The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-16
GEORGE siEGEL's LETTER.
Party Sailed From New Haven ol
 Yacht Niagara

Party Sailed From New Haven on
 Yacht Niagara.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Siegel of 1l3 At kins street have received letter from their son, George, who left for the Klondike with party of twenty-five from New Haven last winter, on Ire Niagara, Captain Mcclure. This is tho first word MT. and Mrs. Segel have received since their son left California. He wrote several times before, hut the letters went astray.
 The letter is dated Tyoonok, Cooks Inlet, May 15, and MT. Siegel says the party arrived at the Inlet May il all safe and sound. They began unloading their boat the day they landed, and had all the provisions on shore in two days. The party then began to pitch their tent, not knowing how long they would remain there, as the ice was not out of the river They have since built log cabin, so that they would not have to carry all their provisions up the river at once. They sail up with the tide, as it runs nine knots an hour, and the rise and fall is from twenty four to thirty-three feet. Four men cannot row against it.
 MT. Siegel and party were camping on the side of the mountain, and found it fine location. There were fifty more miners camping near, all waiting to go up the river. Tyoonox is small Indian village, with about one hundred inhabitants. They go parefooted in the snow, and don't seem to mind it a lit- tie bit. The Indian chief was sick, and he came up to the camp, where he re- ceived medical treatment. The incident made friends of the Indians They told the party the best way to go up the | river, and gave great deal of other in- | formation of great value. There are | three white men married to Indian women. There is a log church in the | village.
 MT. Siegel says he was the first of | the party to make a trade with an h. l dian. He traded his overcoat for a | mountain sheep skin as big as blan- ket. It is a great country. All a man needs is some flour, a gun and fishing | tackle. Then one can live. There are fish and game in abundance. One can pick up a barrel of eggs in an hour. | Black bears and moose are plenty, but the bears are hard to get at, and the moose weigh as high as 1900 pounds. One man got forty moose where the Siegel party is camping. It is nearly time for the salmon to run in the river. They come so thick that they are easily caught with spears. The Siegel party caught two barrels of fish in less than an hour, some of them weighing fifty pounds.
 Lamps are not needed as the sun rises at o'clock and does not set un- til after half-past 9 at night. It never gets dark at night; one can read g newspaper after 10 o'clock.
 There is one store in Tyoonok that sells everything but rum.
 MT. Siegel is the cook for the party John Schafer, another Meriden young man, is assistant cook Mr. Siege makes bread, biscuit and pie The day he wrote they were going to have peact pie for dinner.
 The weather is getting warmer, ant they have seen a few mosquitoes. They say the mosquitoes go skating up tht river in the winter time, and that fivt can pull sled.
 Mir. Siegel writes that he heard thu Hughes party had turned back.-Meri den Republican.