The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-02
Farallon Brings Back Dis
gasted Coll Hunters.
MANY OTHERS WILL FOLLOW.
within Three Weeks the ride win
Tarn->kaEusS Trai1 Continues
In BaS Condfsisn-Ne erk B~saa
On the New Nharf-Basine.s of
All hIad, L. LaxeG.-srfsk Trade
I'm OUTFITS of Niaerx Who Cannot
Cross This Year.

Steamer TaraIion. Capt Roberts. ar
rived 2E ! o'clock this E0ralng from
Ss2Sslay and Lssea- Aua9nL fhs paSssn-
gers VINO came down were siN men who
had started fsr the land ef gold. h1iS
save it up because % the &sfssculties ea-
ecaRtsra1 ard the .nnpossihiSity 81 getgtns
through thsS falL They aEes r. =. Wood.
e. Whatcam. J. L. Roth. ot Tacomas
Peter Jones. sieorEe h9eks. Thomas
Smith and I. ". hoch. oI san f'Tancgs-
GO. They al unite in saying taat with
u shrcs weeks the steamers via efins
A. many men On the DOM trip as thsy
take going up
The Skas-uay tran has been declared
open. huf Mr.. Roth. who has heen over
Il twice j. sure yhaf ls wtH not be in
shape foE much travel untu Il Is turiher
repaired. He took ten horses from Ia
coma some weeks ago. and receatls soaa
them Tor 81, sel. and will naw Fenaasn ea
Ehs Sound fer the winter He says gneFa
is a steady STREAM of people On the Ska-
quay trail nex, some with eofsss or
males. and others pacsins o. their backs
he met fully leo people on lis ssst tFip
cat.
There Is now no chance 10 have boats
built al Lake L.ludeTnlag before 9es9aer J..
as the mlll there h@s orders ahead up 10
that time. Prices for pAcklG2s srana AtFtsA
over the Chllgaot pass have again adj
vanosd. and are now from > 70 ~ cents
pound, and the Indians VIII Got take
knock-dewn boats over ar any prise pe-
cause they are too gnwleIdS.
The Faralion left Skaguag last Thurs
day and the nrst four piles for the Skag-
uay wharf were driven thar day. The
wharf IS 70 be 90 Feet long. and Will have
frontage Of 10 feet. The ogtar part of
the wharf viii tie built iirst. 50 that fre.sht
can Ire discharged on IL as soon as possible,
There .s a thlstg-f0ut tide there and the
wharf VIII be q paying Investment froEa
the start
The officers Of the steamer tell interest
ins stories of the condition OF affairs az
both the landings. They say Saat NJ pyea
people are slowly bat surely. crossing the
divide and that the read for len miles up
the canyon * strew- with tents, pro-
visions. discarded baggaga and dead
horses Less than l.fso people are on the
beach at pyes, as al make enQrts to get
across the divide as soon as landed.
At Skaguay things present a different ap
pearance. there heing between SEQ ard
s.fs1 people at that place less than ffty
men have succeeded IN getitas across
White pass and hundreds have given np
trying 20 cross anSn spring, The steamer
officers say that rain had fallen conilnu-
ouSIy there for eight days. and that IL Is
utterly impossible 60 cross.
All kinds of business IL fioarishiug Many
men are selling outfits for little or moth
ing. while others are buying everything
offered for sale and using Il 70 sfock gen
erai retail stores, which they are setting
Up on the beach. A salooakeeper az pyea
Is buying -four. emptying il IN a heap IN
his tent and selling the empty sacks at 5
cents each.
The FaraIion officers deny that man
was killed al skaguay FOR stealing. bat say