Lanterna Rally

Author: E. Jerome Dyer

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781331545897

Excerpt from The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada In my capacity as Honorary Secretary of the Incorporated London Chamber of Mines (with which is affiliated the Canadian Chamber), I have had continuous occasion to remark the need of an abridged hand-book upon the mineral resources of North-Western Canada. The gold discoveries in the Upper Yukon Country have made this want even more keenly felt, for it is believed that throughout the vast expanse of the Northern Dominion there are innumerable openings for the intrepid mineral explorer with the fascinating possibility of many "Klondikes" awaiting the pick and pan of the adventurous pioneer. Meanwhile millions of many nations that have heard the name and news of "Klondike" are eager for more information of the Great Territory of which this newest marvel in goldfields is but a spot. Shaping my efforts by the numerous enquiries that have come before me, I have endeavoured to compile a work to meet the demand, and have embodied other necessary information that I think will interest those concerned. The chief consideration, after ascertaining the existence and locality of payable minerals, is how to reach them. A considerable proportion, therefore, of this book is devoted to the question of routes. On this subject, for obvious reasons, I write from the point of view of a resident in England and show that there are many routes into the N. W. Territories and the Yukon from the East and South East which are, perhaps, superior to those from the Pacific Coast. This question, together with Mining Fields being developed and those prospective, is dealt with in Part I. Special attention is drawn to the Mackenzie River and Bay, for the discovery of an evidently immense tract of gold-bearing Country in the Mackenzie-Yukon lends a deeper interest to the value of Mackenzie Bay by making it a means of opening up a Commercial route to the Bay by way of Behring Straits and the Arctic Ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.