The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-09-24


along the trail for miles. With these
Indians left Dyea Saturday evening
and kept with the two THE ones all the
time. had no trouble as I saw others
having. 1 treated each Indian with
consideration and found that courtesy
counts with redskins as with white peo-
pie. The Indians carried from $50
down to 40 or 80.
The ten Indians brought about 1000
pounds, and you folks who object to
freight tariffs in the states may figure
it up and stop kicking. That is not
one-third of our freight outfit for three
persons.
Prices have been going up so rapidly
that have no idea what the remainder
will cost. Here is another illustration
of the law of supply and demand.
When left Dyea, boats were being
sold here and at Lake Bennett for 800
large enough for our party. Now if l
go ont and offer $500 for the same boat
am treated as though I was pauper
and asked something preposterous. AS
good boat got in Portland, had it
made to order, knocked down and daled
out, with screws and bolts, complete,
for S25, and the demand for boats that
day was very heavy.
am looking up the rafting PROPOSE
ton and as soon as DR.. Beatie and Jim
Jackson arrive with the remainder of
the outfit, we will start on n raft, unless
I can secure a boat in the meantime.
1t approaches tn time after which it
would not be safe to start on a raft,
and it is not so long before even agood
boat will not take one there soon en-
ough. No one here who has not Sc
cured boat has any assurance of going
any further this winter. 1t is not a
question of prices alone, but physical
impossibility for the people to be moved
over the line. They come streaming
along, each honr increasing the num-
Der and the demand for everything
purchasable, and prices mount skyward
like Fourth of July rockets. Only the
rapidity with which those rockets go
upward is but a faint suggestion of the
terrific speed attained in prices.
A man came into camp last evening
and offered 81 for meal anything in
the shape of grub. He could find no
one to furnish it.
I offered $50 for a whipsaw. There
was no price would take it.
Our boat at Lake Linderman will
cost US at least 800, our duty about
s125 to $3.50, our Indian packing S1023,
making about S1250 or $1,000 just to
take our 1900 pounds from here past |
Lake Tagish, where the Canadian Gus
tom house official is stationed. The
average duty is % per cent and all stuff
not in use six months is taxed.
The weather here and all along from
Dyea is hot in the day time, comfort
able at night, and morning and even
ings. 1t never is very dark, and last
evening by moonlight we sat out of
doors and read newspaper print, non
pareil solid. Perpetual SHOWS are all
around this lake, so that when the
winds blow the temperature is delight
fully cool and invigorating But. with
no wind ana with clear sky, it is hot
ter in the day time than any variety of
climate 1 ever heard the theologians
quarrel about.
This camp presents an interesting
appearance. On all sides one may see
workmen building boats and scows and
every available tool here is in use. To
get out lumber for boat it is neces-
sary to go up the lake one mile,
then up the river four miles, cut the
logs one mile from water, carry them
to the river, raft them to the lake, then
TO this spot, five miles of rafting in all
and one mile of carrying on land. Once
here, the hardest part OF the work re-
mains to be done. Slowly and tedious
ly the boards must be whipsdwed,
squared and lined, and then made into
a strong boat for the Yukon trip.
No less than two men can work at
this, or I would now be hustling in
stead of writing. But | am compelled
to await the arrival of my partners,
and while waiting fret and grow more
nervous every hour.
Among the K!ondykers who are here
on the summit are Mr.. and Mrs. T.. II.
Fancher, of San Francisco, who came |
up from Portland OH the steamer, !
George w. Elder Mrs. Fancher, IA :
bright refined woman, has moved an +
amendment to the original question of d
woman's clothing and carried her point. /
As we toiled up the last OF the steep !
pass. we were greeted with: