The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-28
COLO AND BAD STREETS
An Interesting Letter From
Louis Lyons at Dawson.
BOATS By THE THOUSAND
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So Many That Il was Impossible to Land
at Dawson-steamsrs Are Lsav-
ing Crowded With Dis
gustsd Miners.

Missouia. Oct. 27-The many friends
or Louis Lyons will be glad to read the
following letter from him to the Stand
ard II Is dated Dawson City. Sept. 3.
1897. n Is as follows:
Here we are at last in the land OF
gold inc IA streets. We left Teslin
about three weeks ago n made the
trip here in eight days. $50 miles. This
has been the most delightful part OF the
trip. So far the river Is fine for nsviga-
tion. IL is swift In some places. but We
got through all O. X. We stopped at
the foo Of the lake. where the fishing
was fine. We caught 1900 pounds OF
fish in three hours.
We got to the Lewis river and found
Jack Crawford. the Poet Scout" locat-
ed there and keeping a sort of general
store in a boat. We found the Brayton
party at Salmon. where they thought
they had struck something. but II prov
ed to be N. O.. We stopped a few hours
at Fort Selkirk and found quite a busy
town. The location IL the best we have
seen yet for a TOWNSHIP. We oun a
city of about 1000 tents at the mouth of
the Stewart, and here one begins to
think he Is In the push. everybody cut
ting logs and rafting them to Dawson,
or trying to, as more h 80 per cent.
get lost n stuck on sandbars. where
they 60 to pieces. We passed about
a dozen steamers going to White Horse
rapids.
Long before we got TO Dawson. we
could see boats by the thousands along
the shore. getting wood and cutting logs
for cabins. W. a to land at a place
called House town, about two miles
from Dawson. where there were boats
and tents by the thousand. 1t was i'm
possible to m at Dawson. as the boats
were at least 10 deep for miles. Every
boat as IL passed Lewis river got n num-
Der. We saw boat No. 1882. and
every "a IN from four to sever In
the party. Tents are everywhere from
the waters edge to the top OF the noun
tain. three miles away. The streets are
crowded day and night and business OF
all lind is booming. There are hun
dreds of small outftters selling outfits
to get out OF the country. All the
steamers hat leave here are crowded
with Disguised miners leaving the oun
try. Things are pretty high here. but
common food is reasonable. Chickens
sell for 81 each and watermelons SIS
each. Meat In from s1.50 to 81 per pound.
dressed lumber $255 per thousand. |
nave seen quite a few Missoulans, "a
Bogart. Frank Simons. Joe Deschamps
and a few others. People are dying
here like sheep-15 or Is a day. Horses
utft edfu siV an uouf. Htnt 10 awful
high. A 11-foot front rents for $40 a
month for the ground. you furnish the
building.
odd Mother Glenn Is here. selling seal
skins and silk. and doing lots Of bust
ness. When I left Missoula I weighed
100 pounds and now ! weigh l55. Won't
Barnes, George Beckwith and a few
others be green when they hear this.
The N. A. T. a T. Co, the A. c. Co and
others are getting in immense stocks.
They have enough on hand now to feed
the people for the next FIVE years. I
have not had a single letter since I ar
rived In Alaska. We have claims on
Eldorado M Last Chance creeks I'm
good locations. We are going out to-
morrow and see IL we are rich or not.
Everybody here has a sack of gold. You
hardly see any other kind of money.
w took a trip to Eldorado creek and
saw one cleanup of 1900 pounds of
gold. IL only took nine mules to pack II
10 Dawson. All the big claims are near
the city. Please send me the STANDARD.
Have not had n letter since I reached
Alaska. Regards to all i'm Missoula."