Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-13

terially assisted US In our further ex.
ploratlons Our original plan, Ia fact,
had contemplated that our real ex-
piurations would begin at or nonr
this point and bear from here towards
the southwest. a straight line from
here to previous explorations on the
Copper would probably give the long
eat that could be laid down ON this
continent, wholly through unesplored
country. Mr.. Harper was gone for the
summer down the riyor disposing Of his
furs and the station was In charge Of
TalSudh Indian, who Introduced him.
helf as San" He understood u micro
SCOPE appvpt Of English, 40 his inter-
probation was often quite aggravating
to Us, but IL was the best we could do.
There wero also two Indian boys.
These were all tho Indians In night. so
the chances OF getting about dozen to
net Us packers for Us 10 the Copper
river did not seem catering. Where
others could DO found WAS not 40 up.
parent, either. | induced tho boys
To drum me up recruits from
the region around about, aud have
them come W confer with me
and have feast had no faith In tho
conference Us an inducenont, but |
knew they would come la from Hud-
sons bay on crutchcs for the feast
The boys got away the afternoon OF
June ~, 30 there was nothing 10 do but
nwait Developments. Next afternoon
"Sain" informed me that raft
could be seen floating out OF
the Pelly river, and he believed
II held some Indians that had probably
been sent in by our messengers. They
turned out 10 be our two couriers them.
selves. They said they found camp
on the Pelly but II contained only
squnws. Some other Indians had been
seen and they had seut in word they
would not miss any feast They had
killed u moose and did not want 10
pack. | did not SEQ any relevancy be-
tween the two, but they evidently did.
About an hour after another raft was
seen floating out II had aboard u half
dozen Indians who with a vast number
of dogs were soon alongside. There
wns not man among thcm III FOR
packing and thcy looked more like an
ambulance load destined for hospital
thnna working party. And sure enough
their grcatest demand was for medicine,
and II never ceased while we wore with
them. The best We could spare readily,
carbolRted vaselinc, we doled out in
homeopathic quantities for everything
from corns 10 consumption and from
badness to buuions; ull OF which II
cured. ] never saw better example
of faith cure Ina all my vast baclSwooda
medical practice.
There was great deal OF free advice
offered, but very few applicants FOR
work; maps by the acoro were fur
niShed as 10 the trail but not whisper
uttered as TO packing.
One curious piece Of information
arose, partially as result OF imperfect
Interpretation and partly from the di.
reetion we desired 10 go-that is TO tn,
Copper river. II was that these ma
tivcs knew Of q copper deposit some
where near this river. Every time we
spoke OF Copper river they divergcd of
10 the copper deposit, They seemed sc
persistent and us | finally believed tn,
two places were 80 near each other,
gave up any other idea except that o.
the latter, reasoning that II Il
could be attained the othcl
would he close at hand
rs a result. There was on,
hardened old sinner among them call,
ing himself Jackson who professed 4
know all about the region and tn
Copper river Chief, Nicolai (Scolal ht
called him. lie said II was cighteel
sleeps 10 thc copper and one from Their
10 Nicolai's; but he varied as 10 In
number OF sleeps with each map h
drew and he was geographically yer
energetic. Tho variations as 10 Ia
copper could be reconciled by assuming
an equal number OF scattered deposits
but 1t was hard to believe that Nicolu
was no ubiquitous or had such q larg
number OF houses as were needed /
S1ian the other discrepancies in d,