The record-union., 1897-07-30

struck walls of canyon, smashed in one
end. She sank just below canyon in
three feet of water. They had also two
horses aboard. Everything damaged
and spoiled. Another scow Struck, but
on upper part; no damage to stuff. The
people in one large scow thought they
would shoot the rapids rather than
packing around. Came to grief by run
ming on rocks; stove in some planks;
filed and beached Damaged goods
the result. A man and his wife lost all
by a boat getting away from them
near rapids
June 3d.-Beautiful morning. but no
wind. We are floating down the Lewis
River. To-day we have made the head
of Lake LIE Barge and two miles down
same.
June 4th.-Started with oars, there
being no wind. Slow progress, yet we
made about twenty-four miles, and
camped for the night. Very fine seen
cry along this lake, mostly marble and
limestone.
June 5th.-Started at a. M for foot
of lake with good wind. Making
good progress. Entered river at 9 a.
m. Piece of river for twenty-five miles
| is very rocky and dangerous. Kept our
! nerves strung an entire day. After day
or lodging rocks, drifting at rate of
seven miles an hour, we were glad to
camp about four miles below Hootalin-
qua River. Most dangerous waters are
now passed Millions of mosquitoes
and they are very hungry. We made
nearly forty miles to-day; all well.
June 6th.-Broke camp and started
| Will mil Ia
We are now we'll on the way into the
promised land Made about twenty
one miles to Casiar Bar. There we
decided to stay and rest for day.
1t has been said that gold has been
worked out here. We tried for it some
| time. Each of us found particles of
gold, but so small we could not save
| it.
June 7th.-Left Casiar Bar at $50,
| floating with a good current. The
country along this river is lower and
swampy. Mosquitoes are now the ter
ror of our lives. A man came to our
| camp last evening after we were to
bed asked if we had seen any part
of an outfftting stuff coming down. He
| had drifted sideways on d rock and
smashed. Lost everything, saved one
sack of flour and one of groceries. Hard
| luck. This happened near Hootalinqua
River. We made some miscalculations
in regard to distance travelled the day
we went through bare piece of river
| from LIE Barge. Think we made about
seventy miles that day and passed
Hootalinqua without seeing it. To-day
we passed Little Salmon River and
went through Five Finger rapids and
Rink rapids With difficulty We made
/ landing and camped at IL p. M, with
eighty-five miles to our credit for the
day. We will have no more bad wat
ers; smooth, swift sailing. Mosquitoes
are fairly suffocating us: make camp
and eating miserable. Weather is get
ting warm. An old gentleman on
steamer Mexico said, "a man will earn
every dollar he gets in the Yukon" I
believe him. All well, and looking
ahead to more comfortable circum-
stances, though there will be no dis
appointment if we come back with
nothing more than health and expenses
clear.
June Sth-Up and away from the
sWarms of mosquitoes. number
stayed with the boat. I cooked break
fast on board. Going down a good six
mile current. We have made a forty
five-mile run to-day to Pelly River and
old Fort Selkirk. Here are quite a
number of log houses and a trading
post The Pelly and Lewis rivers form
the Yukon at this point, SO we are now
on the Upper Yukon.
June 9th.-This has been our banner
day for covering distance. We have
made from Pelly River to five miles be-
low White River. 101 miles. We are
nearing our destination. All well.
June 10th.-Started at 6:45 a. m.
Passed Stewart River in an hour;
reached Sixty Mile post at 1870. We
are not making as good time to-day.
We have head winds. At Dawson City
we will probably split up partnership.
Kali desires to go up to ClOndyke while
Henry and I think of going up Stewart
River We arrived at Dawson City at
5 p. m, seventy-five miles for the day.
June 11th.-An immense crowd of
men and boats We're here. They tell
us that the Clondyke creeks are very
rich. Kali went to work to help build
a log house this morning, so a day.
Henry and [ are dividing up stuff, pre-
pairing to start UP ClOndyke.