. Review of reviews and world's work. rd. On the one side le-gitimate effort alone must be considered ; onthe other the actual gold taken from the Scores of new transportation and trading com-panies, formed dui-ing tlie excitement with anenterprise only equaled by their ignorance, lostin wrecked river and ocean-going craft and incollapse several millions of dollars. The men inthe country before the rush—the mine owners,middlemen, and prospectors—between their ex-penses and their labor form an important item,as do also the expenditures of tlie Canadianand American government^. But disre
. Review of reviews and world's work. rd. On the one side le-gitimate effort alone must be considered ; onthe other the actual gold taken from the Scores of new transportation and trading com-panies, formed dui-ing tlie excitement with anenterprise only equaled by their ignorance, lostin wrecked river and ocean-going craft and incollapse several millions of dollars. The men inthe country before the rush—the mine owners,middlemen, and prospectors—between their ex-penses and their labor form an important item,as do also the expenditures of tlie Canadianand American government^. But disregardingthese items and many minor ones, the result willstill be sufficiently striking. Consider only tlie125,000 gold-seekers, each of whom on an aver-age, in getting or in trying to get into the Klon-dike, spent a year of his life. In view of thehardship and the severity ol their toil, $4 perday per man would indeed be a cheap purchaseof their labor. One and all, they would refusein a civilized country to do the work they did do. FOUT SK1,KI1{K, ONK DAYS JOURNEY FROM DAWSON. been made. The figures stand for themselves :$220,000,000 have been spent in extracting$22,000,000 from the ground. Such a result would seem pessimistic were notthe ultimate result capable of a reasonable an-ticipation. While this sudden and immense ap-plication of energy has proved disastrous to thoseinvolved, it has been of inestimable benefit tothe Yukon country, to those who will remain init, and to those yet to come. Perhaps more than all other causes combinedthe food shortage has been the greatest detri-ment in the development of that region. Fromthe first explorer down to and including the win-ter of 1897 the land lias been in a chronic stateof famine. But a general shortage of suppliesis now a thing of the past. About 1874 GeorgeHolt was the first white man to cross the coastrange and the first man to penetrate the countryavowedly in quest of gold. In 1880 EdwardBean headed a party of twenty-fi
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