The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-01

expect you never saw as large DOG
as he was. He died shortly alter
/ sold him. Ny team looked like
gray wolves and knew nothing but TO
fear mo and IN eat. have travelled
eighty miles In one day OF ten hours.
Here we always take our beds with us.
Mine weighs twenty-six pounds. CIT
down any place when il is from 40 to 90
degrees below zero and sleep warm, and
can camp oat at 90 and 90 degrees below
zero, but we don't camp ont any more
now. as We have dubbed together and
built houses from here 10 the Yukon aud
in fact all over the country. NV bed IL a
red fox skin robe lined with blanket that
weighs fifteen pounds. a pillow of down
that weighs four pounds and reindeer
skin. You wou be surprised to see how
EASY il is 10 travel. We don't wear heavy
clothes of course they are the best fan
mel that is made. never even froze my
ears In Alaska II the Yukon miners
could ret little wool they could 60 TO the
north pole. and do 1t easily.
This is the greatest grass country that ]
ever saw. Currants, raspberries. buckle
berries, cranberres and many other Yarie-
ties OF berries grow here in great album
dance. This is the first year ever knew
raspberries TO be a failure. When the
first freeze comes. YOU may say IL never
thaws out until spring, aud then the freeze
Is over. unless like this summer, II is
unusually co d. There Is always plenty
of snow, so tender herbs grow easily,
II they are short.ived. Ii may freeze
n little. but there is no frost, for
1t is such a short time from sun
TO sun that frost never appears In sum
mer. This country is mostly covered
with moss but Forty-miie creek has been
fired so much that the moss has burned
off. IL looks ike new world. Grass
grows everywhere. You can hardly walk
through it in some places. Early flowers
can be seen The first week OF May. while
the opposite side of the same hill 10 COW
cred with snow, and the Streams do not
break unit about the LIST Of May. II the
winters were not so severe this could be
made a great At ok country As rule
grass grows as high as your breast.
Around our cnim blue grass is almost
n solid sod. but think 1t is not native.
1t NAV have come here by goods being
packed with grass Now il lies ten inches
deep on the ground. Timothy grows at
the mouth of Fortv-mile creek. The soil
is very rich and il is never dry, "a IL Is
only "A short stance 10 frozen ground. 30
there is no lack at moisture on V on the
steep hillsides that face the south. where
it thaws deep. Turnips. parsnips. rad
ishes, etc. grow better here than ia most
places. Potatoes do not grow we'll
We have 10 currency here. The CON-
pany sends it out OF the country as fast as
they get il To keep the whites from trail
ing for fur. But the men made rule or
law tina, If any one should give an Indian
short weight il would he a serious crime,
30 gold dust has gone for several years
among Indians as we'll as among whites.
We all have scales ami we'gh our dust.
The word dollars ia used but little. 1t is
ounce-half. fourth. eighth and sixteenth
of an ounce. Our gold runs from $3.50
to Sl7 per ounce, but Sl7 is the standard.
There are no courts here, so when there
is trouble or man dies, the men call
mass meeting ami what they decide IS the
law. as no one has refused TO obey it vet.
1t is generally supposed if they do that
the rope comes next.
We can suTpass the ancient Egyptians
in their art of emba'ming. We dig down
in The frost below the summers thaw and
ay he dead there and they will be just
as we laid them until judgment day.
This is a rich country, but until there is
different TRANSPORTATION. more opposition
,nd a mining stock carried il is almost use
less to try TO do ANYTHING but prospect
and work places that are very rich. L have
paid considerable attention to benches
and | wouli saw first sec what Is there,
ow it came, where from. ami last how
can l get it and what will IL cost per dol