The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-08

The Juneau Searchlight correspondent,
under date Of April 26, writes from. Sheep
camp as follows:
Flour sells here for Sc to 81 per sack.
There are three saloons in camp and
drinks are sold at Juneau prices.
Fred b. Fay. of Seattle, has gone over
and Is probably down on the lakes build
ing his boat.
There are now about seventysfve tents
in camp here. A week ago there were
twice that many.
Hugh Day. with the United States mail.
is in camp waiting for a suitable day on
which to cross over to the lakes.
|, Frank Knight Ambold and several oth-
ers have teams on the trail hut they are
only handling their own goods
1t has been showing here all day, but at
this camp 1t has melted as fast 1t fell,
Everybody here is praying for more snow
and cold weather.
The wagon trail up the Dyea river, over
boulders, crossing and recrossing the
river, is very rough, bttt could very cheap
iy be made good road.
The weather is now, as It usually Is.
very bad on the summit: There IS only
about one day in the week when person
can get over the mountain
Archie Burns seems to be- making lots
of money with his tramway and freight
teams He has q large warehouse here
and stores freight free of charge.
The people have been f1ockiug over the
summit fast during the past week and now
there IL quite a tent city at the head OF
Lake Linderman- Parties from that camp
today reported that there is three feet OF
slush. snow and water on the ice and that
no one Is moving.
Any person Is very foolish to start on
this trip at present unless prepared to pay
the regular summer rate for packing from
Dyea to the summit or lakes. There is
no snow or ice on the fiat from Dyea to
the canyon whatever: the ice has broken
in the canyon, SO that no shedding can
~ hp ,y1x In frA txf. tfrae~ fu
being done over the summit trail. and that
trail is now partly bare and exceedingly
rough. One hundred pounds is a big
Pleasant camp, at the head OF the cam
yon to this place, the shedding is yet very
good From here to the Stonehouse 1t
is partly bare, but from there up plenty
Of snow.
There are about l5o people with small
outfits in the vicinity of Dyea who have
no money for packing and are almost
stranded. Some of them dispose of their
outfits and return home. Some are pack
ing their outfits on their backs. others
are slowly working their way up the river
in boats. Freed Breen, well known in
Juneau, who has sort of inventive turn
of mind. devised rude two-wheel cart.
and. Harvesting himself to the same by
means of his pack straps, began carting
his outfit over the rocky road. His
OF other determined Yukoners. TO per-
son who has been over the trail this looks
very much like hopeless task.
There are three teams and fifteen pack
horses doing general freiEhting from
Dyea up to the foot of the canyon. One
team Is owned by Healy & Wilson. one
by Archie Burns and one by Kelly, the
horses are owned by Heaiy a Wilson.
They are now charging cents pound.
Each team viii draw about 1,40o pounds
at a load and make a round trip oaliy:
Fifty dollars day to the team and $40
day for each pack horse IL a very good
gold mine In itself. This may not LAST
long. but Mr.. Heron, manager or the
Heaiy A. Wilson post at Dyea and freight
train remarked TO me that he expected
N 10 last all summer II ID believed by
them and some others that the summer
rush 10 the Yukon will this year be equal
or greater than the spring.