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Gold Syndicates

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$500,000,00

OFFICERS. Hon. Fred

Emery Beane, Pres., Col. Wm. J. Matbury, m.d., Ex-Mayor Hallowell, Me. Surgeon General of Maine,'

C. E. Jeffrey, Vice Pres., General Manager Life Insurance,

Treas..

Saco.

William H. Jeffrey, Sec. Editor and Publisher,

Portland, Me.

Portland. Me.

Geo. H. Davis, Sup't of Mining, Late of Holy Cross Mines, Colorado.

OFFICES

:

CASCO NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, 191 Middle St.,

PORTLAND, ME,

.

"The majority

of the talk that

has reached the people

throughout the country about the great gold Klondike districts

is

no doubt true, and

Investment for anyone.

we

we

fields of

think

it

the

a safe

After a thorough investigation,

can safely recommend to the readers of this paper,

the Alaska- Yukon-Klondike Gold Syndicate.

The char-

acter of its officers constitute a sufficient guarantee that

not a day nor a dollar will be wasted."

The Mercantile and Financial Times,

New York and

Chicago, Oct. 30, 1897.

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St.

Were

Michaels, Sept. 2, 1897.

hundred thousand people

five

to

go

there every year for ten years, not all the mineral lands would be covered. PROF. H. C. SEELYE.

Hlaefea^uton^mionMfte (Bolb

S?nMcate„„

The Alaska- Yukon-Klondike Gold Syndicate has been organized and incorporated for the purpose of acquiring and operating gold mines in Alaska and the North West territory of British America, now recognized as unquestionably the richest gold fields of the known world. This syndicate sell,

all

is

authorized

kinds

to purchase, build and of machinery, vessels and boats,

The bulk of the wealth (of Alaska) is in the rocks of the hills, waiting for the proper machinery to take it out. PROF.

S. F.

EMMONS,

U. S. Geological Survey.

According to Prof. Ogilvie, (the Canadian Government Surveyer) the Gold Belt of Alaska and British America, covers one hundred thousand square miles. freight and passengers; to locate, and operate mines and mining properties to purchase, sell and improve personal and real estate, refine, smelt and assay the metals, and to carry on such other business as may be

to transport

develop, ;

pertinent

operations

to

of

its

purposes.

The

country must

future

great

on through organization, aided by boats, pack animals, hydraulics and machinery driven by steam and electricity. The supplying of these must be through capital, with carefully planned and thoroughly equipped expeditions directed by experienced managers and operated by mining and engineering experts. that

The expedition the Pacific coast

in

of

two

this

be carried

syndicate will leave

sections

during:

There are thousands of square miles basin of the Yukon laden with gold. For

whom

March in

the

PROF. JOHN MUIR, Alaska's great glacier was named.

The

real

mass

It lies in

PROF.

rocks.

Yukon region the virgin (quartz)

of Gold in the

remains untouched.

S. F.

EMMONS,

U. S. Geological Survey.

and April of next year, under the personal direction of our Vice-President, accompanied by our Superintendent of Mining, Mr. George H. Davis, who is a thorough miner and intimately with

familiar

every

having passed

him,

detail

several

of

the

years

task in

before

the snow-

Rockies in charge of large mining interests and superintending the construction and operation of large gold quartz mills. The first section, composed of our Vice-

bound

President

and engineers, and descend the prior to its breaking up. the gold fields two months

with

mining

experts Pass,

cross

the

Chilkoot

rivers

on

the

ice,

They

will

will

arrive

in

any expedition that can possibly reach Dawson City by way of St. Michaels and the ahead

of

Yukon

River.

Old miners believe that three hundred tons may be taken out each year. HON. JAMES RICE, Ex-Secretary of State, Colorado.

of gold

According to Prof. Ogilvie, (the Canadian government surveyor) the gold belt of Alaska and British America, covers one hundred thousand square miles. The second

with prospectors,

maand other supplies of all kinds, will start from the Pacific coast by the water route as early as the rivers are open to navigation. The expedition will carry steam apparatus, adapted for thawing the perpetually frozen gravels of the placer mines hoisting engines for taking the " pay dirt" out of the shafts portable saw mills to furnish lumber for commercial purposes as well as for the use of chinery,

section,

food,

tools,

;

;

our own party lights

for

an electric light plant to furnish others as well as ourselves during the ;

almost perpetual night of Arctic winter, and all other mechanical and food supplies necessary for the use of the syndicate, its mechanics and prospectors.

There are thousands of square miles basin of the Yukon laden with gold,

in

the

PROF. JOHN MUIR, For

whom

Alaska's great glacier was named.

Were

hundred thousand people

five

go

to

there every year for ten years, not all the mineral lands would be covered. PROF. H. C. SEELYE, St. Michaels, Sept. 2, 1897.

The management of session value,

of

this syndicate is in pos-

private

obtained

information of the greatest from a veteran prospector who

cannot return to the scenes of his discovery for reason of failing health. This gulch, which he has prospected is more than two hundred miles from

claimed.

Dawson Its

and is not worked or from Dawson City will

City,

distance

almost certainly leave its

easily

accessible

it unstaked till we reach banks where our informant

washed thousands of dollars of the purest gold and nuggets yet brought from the frozen north.

We

have organized and shall take, as a part our expedition, a large party of prospectors, selected from our stockholders, who will be under contract to work solely in the interests of

of

will

Those who send agents into Alaska first get gold mines for the cost of locating and

registering.

H. B.

ANDERSON, Dawson

City.

The

real

mass

Yukon regions

of gold in the

remains as yet untouched.

It lies in

the virgin

PROF. JOHN MUIR, For whom Alaska's great glacier was named.

(quartz) rocks.

syndicate

this

Tney

for,

at

months.

eighteen

least,

work prospecting under the super-

will

vision and direction of

our mining

The expenses,

engineers.

experts

and

supplies, etc., will be

turnished by the syndicate, the prospectors' com-

being

pensation

they to

may

the

stake;

the

prospectors

and man

man

will

remaining

in

51% a

the

claims

belonging

discovery

is

of the small parties into which

are

be

divided,

called

in

every other

party

once and

every

at

stakes a claim.

When be

interest

Whenever

syndicate.

made by any one the

49%

a

against

operating individually the chances will

any

one

man's

success.

With

the

The Klondike is but one of the many hundreds of tributaries of the Yukon, and each of its tributaries has its innumerable creeks with gold bearing soil. DR. MAX1ME SCHUMANN.

Next spring seventy-five million dollars in gold will be shipped out of the Klondike region as the result of the winter's work. O.

J.

HESTWOOD, from Dawson

having

corporation tion

assures

dicate

and

representatives

everywhere,

done away with.

this risk is entirely

City.

Organiza-

success to the prospectors, the syn-

its

stockholders.

our agents

This expedition will

mines

where they will have passed the winter, fully familiar with the country and every circumstance and discovery necessary for immediately acquiring properties find

the

in

of great worth, either

by locating or purchasing.

Vast sums are to be made operating and developing properties to be acquired for the merest fraction of their value in the Spring of '98.

No company, the

gold

expedition,

fields

even

expedition or party can reach

materially

though

in

they

advance started

of

this

months

The bulk of the wealth (of Alaska) is in the rocks of the hills, waiting for the proper machinery to take it out. PROF.

S. F.

EMMONS,

U. S. Geological Survey.

Old miners believe that three hundred tons of gold may be taken out each year.

HON. JAMES RICE, Ex-Secretary of State, Colorado. ago

and

now camped

are

on

the

trail

;

we

vigorous and fresh with returning

start healthy,

Spring and pass them where they are now camped weakened from cold and privation, struggling to replenish their food supplies before tak-

ing up the march again. Several

claims

on

the

Yukon River have

already been offered us, and will be immediately

upon the favorable report of our ex-

secured, perts.

A

limited

assessable

for

sale,

amount

stock at

of

the

of

this

par

the full paid and non-

syndicate

value

of

yet offered

is

one

dollar

per

share.

Dividends actually

sold.

will

be

paid

only on

The treasury stock

the stock

will be held

According to Prof. Ogilvie (the Canadian government surveyor), the gold belt of Alaska and British America, covers one hundred thousand square miles.

Those who send agents will

into

Alaska

first,

get gold mines for the cost of locating and

registering.

H. B.

develop

to

ANDERSON, Dawson

and equip quartz claims,

City.

which

re-

quire heavy and expensive machinery.

Small

stockholders

participate

will

in

all

and share every advantage with the

dividends,

largest owners.

We

cannot

guarantee

this price in future, unless

as all property,

stock

actually

claims,

to

deliver

stock

at

agreed upon at once,

etc.,

will belong to the

purchased at the

time,

and

will

greatly increase the value of our shares.

syndicate, with its officers and expedion the ground weeks earlier than parties and individuals who have to carry their supplies

This

tion

can its

possibly arrive, with

saw

its

capital, its engines,

mills, its electric lighting plant,

with

its

prospectors and experts ever on the alert, should

Next Spring seventy-five million dollars in gold Will be shipped out of the Klondike region as the result of the winter's work. J.

O.

HESTWOOD,

from Dawson

City.

Michaels, July 25, 897. Klondike is not dust, but nuggets, from the size of a pinhead to a goose egg. Men who have been there only a year have from $10,000 to $50,000 apiece.

The gold found

St. in

1

HUGO BEYER.

return the

its

amount

We

stockholders

in dividends

many

times

of the original investment.

any and all legitimate ways, to procure and manage properties of all kinds to increase our dividends, and the value of Such opportunities have never beour stock. in this generation, and we solicit occurred fore your co-operation and partnership in this entershall

operate

in

prise. Fill the enclosed application with

the

number

of shares

you

desire,

your name,

and mail check

or post office order to our address.

Were five hundred thousand people "to" go there every year for ten years, not all the mineral lands would be covered. SEELYE. PROF. H. St. Michaels, Sept. 2, 1897.

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