The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-23

One of the men who came out from the
interior in the last party that reached
Juneau ID going down to Seattle after
horses. He is going to try to take six of
them into Circle City and use them in
running pack train betwesn Cir Gle and
the diggings. Horses are great help on
the Yukon, but they are very scarce, and
their services are hard to get. Most of
the freighting is done by dog teams.
From Fort Yukon to Circle City. dis
lance of so miles, freight Is 10 cents a
pound from Circle City to the mines, SO
miles distant, it is 10 cents pound in
winter and 40 eents in summer.
The man will have good and profit,
able business who takes q string Of pack
animals and establishes transport from
| the first small lake just over the sum
NIT of the Chilka pass to Lake Under.
man. There are two small lakes, on
which it would be necessary to run boats,
but this water transportation would
cover about two-thirds of the distance.
A trail could be opened up for the rest
of the distance quickly, and Mt small ex-
pense. This, of course, would be for
the summer work alone or after the Ice
on the lakes had broken up, the distance
covered being down to where tim Der
grows, and where boats and RATS are
buils.for the rest of the Journey down
the river.
Aparty which went into the interior
from Seattle this spring by way of
Juneau took three Angora goats with
them. which, they say. are especially
adapted and trained for pulling sleighs.
That's what the party were going to
use the goats for on their way into the
interior. 1t is said that tho animals are
capable Of withstanding the rigors of
extremely cold climates, and will fatten
on such food as the bark of trees, will
lows or moss.
The predictions which were made here
last fall by some of the discontented quit
ters that the Birch Creek diggings would
soon be worked out, and that Circle City
would dry up and blow away, have
caused the men who have come out from
the Interior this winter, and who stayed
in long enough to know the extent of the
fall Developments, good hearty laugh.
They soy that there is enough now in
sight in the Birch Greek country to keep
things hummipg for 10 years, and that
the surface of the round has been bare
ly scratched, and that in only two or
three places. The man who has done
the most for the recent development of
the Yukon country is Bill Fee, common
~ known in the interior as Missouri Bill.
1t is said for him that he has made more
discoveries than any other six men COM
bined, two of which Independence and
Deadwood Creek, have yielded over
S1o0, 900. Fee has claims on all the prin-
cipal creeks. He hires men to work
them and takes pack on his back nd
climbs over the mountains looking for
something new and better
Lou Golden was one of the last party
out from the interior, He had been in
Circle City more than year. When he
went away from Juneau his skin was as
white and rosy as girls, but now the
face ia as copper oolored as a Western
plains Indians. But he says he is in th Q
best of health d as fine as fiddle, and
that's what this Yukon does for good
man. He advises everybody going into
tina Yukon to add broad br in. med SOM
brsro and several yards of mosquito net
| ting to his outfit. 1t is impossible to work
without some kind of covering for the
face and neck, and these big brimmed
hats have been found to be the most ser.
vioeable.