Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-17
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100000.
1t is probable that in twelve months Daw-
son will be within four days of Juneau.
Moose are plentiful. The flesh resembles
horse flesh.
In central and northern Alaska the
ground Is frozen to depth of 200 feet
Snowfall in the interior is very light-six
inches or so.
The heaviest rain and snow are on the
southeast coast.
No land contains finer spruce timber
In its low temperatures gold filling In
teeth contracts and falls out. Use ANAL
gam.
Men born in southern ATTITUDES have be-
come insane in the long dark.
Take a chess board and men. They pre-
vent dementia.
The medicine chest should hold pills. pills.
pills.
A temperature of 20 degrees below zero
has been recorded
When it gets lower than so there is no
wind.
A tent is good as house. and is
cheaper.
No shelter is needed except when the
wind blows. At other times a sleeping bag
answers all purposes.
Just below rapids ice forms only nine feet
thick, and there fishing is DONE In other
places 1t will reach forty feet.
In the dark season twilight lasts six
hours and almost any kind of work can be
done.
AtHAs N1.iooo aAu SIOuSt are common ana
easily killed.
Don't eat snow or ice. Melt them. Else
quinsy.
In low temperatures the inside of the
threat sometimes freezes This is locally
called frost burning"
For frozen fingers use cold water
You can battle only the feet and face
Sweat under blankets in summer or get
rheumatism.
In summer all land not mountain is
swamp.
Underfoot is ice cake, overhead twenty
two hours sun.
Everybody gets lice. Boil Undertaking
Freeze sleeping bags.
Talk on the ice pack is heard a half mile
An expert placer miner can pan dry.
Alaskan dust is as big wheat.
Some gold is fine enough to float
Wear silk gloves and then fur.
The Eskimo is virtuous. the Chilkat is
not.
Canadian rapacity will drive the miners
into American territory.
Canadian police are highly efficient
REINDEER will be the future locomotives
alaskan dogs are wonderfully intelligent
the result of selection and heredity
The natives eat much decayed fish
They are all honest.
Thousands Of miners from other nations
will go.
A Chicago company leads in Alaskan ex-
ploration.
Hay grows as high as a mans head.
Hardy vegetables can be raised
All streams show true gold assures.
Take plenty of flour. Buy all you think
you need. then buy more Last winter a
man killed himself because he had five
pounds of baking powder and no -four
Under act of Congress communities of
miners can make their own laws
No thief gets a fairer trial anywhere nor
any prompter execution.
Make caches on platforms six feet high.
Wolves.
1t will pay to wait year or two. 1t costs
$1,000 row and will cost 5000 then.
All distances are gigantic. 1t is 1000
miles from Sitka TO Klondike.
A boat leaving Dawson September 20 is
chased to the mouth by freezing water.
All wood in the Aleutian Islands grew on
glaciers in Alaska
Whole forests break into the sea-
Some streams are bridged by glaciers.
Some wood is beautifully polished by gla-
cier action.
Avalanches in the interior are unknown.
Owing to dryness there is not much suf-
fering from the cold.
Take a 1880 rifle with telescope sights.
One small tribe makes s., 500 q year from
silver fox skins. They are worth $3.50 each.
three minutes.
Enough library: One Bible. one Shakes
peare.
Snowshoes not needed in the mine coun-
try.
Buy mines from discouraged miners.
Trading companies will not carry goods
for competitors.
Next year competition VIII bring down
their prices so per cent.
Meals on the boat up the river cost 81
each.
Men who have gone this winter to make
their living saving wood will not nave
time to say much. H. 8. CANFIELD.