Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-04-28
AT LAKE. lIrDERnAs, ALASKA.
DR.. Haley Says About Two-Thirds Of
Those on the Route Wish They
We're Ct Home.

A. r. Romans, W. o. Powell, j. F. Harrison,
NJ. D., Benton City, No..
LAKE LINDERMAN, Alaska, April II,
1s9s.-Dear Friends: We moved over
here from Sleeps Camp on the 18th
inst. and 1t has been showing ever
since We arrived here, except this
morning, and it is clear. / look for
more slides on the other side of the
pass now.
Sheep Camp is the dirtiest.. flthiest
place / ever saw. There have been
5000 to 5000 people camped there
since last fall and there are hundreds
Of dead horses and dogs there.
Fifty-three corpses were taken from
the snow-slide and ten or twelve more
are missing; there may be fifteen or
twenty buried there that no one
knows anything about. Those who
are buried under the snow will stay
there until 1t thaws out in June or
July.
The air is pure over on this side and
there is but little filth. 1t got so I did
not drink anything but hot water at
Sheep Camp.
About forty of the Missouri boys are
here within 100 yards of as. George
Wyide is still at Sheep Camp. Inever
saw q man work harder than George
has since he landed at Dyea one
month ago.
We moved over here Monday. 1t is
four miles to top of Chilkoot Pass
from Sheep Camp, with An elevation
of 1900 feet to climb; and ten miles
from top Of pass here. I made the
walk in n day and helped pull the
sleds the last ten miles. Don't you
think / am getting better2
We have q hard job ahead of rs. I
believe there is lots of gold in the
Klondyke country, but when / look at
our pile of goods and at these big
mountains and know there are but
three OF four months In a year to
prospect, 1 begin to realize how help
less a man will be when he gets there
and undertakes to prospect; but will
push ahead.
It is reported that big finds have
been made on Walsh Creek. We are
only $50 miles from there now. We
have not decided where we will 60
yet, but will get down to Dawson City
some time this summer. We had to
pay the Canadian government $76.s7
duty. About two-thirds OF the men
on the route wish they were at home
and q great many turn back. How
ever, / am still glad l am here. Most
of vi goods m still on the summit
of Chilkoot Pass; they 9 not
caught in the snow-slide, as we first
expected. The slide started below
our goods, but they were under six
feet of snow. Frances II. (the st.
Bernard) is enjoying the trip. We
are going to put her to work in a few
days.
Tom Moore, Edgar Douglass and
Irwin Holman have never gotten a
letter and I have only received three.
Tom Moore got the letter from w. o.
Powell addressed to me. There is
simply more mail coming to Dyea
than can be handled. Ten times the
force could not handle it right. We
pay 10 cents for our letters carried
from here to Dyea and we will pay
% cents for all letters they bring back
to us; but it may be like 1t was at
Sheep Camp, he may not bring us
any mail. We will have to depend on
a private mail carrier for the next two
or three months, and, 1 expect, after
we get to Dawson City.
Tom Moore has shaved smooth, and
, il Davenport, the New York cartoon.
ist, was here he could get IN extrs
good drawing Of Mark Hanna. Ihave
not had a razor on my face since
March 9 and you may know I am
daisy by this time.
Frank Kershner, from Deer Park,
Boone county, Mo-, died last Sunday
He came out with us.
>, W. r not going as far as we ex'
pected before building our boats. We
are moving too slowly.
>, Write us at Dyea, Alaska. Give my
regards to all the people around Ben
, ton City. j. j. HALEY.