The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-18

GOLD HUNTERS.
They Reach Lake LindeIman After a
Hard Trip.
An AWFUL ROUGH COUNTRY.
Travelling in the Rain With Load on
their Backs-Letters Cost $1.OO Each,
Flour $50 a Hundred For
Idaho Weather.

Idaho Weather.
LAKE LINDERMAN, AUGUST %, 1897
Dear NJ. received your kind letters
last night, two for myself and one for
Bill Cowden; they charged me fifty
cents a piece for them. Boone, Neu
banner and myself have got this
far we expect Mosby this evening. We
tried to drag the rest of the crowd a.
long with us but it was too much of a
job and so we let them shift for them
selves. This is an awful rough coun.
try to get through and there are so
many rushing in it is Il hard job to get
through. We will be here about
week building a boat. This is the
fourth lake on the chain. The first is
Crater, the next Long, then Deep Lake
and this is Linderman. Well l think
after we get our boat built the most
of our hardships and trouble will be
over with. 1t is pretty hard to ex.
plain just what you have to contend
with. travelled all one day in the
rain with load on my back. l didn't
have dry stitch on me and then had
no dry clothes to put on. Had to lie
down on the wet ground and try to
wait for daylight. And coming up the
Dyea River with four strangers, the
boat we were in swamped in the midst
of the river and we had to swim to
shore. 1t is bad swift stream and it
is wonder that we were not drowned.
Then in crossing the Chilkoot Pass it
was raining and foggy and you could
just barely see ahead of you far
enough to walk and there are places
where if you lost your foot hold you
would tumble down thousands of feet.
But we are making it through and L
think we will make it all right. l have
both feet blistered and that wasn't
enough a boil broke out on each foot.
One on the instep of the right foot and
one on the ankle of the left foot. But
put on bacon and they are better now.
Don't be sending me any body elses
letters as it costs all the way from Scots
to 500 to get one. Flour at this
point is 1925 sack, $50 hundred;
nails, So pound; whiskey so cents "a
drink; bacon 80 cents h., and sugar
the same. All other things at proper.
tionate rates. hardly think that
Cooper and and the rest will make it
this far. Boats that couple Of car
penters would build in two or three
days sell from $3.50 to $780, You may
tell Picard that he should be thankful
he is not along, also give him my kind
regards. Tell Baker and the rest of
them that it costs me a dollar to get
letter out and haYn't arrived at my
destination yet and there is nothing
l could tell them about. When Charlie
Cakes gets back tell him that remem-
bered him but l didn't know of any
thing to write to him about and tell
all the rest the same. Boone said to
tell them that we are all we'll and get
ting along all right. Well it has star
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how long it will last. If we just had
month of Idaho weather we would
be all right. My appetite is. good, you
ought to see me leather into the bean
and bacon and frying pan bread, and
sleep good and feel good. There is
lots more ought to write about but
you will have to get along with this
much now and when l get settled ]
will try and write long letter and tell
you all about the trip. You might
write me letter to Dawson City Alas
ka and may possibly get it. This
will be the last for quite a while.
From Yours Truly.
CHRIS. FAHY
2. S. Enclosed find some flowers
from Lake Linderman, Alaska. They
looked nice before picked them.
The Indian packer who had thei