Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-31
Pointers for KIondike CrsnI<s.


centre.
Its coast line is $500 miles.
1t has the highest mountains in North
America.
1t has the only forest-coyered glacier in
the world.
The Treadwell is one of It's greatest
gold mines.
1t has the best yellow cedar in the
world.
1t has the greatest seal fisheries.
1t has the greatest salmon fisheries.
1t has cod banks that beat Newfound-
land
IL has the largest river In the world.
A man standing on n bank Of the Yukon
$50 miles from its mouth cannot see the
other bank.
The Yukon is twenty miles wide 70V
miles from it's mouth.
With it's tributaries it Is navigable $500
miles.
1t is larger than the Danube.
1t is larger than La Plata.
1t is larger than the Orinoco.
1t discharges one-third more water than
the Mississippi.
The water is fresh fifteen miles from
its mouth. -
1t has more gold in its basin than any
other river.
Its color is beautifully blue to its juno
ton with the White river, LOO miles
above its mouth.
Alaska runs 800 miles west Of Hawaii.
Yukon basin gold is estimated at 5000,
100000.
The necessary eruptive force for the
formation of great fissure veins is every
where evident in Alaska.
silk should be worn next the body,
then woollen, and then furs.
Citrc acid should be taken to prevent
scurvy.
The food there produces rectal dis
eases Take medicine.
Lima beans are good portable food.
Snow glasses should not be forgotten.
Nowhere are mosquitoes so numerous.
There are two kinds of poisonous flies.
There are no snakes in Alaska.
Capital Of stock companies organized to
do business in Alaska aggregate $780,
100000.
1t is probable that in twelve months
Dawson. will be within four days of
Juneau.
Moose are plentiful. The flesh re-
sembles horse flesh
In Central and Northern Alaska the
ground is frozen to a depth of 200 feet.
Snowfall in the interior is very light
six inches or so.
The heaviest rain and snow are on
the southeast coast.
No land contains finer spruce timber.
In it's low temperatures gold filing in
teeth contracts and falls out. Use ANAL
gam.
Men born in southern ATTITUDES have
become insane in the long dark.
Take a chessboard and men. They
prevent dementia.
The medicine-chest should hold pills,
pills, pills.
A temperature of 70 degrees below zero
has been recorded.
When 1t gets lower than so there is
no wind.
A tent is as good as a house. ana
is cheaper.
No shelter Is needed except when the
wind blows. At other times a sleeping
bag answers all purposes.
Just below rapids ice forms only feet
thick, and there fishing Is done. In
other places it will reach 40 feet.
In the dark season twilight lasts six
hours. and almost any kind of work
can be done.
Elk, cariboo, and grouse are common
and easily killed.
Don't eat snow or ice. Melt them.
Else quinsy
In low temperatures the inside OF the
throat sometimes freezes This is local
ly called frost burning"
For frozen fingers use cold water
You can battle only the feet and face.
Sweat under blankets in summer or
get rheumatism.
In summer all land not mountain Is
swamp.
Underfoot is fee cake. overhead twen-
ty-two hours sun.
Ilnf
Freeze sleeping bags.
Talk on the ice pack is heard a half
mile.
An expert placer miner can pan dry.
Alaskan dust Is as big as wheat.
Some gold is fine enough to float.
Wear silk gloves and then fur.
The Eskimo is virtuous; the Chilkat Is
not.
Canadian rapacity will drive the miners
into American territory.
Canadian police are highly efficient.
Reindeer will be the future locomotives.
Alaskan dogs are wonderfully intelli-
gent--the result of selection and heredity.
The natives eat much decayed fish.
They are all honest.
Thousands of miners from other ma
lions will go.
A Chicago company leads in Alaskan ex-
ploration.
Hay grows as high as a mans head.
Hardy vegetables can be raised.
All streams show true gold assures.
Take plenty OF -four. Buy ali you think
you need, then buy more Last winter a
man killed himself because he had five
pounds of baking powder and no -four.
Under act OF Congress communities or
miners can make their own laws.
No thief gets fairer trial anywhere,
at.ta
Make caches on platforms feet high.
Wolves
1t viii pay TO wait year or two. It
costs 81 eco now, and will cost 500 then.
All distances are gigantic. 1t is 1000
miles from Sitka TO Klondike.
A boat leaving Dawson September 10Th
is chased to the mouth by freezing water.
All wood IN the Aleutian Islands grew
on glaciers in Alaska.
Whole forests break into the sea.
Some streams are bridged by glaciers.
Some wood is beautifully polished by |
glacier action.
Ayalanches I'm the interior are unknown. |
Owing 10 dryness, there Is not much |
from the cold.
Take 1850 rife with telescope sights |
one small tribe makes $3.50 a year |
from silver fox skins. They are worth /
$3.50 each.
Exposed portions of the body freeze In |
three minutes.
Enough library: One Bible. one Shakes
peare.
Snowshoes not needed in the mine coun-
try.
Buy mines from discouraged miners.
Trading companies will not carry goods |
for competitors.
Next year competition will bring down
their prices 80 per cent.
Meals on the boat up the river cost 81
each.