Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-05-10

think l want to bother with a claim
here. A man in from Da ws0n City
today, on his way out for provis-
ions, says that this springs clean up
will bring out from $N|,Ot|O ono to
$40, 0OO, 900. He was not very talke-
tive, aud we could not get much out
OF him, except that every oae up In
that vicinity seemed to- lie getting
gold. .f
l think this ia going to be a very
pretty country In summer, and am
anxious for the show to 10 of. But
the last few days it has showed. but
is not cold. The Thermometer stood
4o above this morning, and that, ia
about the coldest weather we have
had, and it has registered az high as
500. OF course there la from 200 Ito
800 difference between here and the
summit. The summit is cold. tell
you we are Lying high, OF course we
don't have butter, sugar, syrup,
veal outlets, oysters, beer or auv-
thing Of that kind, hut we hayegoOd
hot biscuits, bacon, beans, dried
fruit, corn cakes, sour pie. etc., and
they all taste mighty good when you
come In from a 20 mile race with zoo
pounds behind you. 1t IL race too,
for the trail is just lined with people,
and they are as thick on the summit
as bees in a hive, and person has
to crowd and jam at everybody.
Sometimes 1t takes three hours to
get off the TOP Of the summit. l
was up there Friday and it took us
2H hours to get out Of the mob with
our load, a distance OF half mile.
We have not had our faces punch
&c yet, but have had several good
promises. You can see a fight every
day, but as rule it does not amount
to much as some one stops it. and
people do not have time tQ-fght. We
just got a Seattle paper Of fhe 18th.
1t is something new to get<a>paper
that quick. but it was by chance we
got it. see they give some great
cuts Of the snow slide at Sleeps
Camp. 1t was horrible thing.
They have taken out 81 bodies and
will have to wait until the snow
goes off to find the balance of them.
TUESDAY, April 10. Il will try
and finish this letter this afternoon.
We did our days work this forenoon
We got w. at 8 a. M. and went to
the summit and brought back $40
pounds. reaching here at lila p. m.
l had a wild ride down the summit.
Mike had gone down ahead with an
old man, and thought Icou]d bring
the load down alone, but the rough
lock did not work. SO 1t made
snow plow out of me. and came
down like shot out Of a gun, but
no damage was done.
presume you saw some Of the
views l took. but am afraid they
were not very good. 1 am going to
get some better ones from this on,
when we get our boats built. We
are all getting quite a growth Of
heard and look like wild men. 1
have cut off my mustache and let
my beard grow.
I wish when you boys write you
would all get 1t in one envelope and
under cent stamp as the price of
mail 10 high and based on the post
age. 1t costs &c for letter here
covered by a &c stamp, and doubles
as the postage doubles.
As soon as we get past Lake Ben
net 1t will cost one dollar on the
same basis. My address ia Dyea.
and from there it is carried by spe-
clal delivery.
Are there any gold fever men in
Little Falls now? l wish Thos.
Bailey was with us, IL he coming?
I am going to send for you all about
August or Septem Der. so I want you
to be ready to come on short notice.
We have to get up at 8 a, m. and
the boys are kicking to 20 to bed, so |
[ will cut this short this time. Re-
me to all my friends and |
write me soon and all the news.
Good bye. boys.
From your chum,
*. M.