The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-02

one. except for about 100 miles. between
the peIly and Little Salmon rivers. where
we were compelled TO break trail for 1c(
miles or SO. The weather was too warm
for fast travelling. BY noon the snow
would get quite soft and our feet very wet.
When IL cooled of towards evening 1t wa
hard TO keep from freezing.
THE prevailing price of provisions al
Dawson when we Left was Is cents pei
pound. Flour was IS sack. bacon and
beans Is cents pound. rice. oatmeal. etc.
from 81 g 10 $3.50. dried fruit. - cents per
pound Sugar was selling for 80 cents. but
had been as low as Is cents during the
winter. II Is very necessary article. and
one that miners Use a great deal OF. Botn
OF the companies happened TO have big
supply. which made IL cheap. don't want
any one to think that II Is cheap because
the miners find that they can do without
Il. There will be no starvation. but the
miners should be hauling their summer
supplies TO the mines now when tho sno"
IL good. This will cause some delay.
piles and Piles Of Gold.
1.-THE lowest estimate that has yet been
placed on the product of the annual clean
up this spring is 100000. I think. with
mary others. that sl5. 90 90 would be near
err the sum that will be washed out. Wnen
you have recently witnessed will be small
In compa rison with the one that VIII Io'-
low. A number Of miners left Dawson dur
ing the winter for Mission river. on the
American side. American creek Is said
10 he showing up better than the other
tributaries of the river. Mission river Is
seventy miles dawn the Yukon from Daw-
son and twenty miles further down Is the
mouth of seventy-Mile creek. number
IVA lat
one has brought back definite information
regarding this country. / am interested
In Sulphur Quartz. Boulder and MOSQUITO
creeks The latter Is creek that little
has been said about, but which is showing
ND very we'll II flows in Bonanza at 81
below The first location was made early
last July by a man named Kerr. Nearly
forty claims have been located so far The
dirt runs from IS TO 20 cents but the pay
streak is large and the ground so situated
that II can be worked In summer. don't
know just what Swedish creek is going to
amount 10. Up 10 the time we left $50 To-
cations had been made. One % the
branches Of Swedish creek heads n ~ Mil
Ter creek. which Is In the old Sixty-Mii
creek. came ont on business and expect
TO go hack In May"
The Queen left Sksgway on Sunday last
and had a very pleasant trip down. She
brings the news that town site is to be
laid out Mt once nj Haines' Mission. a
wharf built ani the town properly
doomed as "the onlv gateway" to the Yu-
kon. A party of hs9niers left Skagway
Sunday morning II Il said TO start things.
The bark Seminoa nth the govern
ment's reindeer aboard rived ut Haines'
Mission Sunday afternoon The bark had
n good trip north and all on board were
well Rev. Sheldon Jackson, who went
north or the Queen. spent day at Dyea
in consultation with Capt. Rullen regard
ing he reindeer and left there for Haines'
Missien with a boat iosd Of men and ma
terial for the construction of a wharf.
The Queen brought tho following pas
senFers: II. w. Card. w II. Wood. l..
A. Mayo w. A. Simmons. A. Brown. j.
II Harrigan. s Goafie'd ard wife. L.
Hamilton. w. c. White. Robert Willis.
e Bradshaw ]. w. Hayden Miss A. G..
French. c. II. La Penatien, b. Il. Open
heinier q. f. Bent and wife. g. F. Me-
Afee and wife, a. Oswald and wife. F..
T. Maize. NJ, NJ Paul. Mrs n Nelson.
Phillip Mercer. and fourteen in the steer
age.