Canada Wants a Share

Bellingham Bay Reveille
July 30, 1897

OTTAWA, Ont., July 28- At the close of the second sitting of the cabinet yesterday it was announced that the government decided to impose a royalty on all placer diggings on the Yukon, in addition to $15 registration fee and $100 annual assessment.

The royalty will be 10 percent, each on claims with an output of $500 or less monthly, and 20 percent on every claim yielding above that amount yearly.

Besides this royalty, it has been decided in regard to all future claims staked out on other streams or rivers, that every alternate claim should be the property of the government and should be reserved for public purposes and sold or worked by the government for the benefit of the revenue of the dominion.