The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-23
HE Is DISAPPOINTED.
Lament of Seattle Man on the
sknguay Trail.

Things are not as I expected" saws
William Holder, as he sits by the way
side on the Skaguay tran. looking az the
freight scattered about and thinking "
the days when he occupied a comfortable
bed in one Of the fire department houses
There Is something In the plaint that re-
minds one of the iamentation Of a person
who wishes he were az home once more.
He continues. in letter 20 Pete Burns OF
this city:
"Dr. Faulkner's horses are not through.
and Will not 30 for two or three weeks.
and when he Is done with them they will
not be good for any one else. The trail Is
In bad shape and X Is almost impossltis
20 get over the summit. / was up the trail
six miles this morning. and | must say l. ~
a bad one II l had the horses. however.
/ could get over aH right. Frank Clancys
horsss have not reached here. Yet and |
don't know what TO DO about it. II Dave
and I canno; get cur stun packed over We
Will notgo. as 1t Is impossible 20 pack over
tha summit without horses.
This thing is not what people think IL
is before they get here. / will stay this
winter. as Skaguay will be good town.
There Is going TO be a lot OF peopis stuck
here. and up the trail there will not be one
cut OF a hundred who Will 80 10 tho lakes
this winter They viii be- scattered along
the trail as far as the summit all winter.
II / stay here / VIII 80 ig the spring OF IS
soon a. the lakes freeze up. because that
is the only way 10 go, unless a man has
horses A horse cannot pack more tnan 80
pounds over the TRAN. and IN some places.
Il ne slips six inches, II Is of with horse
and everything else. Dr. Faulkner has
only got about eight or ten miles from here
get, and BY tho way he talks he is Ferry he
ever started lie wants 20 buy more
horses bat cannot get them ~ any price.
4 horse that Is any good Is worth SlO 70
Fses. NtErrtf rtF ff4
because Il a man does not get started Ia a
short time il VIII not ba any Use going, and
lthink 4 man can start after II freezes ~
and get in before most of those that are
going now
some are trying 20 pack on their backs
but they wiii n0t get IL this fail and Il VIII
XIII the best man that ever lived to pack
I9o pounds over that trail There Is go
Ing 20 be lots ~ Nancy here for some time.
/ bought tw0-v vheeied cart and hauled
from the beach up TO high-wster mark
and made 80 IN four hours. There - q
small wharf here. but il ls a nile and a
balf frorn the town and situated Egainst .
big mountain. We did not lose thing in
landing. but there @aS lot Of goods lost
On the AK and the peoDls are pretty
not about u.
s-Tnis place is laid ont in town lots snd
sous have bean sold for sl5 and SO. This
viii make a good town. ! think. Y o. can
not get any packing done for iove or money.
A packer told me this morning ne would
not pack over that trail for 70 cents
pound. They are killing two or thres
horses every day. Harry Struvs has lost
all Of rs horses ard Is trying 70 make az
rangernenfs 70 have his stuE packed, but
Do nos tnirk ne can make lt-
srreu ali your friends - stay away from
here for the present II they intend 30 20
avar the mountain. for x IS tough propo-
gtffan Harry Strave gave Frank Clancy
Big mule ard ne sold L 20 fellow Tor SD.
rybe next day the man gave tne mule back
ara Frank sold e aszin for sl2S- / wog!d
not give - cents for fifty u1ul@s."