The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-22

Will break loose anu Collle pouring
down that canyon, and If 1t happens
in the night time Canyon City will be
no more and the people living there
will go down stream with the mad rush
of water, rocks, logs mud and so on
without time to say LITTLE prayer; no,
not even amen.
The trail up the mountain commences
here. There are two camping places
above this point, Pleasant Camp and
short ways above this is Sleeps Camp,
the last camp this side of the pass,
where there Is timber. 1t is ten miles
from Dyea. The trail from Canyon
City climbs sharply up the side hill, the
footing, however, is good and the rise
is short. After this the trail keeps
along at about the same level or ele-
walton. This is about a mile and a
quarter long and then two miles of good
trail to Sleeps Camp. 1t is nothing to
what | expected to find.
Along about here we overlook 'Ari-
iona Jim." with his pack train of cay
use horses, it was truly wonderful to
me to see these cayuse climb these
boulders up and down on this trail
which was quite icy and slippery. They
give them their head and let them go,
unless they have a green one on, these
they lead by the halter. To see them
climb up and around and pick their
way out was revelation to me. They
carry about on an average $50 pounds
to cayuse, or mule. We overlook this
train and as they stopped to rest en-
tered into conversation with Arizona
Bill One of the packs had become
loose and he asked me to help him
right it up. There was tieing enough
on this pack for square rugged ship.
l got on the starboard side which was
up hill He gave me the end of the
csnch rope, went around on the larboard
sided own hill. got the other cinch rope
and told me to pull when he gave the
word. Now as the pack was keeled
over towards my side, and was aw-
full willing to help, you know. / got
my shoulder under that pack and when
he gave the word I shouted "yo heave
no" in truly sailor style. oh Lord!
Arizona jim" cayuse and pack came
very near going down the mountain
ARIZONA" yelled and howled. The
mountain fairly rang. He swore and
tore around until his jaws locked and
he lost wind. After he had pulled
himself together little he, told me
| that he thouht I knew something, but
that was a damned tenderfoot and
had given myself dead away I very
| meekly told him I was sorry and that
| I had pulled on few ropes in my
| younger days aboard of ship, that I
| belonged to Jib Boom club, No /, of
| New London, had made one or two
| fo
| and thought l had not forgotten how
| to pull on rope. He said he knew
| nothing about rope on a ship and
did not know anything about that Jib
| Boom club, the only boom he knew
| anything about was town site booms,
| but he reckoned he knew how to put
| pack on a cayuse, or mule and
| that was enough for any man to know
| Well, went to work again I ratified
off all the sea phrases I could remem-
/ Der and by the time the pack was fixed
/ on all right, and was not quite SO green
He then gave me some very reliable in
| formation and hints about the trails
and said that what we had been over
was the worst barring the last third
1 of a mile from the summit, and that
| Pleasant Camp or Sleeps Camp was
/ not a half bad place to camp in, and
tht a good trail over deep snow was
much more easy than over the bare
rocks, and many other things very
useful to know. We did not go any
| further as we had eight miles to tramp
to get home
Two or three weeks ago I saw a mar
who came down from Sleeps Camr
who had been drilling holes on tht
summit for the tramway company t.
put UP their iron posts He said III
to that time IA below zero was the cold
est they had had up there up to the
time he left If man can drill holes
on top of the summit, which is the cold.
est work l ever did in my life, / know
] can go over that pass any time wher
it does not blow or storm
Now to all New London Yukoners +.
| would say you have got three ways OIL
times to go. You can go by boat il
July by the way of the Yukon river
this will cost you from seven hundred
to one thousand dollars, and when 70,
are landed at Dawson City or whereve
you choose to land, you then must lool
for new diggings as everything il
staked up at these places, and you ma,
then have to pack your stuff for miles
The other way or time is either over
land route by winter or summer. Win
ter you have to face cold but DIR,
weather; summer you face freshets
rains, mud and so on. / prefer to fac
Alaska cold to Alaska rain and mud
Game / see little of | did not brin.
any gun, revolver nor ammunition
don't think it would pay to pack then
in, but if I was to bring, anything i
would be shotgun for small game
as there is more of that than large
In regard to fish we caught some beau
tiful salmon in October and early par
of November. All you need to egt then
is a hook something like meat hool
in Butcher market fastened on
light pole. You go along the STREAM
and get salmon or trout in this manner
Not very sportsmanlke but dead sur
thing for meal of fish; and talk abou
fish, one of these Alaska salmon is fl
to set before any epicure in the land
One of the queer things about the sal
mon is that they come into the rive
by thousands, spawn and then gradu
ally begin to turn yellow and die an
the shore will be streWn with dead sal
mon and bones.
Another to me peculiar thing is hoy
little cold weather it takes to eve
freeze the swiftest running streams
This / can only account for in thf
way The water even in summer i