Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-12

Ah'k.klnin, could bring continuous
river navigation nearer the Pacific
than could the former, which Is iinpcdcd
ey an impossible rapid not far above
the confluence Of the two. Something
over an hours drifting brought us to n
miners camp. Swindlor and Harvey
had here taken up placer bar, but NJ
that time w submerged b. the frcshet
II could not be worked. swindlcr had
had m cvcntful prospecting tour the
year before, extending across the whole
face Of Alaska down the Kouskoquim
river Just In time Ia reach Juneau and
outnt for work here. His narrative
was interesting, although | recall but
few salient points, the most conspicuous,
In a sensational way being tho fact Tor
murderer, Tascott, was living
among q band OF savages on tho
Kou,lfoqum. Tho Identification GER
tainly seemed 10 be reasonably accurate
but too long TO detail here. When the
season is over these miners of thu Up
per Yukon ascend the river by polling
their whip-sawcd boat along shore,
abandon IL at the foot OF tho NOM.
tains, and with but two or threc days
abort and light supplies, make forced
marches over the range, arriving often
times on the coast with but a single
blanket and their buckslin purses more
or less full Of gold dust, according to
their luck and work. Our late lunch
that evening was on moses nose,
toasted over the Goals OF G campfire.
II is OF the consistency OF gristle with
nut-like favor, not bad 10 average
palate. And this brings II
wildly TO my mind that ! have eaten
everything from heaver-tail to moses
nose, from warmed.over walrus.hidc to
raEout of rattlesnake, and that even
ing, for the hundreth time at least was
asked u had ever encountered u gas.
tronoinic iinpossiblity, | have. A Min
nrconjon Sioux friend Of mine once in.
yited me TO dog.ieast at the old
Spotted Tail Agency tho fall OF 1877.
Now | can eat dog until my shins bark,
but Touch Clouds had ohciiiccd an
old Mesozole mongrel, boiled It for n
day or two In weak molasscs water
and then Sprinlled II with sugar "a
serve as desert | ate NIL the agency
rations served and stuck hat.footed on
the last.
About 10 o'clock saw us drifting past
the Upper Cassiar bar. Here, In lssJ six
men, In eighteen days, took out 500
apiece; fair summers work. for tive
men apiece on the average bar Despite
this brilliant record II was deserted nj
the time OF our visit. Camps were nov
numerous, but nil tho men, eight IL
number, ut four bars, werO waiting fol
the water To fall. About noon W,
driftcd by the mouth Of the big DAD
badis, which ! named In 1853 after tbs
great French explorer, the local lndiai
name translated being the "SalmOn,
while miners call II "Big salmon
That afternoon the moose's nose cam
TO an end, as we ate II for a lats lunch
Like all semi Cartilagenous, mutt.
meats Il Is, think, much better col,
than warm, but agree with ono mine
who said ~ don't want too much tree
topper snout In minc;" an
the expression "trco-toppor' shove
that he was from Montana
About the middle of the afternoon @
next day dune 2dl became somewha
anxious regarding the Rink Rapids
knew to be ahead short distance, "a
the high stage of water might make
somewhat dangerous to shoot thei
In light canvas boats. As usur
thing rapids flowing over obstruction
are Improved Ia navigabilty by hig
water while those flowing throug
them nre rendered worse. The Rim
Rapids are OF the latter class, u numb,
ot huge rock pinnacles projecting fro
The very bed Of the river, and lookin
Ike the pinrs OF great stor
bridge whose spans had tumble
IN. think there arc Ave
these, AT least home miners spet
81 II rs The Five Fingers" Abo
| o'clock we reached them. When
mot these ON . raft in 1858, at the l
saastof my Indian guide, l beaqhed o