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DAWSON CITY, or DAWSON

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 874 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CITY, or DAWSON  , the
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capital of the
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Yukon territory,
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Canada, on the right
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bank of the Yukon
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river, and in the
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middle of the Klondyke
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gold region, of which it is the distributing centre . It is situated in beautiful mountainous
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country, 1400 ft. above the
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sea, and 1500 M. from the mouth of the Yukon river . It is reached by a
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fleet of river steamers, and has telegraphic communication . Founded in 1896, its
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population soon reached over 20,000 at the height of the gold
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rush; in 1901 it was officially returned as 9142, and is now not more than 5000 . The temperature varies from 9o° F. in summer to 5o° below zero in
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winter . It possesses three
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opera-houses and numerous hotels, and is a typical
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mining
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town, though even at first there was much less lawlessness than is usually the
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case in such cities .

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