......... 13, 14, 15 Chilcoot Pass, 1898. 16 Administration building, Dawson, Y.T................. ... .... .. ... ... ..... .. .... 18 A bird's eye view of the valley of the Klondike from the mouth to Bear Creek. 23 Facsimiles of instruments of conveyance by which some of the richest claims changed ownership in the early days of the Klondike gold rush .. ..... .. .... .. ....... .. 25 Ground sluicing . ..... .. .......... .. ..... .. ..... ... ... .. ..... .. ............. 26 Hydraulicking.. .... .. ...... ...... ... .. ...... .... .... .... .. .. .. 29 Stern view of dredge operating in the Klondike Valley, near Dawson ......... .. .. .. 31 Type of dredge Klondike valley hear Dawson . .. ... ... .... .. .. .. ..... .... .. .. 33 Tailings on Klondike river, mouth of Bonanza, 1922 . ... .. .. ...... ... ..... 35 Treadwell-Yukon property, Keno Hill, Y.T....... .. ... .. ... .. ...... .. .. .. .. 41 Dredge, operating in the Klondike river .. .. .. ... .. ... ...... .... .. ... 39 Modern methods of transporti!lg silver lead ores .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .... ... ... ... 44 Silver ore awaiting shipment Mayo . .. ... ... .... .... ...... .. ... .. ..... .... 51 Hydraulic mining .. .. .. .. .. .. ....... .. ..... .. ..... ........ .. ....... 56 The New Northwest Corporation, hydro-electric plant, north fork of the Klondike river, 26 miles above Dawson .. ... .... ... .. ..... ... .. .... .... .. ...... .. 58 Miles Canyon at Whitehorse, Y.T . ..... ..... ............... ..... ......... ... 60 Fraser Falls on the Stewart River . .. ... .. ... .. .. .... ..... ... .... 61 Potato field near Dawson .... .. .. ....... .. ... .... .... ... .... .. .. .. 64 Grain on Bunker Creek . .... .. .. ... .. .... .. ... ................. ... 65 Caribou herd passsing Dawson ...... .. ..... ..... ..... ... ... .. ..... .. ..... ... 66 Fox Farm .... .... ... ... .. .. ....... ..... .. .. .. ... .. ... ...... ... .. .. 69 Whitehorse-where rail and water transportation meet ... .... .. ... .... ...... 72 Scene on White Pass & Yukon Route . ...... ..... .. .... .. .... .. ..... .. .... .. 73 Boat going through Five Finger Rapids, Yukon River . .. .. ... ........ .. .. 74 Winter freighting .... .. .. ... .. ... ... ... ... ..... .. .. .. .... .. ... 75 Silver-ore shipments, Mayo . ...... .. ...... ..... ...... ..... ..... ...... 76 Steamer leaving Dawson on last trip of season ...... ... ......... ... .... ..... .. 76 Standard ~dio Station ..... ..... .... .. ..... .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. ... ... .. 78 Anemone Patens (Crocu<;! Plant) .... ... .... .. ... ......... .. .... .... .. .. .. 79 St. Paul's Cathedral, Dawson, Y.T . ... .... .... ... .... .. ..... ..... .... ... 85 St. Mary's Church, Dawson, Y.T ... .. ... .. .. .. ... ... .... ..... ...... ... 85 St. Andrew's Church, Dawson, Y.T .. .. ... .. .. .. ... .. .... ... ... ...... ... 85 St. Mary's Hospital, Dawson, Y.T . .. ...... ......... ...... ... .... .. ...... 87 General Hospital, Whitehorse, Y.T . .. .............. : . ... .. ...... .. ... .. 87 General Hospital, Mayo, Y.T . ...... .. ... ... ... ... .. : . .. ... .... 87 Public School, Dawson, Y.T . ... ... .. .. ... ... .... .. .. .. .. ... .. 88 Public School, Whitehorse, Y.T ... .. .... .... ....... ...... ... ........... 88 Robert Service's cabin . ....... ...... ........... ............. .... ...... 90 5 GEORGE MERCER DAW O~ , C.M.G., L.L.D. , F.R .. 1849-1901 Dawson City took its name from thi terli ng :md unostentatious worker in the public service of Canada G The Yukon Territory 1926 CHAPTER I Historical Sketch HE story of the earliest explorations in the Yukon Watershed is part of the T record of the Hudson's Bay Company whose intrepid and resourceful officers first explored and occupied that part of the North American Continent known now as the Yukon Territory. In 1670 this company was incorporated by Royal Charter granted by King Charles the Second to "the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" who were constituted, "the true and absolute lords and proprietors" of the territory designated as "Rupert's Land." A supplementary license was granted to the company in 1821 and this license, which was renewed on the 30th May, 1838, conferred upon the Honourable Adventurers, the exclusive right to trade in the Indian territories west of the Rocky mountains. In 1786, the Northwest Fur Trading Company of Montreal established a post on Lake" Athabaska and three years later Alexander Mackenzie, a repre­ sentative of the company, explored the great river which now bears his name. In 1792 Mackenzie again started from the post on Lake Athabaska and pro­ ceeded up the Peace river. In the spring of the foHowing year he crossed the Rocky mountains and reached tidewater at the mouth of the Bella Coola river, July 20, 1793. Elcho harbour (longitude 127 0 30', latitude 52 0 23'), up Dean channel, approximately fifteen miles from the town of . Ocean Falls, was the westernmost point he touched. On page 333, Mackenzie, in his book "Voyage~ from Montreal to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans", refers to a record he left at this point, as follows: "I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the southeast face of the rock on which we' had slept last night t.his brief memorial-' Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, twenty-second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.' " Within the period of fifteen years subsequent to 1778 Britishsearrien had' explored the islands and western coast of what is now British Columbia, and also a 'Part of Maska, while representatives of the fur companies had also reached both the Pacific coast and Arctic ocean. As early as 1741 the Russians had been· trading in furs with the natives of the Alaskan coast and in 1799 the Emperor Paul placed the control of the Russian possessions in that part of the World in the hands of the Russian Fur Company who in the same year established a trading post at Sitka. Negotiations carried on between the representatives of Russia and Great Britain to determine the sovereign rights of the two countries in that part of the continent resulted in the signing of a treaty in 1824. Russia claimed the North 0 Pacific COllst down to latitude 51 , but by this treaty the boundary was fixed at 7 54 0 40'; in . the following year a further treaty was concluded by which the Russians relinquished to Great Britain the vast interior occupied by the Hud­ son's Bay Company up to the frozen ocean. Article III of the treaty of 1825 defined the southern and western boundaries of the British possessions as.
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