The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-12
Ey.GOy. sHEAKLEY.
kn. essasiy IrGs. Those sos"E To
- KI0gdtks fo Wait
Yfti Next spring.

x~a~r the pa ssengeTs wfso came down
3 8 ! ~. Tou~ "a Heye sx-efov. James Skcak-
~ = Alaska. and his wife. They are
|5s'-s 80 vgy To California At the 0cosi-
4 80 hoseI last evening Coy. glssakisv
- overwhelmingly og hts ten yesaEs'
- IA the frozea north.
EsS' tIIxsd over my Office to my success
1uhp G. psedy" he said ION July
93F11f nd have come down 10 tEke a
s. D The pecpss. III the states i,ava
an15he fever To a much gre aser ex-
4 mar, the residents OF the coast uor-
u r Alaska OF course some miners
-. Silks and Juneau. but the russ,
Ia 81 20 be ccmEaret with that from this
slfnra Ill can hear there ~ ila bic 10
.nneh safYerins among those who are
- Aedsasor.ng to make their way inso
= Yxkon ssver the passes am told that
- Eaxuay trail Is nos opened the en-
- i3stanee. and all those now going
nat route can only get a portion Of
~ when they are confronted BY &
He1k. which II IL impossible ia taxa
fn1ps over Neither can horses go ov IT
~ ppmmst of the Dyea pass. and II Is
11ndnjfly impossible for all those now
anptng on this side Of the mountains 10
II m before the river freezes up.
4 IN IN old miner myself I came to
ks1sknia IN fk.s across the Isthnus of
fsMam- and knew something Of the
ls11hies Er1spersofs have 10 endure. bat
a. fnfsy -nnera did no: have anything
~ he ohstacErE 10 contend with that
- noe going TO the yukoa have. A
~ eoad sleep IN the open afr all the
NJ fpund He did not need any great
fn1>es Of clothing. and all he had To do
et1io get something 10 eat, aud food
~ ftasohabls plentiful. Yet numbers OF
yiaa men came. locked over the Ground.
~ fetusned discoara scd. don't ques-
IA thai the same viii be- the ease In the
ps1fsf instance
III. ~ cent. Is a hig average 10 take
( nlesfs who are successful A number
VI Aver make enough 10 get back. and
= hfge percentage will not do any mora
ssE make their fsturn fare.
7 cannot too strongly urge all those Iii
s@ssnx IL so 10 wait until the spring.
ssRs b bound TO be- much misery In the
lskan thu winter. The big supply com
Eats have only seven small river steam
a. and have only made provision for the
~ men now In there aud il II iinpus-
sss % GEL any more provisions this year
Y las river.
issse are No paying mites around
Ma sci. though considerable develop
sci work has been done. Gold mining
E4risd b Alaska NJ ii sitka some twenty
Azis sse, when man named Stewart
r'e'sd stamp mill aud spent about $780,
GHt nnally abandoned The plant.
Tiers sre. Of course. good paying s1ines
ns6id JUNEAU. but none elsewhere In
Ass<a thrt are profitable "a; present.
~ NO great industries OF Alaska are
saisx and fishing. SiikA has hesn set
~ Years. yet no agriculture IN at
eapssd, Last winter there WIS some
ssses with a Russian priest al s!ska
~ attempted 10 exercise civil authority
~ hs narishionsrs, which was of
ea'st stopped. He appealed 20 the Rus
- government, bus without avail and
saalIy succnmbed 10 the inevitable and
stmlsssd.
~ Successor, MIR Brady. has lived in
ma fef twvnty years as a missionary
saekk she Indians, lie IL a most ssti-
leas man. and viii make a good gov
xsaf. ! am satisfied.