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Very interesting and informative letter, replete with details of life in Dawson and the activities of setting up mining enterprise in the far north. "... We have been in Dawson City for more than a week now and during that time we succeeded in getting hold of two good claims right in the heart of the gold diggings... You will perhaps wonder how we managed to get claims in such good localities at this time for every-one knows that the whole of the Klondyke was taken up long ago. People owning these claims failt to represent them, and they are open for re-staking and re-recording. The ordinary prospector has no means of finding out when such claims are open and it is only by bribing or 'getting in' with the officials that one has a chance of locating here now... I could not begin to tell you how rich this Klondyke District is with gold. Its seems almost incredible the way some are taking it out from 10 to 20 thousand dollars a day... Dawson City is truly a wonderful place... Gambling in every form is going on night and day openly. Lots of men work on their claims during the day, come in in the evening with their gold and gamble it all away and seem perfectly satisfied with the results..."