Cost of Living in Dawson 43 The Climate and the Mosquitoes--Short Summer--Heat and Cold Contrasts 44 Capital Required by Miners--Some Things Indispensable in an Outfit 45 A Woman's Outfit 47 Valuable Expert Advice--A Mining Engineer's Warnings and Suggestions 47 The New York Journal Expedition to Klondyke 50 Sailors Get Gold Craze--Desert Their Ships in Alaskan Ports to Dig for Fortunes 50 Only Three Deaths in a Year--The Healthiest Region in the World Is the Klondyke 51 Canadian Mining Laws--Regulations Imposed by the Dominion Upon Placer Mining 52 Some Things Worth Knowing 55 Explanatory and Important 58 THE KLONDYKE. GOLD. THE SEARCH FOR IT PAST AND PRESENT. Since the dawn of history man has attached to gold a value greater than that of any of the metals. Indeed, the value of every product of Mother Earth, of the fields, the forest or the mine has been fixed by its worth in gold. Hence the quest of gold has inspired mankind to acts of heroism, to a search for knowledge, and to a resignation to hardship and privation that have given to the explorer and prospector a character scarcely second to that of the heroes of the battlefield or the leaders of the world's senates. The history of the human race, even the record of the discovery of continents, is largely a history of the search for the yellow treasure in its hiding places in the earth or among the elements of Nature. Columbus' voyage, which gave to the world America, with its California and now its Klondyke, was but a search for gold. Chemistry is only the offspring of alchemy, and while adventurous spirits were daring the main, suffering the torments of the tropics and the gloom of the wilderness, the hut and the cave of the hermit--man's first laboratories--were the scene of other labors and privations, and all in the search for gold, gold, whether in the ground, the water or the air. But it has remained to our own day to witness this quest extended to the region of eternal snow and rewarded among the glacial mountains of the frozen North. KLONDYKE AND CALIFORNIA. 1849 AND 1897. As we are inclined to measure everything by comparison the discoveries in the Klondyke region and the already world-wide excitement created thereby naturally recall the discovery of gold in California, the memorable year '49, and suggests a comparison of the facts and conditions existing in and surrounding the two regions and the development of their respective resources.