Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — GOLD YIELD OF KLONDIKE. [ARTICLE]

GOLD YIELD OF KLONDIKE.

Mint Director Roberts Puts It at $20,000,909 This Year. George D. Roberts, director of the United States mint, while in New York called at the assay office in Wall street Friday and made the prediction that this year’s gold yield from the Klondike would roach $18,000,000 or $20,000,000, and that most of this will come to the banks in New York. The gold receipts from the Klondike already this summer amount to $11,000,000, which, Mr. Roberts said, offset the gold that has been exported from New York City to Europtu