The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-29

surance that ocean connection would no
made at st. Michael hundreds who were
Intensely anxious 10 get out OF the coun-
try for the winter viii try later 10 get our
over the Ice and lakes with dogs and
sleighs this winter. Many of them viii
suffer greatly, because competent guides
ard good dogs are both sCa,ce-
This ausiae<s Of the failure OF the
steamers 10 GET Up the river with provi-
s.ous and down with passengers Will have
- be rectifed. Lighter draft boats with
more power and steam capsians for Use in
getting over the bars Will have 10 be ready
next June. Hundreds of intensely dksap-
PORTED persons are now IN Dawson, who
like myself would have given any pecu-
r.ary price In their power 10 get out oy
steamer. bul could not. ! was better of
In the wilderness and walking than in tina.
Hole. Dawson. OF utter discomfort ana star
Walton this winter.
.sT.he people there are being largely pre-
vented from developing the enormously rich
country BY nearly utter isolation ana scar
city of food The work 10 be done is suHi-
GENTLY hard and trying al best and us
great difficulties should not be Increased.
AZ this and lsst winter they enormously
are and were.
A Railroad Needed.
"A railroad l. the real want. II steam
haats were run from Lake Bennett 10 Daw-
son. they could not travel continuously. Inc
obstacles OF the Canon. The White horse
and the Five Finger rapids are no. 20 De
removed nor sand and gravel hafs ana
svars erased. aud Il they could. river and
lake navigation would only be for the sum-
,,.r A railroad would be for all OF the
wear. The Dalton trail goes over very
easv aauutrY OF remarkably light grades
it, ,xn sunault.s are exceedingly light, aud
tf,s salt water terminus at Halncs Missi"a'
.~hil}xst an exceedingly nrae one.
49,. ~ 50 sTfs4ks
,ha field surveying this route. We passed
hin, fourteen miles from Chilkat he Is
ssnressnted 70 have capital behind him tie
ss.Ia his company viii begin woEk oy the
first OF January -,
w. NrArthur. a surveyor sent oGt by
.he ksnsIisi, geveraGne,.f. went over the liai-
ION rail last summer. Tie was LED ns MF'
nel,nn He was well satisfied with ina
sr,,.a ana the grades % course. my opin-
~, ,v .his matter Is worsh little. bns feei
ro,y important II ia that railroad sao0aa
~. baiN' through siat country.
Somewhere quartz and placer mines OF
ereat extent and richness are 70 be round
in ,hat country. through which We passed
"a =. il my deliberate opinion
tha, California and Australia are nkeis 40
hays. thsis past and present vastly outotS-
,anest by the development OF the next ten
wears in that wide region. or course. 'e1.
<aly,y having plscers aud wide low -srafsd
quartz VIII bS t'sN NV " -.
am not dreaming Of adding stimulus 10
fhr w,ta and blind heiter-sxelter rush OF
as,,,,ass y-sople who nave been ana
vesg pc tuynhHng In all sorts or aii-
prepared shapes into tina; wild country.
n was a study IN this connection 10 see
men apparently Amos; crazed VITA hss9e,
breaking their necks almost. In rosss'as
over The SkaguAy trails 20 get on TOWARD
Kln,,ssfSe aud later on 10 see them n Jaw
s,u laatlng around the mnekhole streets
fnars aalnx nothing waiting for rfca
strikes which they expected and did no,
nna Nearly all Of them were short 81
PROVISIONS. the great majority were sa9ef-
ing from the hlues and Intense oisaa-
recruitment Eight cut az ten az th"in
wished they had not come X was ssh@
ally prophessed AT Dawson 'ns' 80
,s,,,,s usx. summer ard kan &c nearly AZ
great a hegsra Of eutgcers as or ineeSnsFs