The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-02
Ayers Cathartic Pills.

baking powder; u pounds of bacon. six
pounds of beans, five pounds of dried
! fruits, three pounds of desiccated vege-
| tables, four pounds of butter five
| pounds of sugar, four cans of milk, one
pound of tea, three pounds OF coffee,
two pounds of salt, five pounds of corn
! meal, pepper, matches. mustard, cook
ing utensils and dishes, frying pan.
water kettle, tent, Yukon stove, two
pairs of good blankets. one rubber blan--
ket, a bean pot, two plates, a drinking
cup, teapot, knife and fork, one large
and one small cooking pan. The fol-
lowing tools for boat building will be
necessary, if the mountain trip is
made: One jack plane, one whipsaw,
ore handsaw., one ripsaw. one draw
knife. one ak, one Ratchet, one pocket
rule, six pounds of assorted nails. three
pounds of oakun, five pounds of pitch,
so feet Of five-eights-inch rope, mos
quito netting, one pair Of cragproof hip
boots, snow glasses and a. chest of
medicines.
As outlandish prices are charged for
bought at Seattle. The freight charges4
from Seattle to Circle City are at theS
rate of $3.50 per ton. As travelling cam
only be done in the summer months.
the prospectors will find that a good
part of the first season is consumed i'm
if a claim is located, only the prelim-
mary work can be done. The second
year the claim will be well opened up,
and if it proves TO be worth ANYTHING.
some money can be made. But until
the third year no results to speak of
can be expected. Some men who have
visited the region advise no man to
land at Circle City with less than $500
in cash, and his supplies, and others
say he would better have at least $1,000
The trading companies doing business
there refuse absolutely to give credit,
as they can sell their goods for ready
cash
During the months of June and July
the sun shines for "A hours without a
break each day. and one can read a
book at any hour without a lamp.
Life close to the Arctic region affords
many contrasts. On the upper Yukon
the climate is dry. with but little rain.
but at Forty Nile there is almost as
much rain as in North Dakota and
Montana. Up in the mountains this
rain turns to snow which interfereS
with the digginS sometimes even in
midsummer. Singular to say. the coun-
try is infested with millions of moSqui-
toes in summer, and q mans life IS in
danger if his face and body are not prop
erly protected. 1t is said that not one
third of the men that go to the region
in the summer remain over W1fLGI. dS
the mosquitoes run them out.
After the two months Of continuous
daylight, then comes the winter. Work
can be done only about five months of
the year When winter sets in the river
freezes. and the country is cut off from
communication with the outside world
The weather becomes steadily cold,
frequently falling to 20 and 80 below
zero. At times a gale blows when the
thermometer is low, and then the
weather is most uncomfortable. Men
must remain in their hutS if on the
trail. or in their cabins if cutting wood
or at other work. The temperature may
be moderate for an Arctic winter
degrees below zero-and a. miner may
venture out of his hut. Then the tenn
perature may take a sudden drop down
to 10 or so degrees below zero If he is
not well prepared he may lose his life
The principal danger is in getting the
feet wet and freezing before a fre can
be built and the feet dried 1t is sald
that more men lose their lives IN 1nlS
wav than any other
Even in the summer the mail carries
no newspapers. and the miners know
nothing of the news of the world. ex-
cent what they CLEAN from letters from
friends In the winter the only way
letter leaves Circle City is by dog team,
which travels more than 1000 miles
over the ice. and would be two or three
months in reaching st. Louis
So. with the deadly mosquitoes IN
midsummer and weather so degrees be-
low zero in the seven months OF VIM
ter: with packing provisions over path
less mountains, digging in bottomless
frost. shooting over seething rapids IN
a. boat, and with innumerable d1ff1cul-
ties which tax the endurance and nerve
of the most hardy, it is just possible
that a man may find his golden dream
of wealth in Alaska shattered. ana
shattered hopelessly.