The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19
THOUSANDS Of Dogs COMING
Company 0rganizes TO Corner
the Market.
ALL GOING TO THE KLCEClKE.
The Heavy Dema nd Anticipated This
Winter for CANNES Leads TO a Lo-
cal Combination of SpecuIutorx-
Agents Buying All the 50-Pound
Dogs in the Country--WiiI Garry
Relief to the Starving Miners

strong combination has been organized
to control the Seattle dog market Those
interested are local men prominent in
transportation circles. Representatives are
scattered all over the country, arranging
for the purchase and shipment OF CANNES
The company has already bought 700 dogs
and can supply AZ a few days notice 900
None = taken under fifty pounds weight
number of dogs in this city answering
the requirements of strength and weigb
have been bought. Owners of large
healthy pups have here the opportunity of
lifetime. The new company wants a cor
ner on dogs, and as long as a fifty-pound
bark is heard in the world outside their
Kennels, II viii be a source of great dis
quietude until gathered into the com
pany's fold. The combination fears no
Toe, save ono who possesses a fifty-pound
Bruno.
II is calculated that every vigorous dog
in the country will arrive in Seattle dur
ing the coming winter and spring All
trains and steamers running into the city
VIII be fitted with kennels FOR lirst-class
canine passengers. The dining cars will
De piled high with the miscellaneous as
sortment OF scraps. known as dog feed
by every road centering here Will come
the common soldiery experimenting the
numbers OF the higher bred In all the
highways and byways will he dogs dog
harness and dog sleds. Congregations of
oogs on the corners. process sions on the
streets: assemhlagss in the alleys. There
IS nut one hope to be held out to the
despairing citizen. These dogs. with their
oarks and. IL Is TO he hoped. a majority of
their feas Will find their way sooner or
atef 10 the vast snOw-covered areas of
Alaska. Before the end OF next summer
sHf FNs-
IN the social whirl of the kiondike
The prospect of shortage in provisions
on the Klondike dwindles away in the
nSht OF this new phase Of the situation.
Inc practice bility of using dogs as means
OF transportation for food and supplies
over the ice and snow has been tested
again and again. The dog adapts himself
10 TINS strange labor, developed from the
necessities Of man. with the same resdi-
ness he displays in disposing of a square
meal. He is the locomotive par excellence
ana Is second only to the reindeer In his
usefulness to the miners of the far north
mat number of teams viii 40 10 tba
Yukon during the winter and sprine is
uhauestoned. good team can travel fif-
y OF Sky miles a day. with a load of
several hundred pounds With sllch in
tfihgeni carriers on the trail what need ~
starving in the mines? Before the an
pEoAch OF these four-footed messengers
famine Will stink away Ike thief Who
finds his victim wakeful.
ne men interested in this curious
Scheme OF cornering the dog market are
'aIi n. J. Stoltcnberg. general passenger
agent OF the Washington & Alaska
steamship company; +. +. Harlow local
agent OF the Northern Pacific Express
company. NJ. p. Benton. general agent
al the Burlington route. and {. W. Miller
chief clerk Of the Pacific Coast SteamSoi,,
company. The idea originated with Mr.
Stoltenbers. ana IL required no argument
10 convince those associated with him
tnat re had mined out big thing Their
IS an amount Of canine energy now going
10 waste in every city town and villa -
of the United States of which n l. v,n-
deifUl to think. Dogs in the East there
are VINO. strange AS 81 may seem do
absolutely nothing save loaf, eat ana sleep
ihey are making no effort TO improve
themsely2s or he useful and the chsrit-
aple people who keep them alive cannot
transfer the job. What an opportunity
!oi the alert buyers of the combination
They will pick up dogs OF every variety
~ bedrock prices. In many cases they
VIII M presented with dogs having short
pedisrees and long oppetites and tho
blessings of the owner viii 60 with the
SlIt. These animals garuered from III
TOUR corners Of the earth. will be shipped
company a market place will be ne
titioned for and each day a selected batch
VIII be turned ont for inspection They
"ui Ae sold Tor S25 each. The company
heures on iisposing Of le.e0o CT mo-e. at
q profit of s. or 81 on each. The horse
has had mis- day IN SeattIe-now for the
dog
Tho unprecedented demand for dogs IN
the spring Of lsgs and AGAIN IN 1897 will
be remembered At that time IL was n
poor specimen that could not bring his
owner so and MANY TRANSACTIONS were
reported from tho yukon here donnie
teams changed hands for 500 and ss1
a litter 81 i've pups was reported to haze
sold Tor $50. and rhe mother was after
wards purchased for 500 There are a
number ot dogs now ou the Yukon and
feeding them has become 81 almost AS
much Importance as feeding their mas
tiers. ON q journey tfc trutee eat two
pounds a jav. and for She dfty DAYS cal
culated Ga reach Dawson Citv each one
Of team would have 20 be allowed iea
pounds What the animals viii eat on
reaching thair deStin ton IS rot arranged
I Ssihiy the rhar8cf -r al their usefulness
WI there change. and they Rill furnish
food Ia the starving miners III a way moi
- no thought IF without repulsian
The idea ~ eating dog meat revolving
IS - would seem 10 the civilized mind
fas Saved many q life in Alaska. Innun-
t-atie stories have reached here from the
frozen North where travellers over the
srest inland ,raH have sustained Hfe Tor
cfFS 0r 8oZ steak. One instance ta sa~-
firfllar IS recalled. Tn the spring ~ t>--
two Juneau printers iefi for Circle city.
2tcomp uIed hy ar Indian named jack
Sou. Their out-ts were on slecS drawn
nN dogs A. tn@ head ~ Tak1t uaa~ T@S-
lu lake the whita men became fotsf,-
exhausted TIE Indian was Obliged 70
desert them and continue his wav alone
Hs dragged SLOWLY along \ few davs
later be was o~artskeu on enc trail bv
party from Juneau Their was hut one
tit q food eft with he natiye ard tr4t
" as 'he nam az 4 d0E