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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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DAWSON See also:CITY, or DAWSON , the See also:capital of the See also:Yukon territory, See also:Canada, on the right See also:bank of the Yukon See also:river, and in the See also:middle of the Klondyke See also:gold region, of which it is the distributing centre. It is situated in beautiful mountainous See also:country, 1400 ft. above the See also:sea, and 1500 M. from the mouth of the Yukon river. It is reached by a See also:fleet of river steamers, and has telegraphic communication. Founded in 1896, its See also:population soon reached over 20,000 at the height of the gold See also: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 See also:winter. It possesses three See also:opera-houses and numerous hotels, and is a typical See also:mining See also:town, though even at first there was much less lawlessness than is usually the See also:case in such cities.

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