Distinguished Career of Gov Ogilvie and Yukon Basin Gold Firm
William Ogilvie, former Yukon Governor and Canadian Pathfinder, led exploration and boundary work in the Yukon from 1887 to 1895, earning Royal Geographical Society honors. He selected the Stewart River as a prime field and helped secure a major concession for the Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Company, organized to finance and manage the venture.
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William Ogilvie
Yukon Territory
Yukon Basin
Fremont
United States
California
Eldorado
G. M. Dawson
Dawson City
Ogilvie
Yukon District
Yukon River
Stewart River
Royal Geographical Society of England
Geographical Societies
Yukon
International Corporation
Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Plans Along Stewart River
Dispatches report the Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Company has acquired extensive leases along the Stewart River in the Yukon district and plans dredging on a gigantic scale. The river averages 200 yards wide, with about 10,000 acres of submerged bed within leaseholds. Fraser Falls could power dredges for 80 miles of placer grounds. Stewart gravels are long celebrated, and large results are anticipated.
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Seattle
Wash
Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Company
Stewart River
Yukon District
Fraser Falls
Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Co
Stewart
Pittsburg Press
Yukon
Guggenheims to dredge Yukon with electrical unit
Winnipeg dispatch reports the Guggenheim Exploration Company plans an electrical dredge to work vast placer grounds in the Yukon. The dredge, powered by thirteen men, can move about 3000 cubic yards daily at roughly $100 in daily costs. The project may alter Klondike economics and push individual prospectors to seek new fields for potential fortune rehabilitation.
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New York Times
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Guggenheim Exploration Company
Yukon
Klondike The Rand's Peer Minings Expert Says Equals World's Greatest Deposits
Thomas H. Evans, mining expert and mine owner, after surveying Klondike creeks at Dawson Alaska, declares the Yukon region's placer gold deposits rival the Rand in extent and distribution, calling it a peer of the world's greatest mining country.
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Dawson
Alaska
Thomas H. Evans
Klondike
Stewart River
Indian River
Forty Mile
Little Salmon
Yukon
Evans
Rand
Exclusive title by concessions to vast dredgable gold ground
William Ogilvie states Canada grants exclusive rights to the largest, richest gold bearing area along the continent extending 105 miles along the earths richest gold producing river under single management.
Dredge Gold Promise Warns of Placer Flood Risk
Hon George F Roberts director of the United States Mint reports in 1904 that a new placer mining method, the gold dredge, could flood world gold supply and undermine traditional mines. He predicts future gold will mainly come from placers and urges investors to pursue Stewart River sand bar opportunities with this invention.
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George F. Roberts
United States Mint
Placers
Stewart River
Enormous Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Company Leaseholds Claim
The Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Company controls riverfronts on Stewart River totaling over ten thousand acres of proven gold bearing gravel and sands. Chief executive Governor Ogilvie asserts the property is the richest and largest in the Yukon Territory with potential profits vast enough to rival California and Oregon dredging ventures.
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Yukon Basin
Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Company
Tee Ster
Stewart River
Yukon
California
Oregon
Stock Offer Promises Rapid Profit at Low Price
Public subscription proposed for limited stock at ten cents per share with price rises to fifteen twenty twenty five cents as units sell out. Claim intrinsic value of one dollar per share with dividends expected. no bonds or fiscal agent. Installment plan blocks of 200 shares, 10 percent down and 10 percent monthly for nine months. certificates issued if payments incomplete.
Bears Renew Their Fierce Hammering on Street
Frequenters of State Street faced a hot opening as a bear onslaught pushed prices lower across major issues led by Union Pacific and Canadian Northern. After brief rallies the day ended dull but firm with further declines for many stocks and notable net changes listed for Amalgamated Anaconda Smelting Atchison Reading and others. Financial nerves persisted amid rumors of a wobbly German bank and weak London markets along with heavy margin calls.
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State Street
Bears
Union Pacific
Shorts
Canadian
Northern
Missouri Pacifics
London
Sara‘toga
Bear Clique
Peadebasdes Veces Cael
Deiainid
Bowie Ace
Boston
Poeton Wang i
Treasury
New York
COPE
Daibuooe
Bcetbadhees
Amalgamated
Anaconda
Atchison
Reading
St. Paul
Steel Common
Chesapeake & Ohio
Erie
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
Steel
New
Stock and Bond Market Prices Recorded in Boston
Boston August 12 stock and bond market prices and total sales of the day are recorded in a table. Bonds include Am Bell Tel 4s at 98 with 9T%, Am Tel & Tel 4s at 82, Chic, Bur & Quint 48 at 91% with 91% listed, and a 13,000 sale figure for Am Bell Tel 4s. 8,000 for Am Tel & Tel 4s. Railroads section begins but is cut off.
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Boston
Bell
Bur & Quint
New Issue Goldfield Boston Conso Stepped Into Local Curb Market
Exchange Place August 12 A new issue Goldfield Boston Consolidated stepped into the local curb market today with brisk early trading. Over 50 000 shares changed hands within the first hours at 12 1 2 to 15 cents. Amalgamated Nevada drew attention with 25 to 30 cent spreads. Other notes include Consolidated Steamship bonds slipping to 24 1 2, Davis Daly weak at 9 1 4 from 10, Butte & Bradley active 68 to 65 cents, Nipissing at a new low 61 4, Nevada Utah off to 38 4, with futures in several other issues listed. Continued on Page 9 First Column.
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Boston
New York
Dulness
Amalgamated
Telephone
Bingham
Boston Consolidated
Calumet & Hecla
Copper Range
Isle Royale
Greene
Mohawk
Nevada
North Butte
Old Dominion
Osceola
Parrott
Quincy
Shannon
Tamarack
Utah Consolidated
Wolverine
Columbus Railway Company
A. J. Campbell
Prince & Whitely
New York City
Balaklala Company
Balaklala
Trinity Companies
Franklin
Mass
J. G. Roy
Henry Clay Pierce
Mexican Central Railway
New York Stock Exchange
Rosario Mining Company
Prescott
Ariz
G. R. Atkins
H.S. West
H. S. Rich
G. R. Heisey
Louis Rosenfield
J. A. Monk
E. L. Baker
Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd
Seattle Electric Company
Local Stock Exchange
R. C. Bogg
N. E. Anderson
L. A. Sussdorff
Rudolph Meeser
T. A. McIntyre & Co
New York Produce Exchange
John H. White
F. H. McGuigan
Great Northern Railway
Atchison
Bos & Alb
Bos & Me
Conn River
NY & NH
Pere Marq
Union Pac
West End
Allouez
Anaconda
Arcadian
Arizona Com
Atlantic
Butte Coal'n
Cal
Cal & Hec
Daly-West
Granby
Michigan
Trinity
United A
Utah
Victoria
T&t
bAmalgam
Butte & Bradley
Nipissing
Superior & Pittsburg
Boston Corbin
Raven
Change Place
Broad Street
Arizpe
Bingham Mary Black Mountain
Brattleboro Mineases
Boston-Ely Eeowene
Bullfrog Mines, Inc
Butte-Bradley Eeea
Cumberland Ely Davis-Daly Seree O
Douglas
Dominion Copper
Fagle & Blue Bell
East Butte Cote E Eee
Foster
Farwell
Mt Ee
Glenevis
Reewes
Globe Consolidated
Golden Shaft
Goldfield
CIA
Helvetia
Hassayampa
Boston Curb
Goldfield-Boston-Consolidated
Boston Curb 5000
Mohawk Jumbo Sale and Dividend Details
Mohawk Jumbo, sold in the East exclusively through this house less than four months ago, ships ore worth $30,000 daily. It has declared a monthly dividend of 10 percent on par and 30 percent monthly on the purchase price, indicating a strong return to investors.
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East
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Yukon Gold Fields
Guggenheims’ Venture
Klondike the Rand’s Peer
Chicago Tribune
The
Ottawa
Canada
James P. Batchelor
Bankers’ Trust Company
Kansas City
EK. B. Richardson
Kansas City Stock Yards Co Thomas RB
Plint
House of Commons
Fred DB. Whiting
Fletcher Mfg. Co
Benjamin B. Ralph
Ralph Sanitarium
William Gamble
Bankers’ Trust Co
Union National Bank of Kansas
U. S. Mint
Yukon Basin Gold Dredging CO. Ltd
Scarritt Building
Kansas City, MO
Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Co., Ltd
Scarritt Bidg
the Boston Bank Statement
Portland
N. W. Harris & Co
Standard Oil
New York Metal Exchange
Lake
American Coal Company
Ww. J. Hayes & Son
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H. L. Burrage
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J. Edward Simmons
Fourth National Bank of
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Lake Mohonk
N. Y
Alabama Terminal Railroad Company
Alabama, Birmingham & Atlantic
Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Company
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Trinity & Brazos Valley
St. Louis
Brownsville
Mexico
Colorado, New Orleans & Pacific Railway
Central Trust Company of
Grand Trunk Railway
G. M. Hyams
Lake Superior District
Cotton, Produce and Stock Exchanges
U. S
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Egents
la Salle
Swift & Co
J. Thomas Reinhardt
Coldfield
Boston-Consolidated
Boston Transcript
Mohawk-Jumbo Leasing Company
Inter-Trust Security CO
Water St
Boston, Mass
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