The times., 1897-09-21

You need, besides the things I have men
toned two pounds of oakum and five
pounds OF pitch.
a years supply OF grub, which can he
bought 5 cheaply at juneau as anywhere,
think, is. Ten sacks of flour, so pounds
II sugar, 100 pounds ofbacon, thirl pounds
of coffee, ten pounds Of tea, 100 pounds OF
beans, fifty pounds oe oatmeal, 100 pounds
Of mixed fruits, twenty-five pounds salt.
about ten dollars worth of spices and
knicgEnaCE>. and some quinine to break
up colds. Tie total cost Of this outfit
is ahout 5000, but no man should start
with less than $500, and twice that is
ten times as good.
TIE easiest way TO get there is by
boat which will take you around by
St Aichael's at the the mouth of the
Yukon, and transferring you there to the
side-wheeleT, carry you seventeen hun.
cred miles up the river TO Dawson. But
that isn't independent.
If man wants to 20 in with his own
provisions, free OF connections with the
transportation companies, which will sci.
bet VIII rot let an body take along his
own supplies, then the ChiIkoot Pass route
is the best. And that isn't so bad You
start from Juneau and go by steamer
TO Chilkat, then To n Yea, eight miles. where
you hire Indians to help you to the summit
| OF the pass. From. Dyea You walk ten
Niles through snow to Sheep Camp, which
is the last timber. From there it is &
climb OF six miles To the summit, 400
feet high, and very often You or the
Indians have to maze two or three trips
Up and down 10 bring up the outfit. Leav-
ing the Indians there you go down, coast
ing part way, fourteen miles to Lake
Lindernan. That s five miles long, with
a bad piece Of rapids at the lower end.
But IL IT is early in the season, YOU
sled IL on the lake and take the mile
OF rapids In d portage to Lake Bennett,
" hich is twenty eight mile tramp
1t is T0ur miles ak TO Caribou Crossing,
then short ride or tramp TO Takoou Lake,
where, If the Ice is breaking, you can
90 By boat or raft. or it it is still hard,
you must sled II uwenty-one miles, to the
Tagish River and Lake, four miles long.
Take the left bank of the river again
and you walk four miles to Marsh Lake.
where you may have to build a raft or
boat TO cover its twenty-four miles of
length If not, then you must at the
bottom, for there begins the Lynx River,
which is usually the head of navigation,
for unless the season is very late, or the
start very early, the rest Of the way is
| almost all by water.
Thirty miles down the Lynn River YOU
come cuidenly upon Miles Canon, which is
| considered the worst place on the trip.
don't think it is dangerous, but no man
ought to shoot the rapids there without
taking a look at them from the shore The
miners have put up a ign on a rock to the
left just before you get TO it so you have
warning and can 60 ashore and walk along
the edge OF the ice. 1t is sixty feet wide
and seven eiEhths OF d mile long and the
water humps up in the middle, it goes so
fast. But very few have been caught there.
though they Were killed, OF course. Below
the canon there are three miles of bad
river to White Horse Rapids, which are
rocky and swift, with falls, but taking
| chances is unnecessary, and consider it
pretty gcod dropping.
after the rapids it is thirty miles down
TO Lake Labarge, the last of the lakes,
which is thirty-one miles to row, sail or
tramp, according to the condition Of the
water. From there a short portage brings
YOU TO the head OF the Lewis River,
really the Yukon, though we do not call
II that till, after drifting, polling or rowing
two hundred miles. the Pelly River flow:;
in and makes one big, wide strea N.
mast warn mer who are going in to watch
out for Five Fingers Rapids, about Al
miles down the Lewis, where they must
take the right-hand channel. That prac-
| ucaIy ends the journey, for, though it is
so miles frcm the junction of the PeIly
and Lewis, it is siIaply ma tier of drift
ing. And j want TO say for the hardness
Of this whole trip, that / have brought
horses In that way, using a raft. And 1T
is curious 20 see how soon they learn to
stand sth willie you are going, md to
walk on and off the raft mornings and
evenings at camping places.
''When l left Dawson in the spring there
were Some 1000 white men, forty fami-
lies and eco Indians In the Klondike
district, most of them living in cabins, or
tents Oh claims. The town, which l
named after the man who fixed the
boundary between A merican and Canadian
posses Ssions, is new, having only few
houses in it. and is chiefly source Of sup
plies and place of meeting The Alaska
Commercial Company has the store there,
and the Canadian government has a reser-
walton with d squad of sixty mounted
police and q civil officer or two. The
site IL on the east bank of the Yukon, and
on the north bank of the Klondike River,
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