From Our Own Correspondent: Flora Shaw on the Klondike
Stephen Usherwood recounts the lively reports sent from the goldfields of Yukon by Flora Shaw, the British journalist and writer, which began to appear in English newspapers in August 1898.
On 18 July, 1898, a short Reuter news item in The Times, date line Victoria, BC, July 15th, read:
‘A steamer arrived here with the first consignment of this summer’s Klondike gold amounting to nearly 1,000,000 dollars in value. The gold was shipped from Dawson on June 28 via Lake Bennett and Skagway. The estimate of the wash-up varies from 12m. to 30m.’
On August 10th, The Times carried another short paragraph- headed ‘From Our Own Correspondent’, date line Dawson City, July 23rd, beginning:
‘I reached Klondike this morning completing the journey from London in 31 days. The time includes four days’ accidental delay on the rivers.’
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