The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-08-13

some OF them never came out Of their
berths until three days after we struck
the smooth water Of the Sound
"But they are good class OF fell
lows Not the roughs and toughs that
ordinarily make up the population Of
the frontier mining camp On this
boat we're a dozen young fellows from
Stanford university; lawyers, mer-
chants, mechanics, a very few practi.
cal miners, and Of the fellow with no
trade or profession scarcely any at
alt There was but one gambler dis
covered in a pretty thorough canvass
Of the boat
IA few were taking veil selected
aud ample equipments-but most
scarcely had a weeks provision. These
latter will get up against the ukase OF
the Canadian government that no one
can be admitted who hasn't supplies
for year. OF all the homogeneous
heaps OF food, tools, boats and imple-
ments ever gathered together that
on the California capped all
Ranged alongside OF an outfit in
which sound common sense and
knowledge OF the country is shown, in
which every possible want Cf the
owner for year TO come, so far as life
in the Yukon can be furnished, has
,ft 10 Id
another outfit looked after by a dust
covered countryman, whose tired APP
pearance shows that he has driven all
night One OF these latter outfits was
what might be termed spectacle.
Those Of the packages that were not
done up in paper, tied with twiue,
we're encased in egg crates and lard
packing.boxes. In one OF the crates
we're snugly placed one dozen loaves
OF homemade bread, and on top Of
these were ranged nine pies, the juice
from which were already beginning to
leak down and across the bread onto
the other packages of the outfit"
Joaquin Miller, the veneratie poet
OF the S!erras, undertook the trip
along with Helen Dare and other de-
scriptive writers on the Examiner ex-
pedition. One Of the most imposing
pictures in my recollection is that Of
the old white-haired poet standing
upon the captains bridge taking his
last look at American soil IN the rush
and hurry OF departure AS his tall
form Strengthened under the inspiring
breath OF the sea, he looked across TO
the snowy sum nit Of Mount Hood and
as his lines to that majestic peak oc.
Cured TO me | thought how like the
mountain is this intrepid man.
they crowned him long ago:
In a robe of clouds
with a diadem OF snow
"At Portland saw the George W.
Elder" making preparations for de-
parture TO the gold fields. Around the
dock heard
Who's going to take that lum Der
imp questioned a gray-whiskered man
quietly leaning on canvas. cqsed rifle
as he pointed TO some 32-foot inch
boards lying on the wharf.
i am. Why answered prespiring
young man, stopping for moment In
his flying about the dock.
How are you going to get the stuff
over the pass continued the old man.
Pack it on horses, OF course, was
the answer.
Well, let me tell you that horse
will never round single point Of the
Chilkoot trail with that length Of stuff
sticking out from front and behind
And the young man hurried off TO
hunt up his associates and acquaint
them with the fact that their boat
lumber had been cut too great a
length.
4 want to get mine freight met Dead
man
A laugh went up from those in the
freight office
'Nein, mean Deadeye.'
Another laugh.
ven, vat vas II anyway and the
old German during the questioning
looked for information.
lie wanted 10 say Dyes."
"And all this work and worry and
risk and hardship and deprivation for
gold. And at best all that bleak, bar
rem, snow.bound, ice-eursed country
cannot be expected to produce over ten
millions next year. | told them that
down where ! lived we had a country
at to live in and make money too.
That the Almighty after he finished
making the aurora boreAlis and Mis-.
sissippi sunsets took the scraps and
made Oklahoma weather. That only
one OF her three staple crops had been
harvested yet this year, and it alone
had produced market value OF
twenty million dollars and we didn't
blow about il either"
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