If you are in doubt as to the best place in which to outfit before you arrive, depend upon it your mind will be at ease on that point after you have been living here for a few days and have compared Seattle goods, Seattle markets and Seattle prices with those of other cities. Have your funds properly deposited subject to your order, either in your home bank or in a bank in Seattle. Do not go into the gold fields without enough money for use in case of necessity. While in Seattle you can suit your own convenience about a place of residence. There are numerous good restaurants of all grades in the city and any number of good boarding houses.
Board is as cheap here as in any city in the west.
Do not wait until the last moment before purchasing your outfit. You will find that goods going into Alaska need special packing in order to protect them from rain or frost, and that Seattle merchants, by reason of their long experience in shipping outfits to Alaska, can give you an expert service in this regard that you can get nowhere else. By remaining in Seattle several weeks you will find time to see the different steamships running to Alaska, as they make Seattle their headquarters, and thus determine what accommodations you desire and which vessel would satisfy you in regard to sailing date and destination. The goods suitable to be shipped to the Klondike can only be secured in cities accustomed to the Arctic trade. All of Seattle's Klondike goods are manufactured especially for that trade, even her meats being especially cured and her butter packed particularly for that climate.