The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-18

already placed officers, among whom is
 a magistrate, with a mounted police
 force numbering twenty-two men, to
 look after the people of the Canadian | government in the Yukon country,
 The dividing line between the British
 country and the United States on the | Yukon is a little southeast from the l Arctic circle, so that a good deal of the
 valuable gold country lies not only in the United States, but in the British | northwest.
 l "I look for great future when the country is opened, Of course, 1t is now
 very new and crude, and the kind of people who are needed to develop it are
 sturdy miners who have some money
 to take with them, so that in case they
 do not happen to get good prospect
 immediately, they will have something
 on which to depend. It won't do for
 the ordinary run of humanity to go
 into that country without money,
 The country produces gold and furs
 in quantity. We brought down' our
 usual collection of the latter, such as
 bear skin, marten, sable, silver fox,
 cross fox, and red OK, beaver, otter,
 mink, lynx, and on the coast quite quantity of hair seal are taken, this l being too far north for the fur seal. | Another matter which should be of | great interest to the people of the Uni
 ted States is the opportunity offered for | the fishing industry along not only both | sides of the Aleutian Peninsula, with it's myriad islands, but the entire west ern and northwestern coast of Alaska, from Norton Sound to the mouths of the Yukon and the Koskoquin. There are fishing banks, both of cod and hali- but, extending through the entire dis trict mentioned, and all the rivers run hing into these different islands and coasts at the proper season of the year are full of salmon. The natives of the Yukon country consume salmon as their principal diet, and upon it even feed their dogs. Their dogs are their beasts of burden. They do their trav- cling in the winter, over the snow or ice; they dress in skins; in fact are Es- kimo. The Indians of the northern Arctic coast and the lower Yukon riv- CT are short, fat, sturdy people, good natured and usually honest, while the Indians of the Yukon river are more genuinely Indian-short, slight in build, an active, hardy race, and yet from the nature of their food-mostly fish, with some game, of course. are a species of Eskimo.
 Tt would be greatly to the advantage of the United States government that more interest be taken in that country, l and that proper survey be made of ! that great river and its mouth, as also of the proper line between the British northwest and our Alaska.
 l At Fort Cudahy, Alaska, they have six months night and six months day. l At the mouth of the river they have | about twenty-two hours day and two hours of twilight. During the twilight l it is as easy to write as during most
 any of our sunshiny days, So that there
 is at this season unfailing light on the l Yukon river, as well as on the northern l part of Behring Sea. The scenic eff fects are indescribably fine. On June 23, when we were seventy-five miles
 northwest from Unimac Island; the
 sun set at 11:35 o'clock at night and
 rose Just an hour and a half later, at 1 1:05 o'clock in the morning, and in the l darkest moments I wrote a letter with ease, and people all about me were | reading. Of course, at about this time | you could see the sun, moon and stars -the most magnificent evening star l you ever saw-all at once, and the l lights on the water were marvels. Un- l fortunately we had no kodak to im- l prison the beautiful picture. Along the Yukon, too, the scenery is very grand, l as are the opportunities for fishing and hunting. My brother F. E. Weare, who left Seattle for Juneau. Alaska, | May IS, and will return to Chicago on October 9th, reached his destination, and then left for Deya, at which point l they made portage, then sealed Chill kat Pass, eighteen miles up in the | mountains, then in eleven miles | reached Lake Iindiwan, one of the headwaters of the Yukon, where they | built their boat and sailed right down l to the great rivera trip full of roman | tic interest. The thermometer July f. | at the mouth of the Yukon, was fifty | eight degrees, and along the river it ranges in summer from forty degrees to lullS ollS huilolSu ueSleeo. III VIII" l ter it run from twenty degrees tosseven- | ty-five degrees below. and yet people, | by providing for it, live comfortably; | they of course dress and feed for it. l The snows are not very great and there | Is very little sickness-a poor place for doctors For hardy person the trip is very pleasant one. It would not do for women. I would not recommend it | for any woman.
 'We usually make two trips a year l from Seattle to the mouth of the Yu- kon at St Michael's Island, and our
 river boat makes three round trips on | the river to and from Fort Cudahy, our l headquarters.
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